Repeat women's diver of the year Noel Whitlock heads the 10 Sewanee athletes announced Monday as part of the Southern Athletic Association's 2020 all-conference swimming and diving teams. The selections were based on finishes at the Feb. 13-15 league meet in Birmingham, where senior Whitlock led top-three sweeps with teammates Paisley Simmons (All-SAA second team) and Olivia Durfee (honorable mention) in both the 1- and 3-meter events. Whitlock's third and fourth career first-team awards give her seven All-SAA honors in all. First-team Sewanee women's swimmers Gabby Acker (100- and 200-yard breaststroke) and Kate Mabry (100 backstroke) were All-SAA last year as well. Carl Failing was first team for Sewanee's men in the 100 back and 100 freestyle, giving him five career all-conference finishes, and Jed Henrichsen was All-SAA second team in both diving events. James Hoyt earned honorable mention in the 1650 free and with Failing, Anthony Carbone and Lee Haber in the 400 free relay. Failing set a meet and school record in winning the 100 back and a Tigers standard also in winning the 100 free. Acker set a meet and school record with a national qualifying time of 2:19.58 in the 200 breast. Mabry was second in the 200 back.
Basketball
* The 28-1 and nationally 14th-ranked Bryan College women begin their bid for a fourth consecutive Appalachian Athletic Conference basketball tournament championship, to go with their three straight regular-season titles, Thursday at noon in Kingsport against the winner of Wednesday's game between eighth seed Milligan (12-18, 10-14) and Truett McConnell (14-16, 9-15). No. 10 seed Tennessee Wesleyan (9-18, 9-15) plays Montreat (14-14, 11-13) at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday. In the men's tournament, Wesleyan (15-12, 13-11) and Bryan (13-15, 12-12) are seeded seventh and eighth and open Thursday at 3:30 against Montreat (22-7) and at 10:15 a.m. against Union (21-9), respectively. TWU's Bryant Bernard was selected the AAC men's player of the week after averaging 24.5 points and 4.5 rebounds in the Bulldogs' last two games. He scored 33 points in the 99-72 win at Montreat.
* The Chattanooga State men's basketball team is scheduled to end the TCCAA regular season with a makeup game this evening at Columbia State, where the state/region tournaments begin Friday. The women's seedings already are set with Chattanooga State (23-5, 14-3) and the Lady Chargers (2-21, 0-17) in the Nos. 2 and 10 slots, but the outcome between the currently fourth-place Chargers (19-10, 9-8) and the visiting Tigers (11-15, 8-9) can affect the opening pairings of six teams.
Tennis
* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga tennis teams both won 6-1 away from home Sunday, the men (11-2) at USC Upstate and the women (6-4) against UT Martin in Murfreesboro. Singles winners for the female Mocs were Jessie Young, Bogdana Zaporozhets, Callie Billman, Emma Van Hee and Caroline Gibbens. Singles victors for the men were Niklas Gerdes (13-0), Tomas Rodriguez, Kerim Hyatt, Jeffrey Dewald (11-1), Simon Bustamante and Turner Voges.
Compiled by Ron Bush. Contact him at rbush@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6291.