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2011 Mocs Football2010-11 Sport-by-Sport Recap• Reached the regional finals for first time in school history after earning a No. 2 seed,the highest in program history. The two wins were the first since 2002.• Led the nation in batting average (.341), eighth in scoring at 6.74 runs per game and12th in slugging at .518...broke seven team offensive records: home runs (58), RBI(368), runs scored (391), total bases (805), hit by pitch (48), slugging pct. (.521) andon-base pct. (.423)...individually Kandice Irwin paced the NCAA in saves with eightfor the second-consecutive year and finished her career tied for fourth on the NCAAcareer list with 21...Fuzzard set a SoCon and Chattanooga single-season record with75 RBI, while Tiffany Baker finished second on both lists with 67... Baker ended hercareer on top of the SoCon and Chattanooga all-time home run list with 50.• Baker and Irwin were Capital One Academic All-District Team honorees...five LadyMocs were honored to NFCA All-South Region teams including a first team selectionfor Baker and rounding out the second team was Fuzzard, Poteat, Vivain Morimotoand Lyndsey Stiles.Men’s Tennis (Carlos Garcia, head coach) - 8-16, 2-8 SoCon/9th• The Mocs increased their win total for the third year in a row, finishing with an 8-16mark.• Sophomore Roberto Vieira repeated on the First Team All-Southern Conference...he finished the year with a 12-12 overall singles mark and was 8-8 at No. 1 in dualaction...it was the third year in a row the Mocs had a representative on the first team.• Sophomore Jackson Tresnan led the team with 14 singles wins...he was 8-1 in theNo. 4 slot during the spring season.• Strung together a five-match winning streak early in the season...it was the longestsuch streak since 2008.• Head Coach Carlos Garcia won his 100th match as the men’s head coach with a7-0 win over Belmont on Feb. 25, 2011.Women’s Tennis (Jeff Clark, head coach) - 11-11, 6-4 SoCon/5th• Finished even at 11-11 and fifth in the SoCon at 6-4...most wins since 2006 and mostleague wins since 2004...after going 3-7 in 2010, showed the most improvement inone season in nearly 20 years.• Sophomore Jenna Nurik led the team with an 18-14 singles record and was 13-9at No. 1 in dual matches...repeated on the All-SoCon squad, earning second teamhonors...also was the sixth Lady Moc to win the SoCon Sportsmanship Award.• Alexa Flynn tied for team-high in singles wins with an 18-12 record...held down theNo. 2 spot for most of the year and was named to the SoCon All-Freshman Team...UTC and Furman are the only SoCon schools with representatives on the All-Freshmanteam in each of the last three years.• Junior Shaina Singh clinched four matches during the spring, including closing outa 5-2 win against Jacksonville State with a 6-4 win in the third set, a 5-2 win at Elonwith a 6-4 win in the third set and the Davidson and Appalachian State matches withtwo-set wins at No. 4.• Chattanooga hosted the 2011 SoCon Tennis Championships at the Champions Club.It was the first time UTC hosted the event since 2000.Indoor/Outdoor Track & Field (Bill Gautier, head coach)Men (4th-In/4th-Out) • Women (4th-In/4th-Out)• Distance Medley Relay Team consisting of Kyle McLarty, Jake Simms, JoshueVasquez and Lucas Cotter won the Indoor Track SoCon title and was ranked ninthin the NCAA South Region.• Junior Chris Berry won the 10000M race at the SoCon Outdoor Championships forhis fourth career individual title...he was all-conference in the outdoor 5000M andindoor 3000M.• Senior Emmanuel Kirwa earned all-conference in both the indoor and outdoor 5000Mand the outdoor 10000M...he finished second in the 5000M and third in the 10000Ma the SoCon Outdoor Championships.• Senior David Moore became the 12th UTC student-athlete, the first since 2006, to benamed CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-American, earning a spot on the third team...he and Berry were both named to the CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-District FirstTeam...Moore was also named the SoCon Student-Athlete of the Week for Jan. 26.ALL-sPORTS RECAP• UTC placed 11 indoor track and field student-athletes on the SoCon Winter AcademicAll-Conference Team...had 12 outdoor track and field student-athletes on the SoConSpring Academic All-Conference Team.Volleyball (Lisa Rhodes, head coach) - 11-20, 7-9 SoCon/5th North• Paula Passmore was honored as the SoCon Libero of the Year after leading theleague with 5.45 digs per set.• Courtney Barnes completed her career with over 800 kills and a school-record .312hitting pct...she was also an ESPN Academic All-District First Team honoree, whichwas her third selection to an academic all-district team.• Ellie Kuhn finished the past two seasons with the two best block assists marks inthe Lady Mocs charts totaling 223 in her career.• Bailee Chastain registered 1,940 assists in her career ending seventh all-time.• Two-time SoCon Coach of the Year Lisa Rhodes retired following the season toconclude her 17 years with the program...Travis Filar was named head coach onFeb. 17, 2011.Wrestling (Heath Eslinger, head coach) - 11-9, 5-0 SoCon/1st • T65th NCAAs• The Mocs won their seventh-straight SoCon Championship with an 11-9 overall recordand 5-0 in league matches...finished tied for 65th at the NCAA Championships...UTChas won 35-straight SoCon bouts and has not lost a league match since Feb. 14, 2004.• Senior Cody Cleveland won his third SoCon title at 141 and finished his career witha 75-26 mark...had a 21-match winning streak snapped when he lost at the NCAAs...only lost one SoCon match in his impressive UTC career, his first league bout duringhis freshman season... went 22-0 against SoCon opponents after that defeat.• Three members of the UTC wrestling team were named to the 2011 All-SouthernConference squad...Cleveland, junior Brandon Wright and sophomore Josh Condonall made repeat appearances on the team.• Levi Clemmons and Shawn Greevy made the SoCon All-Freshman team. Clemmonsspent time in the lineup at 174 as a true freshman before Wright took over. Greevy,another true freshman, filled in for Cleveland at 141 and posted a 7-5 record.• Five of the six Mocs competing at the NCAA Championships were on the AthleticsDirector’s Honor roll for posting a 3.0+ g.p.a. during the 2010 fall semester, includingCody Cleveland, Josh Condon, Demetrius Johnson, Jason McCroskey and BrandonWright. Three of the six - Johnson, McCroskey, Wright - were on the Dean’s List in thefall and have earned Academic All-NWCA honors in their careers...the Mocs rankedNo. 7 in the nation with a 3.14 team g.p.a.2010-11 CHATTANOOGA ACCOLADESSoCon Champions (4)Men’s Basketball DWomen’s Golf TSoftball RTWrestling RTD-Division • R-Regular Season • T-TournamentNCAA Participants (6)Men’s Cross CountryWomen’s Cross CountryMen’s GolfWomen’s GolfSoftballWrestlingAll-Americans (1)Joel Bradford - FootballAP 3rd TeamSoCon Athletes of the Year (5)Emma de Groot - Women’s GolfMichelle Fuzzard - SoftballStephan Jaeger - Men’s GolfEmmanuel Kirwa - Men’s C.C.Paula Passmore (Libero) - VolleyballSoCon Individual Champions (12)Chris Berry - Outdoor T&F10000MCody Cleveland - Wrestling 141Josh Condon - Wrestling 157Lucas Cotter - Indoor T&F DMREmma de Groot - Women’s GolfDemetrius Johnson - Wrestling 133Emmanuel Kirwa - Men’s C.C.Kyle McLarty - Indoor T&F DMRSara Poteat - Softball T’ment MVPJake Simms - Indoor T&F DMRJoshue Vasquez - Indoor T&F DMRBrandon Wright - Wrestling 174SoCon Freshmen of the Year (2)Lucas Cotter - Men’s Cross CountryKadeem Wise - FootballSoCon Coach of the Year (3)Heath Eslinger - WrestlingColette Murray - Women’s GolfFrank Reed - SoftballAcademic All-SoCon (78)All-SoCon (45)SoCon All-Freshman (17)Emmanuel Kirwa Jenna Nurik Roberto Vieira Paula Passmore Omar Wattad Anneli Uys129