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Cyclists join forces to welcome women Corinne Smith Contributor
Biking is one of those activities that draws people in for a variety reasons but often leads to the same cult like adoration. Talk with a cyclist for five minutes and you can see it on their face. They light up with the opportunity to try and pass the infectious bug along to the next person. Sasha Reed, senior in sustainability, is one such enthusiastic rider who started out just trying to make it to school on time. Reed explained that she began riding her bike to high school as a way to make a point to her sister. “My sister was late to school every day,” Reed said. “So it started when I got really pissed and I was like, ‘I’m gonna ride my stupid bike and beat you to school.’ But then I actually thought bikes were tight.” That discovery led Reed to begin working at the UTOP bike shop when she came to UT, as well as a shop in Nashville over a couple of summers. Now, she’s at Tennessee Valley Bicycles in downtown Knoxville. However, working as a bike mechanic, Reed learned that the community sometimes struggles with welcoming women into these traditionally male dominated spaces. “It’s often been a problem with clients,” Reed said, explaining that customers sometimes question whether she is a real mechanic. “It’s nice to be able to say, ‘I am a mechanic, I’m going to look over your bike for you,’ and it’s kinda funny, their whole worldview is shattered.” Reed also saw this while working in a Swedish bike co-op. She began sharing her experiences with a friend working at another co-op in Ireland, and found she was not alone. Zara Saponja, senior in global studies and cinema studies, was working as the only female mechanic in her shop, just like Reed. The men working around Saponja often acted as if she didn’t know anything about the bikes—one time even trying to sell her a replacement tire tube for 60 euros when they typically go for around six. Having these experiences and hearing about Reed’s gave Saponja the idea to create a space for women in cycling that was just for them. The women teamed up and together they founded Lady Parts, a bicycle maintenance class taught by and for women. In Ireland, Saponja often saw women who felt intimidated by the male dominated shops and ended up shying away. Lady Parts was created to bring those women back in, at least in Knoxville. “The whole point was for women to meet other women who are into biking, and see that there are a lot of other women who ride bikes,”
Knoxville residents are encouraged to utilize bike paths, but are given minimal safe roadways to bike on. Sarah Ali • The Daily Beacon Saponja said. Lady Parts has been well received by the Knoxville female cycling community, with regulars attending the classes and going on group rides, according to its founders, and they aren’t the only organization in Knoxville looking to get women more involved. Bicycle manufacturing company Trek started a program last September which hired 54 women’s advocates with the goal of getting more women involved in cycling. One of their advocates, Lisa Mueller, is based in Knoxville with Cedar Bluff Cycles. As a women’s advocate, Mueller is tasked with hosting group rides, clinics and classes for women as well as simply driving more women to the shop. However, as another passionate cyclist, Mueller was already doing this work before she gained the women’s advocate title. Like Reed, Mueller’s love of biking snuck up on her. In fact, Mueller didn’t even like riding the mountain bike her husband had convinced her to get at first. She felt discouraged as a beginner and found herself making excuses to avoid riding. It wasn’t until she was able to connect with other women on the trails that Mueller started feeling empowered by biking and was bitten by that infectious cycling bug. This led Mueller to become a self-proclaimed ‘trail advocate,’ always encouraging women and trying to connect them with other female riders. To Mueller, this female encouragement is key to getting women involved in cycling. “Women on bikes is what got me interested in riding and got me away from being afraid and thinking I couldn’t do it,” Mueller said. She explained that men and women often approach mountain biking differently, so being able to connect women who are learning in
similar ways is helpful in getting them excited about the sport. “It’s not that every woman needs to have her hand held or to be babied out on the trail,” Mueller said. “You just need to be encouraged.” Mueller feels like this female support was hard to find when she was trying to get into mountain biking, so being able to provide it to others like her and connect these different women cycling groups is exciting. While Mueller and the women at Lady Parts still believe there is work to be done, they are working to close those gaps. “There are so many things in Knoxville itself,” Mueller said. “So many opportunities for women to learn things and go on rides, and all the time I’m meeting women who have no knowledge of any of it.” As Knoxville becomes more and more bike friendly, they hope their mission will become more far-reaching. With new bike lanes being constructed all the time and plans to make places like the Urban Wilderness and Ijams more accessible, the Knoxville community as a whole seems to be embracing bike culture. “In Knoxville, it’s so much better than when I first came here,” Reed said. “There are at least twice as many bike lanes, and I’ve never biked and not seen another cyclist.” Saponja added that cycling is even becoming trendy with bars like Alliance, Balter and Trailhead popping up that heavily advertise being bike friendly. Though there will always be people that don’t get it, Mueller thinks Knoxville is passionate for “biking, mountain biking and for being outside.” As Mueller said: “I just think some communities really embrace a certain culture.”
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Sustainability a key motivator for organizations Throughout the week of April 22, many student organizations on campus put on environmental events and campaigns in recognition of Earth Day. However, a handful of UT organizations promote Earth Day’s green mindset year round.
Written by McNeeley Moore, Staff Writer
UT Recycling This organization affects the daily lives of most students, whether they realize it or not. Each time you go to throw away a piece of paper, but instead choose to put it in the blue recycling bins located across campus, you’re contributing to UT Recycling’s efforts. After its formation in 2013, UT Recycling has used promotions, collection services, recycling drop-offs, talks on recycling and partnerships with other organizations and events in order to work towards a campus that is wastefree. UT Recycling’s “Zero Waste” initiative provides recycling and compost services for large-scale campus events, including all of the year’s sporting events.
The Mug Project A program within UT Recycling, The Mug Project is a campus-wide campaign to eliminate the use of plastic and styrofoam cups. The idea is that each student will be given one cup that can be used for coffee, soda and other various uses at a discounted price at campus dining locations. These cups are often given away at various locations and events on campus.
UTK Environment and Sustainability Committee As part of UT’s Student Government Association, the goal of UTK Environment and Sustainability Committee focuses on improving the environment of the campus and surrounding areas in Knoxville while promoting awareness for students. They offer events such as lectures on Climate Change and Zero Waste workshops tasked with collecting items for recycling.
Make Orange Green Make Orange Green is the slogan of UT’s Office of Sustainability, which is behind most of the environmental events and smaller organizations on campus. Make Orange Green works towards sustainability within the university as a whole. Their goals include reducing pollution created by sources on campus, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting recycling, adding to the beauty of nature on campus and creating a healthy, dedicated sustainability culture on campus. All special volunteering such as cleanup projects and alternative spring and fall breaks are part of Make Orange Green’s efforts.
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Flying car design lifts off Associated Press MONACO (AP) — It may not be quite like the Jetsons, but for over a million dollars you too can soon fly around in a car. A Slovakian company called AeroMobil unveiled on Thursday its version of a flying car, a light-framed plane whose wings can fold back, like an insect, and is boosted by a hybrid engine and rear propeller. It will be available to preorder as soon as this year but is not for everyone: besides the big price tag — between 1.2 million and 1.5 million euros ($1.3 million-$1.6 million) — you’d need a pilot’s license to use it in the air. “I think it’s going to be a very niche product,” said Philip Mawby, professor of electronic engineering and head of research at the University of Warwick. Several companies are working on flying cars, either like Aeromobil’s two-seater that needs a runway, or others that function more like helicopters, lifting off vertically. But not many companies are seriously looking at marketing these vehicles anytime soon, Mawby said.
“The technology is there... The question is bringing it to the market at an affordable cost, and making it a useful product.” Among the big questions is how to control the air traffic if there are hundreds of such vehicles zipping through the air. There is no control except for traditional aircraft, notes Mawby. So while vehicles like the AeroMobil could be used for recreational purposes by people who have a large piece of land, flying cars are unlikely to become a mass market reality anytime soon, he says. The AeroMobil has a driving range of about 100 kms (62 miles) and a top speed of 160 kph (99 mph). When flying, its maximum cruising range is 750 kms (466 miles), and it takes about three minutes for the car to transform into a plane. “You can use it as a regular car,” said Juraj Vaculik, co-founder and CEO of Aeromobil, at the unveiling in Monaco. Though it is not legal —yet — to take off from a highway. The previous AeroMobil 3.0 prototype made news in 2014 when it was presented in Vienna, but no test-flight took place then. It crashed during a test flight in Slovakia in 2015 with its inventor Stefan Klein on board. He escaped largely unharmed.
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A greener outlook for 2017
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UT Recycling and the Office of Sustainability continue to work towards a more sustainable and greener campus Gabriela Szymanowska Staff Writer
The hill is always greener on the other side, and next year is predicted to be another step towards a greener, more sustainable campus. In 2016, UT was ranked among the top green colleges in the Princeton Review’s “Guide to 361 Green Colleges: 2016 Edition.” Since then, the Office of Sustainability and UT Recycling have continued their efforts in making campus more sustainable. During the 2016 football season, UT was listed as one of the top institutions for diverting material from landfills with 65 percent, the highest diversion percentage. “We had the second highest amount in the nation of total material diverted from the landfill, totaling 241,385 pounds,” Alaina Wood, senior in sustainability and geography, said. Next year, diversion rates will look different because glass will not be counted. This change is because the facility where UT sends its materials is no longer accepting glass since their downstream vendor, Strategic Materials in Atlanta, stopped accepting mixed glass. “While this will impact football games, glass will still be accepted at the public drop-off on campus,” Jay Price, UT’s recycling manager, said. “That’s going to be a challenge in terms of weight. Glass is a significant contributor to what we do on typical game day,” Price said. “It’s a very small amount on campus. The silver lining is that we do have a public drop-off, and people can bring glass to the public drop off 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Here, the reason we’re able to recycle it, is because in order for it to be recycled, glass has to be separated by color — clear, brown and green.” To help decrease waste during game days, UT Recycling is working with Genera to achieve their goal of zero-waste in 2020. Genera is a spin-off company of switchgrass research that started at UT, and it makes paper products from byproducts of the switchgrass biofuel process. The plates, embossed with the Power T, will be biodegradable, going straight back into Tennessee soil. UT Recycling hopes to have the plates ready for the first game,
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We’re working for you, the students. We’re paid through the Green Fee, which is student-funded, studentstarted, so we work for you guys. If you want something, (you) got to let us know.” Sarah Cherry, outreach coordinator for the Office of Sustainability
but if not, the plates will be used for the rest of the 2017 football season, creating a zero-waste zone. “We’re hopeful. For all of concessions, it’s going to take us a few years. We had originally set our zero-waste goal for the 2015 football season. That’s a couple of years behind us now, so our goal now is the 2020 football season,” Price said. “Give us some time to take it incrementally. Target one this year are the skyboxes for 2017. I’m really hoping we can make that happen. 2018 some of the concession items, 2019 the additional ones and then hopefully by 2020 we’d have all the concessions and skybox and all the items at the stadium compostable.” Recycling also revamped their Mug Project this year by letting students, faculty and staff know, through signs and social media, that some campus locations allow people to use 24-ounce mugs instead of paper cups. Within weeks, UT Recycling will finish installing hand dryers in the Haslam Business building and Hodges Library to help reduce the waste of paper towels. UT Recycling will also host another Move Out event April 21 through May 15. Students can drop off donations like clothes, bedding, hygiene products, cleaning products, food, furniture, small appliance and other reusable or recyclable items in bins around campus. Next semester, UT Recycling is aiming to expand faculty, staff and students’ knowledge about recycling on campus by creating brochures with information about sustainable options and efforts at UT. These include public drop offs, the Mug Project, recyclable items and the different
internship, work, work-study and volunteering options that are available. In addition to reducing waste on campus, the Office of Sustainability is reducing emissions. Erin Kelbly, data analysis coordinator for the Office of Sustainability, said UT has restructured their Renewable Energy Credits purchasing process to become the nation’s number one green power purchaser in academia by purchasing 245,666 megawatt hours of RECs for 2016. Along with switching to fluorescent lighting in parking garages, UT’s emissions were offset by green credits and the switch from coal to natural gas. Next semester, Sarah Cherry, outreach coordinator for the Office of Sustainability, said the university will apply to the Bicycle Friendly University program, a program that recognizes bicycle-friendly campuses, with the University of Tennessee Outdoor Program (UTOP) to try to incorporate more permeable surfaces to make campus greener. Both the Office of Sustainability and UT Recycling encourage students to reach out if they wish to make a change because the process for a greener campus is ongoing. “We’re working for you, the students. We’re paid through the Green Fee, which is student-funded, student-started, so we work for you guys. If you want something, (you) got to let us know,” Cherry said. “Check out the Green Fee. Use that money for yourselves. Send us your ideas. Intern with us. (Do) those kinds of things. Definitely take advantage of working with the office and UT Recycling and other initiatives on campus, because this is your campus, make it yours.”
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EPA funding cuts worry local environmentalists Jenna Butz
Special Projects Editor On Feb. 3, 2017, Florida representative Matt Gaetz introduced H.R. 861, which called for the termination of the Environmental Protection Agency. As of Feb. 10, the latest action on the bill was its move to the Subcommittee on Environment, but changes to the EPA and governmental protections of the environment have already started to change under the Trump administration. President Trump unveiled his proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, and in it, the EPA’s funds will be cut by 31 percent, approximately $100 million. This cut would effectively cut back on air and water quality protections, eliminate about 3,200 EPA positions and cut funding for the Clean Power Plan, which works to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. With the EPA now being led by Scott Pruitt, former Oklahoma attorney general with a history of suing to block EPA environmental rules and calling for the dissolution of the agency’s authority, environmentalists such as director of environmental studies and sustainability Mike McKinney are worried about the effects of these actions on the environment. “The aim is clearly to reduce the effectiveness of the agency’s enforcement of existing environmental laws,” McKinney said. “The agency was already underfunded and understaffed so this is going to impair the agency even more.” Supporters of this funding cut though argue that this move decreases bureaucratic entanglement and moves funds to areas in the budget that need it, such as defense and Homeland Security, which saw a 9 percent and 7 percent increase in their budgets, respectively. At a university like UT, where both former Chancellor Jimmy Cheek and current Chancellor Beverly Davenport had named sustainability as a top priority for the university, the funding cuts to the EPA can affect Rocky Top directly, according to Don Black, junior in business analytics and co-director of the SGA Environment & Sustainability student services committee. The EPA named UT as a top green power school and has LEED certified some of UT’s current construction projects, which rate how sustainable buildings are. Black also said different sustainable organizations, such as the Office of Sustainability and UT Recycling,
have received funding from the EPA. “As far as the actual implementation of that goes, the EPA does a lot of work in assisting the implementation of those values on campus,” Black said. “I think the dissolution of the EPA would hinder the university in its goals, and maybe continue with this trend that we’ve had, which is ‘why poke the bear?’ If this is something that is controversial, if this is something that’s going to get us in trouble, let’s focus our efforts on where we won’t get in trouble, where we can do work without being hindered.” “So, the EPA is tremendously important to how sustainable we are as a college. Beyond that, you have city level, state level.” At that higher level, McKinney worries that many changes in the EPA and its operations will endanger the environment under the current administration, such as the lack of enforcement of environmental protections, underfunding of the national parks, “promoting fossil fuels as energy sources, which are the most polluting energy sources, and denying the well documented impacts of humans on climate change which is accelerating and will affect human health and our ecosystems for centuries.” “I don’t see any advances at all,” McKinney said. “He (President Trump) has made it a priority to promote business interests by reducing environmental protections. These are bleak times for those of us working to protect the environment for future generations.” For many environmental groups like the Environment & Sustainability committee though, the current threat to environmental protections has heightened their desire to continue their work. “This has reaffirmed its urgency for us because it’s local change that we can make happen … In many ways, working on local issues, that maybe seem mundane like reducing waste or limiting plastic bag usage, is kind of radical, especially in the political climate that we deal with nationally today,” Black said. “To be honest, the political environment for progressive causes, whether its environment or diversity, hasn’t been great in Tennessee for a long time. “So, getting up, brushing your hair, leaving the house, going and deciding ‘This is something I want to work on today,’ even if it’s kind of irrational, even if you can’t see the results, it’s an irrational kind of hope, belief in the power of your own voice to change a room and ultimately change the world—even when it seems like everything is bending back the other way or working against you.”
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Wonderland Bath crafts natural body, skincare Jenna Butz
Special Projects Editor With an Alice in Wonderland motif and a promise to create natural, sustainable products, local body and skincare company Wonderland Bath is growing faster than founders Charlotte Bassford and Aabra Spurling could have imagined. Bassford and Spurling first started making their soaps in 2013. After the two became neighbors, they realized they had a lot in common and started different hobbies together, such as screen printing, dying vintage slips and candle making, which they would sell at a booth they had at vintage shop Nostalgia, before trying out soaps. After giving some of the products they had made to friends and family as gifts, the feedback was simply an overwhelming want for more. So, the friends applied to local farmers’ markets, and were surprised when they landed Knoxville’s most popular market, the Market Square Farmers’ Market. After a while, Wonderland Bath did well enough for Bassford to quit her day job as a visual merchandising manager at Forever 21 and spend more time working on the company with Spurling. “We ended up doing really well to the point where I could quit my day job, and have time to focus on soap, which is very exciting,” Bassford said. “I didn’t expect that. It grew pretty quickly, especially when we got things online.” After seeing that their products were selling, Bassford and Spurling expanded into skincare and expanded body care, adding facial serums, men’s beard care, face masks, lotion bars and more. This growth stemmed from a need to satisfy their own wants in their skincare routines that they weren’t finding, then sharing what they had created. “Personally, (it grew from) our need for something along those lines, like in our daily skincare routine, wanting to get away from unnatural, chemical based products and stay with more natural ones,” Bassford said. “We thought ‘Well, we could make that too, even if it’s just for ourselves.’ When we started experimenting and coming up with some recipes we liked, we liked them enough to share them.” With an Etsy shop and a standing date as a vendor at the Market Square
Farmers’ Market as well as select products featured in local shops, Wonderland Bath has worked to their love for local, natural beauty with the larger Knoxville community—and people are noticing. Loyal customer Jamie Graves began buying Wonderland Bath products a little over a year ago, and her favorite product is the birch and black pepper soap because the smell is “intoxicating,” she said. “What I love about them as a company is their uniqueness, kindness and their ingenuity,” Graves said. “They are always making new products, and it makes shopping exciting. I use their products versus something else because I trust they are using quality ingredients and they put a lot of love into what they do. I would rather give my money to a company I believe in.” All of Wonderland Bath’s products are vegan, except for a few body care items that contain beeswax. The brand also promises that it’s cruelty-free (with hopes of becoming Leaping Bunny or PETA certified once they have grown larger), and uses no sodium lauryl sulfates, parabens or other carcinogens and harsh detergents. They also look to buy their ingredients as local, sustainable and organic as possible, with some ingredients coming from their own backyards. “We try to know where things are coming from if it isn’t literally our backyard,” Bassford said. Where the company could have chosen to not uphold these promises, Bassford said that since the skin is the body’s largest organ, it’s particularly affected by what is applied to it, and that’s something the brand cares about. “To want to do something natural versus not caring and doing something that was chemical-based, that stems from caring about the environment and humanity,” Bassford said. “It goes pretty deep for me. I’ve also experienced some health issues that I believe stemmed from certain chemicals and toxins, so I definitely don’t want anyone else to go through any negative experiences due to those things.” “We feel strongly about making some kind of difference in sustainability and the earth’s resources. If there’s any way that we can contribute to sustaining and making products without depletion … things like that have just always been really important to us, even before making products.”
Wonderland Bath locally creates primarily vegan, natural bath and beauty products by hand.
Pictured is “Titania,” Wonderland Bath’s Luxury Vegan Soap. •Both photos courtesy of Wonderland Bath
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UT research takes flight through NASA grant Shelby Whitehead Staff Writer
UT researchers received a $9.9 million grant this month from NASA’s $50 million donation to various universities, lifting aviation research off the ground. UT’s program was one of five selected for a grant to partially fund its aeronautical innovations. The donation, once finalized, is predicted to be NASA’s largest financial support for UT-led research. The other universities who received grants are the University of South Carolina, Texas A&M University, Ohio State University and Arizona State University. Researchers aim to produce more aerodynamically capable and efficient aircraft through wing design. Along with the other universities, UT will be working with Boeing Corporation, the world’s largest aerospace company, and Airfoils, Inc., a wing shape design consultant. The team of researchers is attempting to
prove that a slotted wing (a wing made of two pieces) is better than the traditional wing design, which is comprised of one piece. The slotted wing allows for air to move smoothly, orderly and uninterrupted when passing the surface of the wing; this movement is referred to as laminar air flow. Researchers hope the laminar flow wing will prove to be more stable and efficient in a wind tunnel that simulates real airflow. James Coder, assistant professor in aerospace engineering, has taken the idea under his wing as the project’s principal investigator. “However much energy is transmitted to the aircraft, the goal is to need less of it,� Coder said. The researchers must show the new wing design is better for the plane as a whole, and they take into consideration the structure, propulsion and lift of the plane. “A better wing has to be a system-wide benefit. (The wing design) is a radical change that will affect the rest of the aircraft,� Coder said. Stephanie TerMaath, assistant professor of
mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering, is also working on the project. Her role is to develop the structural design and internal materials of the wing. Additionally, she is tasked with implementing an aerodynamic educational outreach plan. The education plan was written in the NASA grant, which included a series of three modules to educate students, from children in kindergarten to undergraduates, in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. “The educational outreach is about getting young kids excited about STEM with hands-on, teamwork-based, outside the box curriculum,� TerMaath said. “We’re also trying to incorporate underrepresented minorities in the project, especially undergraduates, to improve retention and prepare for graduate school. Undergraduate students will bridge the gap between technology and education by helping develop the educational modules and conducting the technical work.� For each year of the five-year project, Boeing will select one undergraduate student involved
A better wing has to be a systemwide benefit. (The wing design) is a radical change that will affect the rest of the aircraft.� Stephanie Termaath, professor
in the project for an internship. This is because the academic focus is on the future, TerMaath said. “The goal of our academic program is to educate the next generation of NASA engineers,� TerMaath said.
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Friday, April 21, 2017 â&#x20AC;˘ The Daily Beacon
STR8TS No. 977
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SPORTS
The Daily Beacon • Friday, April 21, 2017
SOFTBALL
Winning streak at risk against No. 16 LSU Taylor Crombie Staff Writer
Even though the Tennessee softball team’s 18-game win streak is the longest active streak in the NCAA and the longest the Vols have enjoyed since their 19-game streak in 2013, the team doesn’t want to talk about it very much. “I can tell you we have never addressed the win-streak with our team and that’s because we know every game coming up in the future is a game that could end that win-streak real quick,” co-head coach Ralph Weekly said. “The players are well aware of the win-streak, but are trying to keep up the one day at a time mentality as they prepare to face some of the toughest teams on the schedule.” The No. 9 Volunteers (39-5, 11-3 SEC) will put that winning streak on the line this weekend as they travel to face off against No. 16 LSU. This is after the Vols back-to-back walk-off wins against previously ninth-ranked Alabama. “The win-streak is a good hype for
us,” senior Megan Geer said. “But when it comes down to it, it’s just playing one pitch, one game at a time, taking advantage of when we’re doing well, and really just keep it rolling.” Tennessee’s offense has been a huge strength this year as 18 of the Vols’ wins have been by way of the run-rule, but Tennessee’s pitching will have to be just as tough to keep the streak alive. Led by freshman Caylan Arnold and sophomore Matty Moss, the Volunteers’ 1.59 ERA is good for fifth in the SEC. Moss (20-1) pitched a complete-game shutout last weekend against Alabama on a season-high 131 pitches, while Arnold (17-4) held the Crimson Tide to two runs on three hits in the series opener. Arnold was named a Schutt Sports/ NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year Top 25 finalist by the National Fastpitch Coaches’ Association. She is the fourth Volunteer to be a finalist for the award since it was created in 2014 and joins Brooke Vines (2016), Meghan Gregg (2015) and Annie Aldrete (2014). Aldrete was the co-winner of the award in 2014.
While both Arnold and Moss have enjoyed run support, the offense will be facing much tougher pitching for the remainder of the season. LSU is third in the conference with a 1.47 ERA behind top-ranked Florida’s 0.76, and No. 4 Texas A&M, who the Vols will face on the road for their final series of the regular season. LSU (33-12, 8-7 SEC) snapped a fourgame losing streak with a 5-2 win over Northwestern State on Tuesday. Prior to that, the Tigers were swept by Ole Miss and dropped two of three to Alabama on the road. The SEC is one of the toughest conferences across all sports though, so LSU’s recent struggles against conference opponents do not guarantee wins for Tennessee. “The old biblical term is ‘iron forges iron, so we forge one another,’ and I think that’s what’s happening in the SEC,” Ralph Weekly said. The series kicks off Friday night at 7 p.m. at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge and continues with afternoon games on Saturday at 4 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Matty Moss, #1, during the game against Eastern Kentucky at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium on April 4, 2017. Adrien Terricabras • The Daily Beacon
SPORTS
Friday, April 21, 2017 • The Daily Beacon
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TRACK & FIELD
Veterans, newcomers pace track team ahead of weekend Tyler Wombles Copy Editor
If director of track and field and cross county Beth Alford-Sullivan highlighted the name of every athlete that is performing well on her team’s listed roster, it may look more like artwork than a document. Many of her Volunteers are getting quality results and making an impression on her as the season progresses. “There’s been a bunch of people that have started to really spark some great results in what they’re doing,” AlfordSullivan said. “Some of the traditional kids, you know you’ve seen Christian Coleman for the indoor season and for his career here. You’ve seen Nathan Strother do some great stuff over his time. They’re coming into form really well. “But I think there’s some other people that are just on the cusp of really breaking through and will be major players for us as their careers progress.” Tennessee will look to transform that potential into positive results this weekend as the team splits up to compete in two separate meets, the USC (South Carolina) Open and the Virginia Challenge. The Volunteers will send the majority of their squad to South Carolina, with the sprinters, jumpers and throwers hoping to get familiar with the venue that will host the SEC Championship in a few weeks. Around ten distance runners will make
the trip to Virginia to take part in a meet that has “built a good reputation off of some really fast distance races,” according to Alford-Sullivan. That idea of preparation and improvement could be the mantra that gets the Volunteers to where they need to be over the weekend and the rest of the season, as many individuals and event teams on the roster have already put up impressive performances. Tennessee’s 4-by-1 and 4-by-4 relay teams have already qualified for the first round of the NCAA Championships and will have several more chances to work on their craft before competing in the NCAA’s. Star runner Christian Coleman recently posted a time of 10.03 seconds in the 100m during the outdoor season-opening Tennessee Relays, which was the fastest time in the NCAA on the season at the time of the event. The 2016 Olympian will look to finish strong through the second half of the season. “It’s a confidence booster for me,” Coleman said on April 7 following his Tennessee Relays victory. “You never know how your opener will go. It went pretty well, so I’m excited about the rest of the season.” Other athletes could make an impact for Tennessee down the weekend stretch and beyond as well. “Scotty Zajac in the discus has thrown about a 189 feet in the disc and is very, very good for early season,” Alford-Sullivan said.
Christian Coleman during the Tennessee Relays at Tom Black track on April 7, 2017. Adrien Terricabras • The Daily Beacon “You see some good stuff out of Zach Long, who has just been each season getting better after the last one, just progressing himself. He’s real close to putting together a great race hopefully on Saturday evening in Virginia. “We kind of look at things in the four areas, from the sprints, the jumps, the throws and the distance. Really across the
board everybody’s having some nice stuff happen. You can’t help but be excited for Christian Coleman … I’m very excited about our relays. I think we’ll be very good with the relays.” The Virginia Challenge will begin on Friday and conclude on Saturday, lasting throughout the day each day. The USC Open takes place on Saturday.
SOCCER
Vols soccer ends spring season with doubleheader Norris Eppes
Contributor
Tennessee soccer ends their spring season with two exhibition matches against West Virginia and Wake Forest on Saturday. “We’re focused on ourselves. They’re spring games. This is an opportunity for us to go out, try what we’ve been working on defensively and then attack,” midfielder Katie Cousins said. West Virginia were the Big 12 champions in 2016, but lost the NCAA National Championship 3-1 to USC. Wake Forest finished 11th last year in the ACC. When asked if there was one word that
described the way the team played this spring, Cousins was very quick to respond. “Tough. We’re working hard, trying to get tougher,” Cousins said. “Trying to be tough on the field. Pushing each other, in good ways. Trying to do that when we’re playing games.” Both she and head coach Brian Pensky said that the team is approaching each game with the same outlook. “When you play against the national runner up, kids get pretty fired up,” Pensky said. “Our team will be excited and ready to play. Bottom line is, we want to come out of this weekend healthy. We want to have a quicker start in the first half. We want to be organized defensively and keep trying to create chances on the front half of the field.”
The Vols soccer team returns to the field following their 1-0 victory against Cincinnati on April 9. The team looks for its third and fourth wins of the spring season friendlies. Pensky said that the “resilience” shown by the Vols in the final 60 minutes of the game against the N.C. Courage epitomized the strengths shown by the team this spring. “That team just won their opening game (of the NWSL season),” Pensky said. “They’re defending champions in the league. They out-shot the Washington Spirit 23-4—and that’s virtually the same starting line-up they played against us. I think constant resilience, fight and togetherness in that game was a turning point for
our players.” Tennessee plays West Virginia at 11 a.m. and Wake Forest at 4 p.m. In between the two games for the Vols there will be friendlies between Wake Forest and Alabama (kickoff at 12:30 p.m.) followed by West Virginia against Alabama (kickoff at 2:30 p.m.). “We’ve had opportunities to play good games this spring, like going to Columbus State and combining that with watching the Atlanta United game,” Pensky said. “Unfortunately, we’ve only had two home games; but it’ll be nice to play on our field one last time (this spring) with some good competition.” Admission to both games at Regal Stadium is free.
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