J.D. KyzerJ.D. Kyzer has resigned after 15 seasons as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's soccer coach, vice chancellor and athletic director David Blackburn announced Thursday morning. Kyzer's youth-laden Mocs were hurt from the start this season by goalkeeper injuries and finished 1-17-1 overall and 0-9 in the Southern Conference. The second coach in the program's history, he perennially has operated without a full complement of scholarships and went 145-190-23 in five years at Queens College in Charlotte and 15 at UTC. He was the 2003 SoCon coach of the year and had 14 all-conference players. "I certainly want to thank J.D. for his hard work and dedication during a lengthy tenure of serving our university," Blackburn said in a released statement. "He was an asset to many student-athletes who represented Chattanooga Athletics over the last 15 years." Assistant coach Sam Stroud has been made interim head coach.
Baseball
• Boyd-Buchanan pitcher Skyler Anderson signed scholarship papers Thursday to continue his baseball career with Tennessee Temple University. The 6-foot-2, 185-pound right-hander went 8-0 with a save, a 1.76 earned run average and 72 strikeouts in 51 2/3 innings last season for the Bucs. He allowed just 33 hits and 13 walks. He also played third base. "It's possible he can play a corner infielder or outfielder, but mainly he's going to be pitching for us," Temple coach Greg Bartley said. "He has a good breaking ball and he knows how to pitch. He knows how to get people out, and he's a bulldog on the mound. He's a real good signing for us -- a local kid with talent, and a high-character kid." Said Bucs coach Josh Rider: "Skyler is a very intelligent player. He won't blow anybody away on the radar gun, but he knows how to pitch. And he's an extremely strong defender in the field who has come around with his bat as well." Anderson said he also talked to NCAA Division II teams Lee and Carson-Newman but they were interested only in his pitching, "and I wanted to play every day. Coach Bartley is going to give me that chance. And Temple is a good Christian school, just like Boyd, with a new campus coming next year. It's a program on the rise."
Volleyball
• Covenant College junior Chelsea VanDyk repeated as a first-team member on the USA South all-conference volleyball teams announced Thursday, and freshman twins Ginny and Schuyler Moore represented the Lady Scots on the second team with junior libero Chloe Carlson receiving honorable mention. Freshman Laura Scott Tomlin was Covenant's representative on the league's all-sportsmanship team. VanDyk averaged 2.61 kills per set with a .308 hitting percentage, third best in the league.