Volscars Awarded On Monday Night

April 15, 2013

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Seventh Annual Volscars took place on Monday night at the Knoxville Convention Center. The UT Swimming & Diving program claimed many of the major awards.

Here's a look at the award winners:

Women's Team Coach of the Year:

WINNER - Holly Warlick
NOMINEES - Lisa Glenn, Ralph & Karen Weekly

Holly Warlick

Named the Spalding Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association
Voted SEC Coach of the Year by both the coaches and the Associated Press
Guided Tennessee to a 27-8 record and its 26th all-time appearance in the NCAA Elite Eight
Led Lady Vols to the SEC regular-season title, the 17th in program history
During a time of transition she and her staff signed the nation's No. 1 recruit and a consensus top-three signing class.
Demonstrated tremendous grace in following in her mentor's footsteps as head coach and in dealing with her sister's illness during the season.

Men's Team Coach of the Year:

WINNER - Matt Kredich
NOMINEES - Sam Winterbotham, Cuonzo Martin

Men's Coach of the Year: Matt Kredich

Completed his first season as head coach of the combined men's and women's program
Finished fourth at the SEC Championships
Placed 16th at the NCAA Championships, a six-place improvement from last year
The Vols earned 15 All-American honors at the NCAAs, including four first-team honors
The team was ranked as high as 11th nationally during the season and finished the dual meet season with a 4-4 record

Women's Team of the Year:

WINNER - Women's Swimming & Diving
NOMINEES - Softball, Women's Basketball, Rowing

Women's Team of the Year: Women's Swimming

Finished third at the NCAA Championships, the best finish in program history
Won their first three NCAA titles in relays: the 200 freestyle relay, the 200 medley relay and the 400 medley relay
Tori Lamp was named the National Diver of the Year and Dave Parrington was the National Diving Coach of the Year
The team finished fourth at the SEC Championships
During the dual meet season, the team went 8-1 and defeated eventual NCAA champion Georgia at home on senior day.

Men's Team of the Year

WINNER - Men's Swimming & Diving
NOMINEES - Men's Tennis, Men's Basketball

Men's Team of the Year: Men's Swimming

Finished fourth at the SEC Championships
Placed 16th at the NCAA Championships, a six-place improvement from last year
The Vols earned 15 All-American honors at the NCAAs, including four first-team honors
The team was ranked as high as 11th nationally during the season and finished the dual meet season with a 4-4 record
Sam Rairden led the team by taking second in three events at the SEC Championships and earning five All-America honors

Women's Rookie of the Year

CO-WINNERS - Bashaara Graves (Basketball) AND Faith Johnson (Women's Swim/Dive)
NOMINEES - Hannah Wilkinson (Soccer), Kayla Lucier (Rowing), AJ Newell (Golf)

Women's Rookie of the Year: CO-WINNER - Bashaara Graves

Selected Full Court National Freshman of the Year
Named a Full Court First-Team Freshman All-American
Chosen as a WBCA Honorable Mention All-American
Picked as Coaches SEC Freshman of the Year and AP SEC Newcomer of the Year
Tabbed as Coaches First-Team All-SEC and SEC All-Freshman Team
Averaged 13.2 points and 8.0 rebounds per game and posted 10 double-doubles

Women's Rookie of the Year CO-WINNER: Faith Johnson

Won the SEC title in the 50-yard freestyle, setting the national age group record in the event
Part of two of the Lady Vols' three national champion relay teams at the NCAA Championships: the 200 freestyle relay and 200 medley relay
Finished third at the NCAA Championships in the 50 freestyle
Earned All-SEC Honors and was on SEC All-Freshman Team
Part of the SEC record-setting 200 medley relay team

Men's Rookie of the Year

WINNER - Jacob Blankenship
NOMINEES - Cordarelle Patterson (Football), Mikelis Libietis (Tennis), Will Maddox (Baseball), Sean Lehane (Swim/Dive)

Men's Rookie of the Year: Jacob Blakenship

Earned the honor of 2013 Indoor SEC Freshman Field Athlete of the Year
Named to the 2013 Indoor All-SEC Second Team and SEC All-Freshman Team
Placed fourth at the NCAA Championships earning a mark in the pole vault at 18-4.50; earning a new freshman and personal record; earned/beat multiple freshman records set by legendary Vol and Olympic silver medalist Lawrence Johnson
His vault at the NCAA Championships is currently tied with 2004 Olympic gold medalist Tim Mack for No. 2 all-time in Tennessee's indoor records
Won four individual meet titles, including three in a row, over the course of six meets during the regular season
Won his first meet as a Vol, placing first and earning a new pole vault personal record at the time of 17-8.50 at the Kentucky Invitational

Women's Best Supporting Role

WINNER - Ellen Mullins (Volleyball);
NOMINEES - Brooke Watson (Swim/Dive), Kata Szekely (Tennis), Ashley Andrews (Softball), Kristin Coggin (Rowing)

Ellen Mullins - Best Supporting Role

Tabbed AVCA All-American Honorable Mention and to the AVCA All-South Region Team
Earned a league-best three SEC Defensive Player of the Week honors
Started all 30 matches at the libero position and was one of just two players to play in all 119 sets
Led the Lady Vols with career-best marks in digs (541) and digs per set (4.55)- marks that ranked second and fourth in the SEC, respectively
Her current rate of 4.55 digs per set ranks third all-time in the rally scoring era at Tennessee and overall she sits third at UT with a career average of 3.67 digs per game
Posted two 30-dig matches this season, including 34 against Missouri - which ranks as the seventh-highest single-match total in UT history and second in the rally scoring era

Men's Best Supporting Role

WINNER - James Stone (Football);
NOMINEES - Hunter Reese (Tennis), Brandon Lopez (Basketball), Nick Williams (Baseball), Ed Walsh (Swim/Dive)

Men's Best Supporting Role: James Stone

A left-hander, Stone snapped under center with right hand for quarterback Tyler Bray and shotgun snaps with left hand
Started all 12 games in 2012 at center
Aided offense to school-record 718 yards vs. Troy (11/3)
Helped offense to 475.9 yards per game (20th in NCAA), 315.6 yards of passing offense (15th in NCAA), just eight sacks allowed (0.67 per game/fourth in NCAA)

Best Supporting Staff Member

Winner Whitney Carter, Soccer Team Manager

Women's Athlete of the Year

WINNER - Tori Lamp (Swim/Dive)
NOMINEES - Ellen Wortham (Track/Field), Erica Popson (Golf), Meighan Simmons (Basketball), Raven Chavanne (Softball)

Women's Athlete of the Year: Tori Lamp

Named the National Diver of the Year
Earned back-to-back SEC Diver of the Year honors
Retained her title on the 10-meter platform at the SEC Championships
Placed in the top eight in all three diving events at the NCAA Championships, including a silver medal finish on platform
Named to the USA Diving Olympic Performance Squad

Men's Athlete of the Year:

WINNER - Jordan McRae (Basketball)
NOMINEES - Sam Rairden (Swim/Dive), Cordarelle Patterson (Football), AJ Johnson (Football), Rick Lamb (Golf)

Athlete of the Year: Jordan McRae (Winner)

2013 All-SEC First Team
Selected as 2013 SEC Player of the Year by ESPN's Jay Bilas, Jimmy Dykes, and Seth Davis
Appeared in all 33 games, with 22 starts
Finished the season as Tennessee's team leader in scoring (15.7 ppg), minutes played (33.6 mpg), 3-pointers made (60) and attempted (169) and 3-point percentage (.355) while ranking second in assists (2.0 apg), blocks (0.9 bpg) and steals (0.8 spg).
Played every position but the No. 5 spot, with starts at the 1, 2 and 4 positions.
Led the Vols in scoring 15 times, blocks 10 times, steals nine times and assists eight times.
Scored 20 or more points 10 times, had six games with at least 25 points and posted a pair of +30-point performances.

Big Orange Cup Team Of The Year

WINNER - Baseball Team

Scholar Athlete Teams Of The Year

WINNER - Men's Golf and Women's Golf Teams

Scholar-Athletes Of Year

WINNER - Caroline Capocaccia and Caroline Brown of Soccer
WINNER - Brent Sterling of Swimming & Diving

Inspirational Student-Athletes Of Year

WINNER - Stephanie Stoll of Volleyball
WINNER - Daniel Hood of Football

Howard Aldmon Community Service Award

WINNER - Melissa Brown of Softball

Ms. Tennessee Big Orange Heart

WINNER - Taber Spani (Basketball)
NOMINEES - Chanelle Price (Track/Field), Sara Monberg (Golf), Kayla Jeter (Volleyball), Kelsey Floyd (Swim/Dive)

Ms. Tennessee Big Orange Heart: WINNER - Taber Spani (Basketball)

Member of the All-Oklahoma City Regional Team and SEC All-Tournament Team
Named Capital One Academic All-District for the third time
Member of SEC Community Service Team and nominee for Brad Davis SEC Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship
Recipient of Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Scholarship
Averaged a career-best 11.1 points and 4.5 rebounds per game as a senior.
Scored a career-high 33 points vs. Texas A&M in the SEC semifinals to became the 38th Lady Vol to score 1,000 points and finished with 1,053 for her career.

Mr. Tennessee Big Orange Heart:

WINNER - Herman Lathers (Football)
NOMINEES - Skylar McBee (Basketball), Ed Jones (Tennis), Ben Bartholomew (Football), Jordan Mauney (Swim/Dive)

Mr. Tennessee Big Orange Heart: WINNER - Herman Lathers (Football)

Graduated with a B.S. degree in sport management in August 2012. Is currently working towards an M.S. Degree in sport management.
A member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll and a VolScholar during his entire time on the Tennessee team.
Volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and made hospital visits to East Tennessee Children's Hospital.
Served as a guest speaker at a variety of area schools and churches. Spent countless hours volunteering as part of various youth clinics and sports activities.
Lathers comes off a senior season with the Vols where he racked up 66 tackles, third-most on the team.
He played in 11 games overall with eight starts at WILL linebacker.
Lathers had 5.0 tackles for a loss including two sacks along with two passes defended and an interception.
Lathers had a career-high 15 tackles and his first-career interceptions at No. 17 South Carolina on Oct. 27.

University of Tennessee Athletics

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