Tennessee Track & Field Program Adds Nine To Ranks With Solid Spring Signing Class LADY VOL MEDIA RELATIONS Press Release Apr 29, 2010

 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The University of Tennessee track & field programs will add nine new faces to their ranks for 2010-11, Director of Track & Field J.J. Clark confirmed as he announced the spring signing classes for both the Vols and Lady Vols on Thursday.  Several of the UT students-to-be are ranked among the nation’s best, according to Track & Field Newsmagazine’s top prep lists.

               

TENNESSEE SELECTS J.J. CLARK TO HEAD COMBINED TRACK & FIELD PROGRAM LADY VOL MEDIA RELATIONS Press Release Jun 22, 2009

 J.J. Clark, who led the Lady Volunteers to a pair of NCAA National Championships and six Southeastern Conference titles during his seven seasons as head coach, has been chosen to lead a combined men’s and women’s track & field/cross country program at the University of Tennessee, Director of Men’s Athletics Mike Hamilton and Director of Women’s Athletics Joan Cronan announced jointly on Monday.

            “It’s a great honor to be entrusted with the combined men’s and women’s track & field program at the University of Tennessee,” Clark said. “I have great respect for the tradition of the men’s program at UT. I recognize the responsibility associated with leading this program. We intend to compete for championships.”

LADY VOL TRACK & FIELD TEAM ADDS QUARTET OF SIGNEES LADY VOL MEDIA RELATIONS Press Release Mar 31, 2009

 A pair of throwers, a sprinter and a multi-eventer have signed national letters of intent to join the University of Tennessee women’s track & field program, Lady Vol head coach J.J. Clark announced Monday.

            Throwers Aslynn Halvorson of Charlotte, N.C. and Jessie Harrison of Collierville, Tenn., as well as sprinter Kia Jackson of Lithonia, Ga., and Kirstyn Sweeney of Nashville, will be joining the reigning NCAA and SEC Indoor Champion Big Orange in the fall.

 

BOWMAN CHOSEN SEC CROSS COUNTRY ATHLETE OF THE WEEK LADY VOL MEDIA RELATIONS Press Release Sep 08, 2007

 \"undefined\"A native of Warrenton, Va., and a graduate of Fauquier (FOCK-ier) High School, Bowman collected the second SEC cross country weekly honor of her career and the first by a Lady Vol since Katie Flaute was recognized on Oct. 4, 2005.  Bowman did so by winning the Belmont Opener in Nashville on Aug. 31 with a career-best 4,000-meter clocking of 14 minutes, 00.58 seconds on an 87-degree evening in Music City.

CROSS COUNTRY VOLS PICKED FOURTH BY SEC COACHES LADY VOL MEDIA RELATIONS Press Release Aug 21, 2007

The Tennessee men s cross country team was chosen to finish fourth in the SEC this season, the conference announced Monday. 
Our preseason ranking is respectable, head coach George Watts said. I expect several SEC teams to be ranked in the preseason NCAA poll. We will not be satisfied with a fourth-place finish, but I believe it is a good starting point.