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UT to turn red for heart disease awareness Libby Dayhuff

Staff Writer While UT is known for its distinct orange, red will take over campus as part of National Wear Red Day Friday.

Members on the Center for Health Education and Wellness’s (CHEW) Be Well campaign are encouraging UT students to wear red on Friday to show awareness for heart disease .

Yusof Al-Wadei, wellness coordinator of CHEW and coordinator of the Be Well program, said UT’s participation in National Wear Red Day exists to inform others about heart disease before it becomes dangerous.

“We’re focusing on getting the message out to campus to raise awareness around heart disease,” Al-Wadei said. “In addition to employees, we hope to engage with the students because the earlier you get on board with (learning about heart disease), the better.”

The day is held on the first Friday of February each year and is the American Heart Association’s (AHA) kick-start event for American Heart Month.

As part of the campaign day, CHEW will post heart-healthy tips on social media and hand out fact sheets on heart disease prevention. Although this is the first year UT will celebrate National Wear Red Day, 2018 will mark 15 years since the AHA started the campaign

to bring awareness to heart disease in women.

Since 2003, millions of Americans have worn red on National Wear Red Day and have held fundraisers to encourage research about heart disease.

The day was started after the AHA and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute recognized women were not paying much attention to heart disease even as it was claiming lives of nearly 500,000 American women each year, according to AHA’s website. (http:// www.heart.org/HEARTORG/) Danica Powell, business operations specialist of AHA’s Knoxville chapter, said cardiovascular disease kills approximately one in three women each year — one woman every 80 seconds. However, only 17 percent of women consider heart disease to be their greatest health threat.

“A lot of people think (heart disease) is a man’s disease. It’s the number-one killer of women, and the statistics are just eyeopening. It’s really the number-one killer of all Americans,” Powell said.

Al-Wadei said heart disease kills one in four Americans, which translates to 600,000 deaths annually. He added that living a healthy lifestyle and educating oneself about heart disease can reduce a person’s chances of developing cardiovascular disease. “(Heart disease) is a fairly wide issue, and while some of it may be unavoidable, a lot of it can be prevented by lifestyle changes, such as

Courtesy of Pixabay quitting smoking, increasing physical activity and eating healthier,” Al-Wadei said.

The AHA also advises people to learn about their family history of heart disease and to routinely monitor five critical health numbers to ensure heart health: Total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and body mass index. Avoiding stress, controlling weight and limiting alcohol intake can also help prevent heart disease.

“The good news is that 80 percent of cardiac events can be prevented by changing your lifestyle and following heart health tips,” Powell said.

UT alum to organize fundraiser for Pride Center Staff Report UT alumnus Chad Goldman is coordinating an effort to fund UT Pride Center operations without government support.

Named “Vol Means All,” the first official effort will occur in Nashville on Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at a private residence.

The kick-off event will include a visit from UT Chancellor Beverly Davenport.

Goldman, member of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the UT College of Arts and Sciences, was prompted to organize the event after the Tennessee legislature’s decision to defund the Pride Center for a year.

“I thought it was such a wonderful thing that there was a pride center at all,” Goldman said, as reported by Out and About Nashville.

“There wasn’t one when I was there, and had there been one it really would’ve helped me a lot, so I was so excited to hear that they had one.”

In response to the defunding, Goldman has worked to raise donations for the Pride Center, and the aim of next month’s effort is to raise enough money to permanently endow the

center with private funds rather than government funds.

By removing the center’s dependency on government support, the Pride Center would be kept away from political interference.

Goldman emphasized that the efforts are nonpartisan and focused on the welfare and development of LGBT+ students.

“I want to be sure that everyone knows File photo / The Daily Beacon this is a non-partisan initiative,” Goldman said. “It has nothing to do center and the efforts required to achieve the with politics. It just has everything to do with fundraiser’s goal.

Goldman hoped that the program will not making sure that LGBTQ and questioning students have a place where they can go on cam- end in Nashville, however. He said the overall pus at UT. It’s a time in your life when you’re goal is to spur other fundraising events in regions where there are “clusters” of UT gradureally just trying to figure out who you are.”

Along with Davenport, members of the ates who would also want to help, opening the Pride Center will speak on the future of the doors for more potential donations.

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Center for Career Development to teach aspiring freelancers Cat Trieu

Staff Writer UT’s Center for Career Development (CCD) is hosting its second annual Freelance Workshop in Room 229 of the Student Union Room on Wednesday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. to teach students how to be successful in freelance work.

Leslie Poynter, career consultant for the CCD, said the event began last year when she wanted to help creative students plan their future.

“I work with students in the College of Communication and College of Arts and Sciences who are interested in pursuing jobs in creative industries like communications, fine art and media,” Poynter said. “It was formed because I wanted to provide students a resource to learn how to make a career out of their creative talents.”

Beth Browder, assistant director of internship development at the CCD, explained that Poynter saw that many communications and art students she was meeting were interested in starting their own businesses, selling their own art or pursuing other creative outlets outside of the typical plans for their respective majors.

“These career paths do not always follow the traditional rules,” Browder said. “She wanted students to be able to connect with individuals who had been successful in some of these fields.”

Poynter will begin the workshop with a presentation on what general freelancing work looks like. Some of the topics she will discuss include work values and skills needed to be successful in a freelance career, and she will also provide information on available resources.

“I want students to walk away more confident in their talents with the tools and resources needed to being a career in freelance,” Poynter said.

Since the workshop is aimed at students working toward careers in media production, fine arts, photography and writing, the CCD is bringing in related professionals, like freelance photographer Jennie Andrews and sound mixer and post-production freelancer Tom Backus, to talk to students with specific interests.

“The workshop is a roundtable networking format where students will rotate among several freelance professionals to ask questions and gain advice on the industry,” Poynter said. “Students can expect to expand their network by meeting freelance professionals

Courtesy of Mary Mahoney and leave with advice on how to build their own business.”

Organizers believe students will benefit from the professionals and will also give participants the opportunity to experience live networking.

“A very large percentage of jobs are secured through networking,” Browder said. “So it is important that students have the opportunity to meet people and grow their connections.”

By learning tips from and networking with professional freelancers, Poynter and Browder want students who are thinking or planning

on going into freelance work to start preparing while in college.

“Students will need to think about how to support themselves while getting their businesses (and) endeavors off the ground, how to build a client base, insurance and other considerations,” Browder said.

Poynter advises students to start building their portfolios before graduating college.

“You will continue to build on your skills and your portfolio, so by the time you graduate you will have an established body of work and even some clients,” Poynter said.

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Nashville band Moon Taxi plays music for a movement Zoe Mooneyhan Contributor

Tennessee alternative band Moon Taxi brings together the power of recent movements into its most recent record.

The five current members of Moon Taxi — Trevor Turndrup (vocals, guitar), Tommy Putnam (bass), Spencer Thomson (guitar, programming), Tyler Ritter (drums) and Wes Bailey (keys) — have been creating music together since 2006. In the past 12 years since the band’s formation, they have released five studio albums and a couple of live albums. The most recent album, “Let the Record Play,” was released this year.

The band met and formed at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, when they were students. Terndrup and Putnam attended the same high school in Alabama, playing on the same blues rock band. At Belmont, they met the other members, Thomson and Swan, and all came together as a band. After college, final members Ritter and Bailey joined, and the rest is history.

The band falls under the indie and alternative rock genre and hails from Nashville; however, one of its members, the keyboardist Bailey, is actually from Knoxville.

“We love playing Knoxville. That’s my hometown,” Bailey said.

“Let the Record Play” came with a number of songs first released as singles. One of the more recognizable songs from this album is the single “Two High,” which stands for a peace sign thrown up in the air.

“The impetus for our song ‘Two High’ was an auto-correct fail on my phone that triggered the misspelling of “too high.” The phrase looked interesting to me, and I showed it to Trevor before a gig at the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina. He said it instantly made him think of a peace sign,” Bailey said.

Inspiration varies from auto-correct mistakes to movements across the United States for the band.

“The next day before our soundcheck in

South Bend, Indiana, the Women’s March was happening in cities across the country.

The lyrics poured out of Trevor, Spencer and myself while watching the images of division and unrest on our bus’s TV screen,” Bailey said. “We felt our country needed a song of hope for those who may be living in fear. It’s been truly amazing to see the response so far.

The past year has seen a number of movements across the country, including the first annual Women’s March. With the second anniversary of the march, it seems this song has come onto the music scene at a very important time.”

Turndrup shared similar feelings on the song in a recent interview with American Songwriter.

“There was a lot of hope in the Women’s March, and that ultimately inspired the song because the song is about hope,” Turndrup said. “It’s about coming together. I see it as a bright light at the end of a dark tunnel.

People felt like they were going down into a dark place. That’s why they went out and marched — to feel better and not feel alone.”

“We can come together / We won’t give up on the fight,” Turndrup sings in the song.

How the songs would be received by people in the context of recent movements was not the only consideration the band had when writing this album.

“We pictured how the songs would sound at the shows, especially on a festival stage,” Bailey said. “It’s a very live-feeling record to me.”

Moon Taxi has been on the bill for a number of festivals, including Coachella. They are currently on their “Let the Record Play” tour that will take them across the United States and to the Dominican Republic.

Moon Taxi will be performing in Knoxville at the Mill and Mine on Feb. 2 and 3.

“Hopefully (Knoxville) will like (the album) enough to share with friends,” Bailey File - Indie rock band Moon Taxi performing at The Mill & Mine on Feb. 25, 2017. said. “It has a really positive message.”

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Marilyn Kallet reads poems of love, witness Neeley Moore

Arts & Culture Editor Monday evening opened this semester’s Writers in the Library series with Marilyn Kallet reading from her newest poetry collection, “How Our Bodies Learned.”

A full room of faculty and students, many from Kallet’s own department, gathered to celebrate and listen to the recent work.

Arthur Smith, poet and professor at UT, introduced Kallet, telling of her achievements.

“Let me tell you a few things about (Kallet),” Smith said, “For one, she has written eighteen books … She has performed in France and in Poland, she was instrumental in forming the Writer’s Guild here in Knoxville, had led the creative writing program at UT, and some other stuff.”

Smith touched on many of Kallet’s achievements including her poetry collections, such as “The Love That Moves Me” and “Packing Light: New and Selected Poems.” Kallet has also translated Paul Eluard’s “Last Love

Poems” and Péret’s “The Big Game.” Kallet is the Nancy Moore Goslee Professor of English who has taught for many years, which is how Smith ended his introduction to Kallet.

“She’s empowered and emboldened her students to write distinguished works,” Smith said.

Kallet then took the stage to read, remarking that the night was a time for gratitude and continuing to thank individuals before starting her first poem, which was co-written and was about the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016. “(‘How Our Bodies Learned’) is a collection of love poems and witness poems,” Kallet said, “It opens in France and comes back to Tennessee … It was time full of gold, but as I look at the poems from that time, they have fall in them because of the terrorist attacks. I was in Paris at that time.”

With each poem, Kallet told the story of the different shifting experiences of her time in Paris that autumn.

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POETRY READING continued from Page 6 With each poem, Kallet told the story of the different shifting experiences of her time in Paris that autumn. Some poems evoked laughter from the audience, such as “Ode to Disappointment,” which Kallet wrote when she was rejected from a travel proposal grant.

After the Paris shooting of 2015, Kallet was told a scheduled reading was canceled because “it was not the time for poetry.”

“I had the opposite reaction,” Kallet said, “Poetry bears witness. People want sense.”

Out of that, she wrote a poem titled “Ode to my Shawl.” The poem is an honest yet simple take on the everyday aspects of a mass tragedy.

“How Our Bodies Learned” holds many poems like “Ode to my Shawl.” They sing of witnessing the heartbreak of the world around them, the experience of rejection of poetry and the thoughtful compassion for the men who yelled at her for slowly loading her luggage in France. One poem came from a dream, and another compared jealously and envy.

At the end of her reading, Kallet read from a praise poem that was an ode to dislocated bones, steps tripped on and open caskets, telling the audience she is trying to learn to praise everything.

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Kallet read from “a praise poem that was an ode to dislocated bones, steps tripped on and open caskets, telling the audience she is trying to learn to praise everything.

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reading in Paris back in 2015, poems bear witness. Kallet’s poems tell and explore love when it is simple and when life is so tragic it seems impossible to do so. Her work has odes praising the least-expected, and political ideas mix in with notions of the human body.

The poems bear witness to all things, and even the poems chronicling terror are bursting with hope. As the first poem on the Orlando shooting read: “Somehow we must have

UT Professor Marilyn Kallet thanks her friends before the reading of her latest book on Jan. 29, 2018.

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Following the reading, there was a reception in the Mary Greer room where copies of “How Our Bodies Learned” were sold.

Kallet’s reading is the first of many in the Writers in the Library series, which continues on Feb. 19 with a reading by David Madden and Allen Wier.

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What to watch Wednesdays: Music’s biggest week Neeley Moore

Arts & Culture Editor The 2018 Grammy awards were last Sunday, a day often considered the biggest night in music. In light of music’s biggest week, I wanted to share some classic musicals that have brought song and dance to the cinema screen.

Singing in the Rain Regardless of whether you love this movie or hate it, “Singing in the Rain” is a classic musical that paved the way for every musical that followed. This 1950 film paints a picture of a positive and lighthearted Hollywood in 1920,

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focusing on a romance between Gene Kelly’s character, Don, and Debbie Reynold’s character, Kathy. The two deal with rivalries within the entertainment business and come out with their own musical within the film.

Although well-known to modern audiences, the movie was only considered a mild hit when it was released. It has since become of the most recognized films from the golden age of Hollywood. With performances considered iconic, memorable and historical, “Singing in the Rain” is not soon to be forgotten.

Phantom of the Opera Following the releases of the classic musicals like “The Sound of Music,” “Mary Poppins” and “Grease,” the early 2000s suffered from a lack of live-action movie films. There were only a few released around this time worth mentioning, including “Phantom of the Opera.”

It tells the story of a young girl named Christine who has a beautiful voice and is haunted (yet fascinated) by the Phantom, who lives in the opera house in which she performs.

Eventually the Phantom invites her into a labyrinth under the music house in order to give her vocal lessons. The story is one of terror, mystery and romance.

One of the reasons why Phantom is especially worth mentioning is the fact it comes from the 1986 Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd

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an aspiring jazz pianist named Sebastian, played

by Ryan Gosling. The two meet while Sebastian is playing at a small musical gig. The two later reconnect at a party and their romance begins.

The story is a combination of the pair’s individual battles for success and portrays a heartwrenching yet beautiful depiction of what life in modern Hollywood is like for aspiring dreamers.

From the happy-go-lucky picture of Hollywood in “Singing in the Rain” to the bittersweet story of “La La Land,” musicals tell the stories that sometimes words cannot. That’s why they’ll keep coming out as long as we watch and sing along.

Webber. Since Broadway exemplifies the very best of musical theater, the adaptations that have come from the stage to the cinema are some of the most well-known and loved.

La La Land After sweeping the 2017 award season for just about every category, “La La Land” is quickly finding its place among the most important musicals released. The writers of this year’s Greatest Showman also wrote “La La Land,” trying their hardest to create the old-fashioned Hollywood feel on the modern screen. The great age of musicals is back.

“La La Land” tells the story of an aspiring actress named Mia, played by Emma Stone, and

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Alice in Wonderland Ballet reimagines childhood classic Cat Trieu

Staff Writer Join GO! Contemporary Dance Works in Wonderland as they perform “ALICE,” their ballet edition of the childhood classic “Alice in Wonderland.”

GO! Contemporary Dance Works is a local pre-professional non-profit contemporary dance company that aims to encourage youth to express artistry through dance.

By choreographing and performing complex pieces like “ALICE,” GO! choreographers and dancers challenge their audiences to think of intellectual interpretations.

Artistic director of GO! and principal choreographer of the show Lisa Hall McKee believes that “ALICE” is a “fascinating take” on the literary story, describing the show as “whimsical, magical and extremely dynamic.”

“We are excited to have this incredible storyline which will appeal to (multiple) generations,” McKee said. “It is also an incredible way for young audience members see a literary work come to life in a live performance.”

While primarily a ballet, GO! will be infusing a variety of different dance styles to portray the storyline in a unique light.

“The choreography is diverse, with classical ballet and contemporary movement blended

together to define the scenes,” McKee said. “ The mixture of classical ballet and contemporary dance will be enhanced by aerial movement in some scenes, including the scene when Alice falls down the rabbit hole and a scene featuring the Cheshire Cat spinning in the air in a harp.

McKee believes this aspect will appeal strongly to the audience and bring a different dynamic to the show.

Along with the lithe and animated dances, vibrant, expressive costumes and the elaborate set, the stage will be lit up with abstract projections, giving the sense of blurred lines between fantasy and reality.

While the storyline provokes thought and the stage is physically impressive, the characters and dancers convey the emotions and conflicts of the story through facial and bodily expression.

Audience members will see Alice go through her journey of curiosity, confusion, fear and joyous wonder as she travels and meets new friends and enemies in Wonderland.

Though each scene paints different emotional themes, McKee explained that Alice’s transformation in the show is what the audience should focus on overall.

“Throughout the three acts, the audience will see Alice open her heart to each character, gaining strength and courage from each one, giving her the strength she needs during her battle with the Red Queen,” McKee said.

Courtesy of GO! Contemporary Dance Works Harper Addison, a professional dancer from Atlanta, who will be starring in the show as Alice, prepared for her role by remembering what her mindset was like when she was Alice’s age.

“She is a curious person by nature and has this rebellious and very independent streak as well, but at times, she can be overwhelmed, confused and frightened by some of the things she encounters,” Addison said. “She can be a very complicated character but is ultimately this curious and empathetic girl with a strong moral compass.”

With all the effort she and the other dancers have put into the show, Addison hopes that Knoxvillians will come out to see the ballet.

“It’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and even if you were to come a dozen times, you would notice something new every time,” Addison said. “Even if — and especially if — you’ve never been to a dance performance before, this is one you’re not going to want to miss.”

“ALICE” will be showing at the Bijou Theatre Feb. 10 at 2:00 and 7:30 p.m. and on Feb. 11 at 3 p.m.

Before the day shows on Saturday and Sunday, GO! will be hosting a pre-show Mad Hatter Tea Party upstairs at the Bijou Theatre.

All proceeds from the tea party will go towards GO! Contemporary Dance Works.

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The Daily Beacon • Thursday, February 1, 2018

TRACK & FIELD

Long historically pacing, leading Vols as junior runner Noah Taylor

Contributor Tennessee track and field’s Zach Long is coming off of a historic performance on Saturday at the Bob Pollack Invitational.

The junior distance runner from Rutledge, Tennessee, broke a 28-year old program record with a time of 7:59.15 in the 3,000-meter race.

The record was previously held by Glenn Morgan, who set it in 1990.

“As the race progressed, Coach (Beth AlfordSullivan) and I adjusted, and we knew that we did have a shot (at breaking the record) going into the last 800 meters,” Long said. “That’s when it really started to become a reality.”

The milestone reached at Clemson University on Saturday is just one of several that Long has reached since coming to Knoxville three years ago.

When Tennessee director of track and field and cross country Beth Alford-Sullivan was asked about Long’s impact on the team, she answered that Long has emerged not only as a star athlete on the track for the Vols but also as a leader and an example to the other athletes.

“There’s a couple of things that stand out about Zach Long,” Alford-Sullivan said. “We noticed this in the recruiting process with him.

He encompasses everything: Great passion, great leadership, great dedication and a great care for representing us.”

As one of the Vols’ top performers in track and field and cross country, Long puts a lot into his preparation for each week and believes that his strength has been his biggest improvement since his freshman season.

“My strength is a lot stronger,” Long said.

“One of my weaknesses in high school was the mid-part of the race. It always made me or broke me. Since I’ve been at Tennessee, I feel like I’ve become mentally stronger, especially in the midpart and just getting to the end of the race.”

Long joined Tennessee in 2015 as a local product of Grainger County High School in nearby Rutledge. Coming out of high school, Long considered Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas and Oklahoma before ultimately deciding to stay with his hometown school.

Since that time, Long has achieved numerous program and personal bests, including making All-SEC in cross country in 2017. He relishes the opportunity to run for Tennessee.

“I don’t see myself as anything special,” Long said. “I’m just a small-town kid from Grainger County, Tennessee, that’s living out his dream running for Tennessee.”

Being the competitor that he is, Long — with the 3,000-meter record now in hand — is looking to achieve more before the end of his college career.

“I definitely hope to improve on the 7:59 record that I have right now,” Long said. “I hope to drop that down. I’d also like to break the 5K records and the mile record as well.”

FILE - Zach Long during the Tennessee Rust Buster at Tom Black Track on March 25, 2017.

Adrien Terricabras, File / The Daily Beacon With the 2018 indoor season and his junior campaign in full swing, Long hopes that he has set a positive example for the players around him, particularly the underclassmen.

“I hope (I) set an example of resiliency,” Long

said. “I hope they are grateful for the opportunity to run for Tennessee. I hope they are able to take advantage of the opportunity of the program, the coaches. I just hope they keep rising up like they have been.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Green finding rhythm for Lady Vols after knee injury Tyler Wombles

Sports Editor Cheridene Green’s return to the court has been beneficial for the No. 12 Lady Vols, to say the least.

The London, native sat out the 2016-2017 season after transferring into the program from ASA College in Brooklyn, New York. She suffered a right knee injury while with the Avengers and carried the ailment with her to Tennessee.

The 6-foot-3 forward and Tennessee’s first international player in the program’s history spent last year rehabbing before jumping into action this season for a much less experienced Lady Vols squad. In her first game with Tennessee, an 87-49 win over ETSU, Green notched seven points, seven rebounds and three blocks.

And her impact on the year didn’t stop there.

Green currently holds a 57 percent shooting mark, good for second-best on the team behind

senior center Mercedes Russell (63 percent).

She is averaging 5.3 points per game and 4.3 rebounds per contest, as well.

“Basketball is very exciting for me,” Green said. “I get excited too much sometimes. I just love watching the game, and I love being involved, especially from sitting out (with the injury). So I’m always ready, no matter what, no matter how many minutes I get. I’m always going to be ready to go in.

“No matter if it’s just (to) grab rebounds or to just talk or to play (defense). It’s like I’m just always ready, just excited to play.”

While not starting for the Lady Vols, Green’s usage on the floor often comes at opportune times for head coach Holly Warlick’s team. Her insertion into contests has sometimes helped solidify Tennessee’s leads or turned momentum in the Lady Vols’ favor.

In Tennessee’s 86-73 win over Vanderbilt on Jan. 7, Green’s play in the fourth quarter was paramount to the Lady Vols’ success. She

finished the game with 17 points and two steals.

On top of this, her soft-spoken personality has made just as much of an impression on her teammates as her hard-nosed play. Senior forward Jaime Nared spoke at length about the combination of Green’s aggressiveness and friendliness following the Vanderbilt contest.

“Would you guess that someone as aggressive (as Green is) out there (on the court) would talk as softly as she does?” Nared said. “She’s the sweetest person. It’s so funny … So happy (for her) because you see how hard she works. When she’s rewarded like how hard she plays … She’s super-efficient when she comes in the game.

“And I think that’s just a credit to everything that she does that you guys don’t see — in practice — and how strong she is.”

Green’s re-emergence on the court has helped bolster a roster that displays more depth at the post than last season when Russell and then-freshman center Kamera Harris were Tennessee’s only available options as power

players.

With Green providing an option for Warlick as a strong forward and center, along with Harris and freshman Kasiyahna Kushkituah on the bench, the Lady Vols’ depth at post has noticeably increased.

That grit may be necessary for Tennessee as it attempts to rebound from a recent cold stretch. The Lady Vols started the year with a 15-0 record but has notched a 2-4 mark in the team’s last six games.

Green may be the Lady Vol’s key to getting back into rhythm and this progression will likely feature her now-patented combination of tough play and soft-spoken aura.

“Cheridene could play a minute and have five rebounds,” Warlick said following the Vanderbilt game. “She’s just an old-school basketball player.

She’s just your blue-collar worker that goes to work … She’s gradually just building her way back in and getting in shape. We need her. We need her to play coming off of the bench.”

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SWIM & DIVING FILE - Liam Stone in the 3m diving event during the Orange and White intrasquad meet at Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center on Sept. 29, 2017.

Adrien Terricabras, File / The Daily Beacon

Vols swim and diving team ranks highly after dual-meet Blake Von Hagen Staff Writer

Swimming: As the Tennessee swim team prepares to finalize its SEC Championship roster, it is time to look at how the Vols have fared so far this season.

Checking polls is often an intriguing and unbiased way of determining how a sports team has done according to the expectations that “experts” have set. If one were to use this system to grade how the Tennessee swim team has done during its dual-meet competitions, the Vols would pass with flying colors.

The Vol men were a preseason No. 18 team in the country, and the Lady Vols were slated at No. 14, according to the CSCAA poll.

Now, in the latest update, Tennessee is No. 12 on the men’s side and No. 9 on the women’s side.

They have made this jump thanks to excellent swimming and impressive performances against several top-25 teams.

Before the season, head coach Matt Kredich noted that this schedule would be a key factor in determining his team’s success.

“Competition is really the engine that drives improvement,” Kredich said.

This engine, facing 14 top-25 teams combined between the Vols and the Lady Vols, has Tennessee driving full speed ahead into the SEC Championships.

Facing a tough schedule is one thing, but winning those meets is another. Tennessee has

done both, with the men sitting at 6-2-1 and the women going 7-3 against a challenging schedule.

There have been many key swimmers on this team, but a few stand out with their levels of success this season.

On the women’s side, Erika Brown, Tess Cieplucha and Stanzi Moseley have been a dynamic trio of sophomores for the Lady Vols.

Brown is a freestyle and butterfly specialist who has earned the SEC Swimmer of the Week award two times this season. She broke school records in the 50-yard freestyle (21.50), the 100yard freestyle (47.54) and the 100-yard butterfly (50.33) during the Tennessee Invitational. Her 100-yard butterfly time is the best in the country this season, and her 50-yard freestyle time is the third-best.

Health has been a critical component of her success this season.

“She (Brown) struggled with illness a lot last year, and we really didn’t see her at her best until NCAAs,” Kredich said. “She’s been healthy.

She’s been really focused. I’m not surprised at this point.”

Cieplucha specializes in the individual medley and backstroke. She won her first SEC Swimmer of the Week award after winning the 400-yard IM (4:11.22) and the 500-yard freestyle (4:48.43) against Louisville in November.

Cieplucha’s 400-yard IM time is good for sixth-best in the NCAA, and her coach says she is someone on whom the team can count in all four strokes.

Moseley, who transferred to Tennessee after her freshman season at Southern California, swims freestyle for the Lady Vols. She was

named SEC Swimmer of the Week after her four-win performance during the Lady Vols win against Arkansas.

Moseley’s 200-yard free time (1:44.63) is the 16th fastest in the country.

For the Tennessee men, junior Kyle DeCoursey has been a catalyst for the Vols. The freestyle-specialist has the seventh-best time in both the 50-yard freestyle (19.18) and the 100yard freestyle (42.30).

“He (DeCoursey) is someone we lean on and rely on as a closer,” Kredich said.

Other noteworthy swimmers for the Vols are sophomore Taylor Abbott and seniors Ryan Coetzee, Sam McHugh and Peter John Stevens.

Diving: As good as the Tennessee swimming team has been between the lanes, the divers have had just as much success in the diving well.

The Tennessee men are headlined by redshirt junior Colin Zeng and senior Liam Stone, while the women are propelled by junior Rachel Rubadue and freshman Ana Hernandez.

Zeng, a transfer from Ohio State, has won the SEC Diver of the Week award six times this season and is en route to a probable SEC Diver of the Year award. He has won every 1-meter springboard event he has competed in this season, and he has only lost on the 3-meter twice.

Zeng has competed in the platform event just once this year, where he scored a 460.20, good for second in the NCAA this season.

“Colin continues to really show his stuff,” Parrington said. “He really trains his butt off.”

His teammate, team captain Liam Stone, is

the reigning SEC Diver of the Year. Stone bested Zeng in the 3-meter event on Senior Day against Florida by less than a point.

Despite being in Zeng’s shadow as far as scoring has gone this season, diving coach Dave Parrington thinks that Stone is primed to round into form during the championship meets.

“He’s getting his takeoffs, getting his strength and getting higher in the air,” Parrington said.

“He’s moving faster, and all the sudden it’s different than what he has been dealing with this year.”

Rubadue brings talent, experience and leadership to the women’s side of the diving team. She won SEC Diver of the Week after sweeping the diving events at the Tennessee Invitational.

“She (Rubadue) has taken her training to another level,” Parrington said. “We have made some modifications to her strength schedule, and she has bought in.”

Hernandez has had an up-and-down freshman campaign for the Lady Vols. She had what Parrington called a breakout day against Louisville in November, but then she suffered an ankle injury that set her back during the Tennessee Invitational.

Now the Tennessee swimming and diving team will head toward their most important meet so far this season. Based on their track record, it should be a successful meet for the Vols.

“Everything we do is geared toward championship season,” Parrington said.

The SEC Championships will take place in College Station, Texas, from Feb. 14 to 18.

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