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Vols still adjusting in last week of spring practice

Will Backus

Staff Writer On Tuesday, Tennessee kicked off its final week of spring practice that will culminate with the Orange and White Game on Saturday.

The annual scrimmage will be entirely different than the Orange and White games of a bygone era. First-year head coach Jeremy Pruitt is emphasizing that he wants his players to get a “real game feel” from the showcase, and this may even boil down to a stay in a hotel.

All week long, players and staff have been active on social media, trying to get fans to show out for Saturday’s event. Despite the removal of the traditional autograph session before the game begins, those involved with the program want to see a packed Neyland Stadium.

“We need our fans here,” senior Drew Richmond said. “We need them here. They’re as much a part of our success. When we were losing, they were there with us, and when we were winning, they were there with us.”

Offense shows out in second scrimmage: Before Tuesday’s practice, Tennessee held its second scrimmage in Neyland Stadium on Saturday night. For Pruitt, the scrimmages are

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the true measuring sticks of players’ talents and abilities, and he was pleased with what his offense showed him in Saturday’s edition.

“One good thing, just looking at the scrimmage,” Pruitt said. “I felt like offensively we created a few more explosive plays. I thought our running backs did well with the ball in their hand. We protected the quarterback and gave them a chance to have some success.”

Seeing as Pruitt is a defensively-minded coach, having served as the defensive coordinator at multiple schools, including Alabama, before becoming Tennessee’s head coach, one might expect the defense to shine in scrimmages.

However, Pruitt stated on Tuesday that the unit continues to cause too few turnovers, and he once again harped upon its tackling ability, a weakness he pointed out after the first scrimmage a couple of Saturdays ago.

Despite the defense’s struggles, it is a positive sign for Tennessee that its offense is showing out under first-year coordinator Tyson Helton.

Last season, Tennessee was last in the SEC in total offense, amassing just 3,493 yards in 12 games.

With Helton seemingly breathing new life into the Tennessee offense, Tennessee fans should have some optimism for the upcoming season.

Players still adapting to new schemes: The Tennessee football staff has been given a completely new look; none of the on-field coaches for this season were on the Vols’ staff last year.

And though spring practice has been rolling along for a few weeks now, the players, especially those who have been around for a few years, are still trying to adjust properly to the new schemes.

“The scheme is a little bit different, obviously,” linebacker Quart’e Sapp said. “Our technique and our assignments are a little bit different. It’s a new defense, obviously, so we’re still learning it.”

As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it is not expected that a player picks up on an entirely new scheme with just a few weeks of practice, especially when players have been moving positions as frequently as they have under Pruitt.

With spring practice close to its conclusion, Tennessee’s players will have to put in a bit of extra work in the summer and fall to be gameready when September comes along.

“Coach Pruitt always kind of talked about it, ‘If you wish spring was over, you’re kind of not a player, and if you wish we had 20 more, then you’re headed in the right direction.’” Robertson said. “We’ve got a lot of guys feeling that way.”

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UT football players during practice with Coach Kevin Sherrer on March 31, 2018.

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Project uncovers lives of Civil War soldiers John Orona

Staff Writer Every month for the past four years, the McClung Museum has brought the narrative of black Civil War soldiers fighting for their freedom back to life through the first-hand accounts of the 1st Regiment, U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery.

Over that time, hundreds of Chancellor’s Honors students have transcribed over 2,400 pages of handwritten, leather-bound volumes detailing the lives and history of the regiment as they held Knoxville as a fortified town during the second half of the war.

“Sometimes they’re indecipherable,” curator of Civil War history at McClung Museum Joan Markel said of the texts. “You have old terminology, military terminology, misspellings.”

Markel, who oversees the transcription project, said the entire six volumes will be completed by the end of the spring semester, but the real challenge comes in proofing and sorting through the massive collection.

However, she said that based on the current work, there’s already a lot to learn.

“This is the first time for many of these men that they’ve ever been documented, so just the records — first and last name, where they were born, age, complexion, hair and eyes and bits of biography that don’t exist anywhere else,”

Markel said. “But also what they were doing day by day. How do you create a regiment from guys who have never done anything but farming all their lives? So there’s an excellent amount of primary data of what was going on.”

The project is coordinated by Steve Dean of the East Tennessee Civil War Alliance, and it began when he hired someone to photograph all 2,800 pages from the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., and endeavored to turn the JPEGs into searchable Word files.

“At first I was doing this primarily with people in (the) community, 20 documents at a time,” Dean said. “But I was having trouble recruiting people because it’s quite a laborious and tedious process.”

Dean said the work will be able to shed light particularly on sentiments toward black soldiers at a time when their futures and places in society were uncertain.

“They’re going from slavery to the army, and seeing the interaction of the community to a force of armed African Americans will be interesting and valuable,” Dean said.

The regiment was made up of mostly slaves since the Emancipation Proclamation only affected states in open rebellion and Tennessee had been retaken by the Union at the time. As much as 25 percent of the regiment, however, may have been free black volunteers.

“Slaveholders in East Tennessee still held

slaves during the war,” Markel said. “The army had permission to take these guys from their (slaveholders) without their permission.”

Markel said the regiment did not see much action in battle or heavy artillery fire, and its soldiers’ major roles were building fortifications, going on enlistment drives and freeing up white soldiers for Sherman’s notorious March to the Sea. Still, Markel said their accounts will provide terrific primary sources in other ways.

“In addition to the guys in the regiment, there’s a freeman’s village,” Markel said. “The wives and children and old people who came followed the troops, and they’re living in South Knoxville and they have a big farm and they’re trying to feed themselves. So you’re learning not just about the military day by day but a little about the domestic life of these people who are just coming into citizenship.”

Once the transcriptions are complete, Markel plans to have them made as available to the public as possible. The work could have major impacts for genealogy and the reclaiming of a lost history of a population often excluded from history books.

“You can read information that you wouldn’t find anywhere else about people who really have always been way below the historic radar,” Markel said.

CHEW, Panhellenic Council collaborate for Denim Day Cat Trieu

Copy Editor The Center for Health Education and Wellness (CHEW) is throwing it back to the ‘90s.

CHEW will be holding a Denim Day on April 25 to help commemorate sexual assault survivors. Along with encouraging students to wear denim, CHEW will be handing out denim squares on which students can write supportive messages to sexual assault survivors that will be hung on a clothesline along Ped Walkway.

The relation of denim and sexual assault first began in Italy, when a rape conviction was overturned, with the court ruling stating that a woman in jeans can’t possibly be raped due to the tight nature of the clothing. The ruling sparked national outrage, with female lawmakers wearing jeans to work until rape laws were changed.

While the denim-themed protests began in Italy, California-based nonprofit organization Peace Over Violence started Denim Day 19 years ago to show support and to encourage belief in sexual assault survivors, and the movement soon spread across the U.S. While Denim Day is not new to UT, this will

be CHEW’s first year having a small event on Pedestrian Walkway in honor of the day.

“What it represents is bringing awareness to and believing survivors of sexual violence,” CHEW wellness coordinator Fletcher Haverkamp said. “We are continually trying on this campus to keep on the forefront of people’s mind that sexual violence is a real thing and that, unfortunately, myths still exist around sexual violence. There is still victim-blaming that happens. This event tries to address those things by letting people know that survivors of sexual violence are not to blame for what happened to them and that myths are myths.

The event is really focused around (that) people need to believe survivors.”

For this event, CHEW is collaborating with the Panhellenic Council and Alpha Chi Omega.

Isabella Duran, freshman in accounting and vice president of philanthropy in Alpha Chi Omega, had planned similar events in the past to raise awareness of sexual assault issues. Due to Duran’s work in Alpha Chi Omega and Haverkamp’s interest in collaborating with Panhellenic Council, Shelby Skaggs, senior in human resource management and vice president of internal affairs of the Panhellenic Executive Board, coordinated the collaboration.

“The collaboration with CHEW just fell right

into place,” Skaggs said. “Once I got word of the great work Isabella and the other Alpha Chi women had done, I figured it would be even better for us all to work together.”

By hosting a physical event, Haverkamp hopes to establish an understanding on campus that sexual assault survivors need to be believed and that UT needs to provide a safe place for them.

“The more we can build a culture where we believe survivors, the better that’s going to be for the community. What we want is for students to come on to a campus where they feel cared for and where (when) they express their experience to a friend or significant other of some sort, they will believe them.”

Haverkamp and Skaggs hope that students passing by on Ped Walkway will stop by and participate in the national event and campaign.

“It doesn’t take a lot of effort to show your support for survivors of sexual violence,” Haverkamp said. “It speaks volumes. It’s an important, meaningful, active engagement.”

“Out of this event I think the most important thing is that we provide support to other women on campus,” Skaggs said. “I also think that by spreading this awareness we can teach how to intervene and prevent this from happening in the future.”

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Poet shares reflections on nature, reminisces on family Natalia Capella Staff Writer

Hillman, a poet and editor, read for the Writers in the Library series on Monday at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium in Hodges Library.

Brenda Hillman read poetry influenced by the ways her mother taught her to see the world and the language she used.

Hillman has written 10 collections of poetry and won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry, the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry. She has also been named the Academy of American Poets Chancellor and received multiple other awards.

Marilyn Kallet, professor of creative writing, introduced Hillman at the beginning of the reading.

“I am thrilled to be introducing my friend and poet extraordinaire Brenda Hillman,” Kallet said. “Brenda’s fragments bring recognition of our particular time and place, our lived moments ... Her staggered spacing reminds us that we are engaged in a struggle for ourselves and

the planet.”

Rather than just reading her pieces for enjoyment, Hillman said she wanted the reading to serve those in attendance and their personal creativity.

“I mainly want to have a reading that will serve your own creativity and your own creative life and not just be a monolithic reading, so to that end I have a whole bunch of little things planned,” Hillman said.

Hillman read from several of her poetry books, including her 1997 work “Loose Sugar.” The excerpts from “Loose Sugar” and many of Hillman’s pieces pulled in themes of nature, politics, depression and happiness.

Drawn from inspiration about aspects of nature, Hillman shared works about various elements inspired by Californian geology. When Hillman was younger, her mother taught her animistic styles of life in which one finds spirituality from the essence of nature and the environment.

Later, Hillman found herself committing to simple rituals while thinking of her mother and writing about those experiences.

Her mother not only taught her about

spiritually but inspired her work in other ways. She was from Brazil, which influenced a project Hillman worked on in which she translated Portuguese poems

by Ana Cristina Cesar to share with others. “(Cesar) is great. She is like a mix of Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, but unfortunately she (also committed) suicide, so she died in her 30s with a beautiful body of work that remains kind of unavailable in English,” Hillman said.

One poem Hillman read shared her view of nature and memories of her mother, combining her mother’s language with the nature with which Hillman surrounded herself.

After reading the poems, Hillman encouraged audience members who had bilingual parents to work those language influences into poetry writing.

Hillman ended her readings with a poem from Kallet’s book of poems “How our Bodies Learned.”

“We read her book ‘Loose Sugar,’ and the contents and the dreaminess of it is what really captured me, and the concept of alchemical ash sprinkled at the bottom of the page I thought was a beautiful and

unique concept,” Emme Marshall, senior studying creative writing and audience member, said.

Marshall enjoyed hearing Hillman read her poetry aloud in order to better understand the perspective and emphasis of the writing through the author’s eyes.

“It reinforced that inspiration and reinforced that beauty and the tranquility of attaining a sort of spirituality that transcends a basic sense of the word,” Marshall said. “I feel like she can capture that so well within her writing ... whenever a poet reads their work it is transformed because ... you hear it in their voice, because you know we read it in our voices in the course.”

For Rachel Incorvati, senior studying creative writing, the way Hillman draws inspiration from her personal experiences, nature and spirituality inspires her.

“She is just someone who definitely draws a lot of inspiration from the spiritual and the surroundings and process,” Incorvati said. “Her voice already has so much spirit within it, so to just have her reading it as well — it is powerful.

Other than just that she is still one of my inspirations.”

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Police chief discusses false rumors of shooter on campus Staff Report UTPD Chief Troy Lane addressed the dangers of social media during shooter scenarios after rumors about an active shooter spread on campus Monday.

Around 10:30 a.m., UTPD received numerous calls about an active shooter threat at the Student Union. The calls suggested that someone would attempt to open fire at noon, possibly in connection with the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting on April 16, 2007.

UTPD investigated the situation and stationed officers at the Student Union for security.

UTPD determined that the threat was not credible, dismissing it around 1:30 p.m.

According to Lane, subject A, who lives in Knoxville, discussed via Snapchat an adult TV cartoon that referenced a shooter on campus with subject B, who lives 150 miles away from Knoxville, prior to Monday. The two speculated about who they knew that could do a school shooting. Subject B then contacted subject C, who lives in the same city 150 miles away from Knoxville, via text about their conversation.

After talking with subject C about the conversation, subject B texted a friend who goes to UT, subject D, and told subject D about the

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conversation, embellishing the story to include a location, date and time: The Student Union on Monday at noon.

Instead of contacting UTPD, Lane said that subject D told multiple friends about the threat, and the story escalated before UTPD knew of the threat.

“We want to emphasize that people need to call us when they have information, that ‘See something, say something’(method) we always talk about, but we need that to come from the person with immediate information,” Lane said. “Unfortunately what happens is that they communicate with their friends, who embellish just a little bit of detail, and the story grows from there. And that is what happened here.”

An agency about 150 miles outside of Knoxville is working with subject B and C to address the situation with the subjects.

UTPD will announce the consequences for the subjects involved when the investigation concludes.

A similar threat occurred earlier in the month at McClung Museum. According to a UTPD press release on April 4, an unidentified male approached a student about where the closest exits were in the museum. A security guard was informed, and police officers checked the area but did not see a male fitting

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the description. The incident also spread on social media, which led to other false rumors about what had actually happened.

“Because this is the second such event that has caused some commotion on our campus in the last couple of weeks, I decided I wanted to make sure I reach out to the media in particular to help us educate our campus and see how social media has a very powerful effect, good or bad, and how these things can be blown out of proportion,” Lane said.

In regards to the UT Safety Alert system, Lane said UTPD utilizes the mass alert system when the department feels credible information distribution is necessary to campus safety.

“These rumors and speculations are not real, and therefore we don’t use that mechanism,” Lane said. “We do count our social media, so our Facebook page (or) our Twitter page, you can always connect with us there.”

Lane said in any instance of campus danger, UTPD should be the first contact so that they can investigate the credibility of the threat and act if needed.

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UTPD chief Troy Lane discusses false rumors of a shooter on April 16, 2018.

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Watch to Watch Wednesday: Food on Film Neeley Moore

Arts and Culture Editor Food, cooking and dining are some of the most unifying things people enjoy together.

From the home-cooked meals of childhood to the pursuit of cooking as a career, food is one of the most simple yet complex aspects of our everyday lives. Here are a couple of movies that show how the food industry can bring people together and alter the pathways of people’s lives.

Julie and Julia (2009) The film parallels the life of chef Julia Child as a young woman in the early stages of her culinary career with the life of Julie Powell.

Julie Powell is a young writer with an unpleasant job where she answers telephone calls from victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. To do something she enjoys, she decides to cook every one of the 524 recipes in “Master the Art of French Cooking” by Julia Child in one year.

The experiment left her with a popular blog and her own published book.

Woven into the story of Powell’s time in the early 2000s is Child’s story in Paris throughout the 1950s, where she attended prestigious school Le Cordon Bleu to learn French cooking and began writing a book about French cooking for American housewives.

The movie shares both women’s stories and highlights the similar challenges they’re facing in different times, unified by the same recipes.

The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) “The Hundred-Foot Journey” is a family comedy revolving around the food business.

It tells the story of a feud between two restaurants across the street from one another. One is owned by a recently relocated Indian family, and the other is a lofty traditional restaurant.

After tragedy in Mumbai, a family relocates to Europe and want to start a traditional Indian restaurant in the countryside of France.

Upon arriving, they learn of an abandoned restaurant building available for purchase. It is located directly across the street from the other restaurant, Le Saule Pleureur. Madame Mallory, the head of Le Saule Pleureur and self-declared caretaker of the owners of the abandoned restaurant, asks the family to leave because they do not own the property. The father of the family buys the property and names it “Maison Mumbai.”

A silent war erupts between the two families as their restaurants compete for the top.

In the end, it’s a feel-good story of love, culture and family told through the different ways people eat, cook and dine.

Courtesy of IMDB Chef (2014) “Chef” is a drama about life in the modernday food industry in America.

It features character Carl Casper, who is the head chef of a well-known restaurant in Los Angeles. Though popular among his kitchen staff, the restaurant owner gets upset at Casper when he adds his own flair to recipes, and she asks him to stick to the original menu. Meanwhile, Casper deals with his longdistance relationship with his preteen son and ex-wife Inez.

When a prestigious critic and blogger visits Casper’s restaurant, the owner demands that he stick to the original menu at the last minute, causing Casper to surrender to her wishes. The critic leaves a negative review.

Casper gains attention on social media following the review and his follow-up tweets on social media. He comes up with a new menu entirely and challenges the food critic to return. The owner is still persistent that he does not change anything, so Casper quits.

Afterwards, Casper returns to his hometown of Miami and decides to start a food truck. Along the way, he must reconnect with the ex-wife, and he, his ex-wife and his son eventually decide to drive back to Los Angeles in the food truck, serving food along the way.

“Chef” shows how although the way we serve food may be changing, the community that comes from the culinary world remains the same.

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OPINIONS

Thursday, April 19, 2018 • The Daily Beacon

What does it mean to be a Vol? What does it mean to be a Tennessee volunteer? Many UT students would say to support your classmates, to give your all for Tennessee, to be accustomed to climactic games in Neyland or to bleed The Color Orange.

While these claims may ring true for all Vols, there are other aspects to being a student at UT that you won’t see on marketing pamphlets and that won’t appear on an administrator’s Twitter feed. What does it mean to be a Tennessee volunteer … when you’re asked to take off your own color and paint yourself with The Color Orange?

The following details some of the hardships experienced by the canvases that are sold in colors other than white and in shapes other than square: Orientation: Engrained deeply in “our” Tennessee tradition is the story of sending hordes of volunteers to assist the U.S. in its mid-1800s annexation of Texas.

While this may appeal to “our” sense of nationalism and manifest destiny, we must recognize that Texas sought independence from Mexico primarily to preserve the institution of slavery — a dying practice in the former Spanish colony.

Asking people of color to have pride in this Tennessee tradition is not only a privileged request but also an inadvertent act of aggression. Some will say that we who refuse to be proud of this story are attempting to erase history. I refute this claim by saying that the erasure of history is futile because new acts of aggression will too easily take its place.

Freshman Year: My friend and I, both students of color, were invited to an MLK Day Party in our residence hall. Upon arrival, we noticed that the intent of the party was to stereotype African-Americans, not to celebrate them. My friend and I? We were only invited to “make it O.K.” to throw this party. The entrée and beverage provided by the host? Dippers Fried Chicken and grape-flavored Kool-Aid. Sophomore Year: An African-American friend of mine was walking on campus

“ Margianlized groups don’t want UT to be a part of their experience; they want their experience to be a part of UT.

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with her white boyfriend. As they reached the bottom of Melrose Avenue, a group of college-aged students rolled down their car window and shouted, “Hey n***** lover!”

Junior Year: This year was unique for me because external influences amplified the already deafening “You do not belong here.” Just months after struggling with a significant other’s parent telling them, “I’d prefer if you didn’t date someone who isn’t white,” a white nationalist group — the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) — arrived at UT. We saw many arguments defending the TWP’s right to free speech.

Though these pro-First-Amendment opinions were expressed in good faith, they were problematic to many people of color.

Regardless of your opinion on the matter, nearly every aforementioned justification for the TWP’s presence was based on the privileged assumption that all students valued the words of “our” Founding Fathers over “our” desire to feel like part of the UT community.

The scariest part is this: These are only the experiences of a middle-class, cis-gendered, heterosexual, biracial male.

This list doesn’t include the experiences of women, students who are part of the LGBTQI+ community, students who identify with other races, students who are financially insecure or students who are all of the above.

Let this not be a letter of resentment toward Volunteers but let it be the exact

opposite. Marginalized groups don’t want UT to be part of their experience; they want their experience to be a part of UT. So please — classmates, faculty and alumni, work with us to make the UT a beautiful, inclusive, lifelong home for all Volunteers, even if it means more than just appearing orange and white.

Austin Smith is a junior in nursing and SGA senator-elect for the College of Nursing. He can be reached at asmit315@ vols.utk.edu.

Columns of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Thursday, April 19, 2018

MEN’S TENNIS

Buccaneers no match for No. 10 Lady Vols Noah Taylor

Contributor It was a classic trap-game scenario for No. 10 Tennessee (38-8, 8-7 SEC) on Tuesday night.

The Lady Vols played host to a struggling ETSU (13-23) team looking to catch a Tennessee team off guard, with a trip to No. 17 Alabama looming on the horizon.

Unfortunately for the Buccaneers, they were out of luck.

Despite a sluggish ending, the Lady Vols used strong pitching from sophomore pitcher Caylan Arnold (18-4) and a seven-run bottom of the second to top ETSU 11-3 in six innings.

The win makes Tennessee 90-0 versus in-state programs in the Ralph and Karen Weekly era and 124-3 overall.

“It’s always good to get an in-state win,” cohead coach Ralph Weekly said. “I was pleased with the effort. The effort was really strong from everybody.”

After being held scoreless in the first, Tennessee’s offense exploded with seven runs in the bottom of the second, beginning with a solo home run over the fence in right field from

junior catcher Abby Lockman.

An RBI double into right-center field from junior second baseman Aubrey Leach would plate a run from sophomore Jenna Holcomb to extend the Tennessee lead to 2-0.

Freshman Amanda Ayala joined the scoring frenzy in the next at-bat with a two-RBI single into centerfield to make it a 4-0 Lady Vol advantage. Ayala’s RBI was followed up with an infield RBI single from sophomore third baseman Chelsea Seggern to bring in the fifth run of the game from Ayala.

Thanks to a fielding error by ETSU off of a hit from freshman first baseman Ashley Morgan, Tennessee was able to add two more runs to cap off the inning with a 7-0 lead.

“The inning that we scored seven runs, everything just came together,” Weekly said. “We maybe could have scored two or three more runs.”

Tennessee added two more runs in the bottom of the third off of an RBI triple from Leach and a wild pitch from ETSU pitcher Kelly Schmidt, putting Tennessee ahead, 9-0.

With a nine-run lead in the top of the fifth, the Lady Vols were looking to get their second

run-rule win in the last five games, but the Buccaneers had other plans.

ETSU was able to take advantage of a pair of Tennessee errors to make it a 9-3 game, and it extended it into the sixth.

“The problem with those kind of games (is that) you get up a little bit and then you try to sub a bunch of people,” Weekly said. “Then you don’t play as well. We tried to get everybody in the game when we had a lead like that.

Sometimes it doesn’t come all back together again.”

The Lady Vols were able to put the game away thanks to a two-run stretch bottom of the sixth inning.

An RBI double from Morgan and another fielding error from the Buccaneers allowed two more runs to end the game, 11-3.

With the win, Tennessee has now won five straight contests since dropping the series to No. 11 Auburn two weeks ago.

“I didn’t really think about that, but we have won five in a row,” Weekly said. “And we needed it.”

With the midweek slate behind them, the Lady Vols can now turn their attention to

Infielder Meghan Gregg make a throw to first during the Georgia game on March 3, 2018.

Tara Halley / The Daily Beacon another important conference showdown, this time with the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa.

The first of a three-game series is set for Saturday and will conclude on Monday night.

MEN’S TENNIS

Accomplished senior Valero to graduate, will be “dearly missed” Will Backus

Staff Writer Tennessee men’s tennis senior Luis Valero’s career in Knoxville is winding down. Valero played his last regular season match on Sunday in a loss to the Vanderbilt Commodores.

It was a bittersweet moment for Valero, as he was the only senior honored on Tennessee’s Senior Day. “It’s been a great experience,” Valero said. “I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”

Valero’s impact on Tennessee cannot be overstated. He joined the squad in 2014, fresh off of a trip to the Youth Olympic Games representing his home country of Colombia. Early on, he established himself as a leader. As a freshman, he played significantly in Tennessee’s singles lineup, going 18-14 that year. During his sophomore season, Valero shined even brighter. He reached the No. 67 overall national ranking in singles, earned All-SEC Honors and played at the No. 1 spot for Tennessee.

The past few seasons, he has played at the No. 2 spot. Though he has amassed an impressive singles career, Valero’s claim to fame is doubles play, in which he is arguably Tennessee’s brightest star.

“He’s played unbelievable doubles,” head coach Chris Woodruff said. “He’s had some tough goes with it, but I’m really proud of him.”

The two-time Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar Athlete has an overall doubles record of 67-39, including a 25-11 record in his standout sophomore campaign.

Over the years, he has had many successful partnerships — none more significant, perhaps, than the time he teamed with Jack Schipanski.

Valero and Schipanski carved themselves an impressive career for the Vols in the three years — Valero’s freshman through junior years — that they played together.

During their last two years together, they played at the number one spot for Tennessee in doubles. During his sophomore season with Schipanski, the two went 6-1 in the fall in and won the 2015 SEC Fall Classic, defeating fellow Vols Igor Smelyanski and Preston Touliatos in the process.

The two ascended to a No. 15 ranking in the nation that year. However, Valero’s junior year was when he really established himself as a standout name in collegiate tennis.

In the fall of 2016, he once again teamed with Schipanski to defeat Kentucky’s Beck Pennington and Enzo Wallart and capture the ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships. That

season, the duo reached No. 5 in the national rankings, Valero’s highest ranking in both singles and doubles in his career at Tennessee.

This season, he’s teamed up with three fellow Vols: Andrew Rogers, Timo Stodder and, ironically, Touliatos, the man he once beat with whom he has found the most success this season.

Currently the No. 16 doubles duo in the nation, the pair has led Tennessee to new heights and a top-25 ranking after a couple of very tough years.

Touliatos made a promise early on to Valero, and he has kept it so far.

“I told him I was going to try to send him out on top as best I could,” Touliatos said, “I’m not just playing for me. I’m also playing for him, trying to send him out with a high.”

Valero’s importance to Tennessee both on and off the court is evident to his coaches and peers. He has not only starred for the Vols but has led them and stuck with them through lessthan-ideal seasons. Valero hopes to have one last shining moment in the SEC Tournament and in the NCAA Tennis Championships before he moves on from Tennessee into the next stages of his life.

Woodruff understands the impact Valero has had on Tennessee and what kind of hole his

Luis Valero during his singles match against Texas A&M on Feb. 22, 2018.

Emily Gowder / The Daily Beacon departure will leave.

“I’m really proud of him,” Woodruff said.

“He’s a very good leader. He’s really grown up a lot. He cares a lot about this team — you can tell. He’s a really good person. We’ll miss him dearly.”