The Chattanooga Mocs golf teams are back on campus and preparing for the spring portion of the season. Both teams experienced fall success with the men sweeping titles at Western Carolina’s event in Georgia and one of the ladies earning her first collegiate win in South Carolina. The women’s side brings back the same 6-person roster. Five of the six recorded a top 10 along the way in the 4-tourney swing led by sophomore Esme Hamilton. The guys played in three events claiming a win at the J.T. Poston Invite. It was a clean sweep with A.J. Lintunen earning his first collegiate win. The group's 835 (-17) is the third-best 54-hole total in school history and best tallied outside the Chattanooga metro area. The 835 is lowest since 819 (-45) winning the 2008 Aldila Scenic City Invite at Council Fire. The guys' roster differs from the women with two additions for the spring side of things. They are Utah State transfer Gabe Hunter, a freshman from Alcoa, and the Emerald Isle's Paul Conroy, a freshman and first Irishman on the roster under Mark Guhne. Both enter the mix competing for the starting lineup.  The ladies start a 7-event spring run to the postseason on Feb. 1-2 at the Trinity Forest Invitational in Dallas. The men have five dates opening three weeks later in Hilton Head at the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate. Both squads are preparing for mid-April postseason work at the Southern Conference Championships with the women headed to Kiawah Island and the men in Reynolds Lake Oconee in Georgia.

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Mocs on the Mic, presented by SmartBank, takes a look inside the volleyball program with this week's episode. Host Chris Goforth sits down with head coach Travis Filar and senior Mikaela Gauthreaux to preview the upcoming spring season.  Filar talks about how the program has maneuvered through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and previews the upcoming, and unique, 2021 spring championship season.  Gauthreaux chats about her decision to return to UTC following a medical redshirt season in 2019 and also speaks on her leadership role within this year’s young team. Chattanooga volleyball opens the spring season this Friday in Maclellan Gym against North Alabama at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN+.

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It is hard to believe that the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s tennis spring season gets underway this weekend, but that is the case for head coach Chuck Merzbacher, senior Turner Voges and the rest of the Mocs. Coach Merzbacher and Voges both took time out of their practice schedules to join this week’s edition of the Mocs on the Mic podcast, presented by SmartBank.  UTC opens the 2021 campaign at Clemson on Saturday, Jan. 16.

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UTC’s Head Athletic Trainer and Director of Sports Medicine Nate Barger joins this week’s Mocs on the Mic podcast, presented by SmartBank. Barger and host Chris Goforth break down the current climate and testing protocols for the Mocs, along with the challenges involved with keeping student-athletes safe while returning to practice and competition.  “I think the biggest challenge has been creating something out of nothing,” stated Barger, when asked right off the bat what has been the biggest obstacle to overcome. “There was essentially no road map for how we navigate this … and create an environment for the kids to succeed.” He talks about how well our student-athletes have adapted to the protocols and what they learned from practicing in the fall. Lessons learned from August and September should pay off as they return to campus in January.  Barger and Goforth also discuss how testing takes place moving forward and how his staff will continue to monitor student-athletes and coaches at practices and workouts. With football returning, there will also be continued challenges with the largest sport beginning practice in mid-January.

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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Mark Wharton joins host Chris Goforth for this week's episode of Mocs on the Mic, presented by SmartBank. Mark takes some time out of his busy schedule to give an update on a number of topics surrounding UTC Athletics.  The pairs runs the gamut of topics from COVID-19 testing, to the McKenzie Arena fan cutout, to the upcoming spring football season. The conversation also touches on the basketball season, the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the passing of long-time Mocs supporter Frank Kinser.

This is a big one, Episode 50. We are almost to the one-year anniversary of the start of Mocs on the Mic, presented by SmartBank. To celebrate this landmark, host Chris Goforth takes a look back at some of the best interviews from the last year.  He picked out some of the best stories from UTC Athletics Hall of Fame Ronnie Powe, current members of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns Tae Davis and current Mocs quarterback Cole Copeland. We hope you enjoy this week’s podcast and we appreciate your help making this a success over the last year.

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Mocs on the Mic is back again this week with Episode No. 49, presented by SmartBank. Wrestling head coach Kyle Ruschell joins host Chris Goforth to talk about the state of the program and what the 2020-21 schedule looks like.  COVID testing, practice schedules and more make up the topic of conversations with the third-year head coach of the Mocs.  Also joining this week’s podcast is senior Fabian Gutierrez. He talks about his goals for the year and what it has been like training and preparing in this unusual environment.

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This week's edition of Mocs on the Mic, presented by SmartBank, takes a look back at the fall seasons for the men's and women's golf teams.  Host Chris Goforth visits with head coaches Mark Guhne and Colette Murray to recap a very unusual first half of the season. From COVID-related challenges  to schedule changes, there was a lot of challenges off the course for both teams in the all. Despite is all, A.J. Lintunen and Dorata Zalewska both posted individual wins for both teams.

Venture down memory lane to the early days of Chattanooga women’s basketball with former head coach Sharon Fanning-Otis and UTC’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder Regina Kirk in this week's episode of Mocs on the Mic, presented by SmartBank.  Fanning led the Mocs to the first three Southern Conference regular season titles and tournament crowns. Her 1983-84 team posted a 26-5 overall record and entered the Associated Press Top 20 at No. 19 after defeating 17th-ranked Clemson. The team remained 19ththrough the next six games and was ranked 20th in the final ranking. That team was runner-up to Vanderbilt in the National Women’s Invitation Tournament. Fanning, as Sharon Cable, played for UTC and went on to coach the Lady Mocs for 11 years. She led UTC to a state title, runner-up in the NWIT and three Southern Conference regular season and tournament titles. The NCAA was new to women’s championships at the time and did not offer an automatic bid to all conference champions. Regina Kirk played for Fanning in her final years and continued under head coach Craig Parrott. She is the Mocs’ all-time leading scorer with 2,376 points and rebounder with 1,086 boards. She holds school records in seven categories including points in a game and career field goals. She has two 20-point, 20 rebounds games and topped 30 points in a game 14 times. Both are members of the UTC Hall of Fame and Kirk was the Mocs’ first selection to the Southern Conference Hall of Fame. Fanning was named SoCon Coach of the Year twice and Kirk was selected the league Player of the Year in 1988 and was a four-time all-conference performer.

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This week’s episode of Mocs on the Mic, sponsored by SmartBank, breaks down the men’s basketball team’s 99-63 win over Lander to open the season on Wednesday. UTC’s ESPN broadcast team of Chris Goforth and Todd Agne take a look at the win and what is ahead for both the men’s and women’s teams. There is also some audio from head coach Lamont Paris’ postgame presser.

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