Pretty good year for Tech sports

I’m about to go on vacation, so I thought now was a good time to take stock of the past year in Georgia Tech athletics.

As Larry David  would say, “pretty, pretty good.”

So, let’s take review what occurred during the past few months in every sport. I’ll do my best to include as many team and individual honors as I can remember. I may need your help in filling in some of the blanks.

Men’s sports

Baseball

No. 8 seed in NCAA tournament; No. 11 selection in draft (Deck McGuire), nine players selected overall; two Louisville All-Americans (McGuire, Tony Plagman);

Basketball

Played for ACC tournament title; advanced to second round of NCAA tournament; ACC rookie of the year (Derrick Favors); two projected first-round draft picks (Favors, Gani Lawal)

Cross Country

Finished 11th at south region championships; eighth at ACC tournament

Football

Coastal Division champion; ACC champion; ACC defensive player of the year (Derrick Morgan); All-American (Morgan); two players selected in first round of NFL draft (Morgan, DeMaryius Thomas); Orange Bowl

Golf

Advanced to quarterfinals (match play) of NCAA tournament; third in southeast regional; ACC champion;

Swimming and Diving

All-American in 400 IM (Gal Nevo); All-American in 200 IM (Nevo); ACC swimmer of the year (Nevo); Fifth at ACC tournament

Tennis

ITA All-American (Guillermo Gomez); Sweet 16 in NCAA Singles (Gomez); NCAA tourney second round

Track and field

MVP of ACC Outdoors (Alphonso Jordan); Seventh at ACC Outdoors; MVP of ACC Indoor field events (Jordan); Fourth in shotput in NCAA indoors (Steve Marcelle);  NCAA’s pending

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Women’s sports

Basketball

Fourth consecutive 20-win season; NCAA tournament; Sixth player of the year (Alex Montgomery); played for ACC tournament title

Cross Country

10th at south region championship;

Softball

Finalist for national player of the year (Jen Yee); Two All-Americans (Yee, Hope Rush); ACC tournament champ; ACC regular season champ

Swimming and Diving

Four school records set

Tennis

ACC tournament champ; No. 1 player for most of season (Irina Falconi); All-American (Falconi); quarterfinals of NCAA tournament (Falconi); second round of NCAA tournament; indoor tournament championship finalist (Falconi)

Track and field

Seventh at ACC outdoors; Discuss champ at ACC outdoors (Bailey Wagner)

Volleyball

Honorable mention All-Americans (Monique Mead, Mary Ashley Tippens); NCAA tournament appearance; ACC freshman of the year (Mead)