Tusculum guard Connor Jordan and distance runner Emily Coddington have been named the Zaxby’s Athletes of the Week. Both earn this honor for a second time this season.
Jordan, a junior from Morristown, Tennessee, averaged 16.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per contest in Tusculum’s two games last week. He poured in 21 points including the game-winning jumper with 25.3 seconds remaining in TU’s 80-78 upset win over third-ranked Lincoln Memorial. He shot 8-of-11 from the floor and 4-of-5 from the free throw line. He also hauled in a career-best seven rebounds as the Pioneers snapped LMU’s 18-game winning streak.
He followed with 11 markers against Limestone for his 13th game this season to score in double-figures. Jordan is second on the team in scoring averaging 11.7 points per game while shooting 89.1 percent from the free throw line (3rd in South Atlantic Conference).
Coddington, a junior from Acosta, Pennsylvania, won the 1000-meter run at the VMI Winter Classic. Running in the faster of two sections, she took the lead in the opening lap and won by more than five seconds over the second-place finisher. Her time of 3:07.82 broke her own record of 3:10.45 set at last year’s VMI Winter Classic.
Coddington owns three of the top 1000-meter times in school history.
The Tusculum University Athlete of the Week Award is sponsored by Zaxby’s, located at 3280 Andrew Johnson Highway in Greeneville. The Zaxby’s Athlete of the Week Award honors one male and one female athlete each week from an in-season sport.
