Billy Thom on the sideline during the Wildcats' February 2011 victory over UNC Greensboro. (Tim Cowie photo)

Billy Thom, a 2011 Davidson College graduate, is the new director of operations for the men’s basketball team, Coach Bob McKillop announced Wednesday.

Thom, from Cold Spring, N.Y., joined the men’s basketball program as a student manager during his freshman year. He worked his way up to the title of student director of basketball operations as a junior and senior. In that role, he served as the video coordinator for the Wildcats and assisted in film exchange, travel preparation and opponent scouting. Read the full story

Chris Czerapowicz. (Tim Cowie/DavidsonNews.net file photo)

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Davidson sophomore guard Chris Czerapowicz scored a game-high 27 points to lead the Sweden U20 Team in a European Basketball Championship preliminary game against Greece Thursday. Greece defeated Sweden 86-82.

Czerapowicz was 12-for-19 from the floor and 3-of-5 from 3-point range while grabbing six rebounds. He averaged 3.5 points and 1.9 rebounds in 21 games during his freshman campaign at Davidson after missing the first 11 contests with an injury.

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Andy Bass and Chris Lamb

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Left-handed pitcher Chris Lamb and right-handed pitcher Andy Bass were selected by the Oakland A’s (11th round) and Tampa Bay Rays (18th round), respectively, on the second day of Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday. The duo became the 22nd and 23rd Wildcat players ever picked in the pro draft.  Meanwhile, a Florida wrestler is poised to become the first woman ever to wrestle on the Davidson men’s wrestling team. Read the full story

Ben Vernon

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Former Davidson golf team captain Ben Vernon ’50 on Tuesday was named one of 12 recipients of the Southern Conference’s 2011 Distinguished Service Award. He and the other winners will be recognized Wednesday at the Southern Conference Honors Dinner in Charleston, S.C. Read the full story

Amy Krakauer

Davidson-based triathlete Amy Krakauer won the women’s title Saturday, May 21, at the USA Triathlon Aquathlon National Championship in Longmont, Colo.

Krakauer had a combined time of 44:12 for the 5k run and 1,500 meter swim. The win makes her eligible for the national team for the 2011 World Championships in Beijing in September. Read the full story

Proskills co-founder Brendan Winters posed with camper Kendall Miller, 11, of Davidson.

Pro Skills Basketball, founded by former Davidson basketball players Logan Kosmalski and Brendan Winters, is launching “Shooting for Shoes,” a free-throw contest to benefit the nonprofit Access to Success, at their four camp sessions in Mooresville this summer. Read the full story

From left, Carkhuff, Kidwell, Moses-Hampton, Fleming, Ricci.

Davidson College athletes and coaches have elected five players as co-captains for the 2011 football season. The five are: senior defensive back Peter Kidwell, senior defensive back Malcolm Moses-Hampton, senior offensive lineman Alex Fleming, senior linebacker Gianni Ricci and sophomore quarterback Jonathan Carkhuff. Read the full story

Tim Weir

Davidson Day School said Tim Weir is stepping down as athletic director at the end of the school year because of a family move. Meanwhile, Davidson Day’s Bernard Sullivan got co-MVP honors at the recent Jordan Brand Classic basketball game in Charlotte. And Davidson College freshman Grayam Sailor-Tynes won the 1,500 meters last weekend at the Southern Conference track championships. Read the full story

Homer Smith (Davidson College photo)

Homer Smith, head football coach at Davidson College from 1965 to 1969, died April 10, 2011, at his home in Tuscaloosa, Ala., after a long fight with cancer. He was 78.

“It’s sad news for Davidson football, for all who knew Homer Smith, and for the entire community of college football,” John Kilgo writes on DavidsonWildcats.com.

Mr. Smith had retired to Tuscaloosa, where he had a couple of short stints as an assistant coach at the University of Alabama. On TideSports.com, writer Cecil Hurt said: Read the full story