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Time Change For A-Day Game Announced
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The University of Alabama has announced a change of time for the kickoff of the 2016 A-Day Spring Football game this year. The game is scheduled to be played on Saturday, April 16th. The time has been changed to 2 p.m. CT. Television coverage has not yet been settled and will be announced at a later date.
The A-Day Game will be held at Bryant-Denny Stadium, and will be free of charge to the public as in years past.
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QUANESHA BURKS WINS TITLE
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2016 SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships
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Burks fouled on her first attempt of the day before coming up with her historic effort in the second round of the competition. She passed on her remaining four attempts before claiming her first SEC title indoors. The junior from Hartselle, Ala., won the long jump at the 2015 SEC Outdoor Championships last spring.
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QUANESHA BURKS WINS TITLE
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2016 SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships
The University of Alabama's QUANESHA BURKS has done it again! With a leap of 22' 1 3/4" (6.75m), the junior out of Hartselle, Alabama broke the school record she had set earlier in the season and captured the conference title in the long jump yesterday at the 2016 Southeastern Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships.
After a foul on her first attempt, then the record-setting jump, Burks decided to pass on her remaining four attempts and stand pat on her record-breaking jump. Burks had already won the long jump at the 2015 Southeastern Conference Outdoor Championships last spring.
Burks fouled on her first attempt of the day before coming up with her historic effort in the second round of the competition. She passed on her remaining four attempts before claiming her first SEC title indoors. The junior from Hartselle, Ala., won the long jump at the 2015 SEC Outdoor Championships last spring.
Burks said, "My coach (referring to jumps coach MIGUEL PATE) and I planned to get a big jump out of the way in the first two jumps
and we executed that plan. He told me not to mess around
and just do it the way we've been doing in practice. On the first jump
when I fouled, he told me to move back a little bit and put the foot
down. So when we hit it on the second one with a 6.70 (meters), that was
it. We executed the plan."
Besides the 10 points scored by Burks yesterday, Bama also picked up three points from sophomore HALEY TEEL on a sixth place finish in the shot put, and another two points from RACHAEL REDDY with a seventh-place finish in the 3,000 meters.
Also advancing in today's finals for the Crimson Tide women are junior VANESSA CLERVEAUX in the 60-meter hurdles, sophomore DOMONIQUE WILLIAMS in the 400 meters, senior KIMBERLEY FCENEC in the 800 meters and senior MEROPI PANAGIOTOU in the mile.
Alabama picked up 11 points in the men's competition in the shot put. Junior KYLE FELPEL finished third, redshirt freshman KORD FERGUSON was fifth and junior HAYDEN REED was eighth.
Alabama picked up 11 points in the men's competition in the shot put. Junior KYLE FELPEL finished third, redshirt freshman KORD FERGUSON was fifth and junior HAYDEN REED was eighth.
Also scoring for the Crimson Tide men were freshman pole vaulter WILL HERRSCHER finishing fifth, his best showing of the season, and senior JUSTIN FONDREN with six more for third.
Action begins again today at 11 a.m. CT from the Randal Tyson Track Center located on the campus of the University of Arkansas. The Crimson Tide men and women begin the final day of competition in fourth place.
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Tide Men's Basketball Hosts Auburn Today
The Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team will host the Auburn Tigers this afternoon in Coleman Coliseum. Game time is set for 4 p.m. CT. This afternoon's game is the fifth sellout of the season at Coleman Coliseum this year for the Tide, the most sellouts in a single season at UA since the six game sellout during the 2006-07 season.
Today's game will be the second of the season between the two teams, with Auburn taking the first game 83-77 back on January 19th. That contest was held at Auburn.
This will be the 153rd meeting between the two schools, with Alabama holding a 92-60 lead in the series. The Tide is 16-11, 7-8 SEC.
Today's contest can be seen on the SEC Network, with Matt Stewart handling play-by-play and John Pelphrey handling color analysis.
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No. 3 Bama Gymnastics Defeats No. 10 Georgia
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No. 3 Bama Gymnastics Defeats No. 10 Georgia
The third-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide gymnastics team defeated the 10th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs yesterday 197.550-195.700 in front of a crowd of 12,427 on Senior and Alumni Night in Coleman Coliseum. The Tide posted their best score of the season, as well as several individuals posting personal bests.
Tide head coach DANA DUCKWORTH said, "To say that we are proud of this team would be an understatement. We have come so far and this was such a fun night. We had three
goals tonight: one, to have fun; two, to love gymnastics; and three, to
thank everybody before us, after us and our family for the opportunity
that we get to do this every week."
Getting the first 10.0 of her illustrious career with the Crimson Tide, senior LAUREN BEERS said, "Tonight, I just wanted to go out and do some of the last bit of
gymnastics in the Coliseum and just have fun doing it and not really
focus on the outcome,” Beers said. “I was just running down the runway,
trying to think of it as another vault and I stuck it and it was great."
Senior CARLEY SIMS posted a 9.8 in the anchor position after coming back from ankle surgery. She said, "I just have so much fun when I get to do floor and I’m pretty
sure everyone else can see that, too,” Sims said. “It just made my heart
so happy when I stepped up there and just heard the crowd roar. It just
made me feel so good about myself and about our team."
Other members of the team also had a good night, like sophomore KIANA WINSTON posting a 9.975 on the uneven bars. She said she just wanted to do good for the seniors and visiting alumni. "Tonight," she said, "Was all about them."
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Tide Women's Tennis Sweeps Princeton
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Friday afternoon saw the 28th-ranked Alabama women's tennis team take a 4-0 sweep of the Princeton Tigers at the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic. The Crimson Tide improves to 4-3 on the season while Princeton falls to 5-5.
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2016 Crimson Tide Soccer
Soccer Head Coach Wes Hart
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Alabama Crimson Tide soccer head coach WES HART has announced that the Bama soccer team will take part in five spring matches as he announced the 2016 schedule yesterday. Of those five, three will be home contests. Opening the season at home will be Georgia State on Saturday, March 5th at the Alabama Soccer Complex. Start time will be 1 p.m. CT.
Coach Hart said, "I'm very excited for the spring season. The team looks sharp and training has been excellent. We're excited to get out and see if we can execute what we've been working on in training."
The Crimson Tide will host Mississippi State on March 31st at 8 p.m. CT, then on the road to Troy on Friday, April 8th at 7:30 p.m. CT, Vanderbilt on Sunday, April 17th at 1 p.m. CT and then conclude the spring portion of the schedule in Nashville at Lipscomb on April 23rd at noon CT.
Admission is free.
