Greg Byrne Introduces Brad Bohannon
As New University Of Alabama Baseball Coach
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| Kim Bohannon (l), Greg Byrne (c) & Brad Bohannon (r) Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – University of Alabama Director of Athletics Greg Byrne today formally introduced Brad Bohannon as the UA head baseball coach at a press conference in the Mal M. Moore Athletics Facility on Monday morning.
Byrne stated, "As we were identifying potential candidates, Brad Bohannon's name continued to surface/ We sat down on Monday in our home in Tuscaloosa. What I thought it was going to be was an hour conversation of getting reintroduced to Brad and talking a little about the program, and about three and a half hours later he left my house. I could tell right away this is where he wanted to be. He wanted to work with our current team. He wanted to work with our alums and former baseball players and understands the importance in that. He wanted to work with our fanbase and our community. He had a really solid academic and compliance plan. He also had an incredible vision for recruiting."
Bohannon brings a lot of positives with him to the new appointment. He was the 2015 American Baseball Coaches Association and Baseball America National Assistant Coach of the Year, has coached for 14 years in the Southeastern Conference, having served as an assistant at Kentucky from 2004-15 and, most recently, Auburn from 2016-17. Regarded as one of the best recruiters in the nation, Bohannan was responsible for signing 13 Wildcat student-athletes that eventually went on to play professional baseball. His first recruiting class at Auburn University was ninth in the nation by Collegiate Baseball and includes six current starting position players. In his statement, Bohannon said, "I really think anything can be achieved here at The University of Alabama. My goal going forward is to make Alabama the absolute best place to place college baseball in the country, and we have everything we need in place to make that happen. We're going to do that by being a players-first program. Everything that we do as a coaching staff is going to be about making sure that our kids get their college degree, helping them grow as men and hopefully one day be great husbands and fathers while helping them become the best versions of themselves as a baseball player."
Prior to his time with the Kentucky Wildcats, Bohannon worked for two seasons at Wake Forest as an assistant on George Greer's staff. The Demon Deacons advanced to the NCAA tournament twice and captured the Atlantic Coast Conference title in 2001 during his two seasons there.
Collegiate coaching isn't all that Bohannon has done, having spent the summer of 2005 managing the Southern Ohio Copperheads of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League.
Concerning his education, Bohannon earned an undergraduate degree in finance in 1998 from Berry College in Georgia. He then went on to earn a master's degree in business administration from Wake Forest in 2002. Bohannon began his collegiate career playing at Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech before finishing up at Berry.
Bohannon is a native of Rome, Georgia and is married to the former Kim Traylor.
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| Bohannon & Byrne meet with UA Baseball team Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
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| Brad Bohannon chats with Nick Saban Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
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UA Track & Field's Quanesha Burks
Named To Bowerman Award Watch List
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| UA Track & Field's Quanesha Burks is honored Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
This is Burks fifth appearance on the Bowerman watch list this season and the seventh of her career. Burks will begin competition at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Thursday, entered in the long jump and 100 meters as an individual, and will also run on the Crimson Tide's 4x100-meter relay.
Burks currently holds the UA school record in the women's indoor and outdoor long jump and won her third consecutive Southeastern Conference outdoor long jump title at the 2017 SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships back on May 12th. She is only the fourth Tide female track & field athlete to win three or more conference titles in one individual event.
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Nicole Lane Of UA Rowing Team
Named CRCA All-Region
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| Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
Lane is now the third CRCA All-Region honoree in UA rowing history, joining Bryan Crawford (2008) and Alissa Kranz (2011). She is the first from the rowing team, however, to earn first-team distinction.
Lane competed this past season with the First Varsity 8+, posting first-place finishes in seven of its 11 races during the spring. The crew finished third in two competitive races at the FIRA Rowing Regatta in Sarasota, Florida, and took a fourth place finish in the grand final at the 2017 Big 12 Championships. For her efforts at the conference meet, Lane earned All-Big 12 honors.
She also was very successful in the classroom this season, earning CRCA Scholar-Athlete and Academic All-Big 12 recognition. She was one of six Tide honorees on the Academic All-Big 12 list to post a perfect 4.0 GPA, the most of any team in the league, which helped lead Alabama to a program-best 3.524 team GPA in the spring of 2017.
