Sentences with phrase «college teams in this country»

«Probably every college team in the country watches [the draft] and thinks, Man, that could have been one of us, but I always saw myself playing college basketball,» says McRoberts, who will start for Duke immediately.

He played 3rd line on the 2nd best college team in the country.

Not exact matches

The University of Texas has one of the biggest college athletics programs in the country and its teams sport some of the most recognizable uniforms of any NCAA team.

Unlike in Canada, where the country's biggest universities play in front of sparse crowds and go years without winning a season, U.S. colleges outside of the Ivy League depend upon their sports teams to bring in new students, attract attention, and draw donations and revenue.

The research team uses detailed administrative data from one large U.S. state (Ohio) and several provinces of Canada to compare community college entrants and analyze the returns to community college in the two countries.

«Notwithstanding the Aggies dire need for defensive help, Chavis could have defected to a college or professional team in any state, or even in a foreign country.»

Now there is a College Football Playoff, which pits the top four teams in the country against each other, instead of BCS rankings.

he also led country in assists, takes a pretty high bball iq to run a high major college team as a freshman and know how to set up teammates so well.

Trice is the only black player on the Iowa State football team, the first black varsity athlete at Iowa State College (as Iowa State University was then known) one of only a few black football players in the country at the time playing against white opponents.

The three most popular things in college football are the backup quarterback, another team's offensive coordinator, and the No. 3 team in the country.

A Cavalier squad that wasn't just rated (by opinion and statistics alike) as the best defensive team in the country this season, but as one of the best defensive teams in the modern era of college basketball.

Instead, you should just trust him that his friends can meet in a private room at the local country club (perhaps Augusta National, since Tony lists Condoleezza Rice's membership there as a credential for separating elite college football teams) and make decisions for the rest of us.

The Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team might have finished with a 24 - 32 record but they might have had the most fun of any college sports team in the country.

Here's a rundown of today's college basketball schedule, starting with the top team in the country.

After eight weeks of college football, the top four teams in the country — according to oddsmakers — come from just two conferences.

This year's senior class has nine who will play varsity lacrosse at four - year schools: Stinn at Notre Dame (the No. 1 team in the country), Peter Alimam at Fairfield, Timothy Baker at Air Force, Finn Barry at Furman, Aidan Chandless at Washington & Lee, Nick Dupuis at Vermont, Grant Giuliano at Hobart, Henry Hinds at Colorado College and Ben Knaus at Trinity.

Sure, a schedule that included Colorado Mines, Colorado College, and Denver wasn't judged to be as difficult as that of Minnesota, which won the Western (Big Ten) that season, but CSU's SRS score (a points - based team - comparison tool explained here) was No. 6 in the country.

After 11 weeks of College Football, below you can find the top 25 teams in the country according to the College...

After 11 weeks of College Football, below you can find the top 25 teams in the country according to the College Football Playoff committee:

That's why Maryland, currently the fourth - ranked college basketball team in the country, offered him a scholarship midway through his junior year in high school.

Just ask Bob Johnson, coach extraordinaire of the top - ranked college hockey team in the country

It was the last team he coached before he retired, as Coach of the Year, to devote all his time to the athletic directorship, a new career during which Michigan Stadium was twice expanded, until it became the largest college - owned bowl in the country, with a seating capacity of 101,001.

Cris Romero has been at Lafayette Tennis Club since July of 2007... He has been playing tennis since 1987... He played number 1 and 2 singles and number 1 doubles during a two year stint at Napa Valley College where the team was Conference Champions both years... Cris took lessons from Steve Stefanki whose brother Larry Stefanki is currently coaching Fernando Gonzales... Cris has also worked at Green Valley Country Club under Ki Kroll and Meadowood Country Club under Doug King as assistant pro in the 90's..

The services of the 6» 7» and 195 pound, Andrew Wiggins, the nations top 2013 recruit, are wanted by nearly every college basketball team in the country.

Teams from throughout Cali and across the country face off in Platinum through Garnet divisions.It's time to get your Jam on, so plan ahead: Jamboree flights played at Alhambra - Martinez, Bentley - Lafayette, Berean Christian - Walnut Creek, Castro Valley, College Park - Pleasant Hill, Jesse Bethel - Vallejo, Las Positas College - Livermore, Valley Christian - Dublin, Ygnacio Valley - Concord

Idaho State, St. Mary's, and Arkansas Little Rock have been the best ATS college basketball teams in the country based on a widely accepted metric.

A loss to the best program in the country doesn't eliminate Jimbo Fisher's team, especially in the College Football Playoff era.

In private sessions Saturday, 22 school teams from around the country will toss around ideas on how schools can help to broaden the rigid notion of «success» that has taken hold on so many hyper - competitive campuses — high grades, top test scores and acceptance into prestigious colleges.

Since most all college coaches seem to insist that their incoming freshmen play two years of junior hockey after high school, thousands of players populate junior teams all over the country in the hope of playing hockey in college.

SARANAC LAKE North Country Community College will be the center of the Mountain and Valley Athletic Conference's universe Friday, Feb. 16, as it will host the top two teams from both divisions in boy's and girls championship action.

For all the hoops junkies out there, here's a story about Russell Robinson, a Bronxite excelling as a guard for the Kansas Jayhawks, one of the best college basketball teams in the country.

Incorporating information from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and Surgical Risk Calculator into the daily workflow of healthcare teams in hospitals across the country could help achieve the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services» goal to reduce hospital readmissions and generate savings in health care costs in the coming years.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Augusta University men's and women's cross country teams compete in their final regular - season meet of the season with a trip to the Bobcat Invitational, hosted by Georgia College, Friday, Oct. 6 in Milledgeville, Ga..

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That is the question which begs to be answered in the course of appraising The Great Debaters, an inspirational bio-pic about a professor who, in 1935, allegedly forged the fledgling debate team at a tiny black college into a nationally - ranked powerhouse that took on Harvard University in a big showdown aired on radio live all across the country.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The Collaborative selected the team of APA and POA, the two top school finance research firms in the country, to examine the state's approach to funding K - 12 schools to ensure all students are fully prepared for college and careers, from the inner cities to the suburbs, to rural areas and the U.P.

Rachel Buxton, a post-doctoral researcher at Colorado State University's Warner College of Natural Resources and lead author of the study, led a team of researchers that recorded sounds at 492 sites across the country in order to quantify the extent of noise pollution in the U.S. Using baseline sound levels for each study area established by machine learning algorithms that took into account geospatial features of the area, the researchers determined that anthropogenic noise pollution exceeds three decibels (dB), essentially doubling background sound levels, in 63 percent of the nation's protected areas.

The expo will draw more than 40 college teams from all over the country to showcase the future of sustainable technology and will feature exhibits like generation of ethanol from coffee production wastewater and entrenching small glass spheres in house paint to deflect heat in the summer.

«In this new role as general counsel, Karen has an excellent opportunity to serve as a trusted advisor on the senior leadership team of one of the most prominent colleges in the country,» said Paul Williams, Partner at Major, Lindsey & AfricIn this new role as general counsel, Karen has an excellent opportunity to serve as a trusted advisor on the senior leadership team of one of the most prominent colleges in the country,» said Paul Williams, Partner at Major, Lindsey & Africin the country,» said Paul Williams, Partner at Major, Lindsey & Africa.

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He also served as co-investigator with OSLC scientist Dr. Charles R. Martinez, Jr. (now director of the Center for Equity Promotion in the College of Education at the University of Oregon) on a variety of projects through the Oregon Social Learning Center Latino Research Team, including the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project I and II, which developed and tested a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems; the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study, which was designed to learn more about how Latino families and their middle school youth who have immigrated to the U.S. adapt to life in this country; and PREVENIR, which developed and refined a culturally specific parent and teacher training program in four countries in Central America.

Los Angeles, CA About Website Rivals is respected name in team - specific college sports coverage and the country's No. 1 authority on college football and basketball recruiting.

June 8, 2015 Academic Challenge Update CoreNet Global has announced that its Academic Challenge for graduate and undergraduate college students has so far attracted 45 teams representing 115 students from 37 institutions in 20 countries on four continents.