Sentences with phrase «first national champion»

He was the Sports Car Club of America's first national champion; he won the second Sebring 12 - hour race in 1953, and in the same year was declared «Driver of the Year» by Speed Age Magazine.

She won an NCAA indoor championship in the mile, giving the Big South conference its first national champion in any sport.

Glory Road, 2006 When he was cast as a member of the 1966 Texas Western basketball team that wasthe first national champion with an all - African - American starting lineup, Nichols, never big into team sports, hadn't played roundball since he was aguard in junior high.

Not exact matches

Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five - person team at Yale that competed in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France.

Olympics national champion, who overcame several obstacles to not only succeed in boxing, but to be the first member of his family to graduate from high school.

«Our Level One All Girls team placed first at the annual BCA University Competition last season and we have been National Champions on different levels and competitions since 2013!

Last season, Texas Southern was ousted in the first round by eventual national champion North Carolina.

Four months earlier the unheralded guards had helped the Minutemen to the school's first Final Four appearance (UMass lost to national champion Kentucky 81 - 74 in the semifinals), thereby becoming the first Latin backcourt to make a Final Four appearance.

All of this was unfathomable after the Tigers finished 3 — 9 last year and became the first team in history to fail to win a conference game two years after being national champion.

Of course it is still a reach to say the Mustangs, from a two - bid league, with a first - year head coach, in the same region as the defending national champions and pre-season favorites, can get to Glendale, but I haven't seen a more worthy team with that number next to their name in a long time.

Villanova takes out Arizona and then knocks off North Carolina in a national title game thriller for the second straight year to become college basketball's first repeat champion in a decade.

First, I released the annual Blue - Chip Ratio piece, showing which teams have met the minimum recruiting standard of national champions for the last decade - plus.

It's no surprise that reigning national champion Ohio State and its embarrassment of riches at quarterback ranks first in this year's poll, giving the Buckeyes the trifecta of first place in the AP Top 25, Coaches Poll and Bill Connelly's preseason power rankings.

Jameis Winston's late touchdown toss to Kelvin Benjamin made Florida State national champions for the first time since 1999.

The state title game versus De La Salle - Concord felt like a coronation, and when it was all over, The Huskies finished 35 - 0 as California's first mythical national champion since a Tyson Chandler - led Dominguez - Compton team in 1999 - 00.

Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first woman who decided that there was no reason a woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made» women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.

Champ also participated in the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, a Champions Tour event that featured junior players from more than 60 national First Tee chapters.

And Florida State commitment De'Andre Johnson, of Jacksonville (Fla.) First Coast, will be looking to show why the National Champions accepted such an early commitment from him.

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To reach the final game, the Ramblers — the first Loyola team to play in the national tournament — knocked off four conference champions or cochampions.

One casualty of Kentucky and Wichita State's round - of - 32 classic was history: The 78 — 76 upset ended the top - seeded Shockers» bid to become the first perfect national champion since Indiana in 1975 — 76.

That morning in Freeport when he looked in on the class, the woman who handed Lofton his first weapon was Tanya Adamovich, a former junior national champion in the Soviet Union.

Armchair Analyst: Toronto FC fall on their face in first leg vs. Chivas MLSsoccer.com The obvious comparison that sprang to mind in the immediate aftermath of Toronto FC's 2 - 1 home loss to Chivas in the first leg of the Concacaf Champions League final was the US national team's loss to Trinidad & Tobago back in October.

Notre Dame has been consistently one of the top programs in college soccer over the past several seasons, especially the year the program was crowned national champions for the first time at then - PPL Park back in 2013.

The 19th took place at the National Stadium of Wales in Cardiff on 3 June 2017, Madrid running out 4 - 1 winners to claim a 12th European title, becoming the first team to retain the trophy in the UEFA Champions League era, and overcoming Juve in the final for the second time following their 1998 success.

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But even as early as 2001 Adams was making history, becoming the first female boxer to represent England while two years later she became the national amateur champion for the first time — a title she was to retain at the next three Championships.

We've seen little, none in fact, to back up those audacious claims and have instead been left in awe at the start Chelsea have made to the season, which they continued in emphatic style during the week with their first of what is likely to be many wins in Europe this season, with Sturridge, Essien and an Anelka brace handing Chelsea a resounding 4 - 1 win over MSK Zilina in Slovakia against the national champions.

First of four quarter finals scheduled this week will be played between 5 time finalists Chile and defending champions Uruguay at the national stadium of Chile this Wednesday night.

Another speaker at the press conference was Ashleigh Clare - Kearney, a two - time national champion in gymnastics and the first Louisiana State University student athlete to earn the distinction as an NCAA Woman of the Year finalist in 2009.

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Under the regulations, championed by First Lady Michelle Obama, schools participating in the National School Lunch Program are required to serve up fruits, vegetables and whole grains in place of foods heavy in fat, sugar and sodium.

The ACP was first championed by Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, and National Aquarium in Baltimore, in collaboration with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Scottish National party leader and first minister Alex Salmond declared: «Now Olympic and US Open champion, Andy truly is a Scottish sporting legend and I'm certain that more grand slam titles will follow.»

The first national organization committed exclusively to championing economic empowerment, financial education, asset development and financial stability for all persons with disabilities, NDI affects change through public education, policy development, training, technical assistance and innovative initiatives.

Diet sodas can be no more than 25 percent of the items offered, the directive says.There should be «ample choices» of water, «soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or non dairy milk,» says the directive, which also covers fat and sugar content in vending machine snacks.It's all part of Newsom's effort to combat obesity and improve San Franciscans» health, similar to a national effort being championed by first lady Michelle Obama.The mayor's administration points to studies linking soda to obesity, including a UCLA one released last year that found adults who drink at least one soft drink a day are 27 percent more likely to be obese than those who don't, and that soda consumption is fueling the state's $ 41 billion annual obesity problem.

President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have been championing charter schools for months, creating what some advocates believe is the most forceful national momentum to expand the largely independent public schools since the first charter opened nearly 20 years ago.

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Reichgott Junge candidly shared with guests personal details of her challenging journey as an original champion of chartered schools, the tumultuous legislative passage of the nation's first charter law in Minnesota twenty years ago, and chartering's subsequent explosion onto the national stage.

By spelling this word correctly, Arvind Mahankali, a 13 - year - old 8th grader from Bayside Hills, New York, conquered his nemesis — German - derived words — and aced the competition's first - ever vocabulary tests to become this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee champion.

The first SCCA national champion in 1951, driving for Briggs Cunningham.

2004 Cruise Nationals Gold Medal Grand Champion Robert Passer's ’58 Pontiac holds the distinction of being the first - ever CIAS Cruise Nationals champion, and you can see it on the floor at this year's show, 10 years after that win.

Brock Racing Enterprises Datsun 240Z In 1970, when the Datsun 240Z arrived in the U.S, Peter Brock's Southern California - based Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) racing team helped to change the motorsports world by claiming the first SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) C Production National Championship for the Z over long - established champions from Germany and England.

She followed that by going WB at the Miniature Bull Terrier Club Of America National Specialty, and to climax her show career, she finished as BW at Palm Springs under Bull Terrier legend, breeder - judge Winkey Mackay - Smith to become one of our first VIP Miniature Bull Terrier Champions.

The National Gallery's latest exhibition celebrates the life of Paul Durand - Ruel, the maverick French art dealer who first championed the Impressionists.

A champion of Tinguely, he brought about his first exhibition in Sweden in 1956 and, while working at the National Museum of Sweden, snared a traveling exhibition of Picasso's «Guernica.»

Ocean Champions is the first national organization to focus solely on developing a...

Ocean Champions is the first national organization to focus solely on developing a broad, bipartisan base of supporters for ocean conservation in the U.S. Congress and in key states.

Ocean Champions, a 501 (c)(4) organization, with a connected political action committee Ocean Champions PAC, is the first national organization of its kind focused solely on oceans and ocean wildlife.

Two key champions of health care reform — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)-- participated today in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's (CHCI) 2010 Public Policy Conference by sponsoring a networking breakfast immediately prior to First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at the morning plenary session, titled «America's Promise: The Impact of Health Care Reform.»