Sentences with phrase «first national championship»

It's been a long time coming, but after 10 years competing on the Costa Rican national surf circuit, Jason Torres has claimed his first national championship.

Read about rabbit jumping Did you know that the first national championship in rabbit jumping was held way back in 1986?

But he blows a tire in the race and West Coast standard - bearer Jerry Titus gives the Mustang its first national championship.

I traveled around the country thanks to the sport, including stops in Orlando where my team achieved our high school's first national championship (and air time on ESPN!)

Kudos to the chess queens of Success Academy, who last weekend won their first national championship in a Chicago tournament.

That season, he helped lead the Seminoles to their first national championship in fourteen years, before being plucked by Mark Richt as his coordinator at Georgia.

Ohio State vs. Oregon in the first national championship game of the playoff era.

After the Herd won its first national championship in 1992, beating Youngstown State 31 - 28 in the title game, Morehouse walked into his house, and he and his wife hugged tightly.

Georgia came painfully close to winning its first national championship since 1980.

The Wolverines are seeking their first national championship since 1989.

Michigan, who have won 14 games in a row, beat Loyola - Chicago 69 - 57 in the other national semifinal and are seeking their first national championship since 1989.

«Coach Wooden played all these cupcakes,» says Hazzard's assistant coach, Jack Hirsch, who was also Hazzards» co-captain on Wooden's first national championship team in 1963 - 64.

In 1953, pudgy 13 - year - old JackieNicklaus of Columbus, Ohio, was playing in his first national championship, theU.S.

After short - handed but resilient Notre Dame made a run to the Final Four, it was Arike Ogunbowale who was the hero not once, but twice to deliver the Irish their first national championship since 2001.

While BYU was winning its first national championship, future stars like Scott Peterson were scattered about the earth winning converts to Mormonism

Rick Pitino is just a month removed from winning his first national championship as the Louisville Cardinals head coach and he...

After Penn State won its first national championship, in 1982, the Nittany Lions stumbled out of the blocks the next season by losing their first three games en route to a 7 -4-1 record.

 West Virginia never had a chance as Lou Holtz cemented his legacy as a great coach by winning his first national championship in the then - Sunkist Fiesta Bowl.»

On Dec. 21 in San Diego, BYU was defeating Michigan in the Holiday Bowl to clinch its first national championship.

Not exact matches

In the month leading up to Notre Dame's first trip to the national championship game in more than two decades, Irish faithful have created a series of T - shirts bashing their opponent, Alabama.

In his first four seasons at Coastal, he led his team to the National Playoffs four times and three conference championships while being named Conference Coach of the Year twice, as well as AFCA Regional Coach of the Year in 2014 and winner of the prestigious Eddie Robinson Award for National Coach of the Year in 2015.

In April he won the collegiate national championships; he is the first athlete to win both titles in the same year.

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

In its very first year the team became the dominant semipro club in the Southwest, winning the two - state regional championship in El Paso and earning a trip to the national tournament.

Upstart Findlay Prep won the first edition of what ESPN hopes will be a national high school championship, but with its victory comes questions about the entire enterprise

With the Heisman winner and the best defense in the country, the Tide draw the best first - round matchup against Michigan State, which sets them up well to bring Nick Saban's fourth national championship back to Tuscaloosa (fifth overall).

The first was under Steve Spurrier from 1990 to 2001, when they went 122 -27-1 with six SEC titles and one national championship running the fun - and - gun offense.

Pueblo (Colo.) beat Tyler (Texas) 79 - 66 to win its first national junior college championship, in Hutchinson, Kans..

But there is a new behemoth in the National League Central in the Chicago Cubs, who captured their first World Series championship in 108 years on Thursday night.

It was the first home basketball game for the Bulldogs since the football team's loss to Alabama in the national championship game on Monday night.

First - year coach Gus Malzahn is the front - runner to be named national coach of the year, and Auburn, despite a 35 — 21 loss to LSU in late September, still has a shot to play for the BCS championship.

For 35 minutes or so, the Ramblers appeared poised to become the first double - digit seed ever to play for the national championship.

Despite being less than 24 hours away from the start of the first major championship of the season, the atmosphere was light and jovial at Augusta National on Wednesday.

BRIDGE — In Miami at the ACBL's Fall Nationals CHARLES GOREN captained the winning team in an event he first won 26 years ago --- the Open Team board - a-match championship.

They displayed the kind of defense that helped get them to the national championship game last season, forcing the Blue Demons to commit 18 first - half turnovers and miss 14 of their first 15 shots.

The Buckeyes knocked off No. 1 Alabama in New Orleans to advance to the first - ever College Football Playoff national championship, and now we all have to find something else to talk about.

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

He'd coached Division I at New Mexico State and San Jose State, and would go on to win two national championships, the first as quarterback coach at Division III Linfield College and the second at Southern Oregon University, an NAIA school.

Barrett wasn't supposed to start at Ohio State during the Buckeyes» 2014 national championship season, but he swooped into action when Braxton Miller was lost for the season before their first game.

North Carolina's title was Smith's 10th in 28 ACC tournament appearances, but his first since 1982, the year he won his only national championship.

In his first tenure as coach of the Trojans, from 1976 to» 82, he led them to three Rose Bowl wins and the 1978 national championship and won 82 % of his games, third highest among currently active Division I coaches.

«This is the first time I've cried since we lost that national championship game in eighth grade,» says James.

 · The 13 - 15 group (which was added to 2014 US national championship for the first time) won gold for every event including team, duet, solo, & combo, and added several silver and bronze medals.

This will be the first time the Tide finish outside the top three since 2007, but in fairness, Nick Saban brings plenty of young talent back, including Tua Tagovailoa and the other true freshmen who starred in the national championship game.

Langenfeld, a senior first baseman and pitcher at UCLA, hit her third and fourth home runs of the Division I College World Series to lead the Bruins to a 15 — 9 win over Arizona and the national championship.

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.

Four players at at the Purchase, NY site punched their ticket to Merion first, playing through a field of 79 players to grab those four invites to America's national championship.

In 1985, the first year they ran Coach Johnson's offense, they won a national championship.

In his one full season at the University of Maine, in» 92 - 93, he led the Black Bears to the national championship and was the first freshman to win the Hobey Baker Award as top college hockey player in the U.S..

WRESTLING — IOWA STATE won the NCAA championship in College Park, Md., outpointing runner - up Iowa 133 - 108 and denying the Hawkeyes» bid to become the first school to win 10 straight national titles in any sport (page 36).