Sentences with phrase «first national title»

Just a month after the attack she was back on her surfboard, and a year later she won her first national title.

Clemson beat Auburn to begin last season on their way to its first national title in 35 years.

Gonzaga will play in its first national title game tonight.

Above all, Lisandro Lopez scored the winner in a 1 - 0 victory against Belgrano which saw Arsenal Sarandì win the Clausura and claim their first national title in club history.»

Jordan Leggett's twisting catch on the final series helped Clemson beat Alabama and secure the school's first national title since 1981.

Can the Gators win their first national title?

Florida coach Urban Meyer used relentless recruiting tactics — and the school's first national title in a decade — to put together the best class in the land

With a resounding 34 - 13 Sugar Bowl victory, Alabama put a stop to Miami's 29 - game winning streak and won its first national title since 1979

In the final, played before 6,000 in Hutchinson's Sports Arena, Paul Henry, later voted the tournament's most valuable player, scored 30 points as Coffeyville beat Lou Morris (Texas) 74 - 49 to win its first national title and stretch its winning streak to 32.

It's been 22 seasons since Florida became the last team to win its first national title.

The 5» 8» 135 - pounder, a second - degree brown belt, won his first national title three years ago.

If Georgia is to defeat Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl and win its first national title, Buck Belue must do more than hand the ball to Herschel

FIELD TRIALS — McCASKELL»S MR. RANGER, a 3 1/2 - year - old liver - and - white pointer from Rockingham, N.C, won his first national title by taking the Open Shooting Dog Championships in Orange, Va..

For Smart to deliver UGA to its first national title since 1980, he had to do something no former Saban assistant has done before: beat the master.

To this day Krzyzewski is convinced that his first national title three months later — keyed by Hill's dunk on a half - court alley - oop pass from Hurley in the title game against Kansas — was the direct result of their efforts.

Early in the previous season, after Carr had chosen Brian Griese as the starter — a move that would pay off with the school's first national title in 49 years — Brady told the coach he might transfer.

They shivered as they waited to clap or honk or wave when the Nittany Lions rolled by on the last 100 - mile leg of the team's return from the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, where they had beaten Georgia 27 - 23 to win their first national title.

He does, after all, have 18 former college players in the NBA: Wall, who lifted Kentucky to a No. 1 ranking in 2009 — 10, Calipari's first season in Lexington, just happens to be the best of his guard products at the moment; and Davis, who led the Wildcats to Calipari's first national title in» 11 — 12, is leading the NBA in efficiency.

Thirty - three years ago, Villanova stunned heavily favored Georgetown to capture the first national title in program history.

In his second year at the helm, Kirby Smart has the Georgia Bulldogs in their first College Football Playoff and playing for their first national title since 1980.

If he can hold that trajectory and punch through the stratosphere against the Crimson Tide, he could be the key to Clemson's first national title since 1981.

Blackledge had a decorated college career with the Nittany Lions, highlighted by leading Penn State to its first national title in 1982 and winning the Davey O'Brien award as college football's best quarterback.

Not exact matches

«It has a proud heritage as Britain's first truly independent national quality title.

South Florida high school baseball standouts that play for USA national teams, which all won international titles this year, will be honored before first pitch to the Miami Marlins game on Saturday at Marlins Park.

Last November the National Bible Association and the First Amendment Center issued a thoughtful document titled, «The Bible and Public Schools: A First Amendment Guide.»

Plaskow reflected on this split at the first national Jewish Women's Conference in 1973, delivering a paper titled «The Jewish Feminist: Conflict in Identities.»

Recently, MoMA's first poet laureate, Kenneth Goldsmith, received national attention for teaching a course at the University of Pennsylvania titled «Wasting Time on the Internet.»

Editor's note: Since 2004, Shmuel Herzfeld has been the Rabbi of Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue, the oldest and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C.. His first book will be published within a year, titled: The Relevance of the Torah for our Modern Lives.

Trojan Force Led by zealous coach Pete Carroll, USC is summoning up memories of Pac - 10 glory and making an impassioned run at its first outright national title in three decades

This isn't the first time Texas A&M has claimed a national title out of pretty thin air.

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

Florida State dropped to 0 — 2 for the first time since 1989 and now will have to recalibrate its expectations for a year that started with national title aspirations.

On five separate occasions, demonstrably superior USC teams have lost to UCLA, often with a conference or national title on the line: 1992 (to a walk - on fifth string quarterback), 1994 (with the Rose Bowl possibly on the line), 1995, 2006 (with a national title shot on the line), and 2012 (with a spot in the first Pac - 12 title game at stake).

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.

The Huskies made history in 2004 when both the men's and women's basketball teams won the national titles, the first time that occurred in NCAA Division I history.

She is the second freshman to win the regatta and the first Bear to win a national title since 1968.

How fitting to see them yoked at the most critical juncture of USC's quest for a third straight national title, these future first - rounders whose fortunes have been intertwined for three seasons.

From the first game of the year to the national title game, everything matters to somebody.

But he won 11 games in that first season — and just two years later, Miles matched Saban with a Tigers national title of his own.

Williams led the Terrapins to their first - ever Final Four in 2001, and they won a national title the following season.

But hey — at least you're consistent in being fine with mediocrity and being proud of national embarrassment due to the first Title IX investigation in school history and multi-million-dollar lawsuit settlements and court defeats.

Jimmy Skinner, Red Wings» first - year coach who brought Detroit through to two - point edge over Canadiens during regular season for seventh straight National Hockey League title, accepted congratulations on his feat, wearily commented: «I'm tired and I want to take a bath.»

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.

Jane Findling, a senior at Valparaiso (Ind.) High, set a national scholastic soft - ball throw record of 251» 10» to qualify for the first state girls» prep track meet, then won the title with a toss of 232» 9».

The 21 year old, who is currently out injured, helped Juventus to back to back Serie A titles in his first two campaigns in Italy and a prominent member of Didier Deschamps» national team set - up.

The Nationals» division title means the playoffs will return to Washington, D.C., for the first time since 1933.

Vanderbilt University captured their first ever baseball NCAA National Title on Wednesday night after beating Virginia in Game 3 of the College World Series 3 - 2.

Vanderbilt University captured their first ever baseball NCAA National Title on Wednesday night after beating Virginia in Game 3 of the...

Last season they first lost 75 - 74, and then in a January rematch had them down by 18 points before the momentum turned and they finally fell, 112 - 104, only a month before the Bulldogs would go on to a shot at the NAIA Division II national title.

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.