Sentences with phrase «national champion team»

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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.

Teams of student culinarian members compete in a double elimination, jeopardy - style competition for the chance to become national champions.

Given the Dodgers haven't won a World Series since 1988 and the Blue Jays are the most recent World Series champion among the remaining teams thanks to winning back in 1993, the idea of the Nationals never having won anything maybe sounds more painful than it ought to, though.

And by Saturday at dinnertime the last of the verbal battles were raging from the Bluegrass Room to the Julep Lounge, from Gordon's Golden Horse to the Bit»n Spur, and even in that rare unequine setting, the Boom Boom Room, as to which team was going to win the national title: defending champion Cincinnati or its hated foe, the squad that has been ranked No. 1 for two straight seasons, Ohio State?

We are lucky enough to have two competition teams, one of which are current national champions, and a performance team!

«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!

UCF beat SEC West champion Auburn in the Peach Bowl, meaning the undefeated Knights beat a team that went 2 - 1 against the National Championship's participants — all without the Knights themselves getting even a remote sniff of the Playoff.

Stoops was then very excited by the possibility of a new playoff system last July, saying that it benefited everyone involved to have «the best teams in the country to determine a national champion on the football field.»

MILEPOSTS — REINSTATED: HUTOHERSON FLYING QUEENS of Wayland Baptist College, Plain view, Texas, five times national AAU women's basketball champions, when local businessmen agreed to underwrite scholarship and team expenses, after college had disbanded team in January for financial reasons.

However Wenger is confident he can convince Remy to join fellow national team colleagues Laurent Koscielny, Olivier Giroud, Bacary Sagna and Abou Diaby at the North London club, with the carrot of Champions League football, if secured, perhaps a likely motivating factor.

Not only will the defending National Champions be playing «That Team Up North» on November.

George Mason (2006) wilted on the big stage, looking every bit the part of a mid-major team that didn't belong in a one - sided loss to eventual national champion Florida.

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.

«Josh is so far ahead of everyone else when it comes to training,» says Sigvart Bjontegaard, the 30 - year - old coach of the U.S. biathlon team and a three - time Norwegian national champion in the sport.

Ronaldo was part of the Portugal national team which were crowned Euro 2016 champions yesterday evening.

In 12 years of competition Souza has been on the winning doubles and triples teams at the national open and runner - up in the U.S. Singles, which pits divisional champions against one another.

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.

The national champions of the BCS era were typically those teams who brought in more four - and five - star recruits than two - and three - star signees.

Reigning national champion and overall No. 1 seed Villanova got a raw deal by having Duke, a team many people believed would earn the fourth No. 1 seed from the Selection Committee, as its No. 2 seed.

Perhaps just as important, though, is the fact that three of our big rivals for the top four Champions League qualifying places did see players pick up injuries with their national teams.

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.

His team is five - time defending American Collegiate Rowing Association national champions.

Although he has represented his national team at both Euro 2008 and Euro 2012, and despite earning a total of 45 caps for the World and European Champions, he remains somewhat of an unknown commodity to those outside of Spain.

After all these years of playing great at club level and for the current world champion national team he still heard from fans that he is just too slow and should be dumped immediately.

I like how professional German players seem to be even in times they aren't reining world champions, I know those players wouldn't necessarily walk straight into their National team but it is only one position which they are all vying over so I would assume good quality will miss out.

Without a defending champion, an unbeaten team or a solid favorite in sight, the big boys of college basketball begin their annual two - week rumble to determine the national championship

Sissoko is a regular in Didier Deschamps» national team set - up but may be interested in a high - profile move that could secure a taste of Champions League action though it's not instantly obvious as to how the marauding midfielder would fit into the Chelsea starting eleven given the presence of the likes of Nemanja Matic, Ramires and John Obi Mikel.

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.

Alonso won the 2010 World Cup with the Spanish national team and currently plays for the Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich.

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.

With the entire roster returning from last year's squad that went 27 - 7, and lost to eventual champion Mater Dei - Santa Ana in the CIFSS Division I semifinals, the Cougars have been riding high as an unbeaten state and national No. 1 team.

Whether a team that can't score a touchdown in its bowl game deserves to be national champion is another question.

Otherwise normally levelheadedsportswriters and broadcasters, caught up in the excitement of a game - tyinghook and ladder, a game - winning Statue of Liberty play and an on - field marriageproposal, might have ranked the Broncos, the nation's only undefeated team, right behind national champion Florida.

These goals go hand - in - hand, as a) BCS standings would potentially come into play in a three - way SEC West tiebreaker between 7 - 1 teams Arkansas, Alabama and LSU, and b) the SEC champion typically gets a chance at the national title.

Barbara, a 21 - year - old junior, and Kathy, an 18 - year - old freshman, sisters who played No. 2 women's doubles at Stanford, defeated Diane Morrison and Susie Hagey, the No. 1 team and the two - time defending champions, 5 - 7, 6 - 3, 7 - 6, to win the national collegiate title at Salisbury, Md..

Alabama earned the top overall seed in the four - team playoff, and they will begin their quest to repeat as national champions against # 4 Washington in the Peach Bowl.

Morgan Schneiderlin — 0 caps in the champions league, 9 caps for France national team for a guy who will be 26 in November.

Auburn finished the season smoking hot after taking down two straight top - five teams, including the two - time defending national champion and SEC East champion Missouri.

True indeed they're not comparable Carvalho is doing well in an U21 tournament while Vidal is already proven he's done it in Bundesliga, Serie A, Champions League, National team in the world cup now copa america!

Led by Richie Frahm and Casey Calvary, this Cinderella team made an improbable run to the Elite Eight before losing to the eventual national champion, UConn.

How did he get to coach a 4 time world champion national team?

After two extremely exciting and well - played games between the Tigers and Crimson Tide decided the last two national champions, this year's matchup will bring this trilogy to a close and send one of these teams one step closer to its second national title in three years.

As the lone undefeated team in FBS, UCF has decided it's actually the national champion.

Three teams have won national titles — LSU is a six - time champion, last in 2009; Cal State Fullerton is a four - time champ, last in 2004; and Oregon State has two titles to its credit, the last in 2007.

His recent form has led to a long awaited return to the national team set - up and having won back to back Serie A titles, whilst also playing a key role in his side's run to the Champions League semi-finals, and as such it's hard to fathom why he'd move to a Liverpool side who can not even offer him Champions League football let alone a genuine push for major honours.

(Miami can have no complaints because, unlike the other teams in this paragraph, they did get a shot at the eventual national champion.

The former Magpie wrote in his column for local paper the Chronicle that he is certain that the midfielder will leave his current club and return to the Premier League in January, after failing to force his way into the French champions» starting XI on a regular enough basis to guarantee him a place in the France national team.

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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.

We have current World Team members, National Champions, and over 25 All Americans scheduled to participate.