Sentences with phrase «of national championship»

He remains leader of the national championship and we wish him the best of lucks for the last event of the year.

Hair styling isn't necessarily my bag, but it's cool and interesting to watch the lengths the competitors go through in pursuit of the national championship and to see just how much it means to them.

She qualified for the Olympic Trials in swimming in 1976 and 1980, and was a member of a national championship swimming team at Stanford, where she later served as an assistant coach.

There are a total of seven teams on the slate that qualified for the 2014 edition of the national championship tournament, including home and away dates with both Creighton and Seton Hall.

Try kicking an onside kick with the score tied in the fourth quarter of the national championship game.

As for the full match video (US Youth Soccer streams and archives all of its national championship matches) it would appear to be private.

If you're still scratching your head about the player who will take a four - shot advantage into Sunday afternoon's final round of the national championship, perhaps this may jog your memory.

He quickly put that chatter to bed and returned as the captain and heart and soul of a national championship team otherwise dominated by newcomers.

The Alabama Crimson Tide came in at No. 1, while Florida State, fresh off a huge road win over Clemson, is ranked No. 2, putting the Noles in the middle of the national championship race.

After 834 regular season games, 40 bowl games, 4,376 Nick Saban scowls and one hell of a national championship game, the college football season is over.

Would he have fallen short of a national championship at Mississippi State?

In my preview of the national championship game, I laid out Michigan's seemingly impossible task: Find a way to slow down Villanova while simultaneously generating enough offense for the defensive effort to be worth it.

Despite Mitchell's departure, Louisville should once again defend well enough to remain in the ACC's elite quartile and run with anyone in the country on a given night — with North Carolina losing several stars of its national championship lineup and Duke working in a new crop of blue - chip freshmen around Grayson Allen, the pecking order is far from settled.

In terms of national championship futures, Alabama once again leads the field at +178 at 5Dimes, followed by Clemson (+225), Oklahoma (+335) and Georgia (+345).

For those 30 minutes Michigan outgained, outtackled, outblocked and outcoached Notre Dame out of any national championship hopes.

Michigan was on the brink of losing for the fourth time in its last six home games and knocking itself out of national championship contention before Sept. 1.

Parseghian only took a 2 - 7 team to within two minutes of the national championship through an easy schedule of Purdues, Southern Cals and Michigan States.

And if they don't lose before the Orange Bowl, this year will be the eighth time in the past 16 seasons that the winner of the Oklahoma - Nebraska game has either won some version of the national championship or at least contended for it in a bowl.

, exhaustive list of national championship years (ibid.)

They recall that Harry Payne Whitney, by sending Regret down to run in and win the 1915 Derby, became the sporting and inspirational force in elevating the Derby from a more or less local spectacle to the level of a national championship.

This time next week, we'll have a much clearer picture of the national championship scenarios.

This past year, when Michigan beat Ohio State and went on to win the Rose Bowl and a share of the national championship, it (almost) made up for a half century of disappointment.

Original, January 31, 2014: Upon entering the SEC, Texas A&M decided to retroactively award itself a pair of national championships from nearly a century prior, one of which was based on the computer formula of a man who wasn't even alive during the season in question.

I also coach a number of surf teams (and have taken them on to win a couple of national championships) and some of the top juniors from Cape Town which also allows me to travel quite a bit.

I am currently team captain for my high school golf team, and have achieved numerous successes on the team; I have placed in the top five for my district the past three years, and have performed at a number of national championships.

Not exact matches

I think it's about championship,» says Maria Contreras - Sweet, the newest head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, in an interview with Entrepreneur.com during National Small Business Week last month.

He's won the Pan American Games, the U.S. mountain bike championships, is a twelve - time member of the national team... Jeremiah is to mountain bike racing what an NBA All - Star is to basketball.

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people use data from different sources to claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.

Currently, he's the head football coach and chair of athletics at Coastal Carolina University, where he has been part of seven championship teams (with four National Playoffs and three Conference Championships).

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.

But she does not discourage a comparison of her plight to that of Nancy Kerrigan, the figure skater who had to withdraw from a national championship in 1994 after being clubbed in the knee with a tire iron.

According to Dan Patrick of «The Dan Patrick Show,» two sources «behind the scenes» at USC told him Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was on the program's «short list» of coaching candidates and they thought he could be talked into returning to USC, where he coached for nine seasons and won two national championships.

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.

These are the words of legendary basketball coach John Wooden, who guided UCLA to 10 NCAA national championships in a 12 - year period.

Chad is the author of God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC — a funny, insightful book that I especially enjoyed as an Alabama fan because it recounted the season in which Bama won its most recent national championship....

Fans of Tebow may remember when he wrote «John 3:16» on his face (in his eyeblack) during the national championship game when he played college football at Florida.

CNN: Mormon linebacker helps lead Catholic Notre Dame to national championship game It was a goal - line stand in the fourth quarter that sealed the University of Notre Dame football team's Saturday victory over the University of Southern California — and earned the No. 1 - ranked team a trip to the national championship game.

There's programs within six hours of here that had one more win [the year prior, Pitt had exactly one more win than PSU did], but you would think they played for a national championship.

NBC was the home of the U.S. Open, almost synonymous with the national championship for the past two decades.

Ennie Argence of New Orleans, driving the hydroplane Gun Shy in the championships of the National Inboard Hydroplane meet at Cape Coral, Fla., established a five - mile competitive speed record in the 266 - cubic - inch class, averaged 80.501 mph.

He was a big part of Villanova's run to the 2016 national championship and made major strides as a shooter last year, jumping from 29 percent from three - point range to 39 percent.

Even when Woods shares that his desire to win a championship is his main deterrent, Dowkens simply widens his scope to include three of the other top - rated national recruits.

It is not just that he is 26, in his fifth pro season, won a Heisman Trophy and national championship at Auburn, was the league's No. 1 pick and Rookie of the Year in 2011 and likely will be named the NFL most valuable player this year.

A two - time National Coach of the Year who led the Tar Heels to a national championship in 1994, Hatchell continues to thrive in Chapel Hill eNational Coach of the Year who led the Tar Heels to a national championship in 1994, Hatchell continues to thrive in Chapel Hill enational championship in 1994, Hatchell continues to thrive in Chapel Hill even now.

In one of those seasons, 1983, the Hurricanes won the national championship.

But Hein quickly caught on to the game; from 1984 to» 88, he played on three of Clark's national - championship teams.

If New York wins the National League pennant by one game over Milwaukee, it will be a phony championship and the Giants will be cheese champions, through no fault of theirs.

The ratings used a weighting system that tied 40 percent of a rating to national championship seasons (sounds a bit biased toward, Bama, huh?)

Benavides grew up in Los Fresnos — just north of Brownsville in the southern tip of Texas — wanting to be recruited by Texas, watching the Rose Bowl national championship and cheering Vince Young.