Sentences with phrase «state championships year»

At 5» 11, Toril not only stood head and shoulders above her teammates, but with her passion to succeed, she helped take her team to the state championships year in and year out.

Milligan scrambled to run a new state championship a year ago at the Erie County Fair.

Not exact matches

And while he didn't promise to end Cleveland's 50 - year championship drought, James did, in dramatic style, lead the Cavaliers to overturn a 3 - 1 series deficit against the favored Golden State Warriors.

Curry, point guard for the Golden State Warriors, debuted his fourth signature shoe on June 1 during Game 1 of the NBA Finals, on the way to the team's second NBA championship in three years.

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.

It was my senior year, state championship game.

In the future, senior year, despite what he has already said that he wouldn't do it, if he was put up against another woman for the state championship and a full scholarship to his college of choice, yeah he would.

The Hurricanes top the ACC Coastal and are in position to stay there all year, setting up a championship meeting with Clemson or maybe NC State.

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.

The Pacers, coming off a state playoff berth a year ago, could be in the mix for a championship this season.

Professional bicycle racing was at its peak in the United States when Marshall Walter (Major) Taylor, one of eight children of a Negro Civil War veteran, won the 1899 world championship and the U.S. title a year later.

Jason Collier, C, 7» 0» Indiana; Springfield, Ohio (Catholic Central) A southpaw with a sweet touch, Collier averaged 27 points and 14 rebounds and became only the second player in Ohio history to be named Mr. Basketball and win the state championship in the same year (Jimmy Jackson was the first).

Chris, a 14 - year - old competing at 90 pounds, won his third state championship during the Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation state meet.

He has spent the last two years managing in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, at Lansing in the Midwest League in 2011 (where he led the team to the championship series before losing) and at Dunedin in the Florida State League in 2012.

Wright State celebrates its Horizon League championship with teammate Ryan Custer, who suffered a critical spinal cord injury last year.

Yeah it's not like he won the state championship In high school or was the college player of the year..

In the 31 years since, he has sailed into every harbor on the Maine coast, raised crops and cattle, guided on Merrymeeting Bay, won the state skeet championship, married the attractive daughter of an old Maine market hunter and guide (it was kind of a shotgun wedding: they went duck shooting before and after the ceremony), sold boats and finally settled into the excursion - boat business.

Consider: The Lady Vols have the best coach in Pat Summitt, who has won championships in five of the last 11 years, and the best player in two - time All - America Chamique Holdsclaw, who has won a title in each of the last six years, including four New York State championships with Christ the King High in Queens.

He leaves Florida State after eight years at the helm and national championship in the trophy case.

Later that year App State beat Northern Iowa for the I - AA national championship.

That's what has happened in preparation for this year's national championship game, as Ohio State will get a big advantage over Oregon this week, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy:

Berwick has won 12 championships on different levels in the last 15 years, including a state championship in 1988 and a mythical national championship, bestowed by USA Today, in 1983.

And last year, not only was Jackie Robinson West stripped of its national title, but the Georgia state championship team from Peachtree was ruled ineligible to compete in the Southeast regional after Little League officials discovered some teams in the league included too many 12 - year - olds.

Malzahn was the offensive coordinator under Chizik for three seasons, including the 2010 - 11 national championship season, before taking the head coaching job at Arkansas State last year.

Herman is one year removed from being an offensive coordinator at Ohio State, where he was instrumental in the Buckeyes» championship run in 2014, and he landed his first head coaching job at Houston before he even won the trophy.

Mississippi State has won outright or shared (with Kentucky in 1962) the Southeastern Conference championship three years in a row, but its splendid qualifications and Coach Babe McCarthy's frequent pleas never got the team into the NCAA tournament because of a Mississippi policy prohibiting athletic competition against Negroes.

He captured the Public Links championship of the United States last week by hitting some marvelous iron shots and one - putting 12 greens to bring down little Gene Towry, a laconic 28 - year - old student in electrical engineering at SMU.

He finished second in the state championships last year, and hopes this is the year to be first.

Last week Arizona State began its campaign for a fourth Border championship (also its last; next year it joins the new and tougher Great Western Conference), and the Sun Devils looked like the fastest guns in the West.

The amateur Public Links championship is a delightfully low - pressure tournament year in and year out, but the 32nd renewal at the Hershey Park Golf Club in Hershey, Pa. saw some very high - pressure golf displayed by an 18 - year - old Indianapolis boy named Don Essig III who has just finished his freshman year at Louisiana State University.

LB — CAMERON SMITH Granite Bay Sr. 6 - 3, 225 The USC - commit was a three - year starter that won a 2012 state bowl championship and recorded 470 tackles and 11 interceptions in his career.

But thanks to the fact that Salesian's enrollment this year was 19 over the 500 - student cutoff for California Interscholastic Federation Small School state bowl championship purposes, the Pride had to contend with Div.

St. Francis finished eighth overall but were just 11 shots off the top - three finish needed to advance to the state championships for the second straight year.

Martinez, also a junior, pinned Fiegener in the final to give him his third state championship in as many years.

The Matadors program had a history of success, but had fallen into a state of flux just two years after reaching the California Interscholastic Federation Northern Regional championship in 2008.

I state championships «'' then his senior year had to be the clincher.

It used 10 - year averages and didn't give bonus points for championships, which meant that Penn State fans were frustrated by a low 1980s ranking (yes, the Nittany Lions won two national titles; they also won eight or fewer games five times) and Nebraska fans were angry that their Huskers were overtaken by FSU in the 1990s (yes, the Huskers won 2.5 national titles; FSU won two and was generally better in the non-title seasons).

Phelps won a record 12 North Coast Section championships and was selected Cal - Hi Sports state coach of the year in 1986, when his Dragons went 31 - 5.

Chipper also led Bolles to three straight state Class AA baseball championship games, with his new school eliminating Taylor from the playoffs each year.

He chose Florida State, which was in the middle of a dizzying run of sustained excellence during which the Seminoles finished in the top five for 14 straight years starting in 1987, won two national championships and on three occasions lost in the title game.

Some facts: A few years ago, there were five state championship football games.

«And then, in that first varsity year, he ends up starting in the (CIF State Bowl) championship game.

Coleman's teammate, Max Guercy, added 19 points and eight rebounds as Alemany won its first state championship in 57 years.

Sergi, an 18 - year - old senior at College Park High, breezed into the 138 - pound championship match at the California Interscholastic Federation championship tournament without too much difficulty, in a tough weight class, in one of the 4 - 5 toughest state wrestling tournaments in the country.

West Campus (29 - 7), which won the Division IV state championship one year before, was able to repeat.

CIF High School Sports Successes: 17th all - time winningest coach in California with a record of 530 - 133 20 league titles (BVAL & EBAL) 10 NorCal Championships with a California state championship 10 NCS championships Sent more than 32 athletes to play ball at the collegiate and pro level Numerous «Coach of the Year» honors including her favorite honor, «California Coaches Association's Northern California's Coach of the Year, 2014»

They'd won the state championship last year.

Menlo - Atherton (30 - 5) is returning to the state championships for the second straight year, and will be hoping the experience of last year's 3 - 0 Div.

However, Rolling Hills Prep head coach Harvey Kitani won two state championships during his 35 - year tenure as coach at Los Angeles City Section - power Fairfax.

A few years ago, only a few state championship basketball games were televised; last year, all of them were.