This is one of those rare moments when I have no problem utilizing my media resources to assist in promoting a justified cause. I will even take it a step further in saying that this is (to some degree) personal considering the school and person involved. An effort to rename the recently built Assembly Center [...]
BIRMINGHAM – The Southwestern Athletic Conference Council of Presidents voted to return football to a nine-game conference schedule beginning with the 2010 season. The nine-game conference schedule will be in place for a minimum of four years through at least the 2013 football season. The SWAC last played a nine-game Conference schedule for three seasons [...]
(Birmingham, AL) – On June 23, 2009, the City of Birmingham Mayor’s Office-Division of Youth Services (DYS) and the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) will partner to host an Olympic Day celebration from 2:00pm-3:00pm at the Western Area YMCA on Bessemer Road in Birmingham. The event is FREE and will feature Paralympic Swimmer Angel Langner. Also, [...]
MONTGOMERY — Alabama State University’s Southwestern Athletic Conference opener against Mississippi Valley State will be played at Chicago’s Soldier Field and its season-ending game with traditional rival Tuskegee University will kick off two hours later than normal to accommodate a national television audience. The two changes in the 2009 football scheduled were announced Thursday by [...]
John McKenzie has been hired as assistant football coach at Alabama A&M. He will lead the Bulldog receiving corps and manage the academic progress for the football program. McKenzie replaces Roger Totten, who was named the offensive coordinator at Alabama State earlier this spring. A veteran of both the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and the [...]
Cynthia Lynn Cooper-Dyke, Prairie View A&M’s head women’s basketball coach, was officially inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall Of Fame this past weekend in Knoxville, Tenn. She was joined in the honor with fellow inductees Jennifer Azzi, Jennifer Gillom, Sonja Hogg, Jill Hutchison, and Ora Washington. In a weekend full of festivities, the Class of [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Shaun Dumas has dreamed many years of playing professional basketball. On Tuesday morning the Xavier University of Louisiana All-America guard will get a shot to impress another hometown team when he works out for the New Orleans Hornets. Dumas, who received his bachelor of science degree from Xavier on May 9, will [...]
Alcorn State , MS —Freshman Eduardo Gonzalez has been named to the 2009 Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-American Team. Gonzalez completed his freshman campaign with a batting average of .407 (1st in the SWAC and 43rd in the Nation), seventy (70) hits (1st in SWAC, 1st on Team), 11 doubles and 41 RBIs. He was named [...]
Mississippi Valley State assistant softball coach Trena Peel will spend her summer playing professional fast-pitch softball as a member of the Philadelphia Force of the National Pro Fastpitch League. Peel, whose on-field responsibilities and additional off-the-field duties were important to the Devilettes capturing their sixth consecutive SWAC softball title, will join her team tonight as [...]
Prairie View A&M University women’s basketball players Gaati Werema, Candice Thomas and Dominique Smith have been selected by USA Athletes International to represent the United States in the 2009 Vienna Basketball Tournament in Vienna, Austria. The trio will be competing abroad this summer for two weeks from May 28th – June 6. This is an [...]
J-State also earns women’s all-sports award; Grambling State takes men’s award BIRMINGHAM – The Jackson State University Athletic Department has earned the Southwestern Athletic Conference Dr. James Frank Commissioner’s Cup Award for all-sports competition for the third consecutive year and the women’s Barbara Jacket/Sadie Magee sports award for the fourth consecutive year. On the men’s [...]
