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Alabama A&M to Drop Men’s Soccer Program

Alabama A&M to Drop Men’s Soccer Program

The Alabama A&M Department of Athletics has formally announced the elimination of men’s soccer from its list of sponsored activities. At the end of the 2010 fall semester the Bulldogs will sponsor 14 sports. The move to eliminate the program is taking place due to budget cuts that have forced athletic officials to drop the [...]

SWAC Announces Women’s Soccer Preseason Honors

SWAC Announces Women’s Soccer Preseason Honors

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. – University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff forward Jade West and defender Erika Forbes, also from Arkansas-Pine Bluff, were named the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Women’s Soccer Preseason Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, the conference announced today. Preseason honors were voted on by the league’s head coaches and sports information directors. The Jackson [...]

New Era Begins for Lady Tigers Soccer

New Era Begins for Lady Tigers Soccer

Houston, TX-A new era in Texas Southern soccer officially began today. New head coach Tamura Crawley-Marigny and her girls were out early this morning, for the first of several weeks of summer practice. They started with sprints for conditioning and then went on to drills and scrimmages. Coach Crawley-Marigny says she’s excited to actually get [...]

Prairie View A&M Soccer Hits The Field

Prairie View A&M Soccer Hits The Field

PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS – The Prairie View A&M women’s soccer team officially hit the field as they held their first two practices of the 2010 season on Thursday. Expectations are high for the Lady Panthers following last season’s impressive finish which featured a berth in the finals of the SWAC Tournament. After a solid spring [...]

Marcia Oliveira

Grambling Announces Marcia Oliveira As Head Soccer Coach

Grambling, LA—Grambling State University has named Marcia Oliveira as the fourth head coach of the Lady Tigers soccer program, as announced by GSU Director of Athletics J. Lin Dawson. Oliveira comes to Grambling after most recently serving the University of South Dakota for two years in the same capacity where in 2008 she guided the [...]

PVAMU’s Track And Field To Send Five Athletes To NCAA Preliminary Round

PVAMU’s Track And Field To Send Five Athletes To NCAA Preliminary Round

A total of five student-athletes will represent Prairie View A&M University beginning on Thursday in the NCAA West Preliminary Round Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas on the campus of the University of Texas. The men’s team will have four athletes competing with three participating as individuals and one relay team. Sprinter Jaryd [...]

Tigers Improve in Final Round of NCAA Regional

Tigers Improve in Final Round of NCAA Regional

COLLEGE STATION, TX – The Jackson State men’s golf team saved their best round of golf for the final round of the 2010 NCAA South Central Regional at Texas A&M’s Traditions Golf Club in Bryan, TX. The Tigers shot a 310 Saturday to finish 14th. Sophomore Clay Myers shot a 78 Saturday, which tied his [...]

Alabama State Track & Field Athletes Earn Invite to NCAA East Regional

Alabama State Track & Field Athletes Earn Invite to NCAA East Regional

GREENSBORO, N.C. – A group of eight Alabama State University Track & Field student-athletes will be among the participants in the NCAA East Regional meet at Irwin Belk Track on the campus of North Carolina A&T, Thursday-Saturday. Participants for the NCAA Regionals (East and West) were selected based on qualifying times and distances posted during [...]

History is Made, GSU’s Coleman Heads to College Station

History is Made, GSU’s Coleman Heads to College Station

Grambling, LA—Grambling State’s men’s golfer Jonathan Coleman made history today as he became not only the first golfer in school history but the first golfer in Northeast Louisiana to receive an automatic qualifier bid into the NCAA Regional Tournament. Coleman, winner of the 2010 Southwestern Athletic Conference Men’s Golf Championships, will head to the NCAA [...]

Grambling Wins 2010 SWAC Men’s Outdoor Championship, Price Name Outstanding Performer

Grambling Wins 2010 SWAC Men’s Outdoor Championship, Price Name Outstanding Performer

New Orleans, LA— Grambling State rallied on the final day to move from third to champions in the 2010 Men’s SWAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships despite miserable weather conditions of wind and rain, which prevailed for most of the final day. Paced by the strength of a final day push in the running events, [...]

SWAC Set to Host 2010 Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships

SWAC Set to Host 2010 Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships

BIRMINGHAM – The 2010 SWAC Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships will take place this weekend Friday, April 16 – Sunday, April 18 in Alexandria, LA. The top three teams from the Eastern and Western divisions qualified for the tournament and will face off in a single elimination format. First round action will begin at 9 [...]

SWAC East Tennis Roundup Set for this Weekend

SWAC East Tennis Roundup Set for this Weekend

BIRMINGHAM – The 2010 SWAC East Tennis Roundup will take place this weekend Friday, March 26 – Sunday, March 28 on the campus of Jackson State University in Jackson, MS. Competing in the tournament will be Eastern division teams Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Alcorn State, Jackson State and Mississippi Valley State. This is the last [...]

2010 SWAC West Tennis Roundup Concludes

2010 SWAC West Tennis Roundup Concludes

Southern Women & Arkansas-Pine Bluff Men Clinch Top Seeds in the West LITTLE ROCK, AR – The second of three SWAC tennis roundups concluded on Saturday with the Southern women and Arkansas-Pine Bluff men clinching the #1 seeds heading into next month’s Championship tournament. The Lady Jaguars posted a 6-1 win over Prairie View A&M [...]

SWAC Indoor Track Performers of the Week

SWAC Indoor Track Performers of the Week

Alabama State Sweeps Weekly Honors WOMEN’S Clarissa Johnson, Alabama State; 5-9, SR; Columbus, GA Johnson had a great showing for the Lady Hornets last weekend at the MTSU Valentine Invitational in Murfreesboro, TN. Individually, Johnson captured the High Jump title with a leap of 5’05” and finished fourth in the 55-meter hurdles event with a [...]

SWAC Indoor Track Perfomers of the Week

SWAC Indoor Track Perfomers of the Week

WOMEN’S Tokeyah Jones, Alabama State; 5-0, SO; Valley, AL Jones had an exceptional outing for the Lady Hornets last week as she placed first in two events at the Tennessee State Invitational in Nashville, TN. Jones captured the individual title in the 55-meter dash with a time of 7.06. She also claimed the 200-meter dash [...]

Arkansas-Pine Bluff Claims 2009 SWAC Soccer Championship Title

Arkansas-Pine Bluff Claims 2009 SWAC Soccer Championship Title

ITTA BENA, MS – The University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff was crowned the 2009 SWAC Soccer Champions with a 1-0 win over Prairie View A&M on Sunday. It was a hard-fought match with neither team getting on the board in the first half of a defensive battle. In the second half it was Nicole Parks-Powell who [...]

SWAC Soccer Regular Season Concludes  Tournament Seedings, Bracket Announced

SWAC Soccer Regular Season Concludes Tournament Seedings, Bracket Announced

With the 2009 SWAC soccer regular season officially coming to a close on Sunday, the stage is now set for the Conference Championship this week November 5 – 8. The top four finishers from the Eastern and Western divisions will be heading to Mississippi Valley State’s campus in Itta Bena, MS to vie for the [...]

Southern Women Crown 2009 HBCU Tennis Champions

Southern Women Crown 2009 HBCU Tennis Champions

ATLANTA, GA – The Southern women’s tennis team claimed the 2009 HBCU National Championship on Saturday at the 9th annual tournament in Atlanta, GA. The Lady Jaguars prevailed in the competition that included 11 teams from various HBCU conferences. SU was led by Carlista Mahommed, who won the Flight B women’s singles title. In a [...]

Xavier wins 12 of 16 matches at HBCU Championships

Xavier wins 12 of 16 matches at HBCU Championships

ATLANTA — The men’s and women’s and tennis teams of Xavier University of Louisiana combined to win 12 of 16 singles matches Thursday in the HBCU National Championships. Nine of the victories by Xavier, an NAIA member, were against NCAA Division I opponents. Steffen Giles-Osborn, Hassan Abbas and Colleen McArthur all went 2-0. Abbas defeated [...]

Prairie View Soccer Knocks Off North Texas

Prairie View Soccer Knocks Off North Texas

An Angelica Diaz goal in the 77th minute held up as the Prairie View A&M Lady Panther soccer team defeated the University of North Texas 1-0 on Saturday afternoon in Denton, Texas. In the 75th minute, the Lady Panthers moved into UNT territory and had two scoring opportunities with consecutive corner kicks by Megan Vlam. [...]