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TSPNsports/THG Agency HBCU Division I Football Poll

TSPNsports/THG Agency HBCU Division I Football Poll

Presented By: THG Agency, LLC – (The Heritage Group), A Consulting Sports Management Agency The Dr. Cavil’s HBCU Major Division Pre-Season Football Top 10, with number of first-place votes, record in parentheses, total points, previous ranking, and next opponent: Name——————Record–1PV-Points-PWR–Next Game-(9/2/10-9/6/10) 1. Prairie View A & M–(0-0)–(6)–97—-NR–(2009-[9-1]–vs-#3-Texas Southern) 2. @-S. C. State——-(0-0)–(3)–96—-NR–(2009-[10-2]-at-FBS-Georgia Tech) 3. Texas [...]

ESPNU To Televise Football & Volleyball Matchups Between Prairie View and Grambling

ESPNU To Televise Football & Volleyball Matchups Between Prairie View and Grambling

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – The Prairie View A&M Panther football team will make two nationally televised appearances on ESPNU during the 2010 season. Prairie View’s first televised contest will occur on Saturday, Sept. 25 against Grambling State at 6 p.m. during the annual State Fair Classic matchup in Dallas, Texas. This year’s State Fair Classic [...]

South Carolina State Picked to Repeat as SBN National Champions

South Carolina State Picked to Repeat as SBN National Champions

Pittsburgh, PA –    The South Carolina State Bulldogs were selected number one in the SBN Black College Football Preseason Poll. The 2009 SBN Black College National Champions received 24 of a possible 30 first place votes and a total of 294 points. Defending SWAC (Southwestern Athletic Conference) Champion Prairie View A&M was predicted to finish [...]

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 [...]

Panthers Continue to Practice at a High Level

Panthers Continue to Practice at a High Level

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – With three practices under their belts, the Prairie View A&M Panthers moved towards the next phase of camp as they donned shoulder pads for the first time on Wednesday evening. The Panthers have had three solid practices as the players continue to fly around the field at full speed. In addition, [...]

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 [...]

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW

PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS – The PVAMU volleyball team kicked off training camp this week with one goal in mind and that’s making it to the NCAA tournament and winning the program’s fourth SWAC title. The Lady Panthers fell one game short of making the SWAC final last year. PVAMU won SWAC titles and appeared in [...]

Dawn Brown Named Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach at Prairie View A&M

Dawn Brown Named Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach at Prairie View A&M

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Former Tougaloo College assistant coach Dawn Brown will join the Prairie View A&M University women’s basketball coaching staff for the 2010-11 season, PVAMU head women’s coach Toyelle Wilson announced on Wednesday. A 2005 graduate of Jackson State University, Brown spent the previous four years as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator [...]

Former Prairie View A&M Basketball Standouts Sign Professional Baketball Contracts

Former Prairie View A&M Basketball Standouts Sign Professional Baketball Contracts

PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS – Three former members of the Prairie View A&M men’s basketball team have moved on to the next level by signing professional contracts to play overseas. Signing to play abroad is the trio of forwards Darnell Hugee, Dorian McDaniel and point guard Chris Jones. Hugee inked with Saint Vallier Basketball Drome of [...]

Prairie View A&M Men’s Basketball Names Ansar Al-Ameen Assistant Coach

Prairie View A&M Men’s Basketball Names Ansar Al-Ameen Assistant Coach

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – The Prairie View A&M men’s basketball program recently added Ansar Al-Ameen to the coaching staff as an assistant coach. Al-Ameen joins the Panthers after spending the past two seasons at Texas Southern University. Al-Ameen replaces associate head coach Talvin Hester who has accepted a position on the staff at San Jose [...]

Prairie View A&M Opens Football Practice With Solid Effort

Prairie View A&M Opens Football Practice With Solid Effort

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – The Prairie View A&M Panthers officially hit the gridiron on Monday night as they opened fall camp full of enthusiasm. “I was impressed with the effort and speed of the team,” said head coach Henry Frazier III. “Even though we weren’t in pads, the players flew around and gave it all [...]

Prairie View A&M Bowling Set To Make History In October

Prairie View A&M Bowling Set To Make History In October

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Fresh off an historic season, the Prairie View A&M bowling team will make history once again this fall as they’re one of two teams scheduled to participate in the first-ever collegiate match at the International Training and Research Center in Arlington, Texas on Oct. 10. The ITRC, home of the United [...]

Prairie View A&M Football Reports to Camp, Starts Practice Monday

Prairie View A&M Football Reports to Camp, Starts Practice Monday

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – The Prairie View A&M football coaching staff welcomed its players back to campus on Sunday afternoon as the defending SWAC Champions officially kicked off the 2010 campaign. The Panthers spent their first Sunday of camp taking care of administrative duties such as filling out paperwork, checking into dorm rooms followed by [...]

Prairie View A&M’s Heishma Northern Selected To Attend NCAA Champions Forum

Prairie View A&M’s Heishma Northern Selected To Attend NCAA Champions Forum

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Prairie View A&M football defensive coordinator Heishma Northern has been selected to attend the 2010 NCAA Champions Forum in Anaheim, Calif. beginning on June 22. The forum, which is in conjunction with the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Convention, is considered the “top tier” of the NCAA Coaches Academy [...]

Grambling Captures 2009-10 SWAC All-Sports Title

Grambling Captures 2009-10 SWAC All-Sports Title

Birmingham, Ala. – Grambling State University captured the Southwestern Athletic Conference All-Sports title, the 2010 James Frank Award, outdistancing Jackson State by 7.0 points in the cumulative totals for 18 varsity men’s and women’s sports the league sponsors. Alabama State finished third overall. Grambling’s men’s teams captured the 2009-10 C.D. Henry Award in a race [...]

Prairie View A&M Names Toyelle Wilson as Head Women’s Basketball Coach

Prairie View A&M Names Toyelle Wilson as Head Women’s Basketball Coach

Prairie View A&M University Athletic Director Fred Washington announced today the promotion of Toyelle Wilson to head coach of the women’s basketball team. “We’re glad to have been able to retain Coach Wilson and are excited about the future of our women’s basketball program,” said Washington. “Wilson has been a part of all the success [...]

PVAMU’s Mayes Conducts Camp In Japan

PVAMU’s Mayes Conducts Camp In Japan

Prairie View A&M University’s Sports Medicine Director, John “Doc” Mayes had a life-changing experience recently as he traveled to Okinawa, Japan to facilitate the Pacific Military College Week / Basketball Camp. During the month of April, Mayes’ brainchild, the C.A.E.O.S. Project Foundation Inc., partnered with the Okinawa Basketball Association to facilitate an educational-sports camp for [...]

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 [...]

Cynthia Cooper-Dyke Steps Down as Prairie View A&M’s Coach

Cynthia Cooper-Dyke Steps Down as Prairie View A&M’s Coach

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Cynthia Cooper-Dyke has stepped down as head women’s basketball coach at Prairie View A&M University to accept the vacant women’s head basketball coaching position at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. “Coach Cooper is very deserving of an opportunity to coach anywhere and this will give her the opportunity to showcase [...]

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 [...]