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20 Alabama Athletes Qualify for NCAA Track and Field Championships: Roll Call, June 4
Alabama track and field will be well represented at next week’s NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championship meet held at the historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Alabama will send nine women and 11 men to compete in 14 different events at the most historic track and field facility in North America. Doris Lemngole […]
Alabama track and field will be well represented at next week’s NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championship meet held at the historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Alabama will send nine women and 11 men to compete in 14 different events at the most historic track and field facility in North America. Doris Lemngole headlines the Crimson Tide contingent as she looks to defend her 2024 3,000m Steeplechase title.
|
Event |
Alabama Women Competing |
|---|---|
|
200m (1) |
Precious Nzeakor |
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3,000m Steeplechase (1) |
Doris Lemngole |
|
10,000m (1) |
Brenda Tuwei |
|
High Jump (1) |
Miracle Ailes |
|
Long Jump (1) |
Mariia Horielova |
|
Shot Put (2) |
Treneese Hamilton, Mye’Joi Williams |
|
Javelin (1) |
Megan Albamonti |
|
Heptathlon (1) |
Katelyn Adel |
|
Event |
Alabama Men Competing |
|---|---|
|
400m (1) |
Samuel Ogazi |
|
3,000m Steeplechase (1) |
Ezekiel Pitireng |
|
10,000m (3) |
Victor Kiprop, Dennis Kipruto, Dismus Lokira |
|
4x400m Relay |
Donald Chiyangwa, Samuel Ogazi, Oussama El Bouchayby, Peter Diebold |
|
Shot Put (2) |
Christopher Crawford, Trevor Gunzell |
|
Discus (3) |
Christopher Crawford, Trevor Gunzell, Christopher Young |
Former Alabama track and field star and current NXT champion Isaac Odugbesan, known as Oba Femi, signed a contract to face NXT’s newest rising star, Jasper Troy, next week on NXT. Troy recently won the inaugural season of WWE’s LFG which earned him an NXT contract. NXT airs on the CW every Tuesday night.
Former Crimson Tide football player Steve Wright passed away at the age of 82. The 6’6″, 250-pound offensive tackle was a fifth-round pick out of Alabama in 1964 and is the model for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.
June 4, 1927: Former Alabama star Johnny Mack Brown filmed his first movie “The Fair Co-Ed.” The silent movie would soon appear in screens across the country with Hollywood starlet Marion Davies sharing the spotlight with the ex-Crimson Tide halfback. The film was a comedy, but promoted by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios as being the best college movie ever made. Brown was an honor student who worked his way through school while finding time to play in football, baseball and track.
June 4, 2018: Legendary basketball coach C.M. Newton died.
June 4, 2021: While celebrating her 21st birthday, Montana Fouts became just the fifth pitcher, and the first during her lifetime, to throw a perfect game in the Women’s College World Series. Alabama topped UCLA, and Team USA pitcher Rachel Garcia, 6-0
I don’t think there’s been a better person in athletics than C.M. Newton. In all athletics, not just basketball. He had the utmost respect from people.”
– Former Kentucky coach Tubby Smith