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Alabama Gymnastics Headed to Nationals for Second Consecutive Season

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— The Alabama gymnastics team had the same objective entering Sunday’s NCAA regional final as it did on Friday: finish in the top two among four teams. The prize? A trip to nationals. The opponents were all national seeds: Florida, Cal and Oregon State. Alabama scored a season-high 197.675 to finish in second, just […]

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Alabama Gymnastics Headed to Nationals for Second Consecutive Season

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— The Alabama gymnastics team had the same objective entering Sunday’s NCAA regional final as it did on Friday: finish in the top two among four teams. The prize? A trip to nationals. The opponents were all national seeds: Florida, Cal and Oregon State.

Alabama scored a season-high 197.675 to finish in second, just behind regional champ Florida, which posted a 197.700. Nationals begin on April 17 in Fort Worth, Texas, and Ashley Johnston’s squad will be there for the second straight year. Cal came in third, with a final score of 197.575.

“This has been a huge goal in front of us, and week after week, we have talked about never losing the hope or belief or confidence that this team can do it,” Johnston said. “They continue to work relentlessly to figure out any and all ways to get better and find our edge.”

The No. 11 Crimson Tide finished the first rotation in third place, bolstered on vault by a 9.900 from senior Corinne Bunagan (who stuck her landing) and two 9.850s from Jordyn Paradise and anchor Lilly Hudson. No. 6 Cal, which competed with Alabama in Friday’s session, was in second, .200 ahead of the host team.

No. 3 national seed Florida logged four scores of 9.900 or higher on bars, and three 9.925s, which is of little surprise from one of the country’s best bars teams. All three other squads were chasing the Gators after the night’s first event.

Alabama answered the call on the uneven bars, with a 49.475 event score and a 9.950 from sophomore Chloe LaCoursiere. The event score tied for the high with No. 14 Oregon State, which had a nice rebound on floor capped off by Jade Carey’s 9.950. The Crimson Tide closed the distance between itself and Cal by .175, placing itself just out of second entering the night’s third event.

Cal had some strong landings during its stint on vault, but only one 9.900 courtesy of Madelyn Williams. Alabama had a trio of gymnasts concurrently reach or eclipse that mark, contributing to the Crimson Tide getting closer to the mark it needed to reach.

Fifth-year senior Shania Adams had a big part in that, closing out the bars lineup with a 9.925. Alabama took to the balance beam for its third event, while Florida had its turn on floor, Oregon State competed on vault and Cal was tasked with continuing an impressive overall quad meet on bars.

Florida star Leanne Wong got a 9.950 on floor to lead the Gators. The Crimson Tide strung together four straight routines on beam of 9.900 or more, with Adams anchoring to the tune of a 9.925 and junior Gabby Gladieux scoring a 9.950.

Despite Cal closing out bars with back-to-back 9.950s, Alabama’s highest beam score of the season (49.500) pushed the Crimson Tide into second, 148.150-148.125. The crowd could sense how close it was going to be in the end. Coleman Coliseum got louder and louder as the meet went on.

“We were hype after beam,” Hudson said. “Beam is such an event where you have to go aggressive. The thought of going aggressive and taking risks on a four-inch balance beam in front of 15,000 people in the highest of pressures, that’s hard to do. We did it. We did just that.”

The Crimson Tide’s season would come down to floor, its best event of the season. Hudson and Gladieux tied for the event title in it on Friday with Cal’s Mya Lauzon and emJae Frazier. The Golden Bears, ending the night on beam, were Alabama’s biggest threat. Oregon State was well down entering the final rotation and needed cataclysms from the other teams to get back to contention; it finished with a 196.875.

Junior Rachel Rybicki led off with a tough fall late in her floor routine and a 9.500. The next five in the lineup were officially on put-up-or-shut-up time. Cal’s first beam competitor fell and scored an 8.950. The Crimson Tide gymnasts brought energy congruent with the gravity of the situation.

Sophomore Jamison Sears, the third athlete in the lineup, scored a 9.900. That left one competitor before Hudson and the anchor Gladieux: freshman Paityn Walker. After a deep breath prior to her second tumbling pass, she kept the season alive with a season-best 9.900.

“It was a little nerve-wracking, but we have trained for situations like that,” Walker said. “I kinda trusted my training. I knew I had it. I did a lot of mental routines in the [floor] corral. I envisioned myself doing those passes. I really did my normal, which really helped me… It paid off.”

Hudson came next. Her floor routine is a program staple. Another gymnast did it before her, while someone else may well be poised to take it over after the senior is gone. She wasn’t ready for Sunday to be her last time doing it. She netted a 9.950 to set up Gladieux with a golden opportunity to seal it.

“I just think it capped off an incredible four years that I’ll remember for the rest of my life,” Hudson said. “I’ll tell everyone about [it]. My family, my kids, everything… I looked up, and there’s nothing like Coleman Coliseum. You look up and you see everybody on their feet, crimson and white. No words.”

That last spot is customary for Gladieux, who effectively knocked Cal out of the picture with a 9.925 in Alabama’s final routine of the regional. The Golden Bears didn’t do enough in their final event; even if the team’s last competitor got a 10, the Crimson Tide was still advancing to nationals.

“Looking over at them before I went, and seeing all of them huddled together, gave me all the strength and all the reassurance that I could hit this routine.”

Gladieux leaned on trust in her teammates and the resolve that gave her to land the routine. Hudson had given her team a pep talk after the beam routine, trying to gauge the adrenaline and reset the mentality.

“Really incredibly thankful for this group who never quit,” Johnston said. “We have the trust built to really challenge each other to be great in a really healthy way. I’m just excited about what Bama gymnastics is about, how we’re building together.”

Carey won the all-around with a 39.700; Williams was in second with a 39.600 score. Hudson and Wong tied at 39.550. LaCoursiere tied Williams and Cal’s Casey Brown for the event title on bars. Hudson, Wong, Carey and Lauzon were in a four-way tie on floor. Bunagan tied for the crown on vault. Gladieux’s 9.950 on beam was all knotted up with Lauzon and Carey.

“I have to say, it was our culture, and just what they’ve created together, and the connection within each person and their connection to the mission that I really believe was what drove us to come out on the side that we wanted to be on,” Johnston said.

Final team scores from the Tuscaloosa Regional final.

Final team scores from the Tuscaloosa Regional final. / Will Miller/BamaCentral

NCAA Regionals

Top two teams in each regional advance
Wednesday’s Results
University Park Regional
First Round Play-In: Maryland 196.250, West Virginia 195.325

Salt Lake City Regional
First Round Play-In: BYU 195.950, Utah State 194.475

Thursday’s Results
University Park Regional
Regional Semifinal, Session 1: Michigan State 197.625, Kentucky 197.525, Ohio State 196.400, Penn State 196.225
Regional Semifinal, Session 2: LSU 198.100, Arkansas 197.550, Michigan 197.050, Maryland 196.825

Tuscaloosa Regional
First Round Play-In: Clemson 195.400, Rutgers 193.875

Salt Lake City Regional
Regional Semifinal, Session 1: UCLA 197.750, Minnesota 197.200, Southern Utah 196.475, Boise State 195.175
Regional Semifinal, Session 2: Utah 197.650, Denver 197.650, Stanford 196.500, BYU 196.000

Seattle Regional
First Round Play-In: Illinois 195.475, UC Davis 194.050

Friday’s Results
Tuscaloosa Regional
Regional Semifinal, Session 1: California 197.550, Alabama 197.275, North Carolina 196.250, Iowa 196.000
Regional Semifinal, Session 2: Florida 198.225, Oregon State 197.050, NC State 196.275, Clemson 195.875

Seattle Regional
Regional Semifinal, Session 1: Missouri 197.650, Arizona 196.250, Georgia 196.175, Arizona State 196.050
Regional Semifinal, Session 2: Oklahoma 198.025, Auburn 196.950, Illinois 195.725, Nebraska 195.675

Saturday’s Results
University Park Regional
Final: LSU 198.050, Michigan State 198.000, Kentucky 197.625, Arkansas 197.375
Salt Lake City Regional
Final: Utah 197.825, UCLA 197.625, Denver 197.350, Minnesota 196.825

Sundays’ Results
Tuscaloosa Regional
Final: Florida 197.700, Alabama 197.675, California 197.575, Oregon State 196.875
Seattle Regional
Final: Oklahoma 198.450, Missouri 197.425, Arizona 197.325, Auburn 196.250

National Championships
April 17-19
Fort Worth, Texas

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EA Sports College Football 26 Will Not Release on PC

Chase Becotte | Published: Apr 24, 2025 03:11 pm Within the announcements for College Football 26 and Madden 26, EA put up pre-order bonuses for both games in the dual-game bundle. This revealed the platforms each game will be on, and ended the dream that we might get College Football 26 on PC this year. […]

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Within the announcements for College Football 26 and Madden 26, EA put up pre-order bonuses for both games in the dual-game bundle. This revealed the platforms each game will be on, and ended the dream that we might get College Football 26 on PC this year.

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College Football 26 will only release on current-gen consoles once again, which means the Xbox Series X/S and PS5. I had been somewhat bullish on College Football 26 making it to PC this year in my sports game predictions article, and while I still feel it’s inevitable it gets to PC, that won’t happen this year. The MVP Bundle (which gets you both CFB and Madden) is also only available on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, which further cements that information.

College Football 25 was a massive sales success, so that was part of the reason I thought it might make it to PC this year, but since it’s also not going to be on the Switch 2, it seems like EA is keeping the tent small for now. It makes sense if you think about how well the game did on just two platforms, and so EA perhaps does not feel the need to throw extra resources at porting the game to new platforms as of yet.

Regardless, it’s a bummer we won’t get the game on PC this year. The modding scene for the game would be tremendous, but whether for legal or just development reasons, we’ll need to wait at least one more year for that dream to come true.

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Lindbergh soccer eyes postseason push

The Lindbergh High School girls soccer team notched a statement win on April 14, shutting out Union 2-0 behind a dominant performance from sophomore standout Kasey Patten. Patten netted both goals—one in each half—leading the Flyers to victory. She now has three goals on the season for Lindbergh.  The Flyers’ defense also shone against Union, […]

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The Lindbergh High School girls soccer team notched a statement win on April 14, shutting out Union 2-0 behind a dominant performance from sophomore standout Kasey Patten. Patten netted both goals—one in each half—leading the Flyers to victory. She now has three goals on the season for Lindbergh. 

The Flyers’ defense also shone against Union, with Mackenzie Bieg and Josie Watz combining efforts in goal to secure the clean sheet. It was the third win of the season for Lindbergh, who had previously defeated Seckman and Jackson on March 25 and April 7, respectively.

With the win against Union, Lindbergh improved to 3-5-1 on the year. As of April 24, Lindbergh sits at 4-8-1.

Despite a losing record, the Flyers have been competitive in a challenging early-season schedule, suffering narrow losses to strong programs like Cor Jesu, losing 1-2, and Rockwood Summit, losing 0-1. Though the opposition has been stiff, Lindbergh head coach Jake Pittroff emphasized the importance of testing his squad against elite competition.

“We’ve been competitive and played in some really tough games. I think we are starting to put things together and play better.” Pittroff said. “I’m a big believer that a team has to be built by playing the best. In order to be the best, you have to beat the best.”

With the postseason looming, Pittroff hopes the rigorous schedule will pay dividends.

“I think the tough schedule helps us,” Pittroff said. “We are getting better technically and tactically. I also think our decision-making has improved, especially defensively.”

The team is led by captain Lauren Smith, who will continue her soccer career at Spring Hill College, a Division II school. Senior Kate Warren also provides leadership and experience, while Danni Cotter, who has tallied four points this season, is set to play at UMSL. Patten, as well as Gabby Moran, who has six points on the season, have emerged as key offensive catalysts.

With a daunting Class 4 district on the horizon, Pittroff remains realistic about the challenges ahead.

“It’s just a powerhouse,” Pittroff said. “It’s one tough district.”

As the Flyers continue to build both their tactical foundation and mental grit, Pittroff is optimistic about where this journey could lead.

“It’s a journey of learning,” he said. “The girls are building aptitude and mind skills, which are life skills they will need to be successful.”

The Flyers faced Notre Dame on April 16, winning 1-0. They next played Webster Groves on April 18, St. Joseph’s on April 21 and Layayette on April 22, losing the three games 0-3, 1-4 and 0-5, respectively.

Lindbergh will face Ursuline Academy on April 25 at 5:30 p.m.

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Cam Ward but up big time numbers at three different schools, going from an unheralded FCS recruit to a Heisman finalist. Here’s what you need to know about Cam Ward’s college career. The vitals on Cam Ward School: Incarnate Word/Washington State/Miami (Fla.)Position: QuarterbackHeight: 6-2Weight: 223 poundsYears active: 2020-24 Here are Cam Ward’s career stats from […]

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Cam Ward but up big time numbers at three different schools, going from an unheralded FCS recruit to a Heisman finalist.

Here’s what you need to know about Cam Ward’s college career.

The vitals on Cam Ward

School: Incarnate Word/Washington State/Miami (Fla.)
Position: Quarterback
Height: 6-2
Weight: 223 pounds
Years active: 2020-24

Here are Cam Ward’s career stats from college:

YEAR GAMES COMP ATT COMP. % PASS YDS PASS TD INT RUSH TD REC TD
2020
(UIW)		 6 183 303 60.4 2,260 24 4 2 0
2021
(UIW)		 13 384 590 65.1 4,648 47 10 1 0
2022
(Washington State)		 13 320 497 64.4 3,231 23 9 5 0
2023
(Washington State)		 12 323 485 66.6 3,735 25 7 8 0
2024
(Miami (Fla.))		 13 305 454 67.2 4,313 39 7 4 1
Career 57 1515 2329 65.0 18,189 158 37 20 1

Where did Cam Ward go to college?

Cameron Ward, a native of West Columbia, Texas, attended Incarnate Word out of high school. Per 247Sports, Ward’s only other offer came from Texas Southern. After two years at UIW, Ward transferred to Washington State in 2022. After another two years at Washington State, Ward spent his final season of eligibility at Miami (Fla.).

What kind of prospect was Cam Ward in high school?

Ward was a two-sport athlete and an unranked quarterback prospect at Columbia High School, primarily running the triple option. As a junior in 2018, he completed 72 of 124 passes (58 percent) for 1,070 yards and seven touchdowns while rushing for four TDs. He threw for over 1,000 yards again in 2019 as a senior, leading the team to become co-district champions. In 2019, Ward was named First-Team All-District, First-Team All-Southern Brazoia County and honorable mention All-State.

In basketball, Ward was named two-time all-district offensive MVP and honorable mention all-state academically.

What was Cam Ward’s record in college?

In 19 games at UIW, Ward went 13-6 as a starter, advancing to the second round of the FCS playoffs in his second year.

At Washington State, Ward went 12-13 as a starter in two years, losing the 2022 Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl.

In his final season at Miami, Ward went 10-3 as a starter, losing the 2024 Pop-Tarts Bowl.

Records set by Cam Ward

Here are some of the notable records and statistical rankings set by Cam Ward in college:

  • 1st in career Division I touchdowns (178)
  • 1st in Miami single-season passing yards (4,313)
  • 1st in Miami single-season passing touchdowns (39)
  • 1st in Miami single-season completion percentage (67.2)
  • 1st in UIW career passing touchdowns (71)
  • 1st in UIW career passing yards (6,908)
  • 1st in UIW single-season passing touchdowns (47)
  • 1st in UIW single-game passing touchdowns (7)
  • 1st in UIW single-game passing yards (610)
  • 1st in UIW single-season passing efficiency (146.5)
  • 9th in Washington State single-season pass completions (323)
  • 9th in Washington State single-season pass attempts (497)
  • 9th in Washington State single-season completion percentage (66.6)

Which awards did Cam Ward win in college?

Here are the awards and honors Cam Ward won in college:

  • Heisman Trophy finalist (2024)
  • Davey O’Brien Award winner (2024)
  • Manning Award (2024)
  • Consensus First-Team All-American (2024)
  • ACC Player of the Year (2024)
  • ACC Offensive Player of the Year (2024)
  • First-Team All-ACC (2024)
  • All-Pac-12 Conference Honorable Mention (2023)
  • Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Semifinalist (2023)
  • All-Pac-12 Conference Honorable Mention (2022)
  • Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Semifinalist (2022)
  • Walter Payton Award finalist (2021)
  • Second-Team All-American, STATS Perform (2021)
  • Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Year (2021)
  • Hero Sports FCS Sophomore All-American (2021)
  • Jerry Rice Award (Spring 2021)
  • Hero Sports FCS Freshman All-American (Spring 2021)
  • Southland Conference Freshman of the Year (Spring 2021)

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Jaxson Dart, the Ole Miss Rebels’ talented quarterback, has made headlines not only for his on-field abilities but also for his innovative Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) contracts. As a Heisman Trophy contender, Dart’s marketability has skyrocketed, resulting in multiple high-profile endorsements that characterize him in the collegiate athletic space. With College Sports Network’s NFL […]

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Jaxson Dart, the Ole Miss Rebels’ talented quarterback, has made headlines not only for his on-field abilities but also for his innovative Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) contracts. As a Heisman Trophy contender, Dart’s marketability has skyrocketed, resulting in multiple high-profile endorsements that characterize him in the collegiate athletic space.

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How Much Is Jaxson Dart’s NIL Worth?

Jaxson Dart’s NIL valuation is estimated at $1.8 million, according to On3, a leading platform for NIL valuations. This impressive figure places him among the top earners in college football, reflecting his marketability and performance.

Major NIL Deals and Sponsorships –

  • C Spire: Dart signed a season-long partnership with Mississippi-based internet provider C Spire, valued at over $100,000. The deal includes social media promotions focusing on technology’s role in improving lives. ​
  • Nicholas Air: In a first-of-its-kind NIL agreement, Dart partnered with private jet company Nicholas Air, granting him access to their fleet for travel, training, and philanthropic endeavors. This historic deal marks the first time a college athlete has secured a private aviation endorsement. ​
  • Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dart was featured in a back-to-school advertising campaign alongside sports commentator Kay Adams.
  • EA Sports & The Grove Collective: Dart is also involved in partnerships with EA Sports and Ole Miss’s The Grove Collective, further enhancing his NIL portfolio.
  • The Dairy Alliance: Dart endorsed The Dairy Alliance on October 24, 2024, and is a member of its Milk’s Got Game campaign, which informs consumers about the benefits of dairy milk in sports nutrition.
  • Beats by Dre: Dart partnered with popular audio brand Beats by Dre for their Beats Elite campaign.

Dart’s Net Worth

Jaxson Dart’s net worth is estimated to be $1.8 million, considering his NIL deals and endorsements. His partnerships with prominent brands such as C Spire, Nicholas Air, and Dick’s Sporting Goods demonstrate his marketability and the financial opportunities accessible to top-tier college athletes in the NIL era.

Also Read: Wydett Williams Transfer Portal: 5 Landing Spots for the 100-Tackle, 3-INT UL-Monroe Safety

With his sustained success on the field and savvy collaborations off it, Dart defines the modern collegiate athlete navigating an evolving context of endorsements and personal branding.

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