when was the last time the university of georgia won a national championship
Utah Utes


Chargers. The women's gymnastic team, the Red Rocks, has won the national gymnastics championship title 10 times, beginning with an AIAW national championship title in 1981, more than any other university except the University of Georgia, to whom they finished second from 2006–2008. In the years when Utah does not place first, they are almost always #2 or #3. The ten-time national champion Utah gymnastics team has qualified for a record 31st-consecutive national championship. Utah is the only program to qualify for all
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Mercer Bears


November 2007 when the team defeated USC, which was ranked 18th in the nation at the time of the game. Recent Achievements In 2012, Mercer won the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament following the 2011–12 season; the first Atlantic Sun Conference team to win a postseason championship. During the tournament, the team defeated Tennessee State, Georgia State, Old Dominion and Fairfield en route to the championship game at Utah State University; Mercer won the championship game 70–67. The championship capped the best season in university history; the team finished the season
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1988 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship


The 1988 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 12 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the seventh NCAA gymnastics national championship and the defending NCAA Team Champion for 1986 was Georgia. The competition took place in Salt Lake City, Utah hosted by the University of Utah in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. The 1988 Championship was won by Alabama, the third first time champion since Utah in 1982 and Georgia in 1987. Georgia entered the competition as the defending champions while six-time champion
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Auburn University


champions by various ranking organizations. In the last decade under head coaches David Marsh, Richard Quick and co-head coach Brett Hawke, Auburn's swimming and diving program has become preeminent in the SEC and nationally, with consecutive NCAA championships for both the men and women in 2003 and 2004, then again in 2006 and 2007. Since 1982, only 8 teams have claimed national championships in women's swimming and diving. Auburn and Georgia each won nine straight(five Auburn, four Georgia) between 1999 and 2007. The men won
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2018 SEC Championship Game


in a tie for the division title with any combination of Kentucky and Florida, Georgia also defeated Florida during the season, giving the Bulldogs all possible divisional tiebreakers. The Bulldogs ultimately won the East title by two games. This match up was the 69th all time meeting against the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs. They last played each other last season for the College Football Playoff National Championship . Alabama defeated Georgia, in overtime, 26–23. The win brought Alabama to its 17th National Title. After the January 8, 2018 match up
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2007 Georgia Southern Eagles football team


The 2007 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented Georgia Southern University in the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. It was a successful coaching debut for Chris Hatcher, who took over as Eagles coach after winning a national championship at Valdosta State in NCAA Division II. He was brought on to restore Georgia Southern's prestige as a Football Championship Subdivision powerhouse again after finishing 3–8 last season, the last when the division was recognized as 1-AA. Jayson Foster ran for 253 yards and six touchdowns to lead Georgia Southern past Coastal Carolina 42–34
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Harry Flournoy


a sales representative. Flournoy has six children: one daughter from his first marriage, and three daughters and two sons from his second marriage; and no children from his 3rd (last) marriage. He resided in McDonough, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Flournoy died on November 26, 2016 in McDonough, Georgia. He played college basketball for Texas Western College, later called the University of Texas at El Paso, or UTEP; he made history when his team won an NCAA Division I National Championship with the first
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1989 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship


The 1989 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 12 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the eighth NCAA gymnastics national championship and the defending NCAA Team Champion for 1988 was Alabama. The competition took place in Athens, Georgia hosted by the University of Georgia in the Georgia Coliseum. The 1989 Championship was won by host Georgia, their second title, with a record score of 192.650. While Suzanne Yoculan and the Georgia Gym Dogs hosted, the favorite heading into nationals was Tanya Service and
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Georgia Bulldogs football


1980) national championships from NCAA-designated major selectors. Georgia claims both the 1942 and 1980 national championships. Claimed national championship Georgia has won a total of 16 conference championships, ten outright and six shared. The school's 13 Southeastern Conference Championships rank it second all time in SEC history, tied with Tennessee behind only Alabama. † Co-champions Georgia has won nine SEC Eastern Division championships, and has made seven appearances in the SEC Championship Game, most recently in 2017. The Dawgs are 3–4 in those games.
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Middle Georgia State University


, 1982, and 1995. The team reached the JUCO World Series 13 times: 1975, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009. Since joining the NAIA, the MGA baseball team has received an invitation to the NAIA National Championship tournament (2016, 2017, 2018), won their first SSAC conference championship (2017), and won their first SSAC tournament championship (2018). As of fall semester 2015, the combined enrollment of Middle Georgia
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Roger Kaiser


Roger Allen Kaiser is a retired American basketball player and coach. Kaiser was a two-time All-American player at Georgia Tech and won four NAIA national championships as a coach at West Georgia College (now the University of West Georgia) and Life University. Kaiser is now the athletic director at Mt. Bethel Christian Academy in Marietta, Georgia. Roger Kaiser was a 1957 Indiana All-Star player for the Dale (High School) Golden Aces of Dale, Indiana and played collegiately at Georgia Tech. Roger started on the
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Georgia women's national football team


Georgia women's national football team represents Georgia in international football. Georgia took part in the qualification for the European Championships in 1999, but withdrew after two matches, against Yugoslavia (0–11) and Turkey (0–1). After this, Georgia did not take part in qualification until the European Championships in 2009. Then, Georgia were placed in a group with Turkey, Northern Ireland and Croatia. Georgia finished last, with no points. Georgia won their first match on 11 May 2009, winning 3–1 against Macedonia, and also
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1987 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships


The 1987 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 41st annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. This year's tournaments were played in Athens, Georgia, hosted by the University of Georgia. The men's team championship was won by Georgia, their second team national title. The Bulldogs defeated UCLA in the final round, 5–1. The men's singles title was won by South African Andrew Burrow from Miami (FL)
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Ridley College


Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, and many more. The school has several competitive athletic teams: The Boys Basketball (First Team) is a very strong program at Ridley, winning numerous Canadian Independent Schools National Championships in the last few years (2015, 2016). Similarly, the Ridley First Girls Basketball teams have won the Canadian Independent Schools National Championship in 2013, 2015, and 2016, along with CISAA titles in 2015, and 2016. The varsity boys' rugby program went through
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Kim Batten


Kim Batten (born March 29, 1969 in McRae, Georgia) is an American former 400 meter hurdles champion. She was the 1995 world record holder in the women's 400-meter hurdles. Batten graduated from the Florida State University in 1991, the same year she won her first national championship – the U.S. National Championships, the first of six national championships (1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998). Batten is tall. Batten's finest year came in 1995, when she won Gold in the World
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1985 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships


The 1985 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 39th annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. This year's tournaments were played in Athens, Georgia, hosted by the University of Georgia. The men's team championship was won by hosts Georgia, their first team national title. The Bulldogs defeated defending national champion UCLA in the final round, 5–1. The men's singles title was retained by Mikael Pernfors from Georgia.
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1984 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships


The 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 38th annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. This year's tournaments were played in Athens, Georgia, hosted by the University of Georgia. The men's team championship was won by UCLA, their 15th team national title. The Bruins defeated defending national champion Stanford in the final round, 5–4. The men's singles title was won by Mikael Pernfors (a Swedish national
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2010 NAIA Football National Championship


The 2010 NAIA Football National Championship was played on December 18, 2010 as the 55th Annual Russell Athletic NAIA Football National Championship. The championship game was played at Barron Stadium in Rome, Georgia. The championship was won by the Carroll Fighting Saints over the Sioux Falls Cougars by a score of 10–7. With their 6th championship, Carroll moved to within one of the all-time NAIA record of seven held by Texas A&I. The win also snapped Sioux Falls' 42-game winning streak; their last loss was also at the hands of
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Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate


1979 after leaving the SEC in 1964. The two teams have won six national titles in football. Georgia Tech claims four national championships from 1917, 1928, 1952, and 1990. Georgia claims two titles, from 1942 and 1980. Georgia also has won a title in baseball in 1990. Both schools have also seen prominence in men's basketball, with Georgia Tech reaching the Final Fours of 1990 and 2004 (when it reached the National Championship game). Georgia made the Final Four in its first NCAA Tournament appearance in
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Laura Ryan


-time Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national champion. Ryan began her college career at Indiana University (IU) and as a freshman during the 2010–2011 season won platform, finished second on 1-meter and third on 3-meter at the Big Ten Conference championship. As an IU sophomore the next year, she finished eighth on 3-meter and 12th on both 1-meter and platform at the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. For her junior year, Ryan transferred to the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia and trained under
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1990 Georgia Southern Eagles football team


The 1990 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented Georgia Southern University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I-AA (now called Football Championship Subdivision) college football during the 1990 season. Georgia Southern competed as an Independent under first-year head football coach Tim Stowers and played their home games at Paulson Stadium. The Eagles won the national championship for the second consecutive season—their fourth overall in six years—and it was their third straight national championship game appearance. Georgia Southern defeated Nevada 36–13 in their home stadium
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University of Georgia


Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In their more than 120-year history, the university's varsity sports teams have won 45 national championships, 264 individual national championships, 170 conference championships, and 45 Olympic medals. The University of Georgia has distinguished alumni and attendees including current and former members of the United States Senate, members of the United States House of Representatives, a member of the Supreme Court of the United States, members of the Cabinet of the United States, U.S. ambassadors, U.S.
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NWA National Tag Team Championship


The NWA National Tag Team Championship was the major tag team title in the NWA-affiliated Georgia Championship Wrestling from 1980 until 1986. The championship was introduced in November 1980 when Georgia Tag Team Champions The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes, Buddy Roberts, and Terry Gordy) won a tournament to determine the first champions, defeating Stan Frazier and Robert Fuller in the final. They were introduced as the Georgia and National Tag Team Champions and carried a trophy to the ring representing the National title as they wore belts which represented the Georgia
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Mitchelton–Scott (women's team)


criterium championships finish with GreenEDGE with a second place since previously winning the title in 2014 when signed with . Georgia Williams won the New Zealand time trial championships after multiple podiums in previous years' time trial and road race, Alexandra Manly followed up last year's U23 time trial win with another, while new signing Lucy Kennedy achieved a silver medal in the elite time trial classification. Georgia Williams followed up her time trial win the previous day by claiming the elite road race title in a solo breakaway, gaping the peloton by just
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1978 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships


The 1978 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were the 33rd annual tournaments to determine the national champions of NCAA men's college tennis. Matches were played during May 1978 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia on the campus of the University of Georgia. A total of three championships were contested: men's team, singles, and doubles. The men's team championship was won by the Stanford, their fourth team national title. The Cardinal defeated UCLA in the final, 6–3. The men's singles title was won
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1986 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships


The 1986 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 40th annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. This year's tournaments were played in Athens, Georgia, hosted by the University of Georgia. The men's team championship was won by Stanford, their eighth team national title. The Cardinal defeated Pepperdine in the final round, 5–2. The men's singles title was won by Dan Goldie from Stanford. The men's doubles
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1983 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships


The 1983 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 37th annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. This year's tournaments were played in Athens, Georgia, hosted by the University of Georgia. The men's team championship was won by Stanford, their 7th team national title. The Indians defeated SMU in the final round, 5–4. The men's singles title was won by Greg Holmes from Utah, and the men's
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1982 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships


The 1982 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 36th annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. This year's tournaments were played in Athens, Georgia, hosted by the University of Georgia. The men's team championship was won by the UCLA Bruins, their 14th team national title. UCLA defeated Pepperdine in the final round, 5–1. The men's singles title was won by Mike Leach from Michigan, and the men
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2011 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship


The 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was a golf tournament contested from May 31 to June 5, 2011 at the Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Oklahoma and was hosted by Oklahoma State University. It was the 73rd NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship. The team championship was won by the Augusta State Jaguars who won their second consecutive national championship by defeating the Georgia Bulldogs in the championship match play round 3–2. The individual national championship was won by John Peterson from Louisiana State University. This was the second
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Albania national under-21 football team


trailed Greece, Norway, Georgia, Latvia, and Slovenia and closed at the bottom of the group. In the qualifiers of the 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Albania came again last behind England, Greece, Germany, and Finland. In the qualifiers of the 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Albania had the best result since Euro '84, when it had won the group, as it left two teams behind (Republic of Ireland and Georgia), but was preceded by Switzerland and Russia, and thus failed to qualify
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Carolina–Duke rivalry


. The 2013 win also gave Duke the outright Coastal Division championship and sent Duke to the Dr. Pepper ACC Championship Game for the first time since its 2005 inception and became the first Coastal Division representative other than Virginia Tech or Georgia Tech. Duke is the last university in the North Carolina Triangle region to win an ACC football championship. The two game win streak by Duke was snapped in 2014 on a nationally televised Thursday game when the Tar Heels beat Duke 45–20 at Wallace Wade Stadium. The upset loss took the Blue Devils out
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Georgia Southern Eagles


year of men's basketball at Georgia Southern was 1926, and the first year the school played in Division I was 1971. Georgia Southern basketball player Roger Moore was the first African-American athlete to receive a scholarship in the University System of Georgia. The head coach of the Eagles is Chad Lunsford. The Eagles have won an unprecedented six NCAA FCS (I-AA) National Championships (1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1999, and 2000). In addition, the Eagles have won ten Southern Conference championships
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Cassie Mitchell


from both Emory and Georgia Tech universities. Currently, she is a research professor at Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at both universities. Mitchell won a silver medal at the 2011 IPC World Championships and the same year won five gold medals at the UCI World Para-cycling Championships and National Para-cycling Championships. In 2010, she won the national Para-cycling Championships for H1 criterium. She holds American and world records in multiple track and field events and medaled in discus throw and club throw at the 2016 Rio
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Courtney McCool


prevented her from performing in further post-Olympic exhibitions. McCool earned a full scholarship to the University of Georgia beginning in the 2006–07 school year. In her freshman season, she helped the team win its third straight national title, scoring an event high of 9.95 on beam at the 2007 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships in Salt Lake City. At the 2008 Championships in Athens, Georgia, McCool won the floor exercise and contributed to Georgia's fourth consecutive title. In 2009, Georgia won a fifth straight title, and McCool
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Georgia national rugby union team


Lelos held very well against the mighty All Blacks, with score remaining 22–10 for the world champions. In the last match Georgia defeated Namibia 17–16, for the first time ever finished the group on third place with two wins and two defeats and secured their qualification for 2019 Rugby World Cup. In 2016, Georgia once again cemented its claim to be the seventh best national rugby team in Europe, when they won the European Nations Cup for the sixth consecutive time, with 10 wins from 10 matches. In the 2016 mid-
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NWA World Tag Team Championship (Georgia version)


the Chicago version of the championship which was brought to the Georgia territory. The Chicago version was used as the starting point of the Georgia lineage, creating a totally separate championship when Bill and Freddie Blassie won the Georgia version in December 1955, while Lisowski and Neilson remained champions in the Chicago region. In 1969 ABC Booking stopped using the championship, although they would recognize the Mid-Atlantic version after 1975. Instead the promotion would regularly promote the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship and the NWA National Tag Team Championship as their primary
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Crawford Henry


Crawford I. Henry (born May 30, 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former professional tennis player. A high school tennis star in Georgia, Henry won the high school championship as a Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior. He never lost a match in high school and won the National High School tournament in 1955. He went on to Tulane University where he was a two-time first-team All American in 1959 and 1960, and second-team All-American in 1957. He helped Tulane
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County Limerick


Ireland Senior Hurling Championship eight times, the last in 2018. The county has also won 20 Munster Championships, last in 2019 and 12 National Hurling Leagues, the last success coming in 2019. The Limerick Senior Hurling Championship is also one of the strongest club championships in the country. Historically it has been dominated by two clubs, Ahane and Patrickswell. Clubs from the county have won the Munster Senior Club Championship six times, with becoming the first team from the county to win the All-Ireland Senior Club hurling final when
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Auburn University


their fifth consecutive national title in 2007, and the women also won the national title, in their case for the second straight year. The Auburn women have now won five national championships in the last six years. , the Auburn men have won the SEC Championship fifteen out of the last sixteen years, including the last thirteen in a row, and also won eight NCAA national championships (1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009). AU swimmers have represented the U.S. and several other
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Philip Johnson (tennis)


of Georgia he was a member of the 1985 NCAA Division I championship winning team, which was their first national title. His win over UCLA's Brett Greenwood in the tournament final secured the trophy. He was an All-American in 1986, then again when the University of Georgia won another team title in 1987, a year in which he also made it to number two in the singles rankings and earned selection for the USTA Junior Davis Cup team. On the professional tour he won two Challenger titles in the 1987 season
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Meghan Boenig


Meghan Boenig is the head coach of the women's equestrian varsity program at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, USA. In Boenig's first varsity season (2002–2003) at UGA, the team won the national championship in the Varsity Equestrian National Championships (VENC). She has coached the team to five additional national championships (2003–2004, 2007–2008, 2008–2009, 2009-2010 and 2013-2014) and several runner-up finishes. Boenig graduated from Berry College with a bachelor's degree in biology
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Brendon Todd


of Georgia, where he was part of the 2005 team that won the National Championship. He was a four-time All-American at the university. Todd joined the Nationwide Tour in 2008. That year he won the Utah Championship, and finished 19th on the money list, earning him a spot on the PGA Tour in 2009. At the 2009 Athens Regional Foundation Classic on the Nationwide Tour, Todd became the first player on the Tour to ace the same hole twice in the same tournament. On April 16,
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North Georgia Nighthawks


Nick Palmer. The University of North Georgia softball team was founded in 1997. It is the only program at North Georgia to have won a National Championship in either the NAIA or the NCAA, winning the 2015 NCAA Division II Softball Championship in Oklahoma City. Coach Ricky Sanders launched the softball program, coaching for four seasons until 2000, which was also the year Sanders and the team won the title of Champions of the NAIA Regional Tournament. The softball team has competed as a member of the Peach Belt Conference since 2006 in
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1994 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships


The 1994 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships were the 13th annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I women's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States, held during May 1994 in Athens, Georgia. Hosts Georgia defeated Stanford in the team championship, 5–4, to claim their first national title. This year's tournaments were hosted by the University of Georgia at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia. This was the first time the Lady Bulldogs hosted the women's championships
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Georgia Miansarow


Georgia Miansarow (born 31 August 1992) is an English born, Australian representative lightweight rower. She is a three-time national champion and won medals at both U23 World Rowing Championships and senior World Rowing Championships in crewed sculling boats. Raised in England, Miansarow rowed at school and then relocated to Sydney with her Australian mother and British father in 2011 aged 19. Her senior rowing in Australia was initially from the Mosman Rowing Club and later the Sydney University Boat Club. She made her first state representative appearance for New South
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Georgia national rugby union team


. In 2007 Georgia recorded their first win in the Rugby World Cup with a 30–0 win over Namibia in their Pool D match at Stade Bollaert-Delelis. The Lelos best performance was in 2015, where they finished third in a group for the first time. Georgia have to date won four World Cup matches and lost twelve. Georgia compete annually in the Rugby Europe Championship (previously named European Nations Cup). They won the tournament eleven times in 2001, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
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Ken Mantell


accident thus making Mantell the last person to ever defeat Hodge for the championship. Five months after losing the World Junior Heavyweight Championship Mantell won gold again, when he and Ron Bass won the NWA World Tag Team Championship in November 1975. They defended the titles in the Central States Wrestling territory before dropping the belts in February the following year. Mantell then travelled to NWA: Georgia and again found tag team success, winning the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship with former WWWF World Tag Team Champion Dean Ho on July 2, 1976
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Campuses of the University of Georgia


, fiction, essays, reviews, and visual art. It won National Magazine Awards for Fiction in 1986 and for Essays in 2007 and has been an NMA nominee nineteen times. Works that appear in the "Georgia Review" are frequently reprinted in the Best American Short Stories and The Best American Poetry and have won the Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Award. The University of Georgia Press is a scholarly publishing house for the University System of Georgia. It is one of the oldest and largest publishing academic publishing houses in the nation
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Sports in Georgia (U.S. state)


Indoor Football League (WIFL), American Arena League (AAL), and the National Arena League (NAL), with the Columbus Lions having lasted since 2007 and playing in over five different leagues. The Atlanta Xplosion are a Women's Professional Football League team. They won the league's 2006 Championship. Hockey's history in Georgia goes back to the 1970s with the Atlanta Flames, who played in the state until 1980 when they were relocated to Calgary. It was not until October 2, 1999 that hockey formally returned
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1977 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships


The 1977 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were the 32nd annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college tennis. Matches were played during May 1977 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia on the campus of the University of Georgia. A total of three championships were contested: men's team, singles, and doubles. The men's team championship was won by the Stanford, their third team national title. The Cardinal defeated Trinity (TX) in the final, 5–4. The men's singles
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1979 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships


The 1979 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were the 34th annual tournaments to determine the national champions of NCAA men's college tennis. Matches were played during May 1979 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia on the campus of the University of Georgia. A total of three championships were contested: men's team, singles, and doubles. The men's team championship was won by the UCLA Bruins, their 13th team national title. UCLA defeated Trinity (TX) in the final round, 5–3. The men's
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1980 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships


The 1980 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were the 35th annual tournaments to determine the national champions of NCAA men's college tennis. Matches were played during May 1980 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia on the campus of the University of Georgia. A total of three championships were contested: men's team, singles, and doubles. The men's team championship was won by the Stanford Cardinal, their 5th team national title. Stanford defeated California in the final round, 5–3. The men's singles title was
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Brett Sawyer


tag team with his brother. In the early-1980s, Sawyer competed for the Portland, Oregon-based Pacific Northwest Wrestling promotion. Between 1982 and 1984, he held the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship four times and the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship five times. In 1983 and 1984, the Sawyers competed for the Atlanta, Georgia-based Georgia Championship Wrestling promotion, where they feuded with The Road Warriors, defeating them for the NWA National Tag Team Championship in 1983. Sawyer also won the NWA National Heavyweight Championship in 1983
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John Hannah (American football)


, "The Best Offensive Lineman of All Time." That same year, he was the inaugural inductee in the New England Patriots Hall of Fame. Hannah was born in Canton, Georgia, the son of an NFL player, Herbert "Herb" Hannah, an offensive lineman for the University of Alabama. Hannah was raised in Albertville, Alabama, and participated in high school football, wrestling and track at Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He won an individual national championship in wrestling at the National Prep Championship in 1967
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University of Central Florida


Liberty Bowl. During the 2010 season, for the first time in school history, the Knights garnered national rankings, finishing the season with a top–20 ranking. The Knights won the 2010 C-USA Championship game, securing a berth to the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in which the team earned their first-ever bowl victory, a 10–6 win over Georgia. In 2013, the Knights joined the American Athletic Conference (AAC) as a full member, won the conference's inaugural football championship, and upset the sixth-ranked Big
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Sport in Tunisia


Handball Championship in Tunis, Wissem Hmam was ranked as the top scorer of the tournament. The Tunisian national handball team won the African Cup 10 times as a record, being the team dominating the competition. The Tunisians won the 2012 African Cup in Morocco for the 2nd Consecutive time and it is the 9th title at all by defeating Algeria in the final, the last time tunisia won the African Cup was in 2018 against Egypt. Tunisia recently celebrated a revival in basketball when its national team won the 2011 FIBA Africa Championship,
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Princeton Tigers football


the first 40 national titles (between 1869 and 1909). As the sport transformed at the hands of figures like Penn's John Heisman and Yale’s Walter Camp and more schools began competing, Princeton and the rest of the eventual Ivy League faded out of national championship contention. The Tigers won their last national championship in 1950 when Dick Kazmaier, the 1951 Heisman Trophy winner, was a junior. When Princeton joined Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale Universities, Dartmouth College, and the University of Pennsylvania in
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Middle Georgia State University


's tennis teams. For many years the school's teams participated in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) conference. In the fall of 2014 the university joined the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC). The university also fields a club football team, which competes as a member of the National Club Football Association and a club equestrian team. The MGC baseball team won four NJCAA national championships: 1979, 1980
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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament


the Big East Conference, the one non-football league that is universally considered a major basketball conference.) The last time, as of 2019, a mid-major team from a small media market (defined as a market out of the top 25 television markets in the United States in 2019) won the National Championship was arguably 1962 when Cincinnati, then in the MVC, won 71–59 over Ohio State of the Big Ten, since Cincinnati's TV market is listed 35th in the nation as of 2019. However,
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2005 SEC Championship Game


The 2005 Dr. Pepper SEC Championship Game was played on December 3, 2005 in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. The game determined the 2005 football champion of the Southeastern Conference. The Georgia Bulldogs, winners of the Eastern division of the SEC, defeated the LSU Tigers, who won the Western division, by a score of 34-14. This was the second time the two teams have met in the conference championship game. The first time was in 2003 when LSU defeated Georgia by the score 34-13.
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Georgia Bulldogs


won 31 NCAA team national championships. Below are the 17 national team titles that were not bestowed by the NCAA: The athletic department suffered through several controversies in the early 2000s, including a major scandal within the men's basketball program. In 2003, a power struggle between University President Michael Adams and athletic director and Bulldog legend Vince Dooley stole headlines when Adams refused to renew Dooley's contract, effectively firing him. The battle became one painted as academics versus athletics, though this idea was rejected when the University's Franklin College
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Georgia national football team results


reach the finals of the World Cup or the European Football Championship. The team's largest victory came on 30 March 1997 when they defeated Armenia by seven goals to nil in a friendly. Their worst loss is a 6–1 against Denmark in 2005. Georgia have also been defeated by five goals to nil against Romania in 1996. Levan Kobiashvili holds the appearance record for Georgia, having been capped 100 times during an international career that lasted 15 years. The goalscoring record is held by Shota Arveladze, who scored 26 times in 61
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1988 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament


The 1988 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began with 32 teams and ended on December 17, 1988, when Texas defeated Hawaii 3 games to 0 in the NCAA championship match. Texas won the school's first NCAA championship and became the first non-California or Hawaii university to win the NCAA national championship (Texas also won the last AIAW national championship). After upsetting previously unbeaten and top ranked UCLA in the national semifinals, Texas swept Hawaii in the final by the scores of 15-4, 16-14
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Georgia Southern Eagles football


The Georgia Southern Eagles football program represents Georgia Southern University in football as part of the Sun Belt Conference under head coach Chad Lunsford. The Eagles have won six FCS (I-AA) national championships and have produced two Walter Payton Award winners. The Eagles first continuously fielded a football team in 1924; however, play was suspended for World War II and revived in 1981. The Eagles competed as an FCS independent from 1984 until 1992 as the Eagles' main conference at the time, the Trans America Athletic Conference (now
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Georgia Gould


Argentina, propelling the US Women's mountain biking program to the top of international rankings. In 2009, Gould finished 2nd in the American Continental Mountain Bike Championships in Santiago, Chile. Georgia Gould has excelled in cyclocross both domestically and internationally, finishing no worse than third in the USA Cyclocross National Championships since 2006 (save for 2009 and 2011 when she did not compete in the event). She has won the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross series three times (2007, 2008, and 2010) and the North American Cyclocross
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Deep South's Oldest Rivalry


In 1920 Georgia upset Auburn 7–0 when Auburn was fresh off a 56–6 beatdown of Vanderbilt. In 1942, Georgia won the national championship with an 11–1 record, beating UCLA in the 1943 Rose Bowl, Georgia's lone loss came to Auburn, falling 27–13 at Columbus's Memorial Stadium. On November 14, 1959, at Sanford Stadium in Athens, as time ran short, Georgia player and future Auburn head-coach Pat Dye recovered a fumble by Auburn quarterback Bryant Harvard. Georgia quarterback Fran Tarkenton's touchdown pass in the final
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Joe Dean


1987, when he took over the athletic director post at his alma mater, LSU. He served from April 1987 through the end of the 2000 calendar year, with the LSU's 2000 Peach Bowl victory over Georgia Tech being his last official event as athletic director. During his tenure, Dean oversaw arguably the greatest athletic era in school history. The LSU baseball team won five national championships (1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000) while the men's and women's track teams accounted for 22 national championships combined
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DePauw Tigers


and have been the co-champions of the SCAC four times. The DePauw University women's basketball team won the Division III National Championship in 2007 and 2013. They defeated Washington University in Springfield, MA to win the first team national championship in the school's history and then defeated the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to win their second. In addition to their national championship, the women's team has also won 9 SCAC championships and reached the national quarterfinals four times. The DePauw University men's basketball team has won two
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University of Georgia


-scale, sustainable shade trees. The University of Georgia varsity athletic teams participate in the NCAA's Division I FBS as a member of the Southeastern Conference. Since the 1997–1998 season, UGA has seven top ten rankings in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Directors' Cup, a numerical ranking based on the success of universities in all varsity sports. The University has won national championships in football, women's gymnastics, women's equestrian (2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014)
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2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team


meeting since the 1981 Sugar Bowl. In their most recent matches, Georgia defeated Appalachian State 45–6 in 2013, Notre Dame 17–10 for the 1980 National Championship, and lost to Georgia Tech 28–27 at Sanford Stadium in 2016. From the SEC West, Georgia played Mississippi State for the first time since 2011 when they beat Mississippi State 24–10 as well as Auburn in their annual Deep South's Oldest Rivalry, leading the series 57–55–8 after winning 3 straight times against Auburn including last year's win against #8 Auburn 13–7 in Sanford Stadium
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2007 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship


The 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was a golf tournament contested from May 30 to June 2, 2007 at the Golden Horseshoe Golf Club in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the 69th NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship and was hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University. The team championship was won by the Stanford Cardinal who captured their eighth national championship (and first since 1994) by twelve strokes over the Georgia Bulldogs in stroke play. The individual national championship was won by Jamie Lovemark from USC. This was the first
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Mike Anderson (basketball)


volunteer assistant. When Richardson moved on to the University of Arkansas, he brought Anderson along as an assistant for a 17-year stint, the last five as assistant head coach. During that time, the Razorbacks won three Southwest Conference championships, two Southeastern Conference titles, three appearances in the Final Four, a national championship in 1994 and a second-place finish in 1995. When Richardson was fired, Anderson took over for the remainder of the 2001–02 season as interim head coach. In 2002, Anderson returned to his hometown of
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2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships


Stoner who also pushed the pace. She became the first NCAA Division I athlete to win back-to-back steeplechase titles as an underclassman, and the second two-time national champion in Boise State Broncos history. Former American record holder in the triple jump, Keturah Orji of the University of Georgia, won the women's long jump on June 7th. University of Kentucky junior Olivia Gruver won the women's pole vault on June 7th in a personal best mark of . Multiple-time collegiate record holder Maggie Ewen of
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USC Trojans


(the 1994 Pac-10 champ), Candie Kung (the 2000 Pac-10 champ), Becky Lucidi (the 2002 U.S. Amateur and 2003 Mexican Amateur champion) and Irene Cho. USC captured the 2008 NCAA Women's Golf Championship at the par 72, University of New Mexico Championship Golf Course. The Trojans won the event by six strokes over UCLA and claimed their first women's golf national championship since 2003. In 2013, they won by 21 strokes over Duke University at the University of Georgia Golf Course (par 72, )
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Milton Haig


their first tier 1 nation outside a Rugby World Cup, since Ireland in 2014. Scotland won 43–16. The 2017 Rugby Europe Championship was the first time under Haig that Georgia did not win the Championship. Having beaten all oppants; Belgium 31–6, Germany 50–6, Spain 20–10 and Russia 28–14, leading into the final week the game against Romania was the Championship decider. For the first time since 2010, Romania beat Georgia, winning 8–7 to win the Championship. During the 2017 June internationals, Haig led Georgia to two victories
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football


selectors. Georgia Tech claims the 1917, 1928, 1952, and 1990 championships. Claimed national championships Georgia Tech has won sixteen conference championships, nine outright and seven shared. Their 2009 ACC championship was later vacated by the NCAA. † Co-champions ‡ Vacated by the NCAA Georgia Tech has won five division championships, with four of those leading to an appearance in the ACC Championship Game. † Co-champions Georgia Tech has appeared in 45 bowl games and compiled a record of 25–20. Georgia Tech's first four bowl
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Courtney McCool


Courtney Lynn McCool-Griffeth (born April 1, 1988) is an American former artistic gymnast who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was coached by Al and Armine Fong of Great American Gymnastic Express. From 2007–2010, McCool competed for the University of Georgia. In that time, the team won three NCAA national titles. She is currently a volunteer assistant coach and choreographer for the Utah Red Rocks team. McCool was the runner-up in the junior division of the 2003 National Championships and won a silver medal on
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Malta women's national football team


13 losses, Malta achieved its first tie on June 7, 2006 against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last match of the 2007 World Cup's qualifying. The team played for the first time against elite national teams in the 2011 World Cup's qualifying, losing all games including a record 0–13 defeat to Spain. On March 3, 2011 Malta won an official match for the first time in the 2013 European Championship qualifying's preliminary round, beating Georgia 1–0 with a goal by D'Agostino in injury time. On April 6, 2013
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Northwest Missouri State Bearcats men's basketball


in 1932 lost to Henry's Clothiers in the Amateur Athletic Union title game at Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri 15–14 in a last second shot. The Bearcat team was coached by Hank Iba. The featured Bearcat players included Jack McCracken and Wilbur Stalcup. At the time both corporate-sponsored teams and colleges competed in the same tournament. The Bearcats played Fairmont State University in the national championship game on March 25, 2017, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, winning 71–61. The Bearcats won their second national championship when
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Florida A&M Rattlers and Lady Rattlers


A&M football received national attention when ESPN's College GameDay was broadcast live from the campus. FAMU became the first historically black college or university campus to ever host the program. The Florida A&M Rattlers have won 29 Conference Championships and 13 different college football national titles. They have won the black college football national championship 11 times. An Associated Press College Division National Championship in 1962. The Rattlers also won the inaugural NCAA Division I-AA National Championship in 1978. The Florida A&M Rattlers Men's Tennis team won HBCU National Tennis
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Louisiana State University traditions


the NFL in letting the home team decide what to wear. The tradition started in 1958, when Coach Paul Dietzel decided that LSU would wear white jerseys for home games. Another story is the tradition first started when Dietzel had LSU wear white at home for good luck against a ranked Georgia Tech team in 1957 because Georgia Tech's team had long been known for wearing white at home. LSU won the game and he continued that tradition for the 1958 season and LSU went on to win the national championship that year. Since
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UConn Huskies


national championship game as 9-point underdogs. The game was tight throughout, and when the final buzzer sounded, UConn had defeated Duke, 77–74. The 1999 national championship would not be the last. In 2004, the Huskies returned to the Final Four in San Antonio, Texas. Once again, they faced Duke, this time in the National Semifinal, and used a late run to beat the Blue Devils, 79–78. Two nights later, led by Ben Gordon and Emeka Okafor, UConn beat Georgia Tech, 82–73, to
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Hisataka Ikuta


to the Japan students' national team. He won the championship with Keio, after defeating Meiji University in the final, where both teams won, resulting in a 12-12 tie. At the 23rd Japanese Championship, held on 15 January 1985, Keio University defeated Toyota Motors for 18-13, with a university side winning the championship for the first time in 10 years, since when Meiji University won the title in 1975. Ikuta was one of the leading rugby players in Japan, who helped the sport to influence
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Augusta State University


men's golf team won its first national title in 2010, knocking off perennial power Oklahoma State in the championship match at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee. They defended their title in 2011 at Oklahoma State's home course, Karsten Creek, defeating the top-ranked Cowboys in the national semifinals and then Georgia in the final round of match play to reclaim the championship. The Jaguars became the first men's golf team to win consecutive national titles since Houston in 1984–85. They won five Big South Conference championships: 1985
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Georgia Bulldogs


allegations. His inaugural UGA team won the national championship. UGA's sixth place tie at the 2006 national event marks the seventh top-10 final ranking in the last nine years. The program has won eleven SEC titles. Former players include Vicki Goetze, now on the LPGA Tour. Since 1986, the Gym Dogs have brought home 10 gymnastics national championships (1987, '89, 1993, '98, '99, 2005, '06, '07, '08, '09), the most of any team
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Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball


but was upset in the first round of the NCAA tournament by Georgia State. Soderberg was let go at the end of the season, and Wisconsin hired University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee coach Bo Ryan as the new head coach. Ryan had previously won four Division III national championships at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. In the 2001–02 season, under the new leadership of Bo Ryan, the Badgers went 19–13 (11–5) and won a share of the Big Ten regular season title for the first time since 1947, tying for
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Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball


The Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team represents the University of Georgia in basketball. The Lady Bulldogs are a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The "Lady Dawgs," as they are sometimes called, play in Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Georgia. They have historically been among collegiate Womens Basketball's best programs. Georgia has won seven Southeastern Conference regular-season championships, four conference tournament championships and appeared in the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament 33 times, tied for 2nd among all schools. The team is
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University of Richmond


the Richmond Families Initiative, and Partners in the Arts also operate out of UR Downtown. The university won its first national championship in 1982 when women's tennis won the AIAW national championship. The university won its first NCAA national championship in any sport on December 19, 2008, when the Spiders football team defeated the Montana Grizzlies 24–7 in the NCAA Division I Football Championship (which is exclusively for teams in the Football Championship Subdivision, the second tier of NCAA Division I football). Richmond was ranked 23rd in men's basketball
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Melanie Margalis


500-yard free in 2009 in which she also won a state championship. After her performances that season, she was named the 2009-2010 Pinellas County Female Athlete of the Year. That same year, she was named to the National Youth Championship Team. Margalis helped the Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving women's team at the University of Georgia win the NCAA Division I women's team title in 2013 and again in 2014. Margalis won gold in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay as a member of the preliminary team and bronze in the 200-meter
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Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women championships


last AIAW competition, collegiate badminton assumed the authority of its own national tournament committee in conjunction with the United States Badminton Association. The USBA continued the sponsorship of national collegiate championships from 1983. Wisconsin won in 1983. Arizona State won all ten titles from 1984 through 1993, when ASU dropped badminton. Pre-NCAA statistics, based on AIAW Archives, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries. AIAW championship 1972–82. Previously administered by the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW). AIAW championship 1980–82. Previously administered by
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Clayton State Lakers


The Clayton State Lakers are the athletic teams that represent Clayton State University, located in Morrow, Georgia, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sporting competitions. The Lakers compete as members of the Peach Belt Conference for all 10 varsity sports except indoor track and field, which competes as an independent. Clayton State has been a member of the Peach Belt since 1995. Men's sports (5) Women's sports (5) Clayton State University won its first national championship in school history when the Lakers won the NCAA Division II women
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West Nott


she has shared her college tennis experience in a book titled "The Invaluable Experience." Nott won the 1998 U.S. National Indoor Boys 16 Championship and finishing that year ranked 10th in the national rankings. He was ranked No. 1 in the Midwest for three years in 1996-98 and a member of the U.S. Boys 16 National Team in junior tennis. Nott transferred to Georgia Tech after playing his freshman year at the University of Florida. His notable accomplishments at Georgia Tech include reaching the ACC Team Championships finals and finishing 5th
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History of rugby union matches between Georgia and Romania


Georgia and Romania have played each other on 23 occasions. Georgia have won 13 times, Romania 9 times and 1 match has been drawn. They regularly play each other in the Rugby Europe Championship (previously named European Nations Cup). The first match was played on 18 November 1998 at Lansdowne Road that has been won by Romania 27–23. The two sides have played each other once in a Rugby World Cup game in the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Georgia won the match 25–9. Since 2002, the winner
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Vladimir Gabrichidze


Vladimir Gabrichidze (born 16 May 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Georgia. Gabrichidze won the doubles at the USSR Championships on six occasions and was also the singles winner once. He also represented the Soviet Union in their Davis Cup World Group qualifier in 1990. When he returned to the Davis Cup two years later, it was with the CIS team but from 1995 he competed for the Georgians. By the time he made his last Davis Cup appearance in 2002, Gabrichidze had taken part in 18 ties for Georgia
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History of rugby union matches between Georgia and Russia


Georgia and Russia have played 23 times, out of which Georgia have won 21 times and Russia only once, with 1 match ending in a draw. They regularly play each other in the Rugby Europe Championship (previously named European Nations Cup). The first match was played in Poland on May 25 1993 that Russia won 15–9. Tensions between Georgia and Russia remained high after the war in August 2008, resulting in the scheduling of head-to-head rugby matches on neutral soil during 2009 and 2010. Georgia and Russia
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Teri McKeever


ten Division I college teams in the nation. The Bears women have won three out of the last four Pac-12 Conference team championships (2009, 2011, 2012), and three of the last four NCAA national championships (2009, 2011, 2012). She has been named Pacific-10 Conference Coach of the Year five time, and the NCAA Coach of the Year three times. After USC and before going to the Cal Bears, McKeever was the head coach of the Women's swimming team at Fresno State University in Fresno,
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Ben Hayslip


senior year, his Evans Knights won the 1988 Georgia state championship, finishing with a 29-1 record and a #3 national ranking by USA Today. Hayslip also participated in the Georgia High School Association's North/South All-Star Game with other top baseball recruits. After graduation, Hayslip attended Georgia Southern University to play baseball where he was a member of the 1990 team that participated in the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Hayslip graduated from Georgia Southern University in 1994. In the same year, Hayslip
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Camden County, Georgia


College of Coastal Georgia and the Valdosta State University Kings Bay Campus. The school is part of the Georgia High School Association and is classified as a "AAAAAAA" or "7A" school in Region 1. In 2003, the Wildcats won the Georgia 5A Football State Championship by defeating Valdosta High School. In 2008, the Wildcats won their second 5A State Football Championship by defeating Peachtree Ridge High School. In 2009, the Wildcats won their third 5A State Football Championship by defeating Northside (Warner Robins). Historic towns which
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WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship


renamed to "WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship". February 17, 1985 marked the first time that the championship's holder changed outside of Puerto Rico, when Dory Funk, Jr. won it. After a rematch ended in a draw, the title was held up for the first time since its foundation. After Colón defeated Flair, he would go on several undefeated streaks; this lasted until Funk "injured" him in a match. This event led to the championship being vacated for the first time. He subsequently competed in a
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Auburn University


the NCAA Tourney before losing to Clemson. In 2018-2019, Auburn won the SEC Tournament championship and advanced to the Final Four. The Auburn University women's basketball team has been consistently competitive both nationally and within the SEC. Despite playing in the same conference as perennial powerhouse Tennessee and other competitive programs such as LSU, Georgia, and Vanderbilt, Auburn has won four regular season SEC championships and four SEC Tournament championships. AU has made sixteen appearances in the NCAA women's basketball tournament and only once, in their first
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