Former Alabama golfer Jennifer Kirby got her professional career started this week right, winning the CN Canadian Women’s Tour Quebec. Stephanie Meadow and Johanna Tillström also both advance to match play in the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship. Kirby, from Paris, Ontario, Canada, carded five birdies in her final round and finished with a 2-under 70 for a 36-hole total [...]

The early days of summer provide Alabama head football coach Nick Saban rare opportunities to talk about something other than football, and last week’s Regions Pro-Am Tournament in Shelby County provided just that. Before Saban’s 2 p.m. tee time (that never occurred due to weather), he dished about the recent national championship by the men’s golf team, recent academic successes [...]

Led by the Crimson Tide’s national championship football and men’s golf teams, a total of five University of Alabama athletic teams were honored with the NCAA Division I Public Recognition Award, the NCAA announced Wednesday. Each year, the NCAA honors select Division I sports teams by publicly recognizing their latest multi-year NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate. This award is [...]

If upcoming senior Cory Whitsett’s legacy at The University of Alabama wasn’t already established, the past two weeks have certainly put the Crimson Tide golfer in an elite batch of student-athletes at the Capstone. Whitsett, a Houston, Texas, native, was awarded the NCAA Elite 89 award immediately prior to the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships in Atlanta, Ga. Less than a [...]

A trio of University of Alabama student-athletes were named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America Women’s At-Large Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, according to an announcement made Wednesday, June 5. Junior gymnast Kim Jacob and junior golfer Stephanie Meadow were named to the first team, while senior tennis player Antonia Foehse was named [...]