Weekly Auburn roundup: Joyce Kimeli declared a national champion
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
Auburn’s Joyce Kimeli brought home both a gold and a bronze medal from the National Indoor Championship, helping Auburn to a 10th place finish.
The track and field team had the best week out of all the Auburn program, although the equestrian team beat a ranked team and the soccer team completed a “hat trick” of three wins against Georgia.
Other teams dealt with some losses, although many suffered them against ranked teams. Here’s a summary of how Auburn’s teams did this week:
28
Auburn baseball:
The Tigers started out the week with a close win over an in-state opponent, UAB.
One year of life-changing uncertainty
500,000 cases, 10,000 deaths: 1 year anniversary of COVID in Alabama
Updated on Mar 13, 2021;
Published on Mar 13, 2021
March 2020 began with hopes of a regular year filled with school, NCAA basketball, summer travel and fall football. March 2021 finds us in a very different world with quarantines, nose swab testing, vaccines, safer-at-home orders and virtual school. This is how we got here. N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com
Twitter Share
Alabama’s involvement with coronavirus didn’t start with its first case being announced on March 13, 2020. A week earlier, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it would bring COVID-19 positive evacuees from the cruise ship the Diamond Princess to FEMA facilities in Alabama, the first time the state had to confront growing concerns over the virus. Amid uproar from the public and elected officials, that plan was canceled.
Weekly Auburn roundup: Auburn wins gold on the track
Updated Feb 28, 2021;
Auburn athletics won 11 games and meets over the last week and also took home three gold medals from the SEC Indoor Track Championships.
That number was boosted by softball’s outstanding week, which featured five wins. The baseball team also contributed three, while the men’s and women’s tennis teams each added one. The No. 1 equestrian team remains undefeated to add another.
Among the sports that don’t just count wins and losses, gymnastics posted a season-high road score; the men’s swimming team saw a number of lifetime bests at the SEC Championship; and the track team won numerous medals.
Weekly Auburn roundup: Records are set across programs
Updated Jan 31, 2021;
The wins and losses record might not indicate a great week for Auburn sports, but many athletes and programs set school, season and personal records, including the gymnastics, swim and dive, and track and field programs.
One coach received a promotion, and multiple teams got news of their schedules and preseason rankings. Another team had to cancel their season.
As some programs wrapped up seasons and others wait for theirs to begin, the Auburn Tigers had an eventful week:
The Auburn team looks on from its dugout in its 12-2 loss to UCF on Sunday, February 23, 2020. UCF swept Auburn with a 1-3 win on Friday and a 3-7 win on Saturday. (Photo by Giana Han)
Alabama Photos of the Year 2020
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 30, 2020
Facebook Share
You might think photos could hardly do 2020 justice, but Alabama photographers preserved an unforgettable year in stunning fashion.
Marred by a deadly pandemic that has killed nearly 4,400 people in our state, this year saw too few glimpses of what we might remember as normal life. COVID-19
is 2020. At least that’s how most of us see it. It’s impacted literally every person on the planet, let alone Alabama. And it touched nearly every major story and image we captured.
The pandemic compounded with the death of George Floyd that sparked nationwide protests and rallies for social justice during the summer gave us images we’ll never forget, even if we wish we could. In spite of it, life went on. Sports, graduations, restaurants, churches, elections and other aspects of our daily lives attempted to carry on. Its own disaster, the virus could not stop hurricanes and tornadoes that