Karen Hoppa has traveled to La Manga, Spain with the U.S. Under-18 Women’s National Team where she is coaching goalkeepers for the Ten Nations Tournament. The tournament is a U-19 competition so the U.S team is playing against players one year older.
The Auburn softball team will take on the fourth-ranked Michigan Wolverines in a single game at Jane B. Moore Field Tuesday at 6 p.m. CT
Katy Frierson and Mary Coffed each scored goals as Auburn picked up a pair of 1-0 wins to open up its spring soccer exhibition season. Auburn defeated Mercer and then Tennessee as the three teams played 60 minute matches on Saturday at the Auburn Soccer Complex.
The Auburn gymnastics team is ranked No. 16 for the second-consecutive week in the latest edition of the GymInfo Collegiate Gymnastics poll, the organization released Sunday.
Auburn fans may now begin voting for the Auburn football “Team of the Decade” for the 2000’s at AuburnTigers.com. Voting will take place during the month of March, with the team being announced in April and formally recognized at A-Day on April 17.
Head coach Wade Benson and the Auburn volleyball team announced the addition of three talented players to their squad Monday for the upcoming 2010 season.
The Auburn baseball team returns to the field on Tuesday night when it plays host to Davidson at 6:30pm at Plainsman Park. Sophomore right-hander Dexter Price will get the starting nod on the mound for Auburn, marking his first appearance of the season.
Brian Fletcher was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week following a torrid weekend at the plate during the Auburn Classic. In three games the junior outfielder hit .636 with a 1.545 slugging percentage as Auburn claimed wins over Boston College and Florida Atlantic.
Riding the arm of Cole Nelson and the hot bat of Brian Fletcher, Auburn cruised to a 17-4 win over Florida Atlantic in the final game of the Auburn Classic on Sunday afternoon. Nelson struck out 12 hitters in six innings of work while walking just one and Fletcher upped his season RBI total to 17 with a four-RBI afternoon as Auburn finished the weekend 2-1.
Junior Sheniqua Ferguson and sophomore Marcus Rowland both won individual titles and also claimed runner-up finishes as Auburn completed competition at the Southeastern Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships Sunday. Ferguson won the 200 meters and placed second in the 60 meters, while Rowland reversed that feat, winning the 60 and finishing second in the 200.
The No. 35 Auburn men’s tennis team traveled to Tulsa, Okla., on Sunday and fell in a highly-contested match with the No. 33 Tulsa Hurricane, 4-2, at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.
The afternoon began with TCU taking the doubles point, winning the No. 1 doubles matchup by an 8-3 tally over Auburn’s tandem of senior Myrthe Molenveld and freshman Caroline Thornton. Auburn managed to take the second flight doubles match, as seniors Fani Chifchieva and Jil Hastenrath downed the Horned Frogs’ Maria Babanova and Nina Munch-Soegaard by an 8-5 count.
In a game that featured a combined 27 strikeouts by Auburn and NC State pitchers, the Tigers were able to rally for a 2-1 victory over the Wolfpack in softball action Sunday afternoon.
Junior Alli Smalley scored a team-high 26 points as the Auburn women’s basketball team knocked off the No. 16/14 Kentucky Wildcats, 65-53, in the final women’s basketball game played at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum.
The Auburn women’s basketball team leads the No. 16/14 Kentucky Wildcats, 27-21, at halftime of the final women’s basketball game to be played in Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum. Junior Alli Smalley leads all Tigers in scoring with 12.
Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama, USA. With more than 23,000 students and 1,200 faculty, it is the largest university in the state, and according to U.S. News & World Report, has a selectivity rating of "more selective." Auburn was chartered on February 1, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The college was donated to the state of Alabama in 1872, when it became the state's public land-grant university under the Morrill Act and was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, the college became the first four-year coeducational school in the state. The college was renamed the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) in 1899. In 1960, its name was officially changed to Auburn University, as it had long been popularly known. Auburn is one of only 13 American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research center.
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