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by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
June 14, 2024
Alabama A&M’s Director of Athletics, Dr. Paul A. Bryant, mentioned they’re reinstating this system beginning this fall. The workforce final performed in 1994.
A yr earlier than the college celebrates 150 years, Alabama A&M College has introduced that it’s reinstating an athletic program that has been dormant for 30 years.
Alabama A&M’s Director of Athletics, Dr. Paul A. Bryant, mentioned the college is bringing again the lads’s cross nation workforce beginning this fall. The workforce competed in 1994.
“Including males’s cross nation to our athletics program at Alabama A&M is a big step ahead for our establishment and our student-athletes,” Bryant mentioned in a written assertion. “This new program not solely enhances our athletics division but additionally offers our college students with extra alternatives to excel each on and off the sphere. It embodies our dedication to making a holistic atmosphere the place college students can obtain tutorial success and athletic excellence. We’re excited concerning the potential this program brings and stay up for seeing our student-athletes thrive on this new enviornment.”
The lads’s cross nation workforce will compete in NCAA‘s Division I. With this system returning this upcoming season, the Division of Athletics could have groups in 17 NCAA Division I varsity sports activities.
The college additionally introduced that the soccer workforce could have six video games aired on ESPN’s linear and digital platforms for the upcoming Southwestern Athletic Convention (SWAC) season. Alabama A&M will play its opening season recreation on the street when it travels to Auburn on Saturday, Aug. 31, with a 6:30 p.m. kickoff on the SEC Community+. The Bulldogs will seem on the ESPN platform with back-to-back street video games at Austin Peay on Sept. 21 after which Florida A&M on Sept. 28. Each video games might be streamed on ESPN+.
The final televised recreation will air on the ESPN Household of Networks, a Thursday night time recreation towards Grambling State on Nov. 14 at house.
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