Somehow — between the demands of fall camp and football season, the demands of his position, perhaps the most demanding in the state — Nick Saban has time. Time to help, time to work with other coaches...
Alabama gymnastics coach Dana Duckworth doesn’t like to lose.After falling off the balance beam in the 1991 NCAA Championships, Duckworth learned her lesson.“She didn’t win the balance beam,”...
In their career, the Alabama gymnastics seniors have seen a conference championship, three regional championships and a national title. They’ve seen the end of one era and the beginning of another as...
It was, for decades, the biggest rivalry in college gymnastics.The University of Alabama versus The University of Georgia pitted two rival coaches – Alabama’s former coach Sarah Patterson and UGA’s...
Much has changed around the UA Athletics Department in the span of almost two decades. Facilities have grown grander as budgets have gotten bigger, handfuls of coaches have come and gone and come again...
Not even Friday the 13th could stop the Alabama gymnastics team.On the famously unlucky evening, Alabama gymnastics followed several personal-bests and two team-best apparatus scores to beat Boise State...
For 36 years, coach Sarah Patterson was the face of the Alabama gymnastics team. Her 1,006 wins, 43 postseason championships and six national championships with the Crimson Tide, as well as her philanthropic...
If football at Alabama is king, then Sarah Patterson was queen. No other Alabama figure led with such grace and charm as Patterson. She isn’t the most legendary figure – not even she could come close...
Much was the same for the Alabama gymnastics team's season opener against Arizona Friday night. The team took the floor to the same pyrotechnic introduction, Coleman Coliseum still recorded 12,000-plus...
For the first time in 36 seasons, the No. 4 Alabama gymnastics team will take the floor with a new face at the helm of the program. In the first meet of the season against No. 21 Arizona at 7 p.m. Friday, Dana...
Sarah Patterson was named head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide gymnastics team in 1978. She was hired by legendary Alabama football coach and athletic director Paul “Bear” Bryant, who was in the...
After much thought and prayer, and after much consultation with Athletics Director Bill Battle and our President, Dr. Judy Bonner, I have decided to step down from the only job I have ever known since...