Alabama colleges take home top prizes at Bass national fishing championship – Alabama NewsCenter

Two Alabama schools took residence prime prizes at this 12 months’s Bass Professional Retailers 2022 BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship at Pickwick Lake in Florence.

Within the two-angler staff competitors, Wallace State Neighborhood School anglers Bryar Chambers and Clent Blackwood have been declared the nationwide champions after a formidable two-day run.

Chambers and Blackwood completed with a complete of 10 fish, weighing 46.91 kilos, simply forward of groups from Auburn College, Drury College and East Carolina College.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime alternative to exit and win a championship,” stated Chambers, a Fairview native. “It makes on a regular basis we spend on the water price it. There’s not rather more we might ask for. It feels superior to win an occasion on this circuit.”

The College of Montevallo fishing staff was once more topped the Bass Professional Retailers Faculty of the 12 months.

Almost 200 collegiate bass fishing groups from throughout the nation competed within the championship event Might 26-27. Montevallo was named Faculty of the 12 months for having amassed probably the most cumulative factors of any staff.

Final 12 months, the Montevallo fishing staff, which is a part of the UM President’s Outside Students Program, earned the identical achievement. Montevallo grew to become simply the third faculty to win back-to-back Faculty of the 12 months honors within the historical past of the game.

“There are solely two different applications which have received this title twice,” stated UM fishing coach William Crawford. “To have the ability to try this once more is an actual honor and exhibits the onerous work that our guys have put forth this 12 months.

“It’s onerous to get a repeat title as a result of all people is gunning for you. We stepped as much as the problem and had one other good 12 months. It speaks to the staff’s work ethic and dedication to have the ability to deliver one other nationwide title residence to the College of Montevallo.”

Wallace State’s Blackwood is a resident of Logan and fished for West Level Excessive Faculty in Cullman. He and Chambers believed that they had an edge going into the event due to their familiarity with Pickwick Lake, which is a bit more than 100 miles from the school.

They’ll proceed to fish within the Collegiate Sequence June 10-11 at Saginaw Bay in Bay Metropolis, Michigan.

Wallace State’s bass fishing staff started competing about 10 years in the past, and the membership has constantly despatched members to the school collection nationwide championships.

John W. Stewart, president of the College of Montevallo, stated he’s happy with his college students for making Montevallo’s fishing staff distinguished nationally.

The event was introduced by Abu Garcia.

View full event outcomes right here.