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Ashley Priess-Johnston Named Head Coach of Alabama Gymnastics
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Ashley Priess-Johnston is coming house.
The previous Alabama gymnast was introduced because the Crimson Tide’s subsequent gymnastics head coach Monday night. Johnston will likely be formally launched at a press convention on Friday.
She replaces Dana Duckworth who stepped down as head coach final week.
“We’re past excited to have Ashley Johnston take over the reins of our gymnastics program as our head coach,” Alabama athletics director Byrne stated by way of a launch. “Everybody we have spoken to holds her within the highest regards as a coach, mentor and chief, together with long-time head coach Sarah Patterson, who I’ve had great conversations with throughout this search and I actually respect her help. All through this course of with Ashley, we have been very impressed together with her dedication to the full student-athlete. One of many grittiest and most completed opponents in our program’s proud historical past, she has translated her achievements as a gymnast right into a standout profession as a coach, and we’re thrilled to have her again in Tuscaloosa.”
Johnston was a 10-time All-American and member of back-to-back NCAA Championship groups. She is finest recognized for closing out the 2012 NCAA Championships with a near-perfect stability beam routine to clinch Alabama’s sixth nationwide group title.
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“I’m honored to be trusted as your new head gymnastics coach,” Johnston stated. “Thanks to Greg Byrne and the superb govt group for permitting me to share my imaginative and prescient, ardour and dedication to student-athlete well-being and to the way forward for this storied program. I sit up for reconnecting with each considered one of you. With a really full coronary heart, I need to say, ‘Thanks,’ and ‘Roll Tide!’”
Johnston involves Alabama after spending the previous 4 seasons because the affiliate head coach at Auburn. She helped lead the Tigers to their highest-ever end final yr as Auburn ranked fourth nationally. Throughout her first season at Auburn, she earned WGCA Central Area Assistant Coach of the 12 months. Johnston began her collegiate teaching profession as an assistant at Illinois in 2018, spending one season with this system earlier than shifting to Auburn.
Earlier than shifting into the school ranks, Johnston began her teaching profession on the Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy, the place she labored with CGA head coach Mary Lee Tracy on the Elite and developmental stage, whereas teaching the ground train and stability beam optionally available program.
Johnston is Alabama’s seventh head gymnastics coach since 1974 and third since 1979. The Crimson Tide has gained six NCAA Championships (1988, 1991, 1996, 2002, 2011, 2012), 10 SEC Championships and an NCAA-best 32 regional titles.
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Alabama News Center receives top honors from National Federation of Press Women
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U.W.A. is first in Alabama to offer a Master of Dyslexia Therapy degree
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LIVINGSTON, Ala. (WTOK) – The University of West Alabama is launching a new degree this fall, the Master of Dyslexia Therapy program .
According to the International Dyslexia Association 15-20% of the population is dyslexic. That’s one in every five people.
“A lot of times parents see their children come home and they are just struggling to read,” said Sara Reynolds, Coordinator of Clinical Experience. “They are struggling to really capture and decode these words.”
Dyslexia is a learning challenge that is neurological, characterized by difficulties in reading and spelling ability.
“Without that their comprehension skills are going to lack and so with this program we are able to kind of screen those and give them a really good baseline to see where those children are struggling at,” said Reynolds.
The goal of the program is to enhance the number of equipped Dyslexia Therapists ready to help students soar.
“The program is a two-year program. It is thirty hours of course work and throughout those two years you will complete 720 hours of clinical experience. It begins really after you start the program, so this first cohort will begin in Fall I,” said Reynolds. “During the Fall II, which is in about mid- October, you will begin to actually be an actual dyslexia therapist-in-training. So those people will be in the schools wherever they are already employed at or we will partner them with local schools in their area to where they will actually give those services to those students in those schools.”
Studies show that Dyslexia Therapy is working, thanks to educators willing to pave the path toward a brighter future, one student at a time.
For more information on how you can apply for the program visit: https://online.uwa.edu/online-degrees/med-master-education-degree-dyslexia-therapy/.
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Vigor offensive lineman and Alabama commit Micah Dubose is transferring to Theodore for senior season
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MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Four-star offensive lineman Micah Dubose is transferring from Vigor to Theodore for his senior season, Theodore Bobcats Head Coach Steve Mask confirms to FOX10.
The announcement comes just two weeks after Vigor announced it was relieving Markus Cook of his duties as head coach.
Mask says the decision to move was based on Micah’s education and the Alabama commit plans to graduate in December.
Dubose is considered one of the top players in Alabama in the 2025 class, being named first team all-state by the Alabama Sports Writers Association in back-to-back seasons.
Dubose committed to Kalen DeBoer and the Tide while on his official visit in Tuscaloosa over the weekend.
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