Alabama women’s tennis player Sydney Orefice and men’s swimmer Trey Sheils were namedSoutheastern Conference 2024 Brad Davis Community Service Award Winners by the conference on Thursday.

The Crimson Tide duo are two of 28 honorees (14 men and 14 women) who are now finalists for the Male and Female Brad Davis Community Service Leaders of the Year and will receive a $5,000 postgraduate scholarship. The male and female Community Service Leaders of the Year, to be announced later in May, will each receive a $10,000 postgraduate scholarship.

Orefice had over 80 hours of community service at Alabama working with organizations like the Soup Bowl of Tuscaloosa, the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter, Between the Bars and more. Sheils spent most of his community service hours with Team IMPACT, which is an organization that provides a safe, supportive, and encouraging environment for a child and their family to connect with a college athletic team and local campus community.

Today’s Crimson Tide Schedule:

• Men’s Tennis vs. Charlotte in opening round of NCAA Tournament, Durham, N.C., 12 p.m.
• Softball at Auburn, 5 p.m., SEC Network
• Baseball at No. 16 Mississippi State, 6 p.m., SEC Network+

Crimson Tide Results:

Softball: Auburn 4, Alabama 3

Did you notice?

• Kool-Aid McKinstry will begin his NFL career wearing No. 34 for the New Orleans Saints.

• Alabama women’s golfer Harriet Lockley was named to the SEC Community Service Team.

• Former Alabama golfer Davis Riley is T2 at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson after shooting 64 (-7) in the first round. Nick Dunlap is T13 at -5.

Countdown to Crimson Tide’s 2024 Football Season Opener:

120 days

On This Day in Crimson Tide History:

May 3, 1938: Johnny Roberts was elected President of the A-Club for the 1938-39 school year, succeeding Jim Ryba. Lew Bostick became vice-president. Also, in campus news, Sandy Sanford, football and track ace, was chosen as the University’s Man of the Year by the Crimson White. Sanford, who kicked game-winning field goals against Tulane and Vanderbilt also starred as a sprinter on the track team.

Crimson Tide Quote of the Day:

“Vindication isn’t mine, it’s Alabama’s. As the only voter in the AP Top 25 poll who picked the Crimson Tide No. 1 every week, I took my share of flak from around the country, but that’s part of the game. I stuck with the kids from Alabama because they gave me no choice. How do you bail out on a team that refused to lose?”— former Tucson Citizen sports columnist Corky Simpson on the 1992 Crimson Tide.

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to legislation creating a new high school focused on preparing students for careers in healthcare, science and technology.

The Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences will be a tuition-free public high school. The school will be located in Demopolis but would take in students from around the state. The proposal is aimed at trying to address a shortage of healthcare workers in the state.

The Alabama Senate voted 28-3 for the bill, which now goes to Gov. Kay Ivey for her signature. Ivey had championed the proposal in her State of the State address at the start of the legislative session.

“Students from all over Alabama will soon benefit from an education at this specialty high school and then go on to bolster our healthcare workforce,” Ivey said in a statement Thursday.

There are three existing residential public high schools that draw students from across the state: the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham; the Alabama School of Math and Science in Mobile; and Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering in Huntsville.

“This is going to be another jewel for the state of Alabama to brag on,” Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton said after the vote.

Sen. Larry Stutts, who is a doctor, cast one of the three no votes against the bill. Stutts said he thought the state could help more students by funding smaller programs across the state instead of creating a new residential high school.

The proposed education budget for next fiscal year includes a $15 million appropriation for the school.

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot, mirroring accommodations the state made four years ago for then-President Donald Trump.

President Biden delivers remarks about student protests over the war in Gaza, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday in Washington.

The House of Representatives voted 93-0 for the legislation. It now goes to Republican Gov. Kay Ivey for her signature. Ivey spokeswoman Gina Maiola said the governor will sign the bill into law.

“This is a great day in Alabama when in a bipartisan manner, we passed this legislation to ensure that President Biden gains access to the ballot in Alabama,” Democratic state Sen. Merika Coleman, the bill’s sponsor, said. The Republican-dominated Alabama Legislature approved the bill without a dissenting vote.

The issue of Biden’s ballot access has arisen in Alabama and Ohio because the states’ early certification deadlines fall before the Democratic National Convention begins on Aug. 19. Republican secretaries of state warned that Biden might not appear on state ballots.

Alabama has one of the earliest candidate certification deadlines in the country, which has caused difficulties for whichever political party has the later convention date that year.

Trump faced the same issue in Alabama in 2020. The Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature passed legislation to change the certification deadline for the 2020 election to accommodate the date of the GOP convention.

“This is nothing new. We just need to fix this so the president can be on the ballot, just like our nominee can be on the ballot,” Republican House Speaker Pro Tem Chris Pringle said during the brief debate.

The Alabama legislation will defer the state’s certification deadline from 82 days before the general election to 74 days to accommodate the date of the Democrats’ nominating convention.

The Biden campaign has said they are confident the president will be on the ballot in all 50 states.

Litigation was almost a certainty if Alabama Republicans had declined to grant Biden ballot access after making accommodations in the past for GOP nominees. The Biden campaign asked Alabama to accept provisional certification, saying that has been done previously in Alabama and other states. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen said he would not accept provisional certification because he didn’t think he had the authority to do so.

In Ohio, the state elections chief has said the Republican-led Legislature has until Thursday to approve an exemption to the state’s 90-day rule, which sets this year’s ballot deadline at Aug. 7. No bill appears to be forthcoming, but leaders of both parties haven’t entirely ruled one out. The state House and Senate both have voting sessions scheduled for Wednesday.

Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.

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