The Honda All-Star Challenge Team of Talladega College has made the top 32 list of teams who qualified to compete in the upcoming National Honda Challenge Tournament. The tournament will be held in Los Angeles, California in the second week of April.
Four students are on the TC Team. They are: Luke J. Harris, a sophomore student majoring in Public Administration from St. Louis, Missouri; Joshua McFee, a junior student majoring in Math from Helena, Alabama; Alexis Tardy, a sophomore student majoring in Pre-Law and History from Indianapolis, Indiana; and Devin Sonia, a sophomore student majoring in Music Education from New Orleans, Louisiana. The team’s advisor and coach is Dr. Sim C. Pettway, Jr., the Director of Continuing Education. Dr. Pettway remarks, “I am both proud and excited for our team being selected to compete against other HBCU's at the Honda Campus All-Star National Championship Tournament. Their hard work, discipline, focus and commitment to the game paid off. This year’s team is a very talented group of individuals who play the game well—we are in it to win.”
A roster of the top 32 schools list is available on-line at
www.hcasc.com/nct13/great48.asp?Yr=2013. A total of 48 institutions will go to the tournament. They are selected based on the level of student participation, quality of promotional efforts, an institution’s historical record when attending the National Championship Tournament (NCT), results from the campus play in the current season and other factors. In preparation for the national tournament, Talladega College will compete along with 8 other institutions at Alabama State University in the Pre-NCT tournament in Montgomery, Alabama on February 16, 2013.
ABOUT TALLADEGA COLLEGE
Talladega College, founded in 1867, is Alabama's oldest historically black private college and among the oldest liberal arts colleges in the nation. Located in the historic district of the city of Talladega, Alabama, the college offers a range of degrees in four divisions: Business and Administration, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social Sciences and Education. Talladega College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award baccalaureate degrees; and the school holds several institutional memberships. For more information visit
www.talladega.edu
Posted By: Reginald Culpepper
Tuesday, February 5th 2013 at 8:22PM
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