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The 2024 UAB Blazers football team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the American Athletic Conference (AAC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Blazers were led by Trent Dilfer in his second year as the head coach. The Blazers played their home games at Protective Stadium, located in Birmingham, Alabama.
The 2024–25 UAB Blazers women's basketball team represents the University of Alabama at Birmingham during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.The Blazers, led by 12th-year head coach Randy Norton, play their home games at the Bartow Arena in Birmingham, Alabama as second year members of the American Athletic Conference.
UAB football began with the play of an organized club football team in 1989. [5] After two years competing as a club football team, on March 13, 1991, UAB President Charles McCallum and athletic director Gene Bartow announced that the university would compete in football as an NCAA Division III team beginning in the fall of 1991, with Jim Hilyer serving as the first head coach.
Frenchman Rudi Garcia has been appointed as Belgium coach in his 1st national team job Rudi Garcia has been appointed as Belgium's new coach, the country's soccer federation said on Friday. The 60-year-old Garcia, who coached several big clubs including Napoli, …
April 29, 2024 at 1:22 PM. UAB became the first Division I football team to join a fledgling organization that hopes to represent athletes as college sports moves to a more professional model.
Beginning with the first NCAA sanctioned Division III football team in 1991, UAB joined Division I-AA in 1993 and moved to Division I-A in 1996, joining Conference USA in 1999. Coach Watson Brown took over as head coach in 1995 and held the position through the end of the 2006 season, when he left for Tennessee Tech .
UAB's athletic teams are known as the Blazers. The school athletic colors are green and gold. [81] The Blazers currently participates in NCAA Division I, as a member of the American Athletic Conference, including 7 men's sports teams and 11 women's sports teams. [82] The school started its intercollegiate athletic program in 1978. [83]
The football program returned in 2017 after a two-season hiatus. [3] UAB began competing in intercollegiate football in 1991. [1] Entries on these lists tend to be dominated by more recent players, however, as regular seasons expanded from 11 to 12 games in 2002-03 and permanently in 2006.