SWAC Discloses 2025 Media Day Gamer Set Up!

The Southwestern Athletic Workshop (SWAC) has actually exposed the student-athletes that will certainly represent their teams at the 2025 SWAC Football Media Day, set up for July 16 at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama.
Media Day is a significant spots on the SWAC football schedule. It’s an opportunity for the media to fulfill the workshop’s standout players from each participant company.
ESPN will certainly send the display with hosts Tiffany Greene and Jay “Skies” Pedestrian previewing the video games, student-athletes, teachers, and sporting activities department administration that will definitely define the approaching duration.
Below are the student-athletes mosting likely to, a diverse group representing their matching establishments:
Alabama A&M Bulldogs
Alabama State Hornets
Alcorn State Braves
Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats
Florida A&M Rattlers
Grambling State Tigers
Jackson State Tigers
Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils
Field View A&M Panthers
Southern Jaguars
Texas Southern Tigers
These student-athletes will certainly represent their programs at the media day, offering understandings right into their groups’ prep work and assumptions for the 2025 duration. The occasion notes a vital transition as the SWAC prepare for an extra affordable year in HBCU football.
Included SWAC Insurance Coverage Insurance Coverage:
The Southwestern Athletic Satisfying 2025 Annual Spring Conferences were held this previous Friday and Saturday with important subjects being discussed by organization membership supervisors.
All twelve SWAC individual facilities have opted-in to your house Negotiation. On top of that, the organization placed no scholarship caps on any type of sort of sporting activities in which the conference currently funds.
“This is most certainly a significant minute for the Southwestern Athletic Meeting and our twelve participant institutions,” declared SWAC Commissioner Dr. Charles McClelland.
“As we move on into a brand-new period of intercollegiate athletics the Southwestern Athletic Meeting continues to be unwavering in our commitment to supply our subscription with the resources needed to favorably influence our student-athletes academically and athletically.”
* Courtesy the Southwestern Athletic Seminar
The Southwestern Athletic Meeting has really called Hubert Owens the Meantime Coordinator of Football Authorities for the approaching duration. He understands with HBCU football being an Mississippi Valley State alum and the kid of Hubert Roosevelt Owens, that officiated SWAC and Mississippi secondary school computer game.
Owens brings essentially 3 years of university football officiating experience with him having actually operated as an authorities with Southeastern Workshop (SEC), the Southwestern Athletic Meeting ( SWAC , and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Meeting ( SIAC
“Because of the delicate nature of this change it was necessary that we recognized someone with considerable university football officiating experience to lead our football officiating program for this upcoming season,” SWAC Commissioner Dr. Charles McClelland, stated. “Mr. Owens brings a riches of top-level officiating experience to our organization as an official and administrator while likewise being distinctly accustomed to our present officiating program having actually offered next to Mr. Eddie Kelley over the course of the previous several seasons.”
Throughout his career officiating Owens officiated the inaugural SWAC Football Championship game in 1999 along with 3 SEC National championship consisting of the 2013 SEC Championship game where he was the initial African American umpire to offer due to the fact that capacity.
Owens furthermore officiated write-up duration national championship containing the Rose Dish, 2 Circus Bowls, the Champs Sports Dish, the Belk Meal, the Beef-O-Brady Meal, the Sunshine Meal, the Alamo Meal, the Heart of Dallas Dish, and the Celebration Dish.
As a previous instant replay authorities in the organization, Owens belonged to the team for the 2022 and 2024 SWAC Championship game and the 2023 Bayou Standard. In addition to Owen’s on area accomplishments, he has actually operated as an instructor, doctor and doubter of capacity at various football officiating camps throughout the offseason considered that 2008
As an instructor/clinician, Owens has really provided class training, on area training, and interacted with university officiating coordinators in determining ability and recommending prospective university football officiating potential customers looking for to come to be football authorities in Department I and Division II.
Noteworthy Football Officiating Camps that Owens has actually signed up with as a medical professional include the Tom Beard Football Officiating Camp, the Range Improvement Officiating Camp moneyed by the SEC and the Huge 10, the A-Team Football Officiating Camp organized by previous SWAC Planner of Football Authorities Eddie Kelley and the Oxford Mississippi Football Officiating Camp.
* News many thanks to the Southwestern Athletic Meeting
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