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From the Olympic Stadium to Alabama Soccer Complex

By Associated Engineering Press

Standing on the field at Olympic Stadium in Montreal Celia Jimenez looks into the stands to see her parents. She then flashes back to the moment when she kicked her first soccer ball at the age of six.

She reminisces about the trip to the stadium with police escorts, and the tires on the bus rolling through a red carpet. She thinks about the level of competition increasing from when she was that six year old girl playing soccer in Alcaudete, Spain to 13 years later playing on Spain’s national team in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

In 1837, The University of Alabama became one of the first five universities in the nation to offer engineering classes. Today, UA’s College of Engineering has more than 5,200 students and more than 170 faculty. In recent years, students in the College have been named USA Today All-USA College Academic Team members, Goldwater, Hollings, Portz, Boren, Mitchell and Truman scholars.


Author: Associated Engineering Press    /    Posted on: September 25, 2015    /    Posted in:   Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, In The News, Students