Alumni News
- Posted 09.13.22
- 8 minute read time
Ashlee Barnard never intended to become a firefighter. After graduating from high school, she considered her next chapter essentially set: enroll at the University of West Alabama, become a Tigers cheerleader and pursue a career in athletic training, one of UWA’s most popular and professionally successful degree programs.
- Posted 07.01.22
- 6 minute read time
Bill Poole may have been born in New Orleans, but Alabama’s western regions decorate his life. He hails from Marengo County. He graduated twice from the University of Alabama, including its School of Law. He represented much of Tuscaloosa County for a decade in the Alabama Legislature, where he helped shape the state’s public education budget.
- Posted 05.12.22
- 7 minute read time
Up in DeKalb County, near Lake Guntersville and about an hour’s drive from Huntsville, is where Brandon Renfroe teaches science at Geraldine High School. By almost any metric, from demographics and geography to socioeconomics and politics, that region of northeast Alabama’s Appalachian foothills seems as far from Livingston and the Black Belt’s western counties as it can be.
- Posted 03.16.22
- 7 minute read time
As silly as it may seem, the reason Dr. Veronica Triplett is an institution at the University of West Alabama can be traced to a long-forgotten item tucked inside a storage space in her family’s new home.
- Posted 01.12.22
- 6 minute read time
There’s a symmetry that often blossoms between sisters, shared commonalities that become unmistakable. Ebony Ware-Parks and Kiera Ware could have enjoyed such a uniformity when they chose colleges.
- Posted 06.11.20
- 4 minute read time
The University of West Alabama Board of Trustees has approved the naming of the athletic field on campus in honor of alumnus and trustee Terry J. Bunn of Tuscaloosa. The naming comes as the athletic field and Tiger Stadium undergo major renovations and upgrades planned for the coming months. The most visible upgrade thus far is the new synthetic turf.
- Posted 06.17.19
- 3 minute read time
The University of West Alabama has announced that Kylee Koch will lead the varsity cheerleading team, filling the vacancy as the team prepares for summer cheer camp in July. Koch is a 2019 graduate of UWA and will continue her studies in pursuit of a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications. She brings to the role seven years of cheer and tumbling coaching and instruction, as well as a career focus in communications.
- Posted 10.30.18
- 3 minute read time
On Tuesday, Nov. 13, and Wednesday, Nov. 14 University of West Alabama alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends will come together for the second annual UWA Giving Day, a two-day fundraising drive to benefit initiatives across campus and future Tigers.
- Posted 10.09.18
- 2 minute read time
The University of West Alabama’s Marengo County Alumni Chapter will meet Thursday, Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. at the Coplin Building in downtown Demopolis. The event includes hors d’oeuvres and drinks beginning at 5:30 p.m., followed by a brief program beginning at 6 p.m.