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WEDNESDA WEDNESDAY, AY, OCTOBER O TOBER 8, 2014 OC 12 21 1 | ISSUE IS SS SUE 38 VOLUME 121

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SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894

Football Practice

7 1970s Fashions

8 Brewery Buddy

Coming off a loss to the Ole Miss Rebels, the Crimson Tide works to replace several key players injured in Oxford. This week, Alabama will face an Arkansas team with a strong rushing attack, featuring two star running backs.

The designs on major runways are showing the latest fashion trend: a fun throwback to hip ‘70s wear. This fall, flaired pants and platform high heels are making a comeback.

Two entreprenuers from Tuscaloosa developed a way to tap into the craft brewery craze by making software to help budding brewmasters keep their businesses organized and efficient.

SPORTS | VOLLEYBALL

1982 Women’s volleyball is discontinued by the University. 1974 Stephanie Schleuder becomes first volleyball head coach.

1996 Judy Green is hired as head coach.

1988 The volleyball program is reinstated with coach Dorothy Franco-Reed.

2011 Ed Allen is hired as head coach.

2007 Alabama makes its third consecutive NCAA tournament appearance.

CW / Pete Pajor and Belle Newby

2013 The team makes its fourth NCAA tournament appearance.

ALABAMA VOLLEYBALL TEAM SET TO SUCCEED Coaches reflect on history of now-successful program By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter

Stephanie Schleuder made her debut in 1974. She was fresh out of graduate

school when she made the trek from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Tuscaloosa to become the first head coach of the brand new Alabama women’s volleyball team. Fast forward 40 years, and the Alabama volleyball team is again making history as it excels to new heights

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and challenging past records under the leadership of fourth-year coach Ed Allen. The road to success hasn’t come without its challenges and was never certain, especially after a six-year discontinuation of the program threatened to alter the course of the sport. When Schleuder received the call

to found the program at Alabama and also to serve as the women’s basketball coach, she knew she was on the brink of something bigger than herself. For the first time in University history, the administration was making a SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 10

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