Chapter Events - Bama Bound BBQ

The Bama Bound BBQ is our annual family picnic and send-off for area students attending The University of Alabama.  We typically hold the event on the last Saturday of July at Lacey Woods Park in Arlington.  For the past several years, Dixie Bones BBQ in Woodbridge has catered our event.

The Bama Bound BBQ is always a fun day for alumni, friends and family.  And the University always provides us with an entertaining and informative guest speaker.  Past guest speakers have included Wendell Holmes (UA Assistant Athletic Director), Guy Caldwell (nationally renowned UA Associate Professor of Biology), Chris Stewart (host of the Crimson Tide Post Game Show and radio voice of Bama Basketball) and John Cochran (ABC News White House Correspondent).  Representatives from the University as well as our regional recruiter, Elizabeth Dugas, are also on hand to answer any questions that students and parents may have about The Capstone. 

The 23^rd Annual Bama Bound BBQ was held Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 12:30pm at Lacey Woods Park in Arlington (1200 North George Mason Drive, Arlington, VA  22205; Lacey Woods is a 10-minute walk from Ballston Metro on the Orange line)

This year's guest speaker was Samuel E. "Eddie" Conyers III. Conyers, a native of Montgomery and a long-time Tuscaloosa resident, has since the early 1960s served as a referee official at University of Alabama football practices. The University of Alabama football coaches' dressing room in the football complex was dedicated to Eddie in 2006.  He is a popular after-dinner speaker to alumni groups, civic organizations and company gatherings, and is retired from the University's College of Continuing Studies.

Dixie Bones BBQ lunch made possible with contributions by the University of Alabama chapters of Alpha Lambda Delta and Order of Omega.

There was a 4:00pm After-party at Old Dominion Brew House located at 1219 9th Street, NW in DC (Convention Center Metro on the Yellow and Green lines)

This year's BBQ was a huge success. The food, as always, was a hit. Coach Conyers was immensely entertaining. His stories about the Navy, divorce in Wilcox County, and Coach Bryant kept the crowd of almost 120 in stitches. Twenty-three incoming UA students and their families, the reigning Miss UA, several current students and staff, and many alums enjoyed the afternoon with fellow Bama fans.

Thanks to Dixie Bones, Coach Conyers, Old Dominion Brewhouse, and everyone who made the BBQ such a great event. Thanks as well to all those who attended. Finally, thanks to Elizabeth Dugas, our regional recruiter. Without her efforts, the number of students at the event would not be nearly as large. With any luck, next year's BBQ will be even bigger and better.