Sentence examples for finals as a from inspiring English sources

They reached two junior slam doubles finals as a team after winning the Youth Olympic Games gold medal last summer.

MIAMI — The Dallas Mavericks reached the N.B.A. finals as a team of finite ability, but infinite lives.

Precocious and gifted, she was a spelling bee champ, making it to the California state finals as a sixth grader.

He remembered going to Front Royal, Va., for the 1955 regional finals as a signal moment in his education.

The last game Wallace played in the league was Game 7 of the 2010 finals as a member of the Boston Celtics.

Ray Allen had held the 3-point shot record: he made 22 3-pointers in the 2008 N.B.A. finals as a member of the Boston Celtics.

Kournikova romped to the Wimbledon semi-finals as a 15-year-old poppet on debut in 1997.

It was a notable scalp for Stevenson, who reached the semi-finals as a qualifier at Wimbledon in 1999.

She was well below her best against Stevenson, who made the Wimbledon semi-finals as a qualifier in 1999 but has since slipped down the rankings to 61.

However, Charlton's hopes of registering their first win in 17 matches nosedived when Norwich, wearing a retro strip to commemorate their run to the FA Cup semi-finals as a Third Division team 50 years ago, forced a replay.

In Berlin, even as individual sprinters in the team struggled – Britain's No1 Simeon Williamson failed to make the 100m final, Tyrone Edgar was disqualified for a false start in the semi-finals – as a team they pulled through, emerging as the fastest qualifiers for the final in 38.11sec after the US team were disqualified and taking a well-earned bronze in the final.