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Tara Tokar named to NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division III Women's All-America Third Team

Senior Tara Tokar has been named to the NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division III Women's All-American Third Team, in voting conducted by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

This is the second straight season that Tokar has been named to the Third Team.

This season, she scored three goals and recorded two assists as a midfielder. Tokar ends her career as a Polar Bear with 12 goals and six assists.

Ohio Northern finished the season with a 13-5-5 record and won the program's first OAC Tournament Championship.

The Polar Bears also advanced to the second round of the NCAA III Tournament for the second consecutive season.

Men's swimming & diving ranked No. 17 in latest weekly Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com power rankings

The Ohio Northern men's swimming & diving team is ranked No. 17 in the latest Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Division III power rankings released on Wednesday.

The Polar Bears (4-0 overall, 2-0 Ohio Athletic Conference) have an 81.74 rating.

Points for the Endless Pools / CollegeSwimming.com Top 25 are calculated using the average percentile rank of each team's top twenty-seven in each meet.

The Top 25 are ranked according on the basis of each team's highest-scoring meet over a four-week period.

Emory (Ga.) is ranked No. 1, Kenyon is No. 2 and Denison is No. 3.

Men's soccer ranked No. 2, No. 3 in final NSCAA and D3soccer.com polls

The Ohio Northern men's soccer team is ranked No. 2 in the final 2012 Continental Tire/NSCAA and is No. 3 in the last D3soccer.com Men's Top 25 poll on Wednesday.

In the NSCAA poll, the Polar Bears were ranked No. 10 in the final regular season poll, No. 12 in the eighth poll, No. 14 in the seventh poll, No. 21 in the sixth poll, No. 25 in the fifth poll, No. 18 in forth poll, No. 9 in the third poll, No. 12 in the second poll, No. 4 in the first weekly poll and were ranked No. 12 in the 2012 preseason poll and were No. 11 in the final 2011 NSCAA poll.

National Champion Messiah (Pa.) claimed the top spot, followed by ONU, Loras (Ia.), Williams (Mass.) and Amherst (Mass.)

Women's soccer receives votes in final D3soccer.com poll

The Ohio Northern women's soccer team received votes in the final D3soccer.com poll, in voting done by a panel of coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members across the country.

The Polar Bears received 26 points.

National Champion Messiah (Pa.) was ranked No. 1 with 625 points, Emory (Ga.) was voted No. 2 with 600 points and Wheaton (Ill.) rounded out the top three with 575 points.
Northern was ranked No. 21 in the fourth and fifth polls.

The Polar Bears concluded their season with a 13-5-5 mark under ninth year head coach Mark Batman.

Ada Kiwanis will assist in serving St. Mark's Christmas dinner

Here are the minutes of the lates Kiwanis Club meeting:

President Myrna McCurdy called the tenth meeting (December 4th, 2012) of the 2012–2013 Kiwanis Year to order at 12:00 noon in McIntosh Center, ONU.

Opening Gong/ My Country ‘Tis of Thee / Pledge of Allegiance
Invocation by Jon Umphress
Recognition of Guests/Members: Allie Puntel, ONU Circle K

Members’ Birthdays: Claudia Crawford, December 3rd; and Scott Wills, December 10th
Membership Anniversaries: Bruce Neely (December 1, 1975.)  

She hates needles, but is a regular blood donor; Thursday is Ada's next blood drive

NOTE: The next American Red Cross blood drive in Ada is Thursday, Dec. 6, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Ohio Northern University in McIntosh.

By Alli Walbolt, Icon intern

Each year in the United States, 5 million patients need blood and every person who gives blood can save three lives. However, the American Red Cross has had shortage of blood donations recently and needs more people to give.

Only 7% of people have the blood type O negative, the universal donor, and only 38% are eligible to give blood. These statistics make it hard for patients to find a donor, which causes many of them to have to wait and suffer the consequences.

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