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Ada Youth Football program joins new league, with several changes

This league currently includes Ada, Kenton, Riverdale, USV and Hardin Northern
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, March 31, 2020

The Ada youth football program has joined the new Developmental Football League, according to Adam West, Ada youth football head coach.

Here’s what West says about the program:

"Exciting news for the Ada Youth Football Program. We have joined the Developmental Football League. 

This league will start this fall. The focus of the league is to serve the kids/athletes from the inside out, build fundamentals, teach the game of football, and have fun.

This league will include grades K-6 and will see some significant changes to the way our program has traditionally done things.

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Winter sports tournaments now cancelled

Tournaments of wrestling, basketball and ice hockey will not be completed
Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Saturday, March 28, 2020

The Ohio High School Athletic Association announced Thursday that the winter sports tournaments of wrestling, basketball and ice hockey, which were postponed indefinitely on March 12, are now cancelled due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. 

It is anticipated that schools will not be able to reopen for many weeks, which prevents interscholastic athletics from taking place.

The start of the OHSAA’s spring sports of softball, lacrosse, baseball, track and field and boys tennis is still postponed, which coincides with schools not being open. 

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Meet Ada HS scholar-athletes

Cheerleadering, boys' basketball, girls' basketball, wrestling, swimming
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Several Ada High School student athletes were named Northwest Conference scholastic athletes this week.

The qualify, the student must be a letter-winner in the sport. A gold level athlete maintains a grade point average of 3.5 to 4.0 during the season. A silver level athlete maintains a grade point average of 3.0 to 3.49 during the season.

Cheerleading
Gold: Molly Zimmerman, Courtney Mclaughlin, Nora Dellifield and Barrette Jones
Silver: Madison Deatherage

Boys' basketball
Silver: Cayden Murphy, Zac Swaney, Phil Coulson, Jacob Rayl

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14 Polar Bears named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in winter sports

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, March 21, 2020

A total of 14 Ohio Northern student/athletes were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in the five winter sports for 2019-20.

The women's basketball team led all squads with five honorees. Women's swimming and diving had four student/athletes, wrestling had two and men's basketball and men's swimming and diving had one each.

The award winners must be a sophomore or higher in class standing, maintain varsity status and have a cumulative grade-point-average of at least 3.50.

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Women and men complete indoor track season

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 16, 2020

 The Ohio Northern women's indoor track & field team completed the regular season at the Polar Bear Final Qualifier Saturday inside the ONU Sports Center. A few Polar Bears competed and finished inside the top three.

Junior Megan Wright (Eaton/Twin Valley South) paced Northern, obliterating the field in the 5,000-meter run. She won going away, boasting a time of 18:40.87.

Fellow junior Chyanne Retcher (Ney/Fairview) took third in the 800-meter run, registering a time of 2:24.15, and classmate Stella DeWitt (Weston/Cardinal Stritch) placed runner-up in long jump with a leap of 17-01.50.

Men 

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Trio of ONU athletes receive all-regional awards

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 16, 2020

The United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association released its All-Region awards. A trio of Ohio Nothern sophomores made the All-Great Lakes Region list. 

Nate Dean (Euclid/Villa Angela Saint Joseph) was honored as an All-Great Lakes Region performer in two different events. He was recognized for his efforts in the 60- and 200-meter dash. Dean ran a season-best 6.99 seconds at the All-Ohio Championships, and recorded a season-best time of 22.09 at the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships. 

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