Five Ohio Northern wrestlers earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors and ONU swept the three special awards for 2012-13 in voting conducted by the league's six head coaches.
Senior three-time All-American and defending national champion Kyle Kwiat was named the John Summa OAC Wrestler of the Year and sophomore Cody Lovejoy won the Most Falls in the Least Amount of Time award.
Head coach Ron Beaschler was named the OAC Coach of the Year for the second straight season and for the third time in his 25-year career.
No. 3-ranked Ohio Northern will face Hanover (Ind.) on Friday in the First Round of the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament Friday in Holland, Mich.
With a win, ONU would either face No. 2-ranked Hope (Mich.) or Wheaton (Ill.) on Saturday in the Second Round.
Times for all three games will be announced later this week.
The Polar Bears (26-1) have won 25 consecutive games and received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by winning the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament title under 12th-year head coach Michale Durand.
Hanover won the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference crown and boasts a 21-7 record.
Ali Hess has been named an assistant softball coach at Ohio Northern.
Hess comes to ONU after a three-year stint as an assistant coach at the University of Detroit Mercy, where she coached pitchers and catchers.
The Omaha, Neb., native was a four-year letterwinner as a catcher at the University of Toledo from 2006-09.
Hess owns several Toledo records, including career fielding percentage, career hit by pitch, single season hit by pitch and 1st for single season fielding percentage.
She is also tied for 6th in career homeruns and is third for single season slugging percentage.
No. 3-ranked Ohio Northern advanced into the finals of the 2013 Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament with a 60-37 victory over Wilmington in the Third Round on Thursday night at the ONU Sports Center.
The top-seeded Polar Bears advance to the finals with a 25-1 record, while the fourth-seeded Quakers end their season with a 15-12 record.
ONU runs its school record winning streak to 24 games and has now won 16 consecutive games by 10 points or more.
Northern will host second-seeded Otterbein in the finals on Saturday night at 7:30 pm at the ONU Sports Center.
If you missed watching Ada's Zac Dysert in the Senior Bowl earlier this year in Mobile, Alabama, don't worry. Don Traxler was there with his camera. He shared a series of action photos with The Ada Icon.
Left to right, following the game are, Brooke (Dysert) Carter, Carla Dysert, Zac Dysert, Heather Dysert.
You'll find the photos below, including a touchdown pass that Dysert tossed.
Three Ohio Northern juniors, Branden Rushton, Dominique Royal and Jared Horstman, were named All-Ohio Athletic Conference in men's basketball for 2012-13 in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.
Rushton was named to the Second Team, while Royal and Horstman were Honorable Mention All-OAC honorees.
Rushton is making his third consecutive appearance on the All-OAC squad after earning Honorable Mention All-OAC kudos in both his freshman and sophomore seasons.
The 6-2 guard led the team in scoring for the second consecutive season in 2012-13, averaging 15.1 ppg.
