The Ohio Northern women's track and field team was picked to win the Ohio Athletic Conference outdoor title in the preseason coaches poll voted on by the leagues 10 head coaches.
The Polar Bears received 81 points and five first place votes in the poll.
Mount Union was picked to finish second with 69 points and three first place votes, while Otterbein rounded out the top-3 with 65 points and the final two first place votes.
Northern won the team title last season for the first time in eight years.
So does Cathy Jenks, an ONU graphic design major from Elida, who created a poster encouraging all who use toxic pesticides to find a better solution. Yesterday was Learn about Butterflies Day, although there are none of the beautiful creatures here presently due to continued freezing temperatures. Her poster, zeroing in on the Monarch butterfly, came about in a persuasive design course.
Five Ohio Northern student-athletes were named Scholar All-America in wrestling for 2017-18 by the National Wrestling Coaches Association.
Seniors Gavin Nelson (Oregon/Clay) and Alex Bair (Centerville), junior Clayton Davidson(Kirtland), sophomore Seth Transue (Plain City/Dublin) and freshman Alex Kowal(Cincinnati/Bishop Fenwick) all earned the honor.
The five honorees is the most in ONU program history. The Polar Bears were also named a Scholar All-America team and ranked 19th nationally with an impressive 3.47 team GPA.
By Monty Siekerman
Kendal Guagenti had an untitled still life painting accepted for the Governor’s Youth Art Exhibition to be shown at the James Rhodes Office Tower in Columbus from April 22 until May 17.
Also, Melina Woods and Lyric Jones had paintings selected for two side exhibitions, which will be shown at the same time in the state department in Columbus. Three hundred paintings were chosen for the three shows from 12,000 works.
By Cort Reynolds
Ada High School held its winter sports awards banquet Tuesday evening.
Most Valuable athletes in each sport were: Connor Frazier (boys
basketball); Maddie Gossard (girls basketball); Chase Sumner (wrestling);
Zach Beaschler (boys swimming); Klava Katayama (girls swimming); Lyric
Jones and Anabel Alexander (cheerleading).
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Ohio Northern standout senior Amy Bullimore (Morrow/Little Miami) has been named Second Team All-Great Lakes Region by D3Hoops.com in women's basketball for the 2017-18 season.
The Ohio Athletic Conference Player of the Year was named Second Team All-Great Lakes Region for the second time in her career.
Bullimore capped off her career in historic fashion this season, rewriting the record books at Ohio Northern.
Matthew Kroenig will discuss “The United States/North Korea Nuclear Weapons Impasse: The Way Forward” at 7 p.m. on March 21 in Dicke Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Kroenig provides regular commentary for major media outlets such as PBS Newshour, Fareed Zakaria GPS, NPR, BBC, CNN, CBS, Fox News and C-SPAN.
Virgil O. "Shelly" Shellenbarger, age 96, died on Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 9:33 a.m. at Vancrest of Ada.
He was born on December 3, 1921 in Continental, Ohio to the late Lewis and Martha (Shafer) Shellenbarger. On September 20, 1946 Shelly married Ruth E. Rettig and she preceded him in death on January 18, 2009.
He was a U.S. Army Veteran who served during WWII from September 25, 1942 to February 17, 1946 in the South Pacific. Shelly and his wife Ruth were charter members of the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kenton. He was also an avid golfer.
