The Ohio Northern volleyball team will open its 2021 season with a non-conference road match at Earlham (Ind.) on Sept. 1 under second-year head coach Katie Kuhn.
The Polar Bears will return home to host the 42nd Annual ONU Invitational on Sept. 3-4 at the ONU Sports Center.
The Polar Bears will also play in-season tournaments at Illinois Wesleyan and Calvin (Mich.) to go with non-conference matches with Ohio Wesleyan, Defiance, Denison, Wooster, Kenyon and Bluffton.
Northern will begin the quest for its 23rd Ohio Athletic Conference Regular Season title with a home match against Capital on Sept. 25.
Lily Baumgartner led Ada with 3 individual race wins in the girls 13-14 age bracket • Winning 2 events were Tea Griffith, Eli Esguerra, Carlie Oldfield, Jentzen Lawrence, Landry Harriger and Lincoln Harriger
Perhaps the coolest place in the summer in Ada is the municipal pool. It provides lots of activities starting with the basics: sitting in the sun. One of the more popular, kid-oriented activities is the green slide. We've recorded part of the slide experience in this set of photos.
“He’s my best friend,” David said of Michael. “I would’ve never imagined that after I chased him with a Nerf gun and knocked the door hinges off, we’d be helping each other years later to do our jobs during a pandemic.”
Athletics and pharmacy typically aren’t entities that converge. Peanut butter and jelly? Yes. Stevie Ray Vaughan and a Fender Stratocaster? Indelibly. Nerf guns and brothers?
Absolutely, which actually brings us back to that seemingly incongruous athletics/pharmacy concept.
“Being from two completely different professions, it takes a lot of stars to align for our worlds to cross, but that’s what happened,” said Ohio Northern University alumnae and professor Michael Rush, PharmD ’05, referencing his brother, David Rush, BSSM ’11, assistant athletics director for Kent State University.
