The Ohio Athletic Conference has announced its league schedules for basketball, swimming and diving, indoor track and field and wrestling for the 2021 seasons.
Competition across all seven sports will begin the weekend of Jan. 22-23 and will be limited to conference-only opponents.
Conference championships for indoor track and field will be held at Otterbein with the women competing on Feb. 26 with the men following on Feb. 27.
The basketball tournaments will feature all 10 teams and will run from March 1-6 on campus sites.
The swimming and diving OAC Championships meet will be March 25-27 at Akron.
Story and photos by Cort Reynolds
ADA - Experienced former Ada head coach Jon Cook returns to the helm 25 years after he was first hired as a Bulldog coach in 2020-21 facing the difficult and perhaps unprecedented task of making the Bulldogs competitive despite several program defections and delays to practice due to the coronavirus pandemic.
He replaces Dre White, who resigned roughly three weeks before practice was supposed to start in October after four seasons of rebuilding the Bulldog program back to respectability.
Ohio Northern head coach Scott Wills was recently honored as one of the nation's top NCAA Division III women's tennis coaches by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
Wills currently ranks ninth all-time in NCAA Division III women's tennis history with a winning percentage of 78.9. His 19-year career record of 381-102 puts him 19th all-time on the NCAA Division III women's tennis wins list.
He is only nine wins away from the Ohio Athletic Conference women's tennis record of 390 wins by Baldwin Wallace's Jack Bethanfalvy, who went 390-300 from 1985-2018.
By Cort Reynolds
Three Ada soccer players, Jacob Poling, Brenna Hissong and Ella Marshall earned all-district honors. Details follow:
Jacob Poling
Ada senior forward Jacob Poling was voted first team all-district for Div. III in boys soccer recently by the Northwest Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association.
Poling scored 36 goals this season to help the Bulldogs finish 10-9. He also set a program single-game record with eight goals in the regular season finale vs. Tiffin Calvert.
Poling led Ada to second place in the Northwest Conference with a 4-1 record and was named first team all-league as well.
By Tim Glon
Sophomore Billy Driemeyer (House Springs, Mo./Lindbergh) and junior Taylor Ellerbrock (Columbus Grove) won the men's and women's 5,000-meter races on Friday night under the lights at Kerscher Stadium.
The victories also propelled the two to the men's and women's titles for the 6-race Polar Bear Grand Prix Series, a group of intrasquad races contested by the Ohio Northern cross country teams this fall.
Dreimeyer won the men's 5k race in 15:09 and Ellerbrock won the women's 5k race in 18:03.
Ada elementary boys' basketball (grades 3-6) sign-up deadline has been extended, according to Ada schools. More information will follow as it becomes known. This message was from Ohio Alerts on Nov. 5.
