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USTFCCCA All-Academic accolades come this way

By Caleb Scott

The Ohio Northern women's track and field team and sophomore Emily Richards and senior Sarah Ballmer have earned USTFCCCA DIII All-Academic accolades for the 2015-16 seasons.

The women's track team was named a DIII All-Academic Team after posting a cumulative GPA of 3.26. 

Northern was among 175 schools across the country in the running for the DIII Scholar Team of the Year.

To qualify for the award the team must finish highly at the national championships and have a cumulative team GPA of 3.10.

Look who's ranked nationally in DIII football

The Ohio Northern football team is ranked No. 22 in the 2016 D3football.com preseason poll.

In June, the Polar Bears were ranked No. 10 in the 2016 Sporting News College Football magazine preseason poll and No. 11 in the Lindy's Sports College Football preview magazine preseason poll.

This marks the 11th time in the last 13 seasons that the Polar Bears have been ranked in a national poll.

Northern finished the season ranked No. 19 in the final D3football.com poll.

The Polar Bears went 9-3 overall, tied for second in the OAC with a 7-2 mark and advanced to the second round of the NCAA III Playoffs in 2015 under 12th-year head coach Dean Paul.

High school sports practices officially start Aug. 1

Summer conditioning programs and 10 days of coaching come to an end this weekend as the first official day of practice for all OHSAA fall sports arrives Monday, Aug. 1, according to the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
 
OHSAA fall sports
– Practices begins Monday, Aug. 1

Sport – Date that regular-season contests may begin:
     Cross Country – Aug. 22
     Field Hockey – Aug. 20
     Football – Aug. 22
     Golf – Aug. 5
     Soccer – Aug. 19
     Tennis (Girls) – Aug. 12
     Volleyball – Aug. 20

40 competitors at Saturday's Vault on the Tundra raise $1,500 for athletic equipment

By Monty Siekerman
Vault on the Tundra drew 40 competitors at ONU on Saturday.

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Steve Johnson, who has served as ONU's pole vault coach for the past three years, said the event raised about $1,500 for athletic equipment.

The pole vaulters competed outside next to King-Horn Center on a day when Ada temperatures reached 90 degrees.  The vaulters included high school boys and girls, collegiate, and men and women open.

Among them was Tyler Orewiler of Bucyrus, a recent ONU grad who placed second in Division III nationals with a vault of 17 feet. He is now a med student in Marietta.

August-September Bulldog schedule on sports calendar

Ada High School varsity fall sports schedules are listed on the Icon's sport calendar. The Icon has posted August and September contest for football, volleyball, girls' soccer, boys' soccer, boys' golf, cross country and girls' tennis on the calendar.

October and November games will be posted soon.

To access the calendar place your cursor over the "calendar" on the black scroll bar at the top of the home page. The "sports calendar" box will drop down.

Click on it and the sports calendar will appear.

You can also access the sports calendar by clicking here.

Ada is Ohio capital for pole vaulting on Saturday

Ada will be the Ohio capital for pole vaulting, and for that matter, the Midwest, on Saturday as Vault on The Tundra comes to ONU.

For athletes who pole vault, the event offers competition for high school girls, boys and collegiate women and men and an open class. This is the second year for Vault on The Tundra.

Here's the schedule:
10:30 a.m. - High school girls
Noon - High school boys
1:30 p.m. - Collegiate/open women
3 p.m. - Collegiate/open men

Competition takes place at Quad South of King Horn. In the event of rain the competition goes indoors.

The event is free and open to the public.

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