Ohio Northern is ranked 25th nationally in the Learfield Directors' Cup standings. Points are scored in nine men's and nine women's sports relative to their final standings in the NCAA Championships for those 18 sports.
The Polar Bears have scored 226.25 through March 15 and are expected to move up in the standings after the women's basketball team reached the Elite 8 of the NCAA III Tournament.
Senior Angela Tesny (Medina) and juniors Courtney Cramer (Arcadia) and Shannon Jack (Akron/St. Vincent St. Mary) each were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference for the 2016-17 basketball season.
Tesny, a 2-time letterwinner and Mechanical Engineering major, earned the honor for the third time in her career.
Cramer, a Marketing major, earned the honor for the second consecutive season.
Jack, a Public Relations major, was named Academic All-OAC in her first season as a Polar Bear.
Four members of the ONU men's swimming and diving deam were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference for 2016-17.
Senior Eric Chen (Mason), juniors Thomas Golba (Dayton/Alter) and Ian Simpson(Strongsville) and sophomore Gabe Rastatter (Springfield/Kenton Ridge) all received the honor.
Chen, a pharmaceutical business major, is now a 3-time Academic All-OAC honoree.
He is also a 13-time OAC Champion and a 19-time All-Conference award winner.
This season, Chen was part of ONU's OAC Champion 400 and 800 free relay teams and was All-OAC in the 100 and 200 free events and as part of ONU's 200 free and 400 medley relays.
Six athletes from the Ohio Northern men's basketball team have been named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference for the 2016-17 season.
Senior Joey Hurless (Van Wert), juniors Grant Pepper (Oakwood), Alex Sibila (Zionsville, Ind.), Joey DiOrio (Columbus/Watterson), Max Harnett (Kettering/Alter) and sophomore Sean Grady (Willowick/Eastlake North) each earned the honor for Northern
They say that all good things must come to an end, and last weekend the Ohio Northern University women’s basketball team learned that the same holds for truly great things.
The 2016-17 Polar Bears will go down in ONU sports history as the school’s greatest women’s basketball team.
The Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) champions were dominant, going undefeated in the regular season (28-0) for the first time in school history.
They parlayed that success to a No. 5 ranking and an invitation to the NCAA Division III Tournament, where they reached two more milestones in advancing to the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds for the first time.
Emily Richards won two national championships at the NCAA Division III indoor track and field championships in Naperville, Ill., last weekend. She won the 800-meter and 1-mile runs. She is the first athlete in ONU history to win two national titles at one meet. Emily is a junior chemistry major from Delaware, Ohio.
