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
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.
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 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.
Ada High School's 2016 fall athletic schedules are now on the Icon. The fall schedules are in at attachment at the bottom of this story.
Opening game and matches vary from sport to sport. All varsity teams launch their seasons with home games except for for cross county, which has all meets on the road, and girls' tennis, which opens at Toledo Rogers on Aug. 13. Cross country's first meet is Sept. 3 at the Columbus Grove Invitational.
First games for all other varsity teams, at home, include:
Ada High School junior, Melina Woods, recently competed in the AAU National Volleyball Tournament at the ESPN Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Florida. She and her teammates from Elite Volleyball Training Center in Plain City, Ohio, placed third out of 114 teams.
Woods and her teammates from 16 Elite Black made it to the semi-finals with a 12-0 record before falling in three sets to the eventual champions from Nebraska.
In four days of play, 16 Elite Black defeated teams from Texas, Washington, South Carolina, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Dakota.
