Here's a photo of this summer's Ada swim team. The team finished third place in the Western Ohio Aquatic League championships at the Bluffton pool in July.
The 80-member team was lead by swimmer/coaches Katey and Kyley Stuart and head coach Logan Rex. (Carl Wilkerson photo)
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.
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.
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.
