The Ohio Northern women's basketball team is ranked No. 20 in the second weekly D3hoops.com Women's Division III poll and is receiving votes in the USA Today poll on Tuesday.
Ohio Northern received 125 votes in the second weekly D3hoops.com poll, 45 more than the 80 votes it received in last week's poll.
Voting is conducted by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country.
DePauw (Ind.) is ranked No. 1 with 623 points, followed by Mount Union with 586 points and Calvin (Mich.) with 545 points.
In USA today Division III coaches poll, Ohio Northern recieved eight votes.
An organizational meeting for Ada High School athletes interested in track is set for Friday, Dec. 7, after school at 3:35 p.m. The meeting is in the cafeteria.
Seven Ohio Northern student/athletes were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in volleyball for 2012 in voting conducted by the league's 10 faculty advisors.
Senior Ellen Grenert, juniors Jayce Born, Kristen Davidson, Jeni Kmic and Julia Fuerst and sophomores Rachel Olach and Amanda Volosin all received the honor.
Grenert is also a two-time All-OAC honoree and led the Polar Bears in kills this season with 293 and a .305 hitting percentage as an outside hitter.
She finished her career with 775 kills, 614 digs and 132 blocks and had double figures in kills 36 times in her three seasons at ONU. Grenert is majoring in exercise physiology.
The Ohio Northern women's soccer team had seven players earn Academic All-OAC selections for the 2012 season, in voting conducted by the league's 10 faculty advisors.
Senior Paige Garber, senior Lindsay Gilchrist, senior Nicole Grant, senior Tara Tokar, junior Lauren Brown, junior Lauren Zielinski and sophomore Kristina Klusek all earned selections for the Polar Bears.
Garber started in all 23 games for Northern this season. She is majoring in pharmacy and recorded two assists on the year, while anchoring a defense that gave up just 16 goals.
Five Ohio Northern student/athletes were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in football for 2012 in voting conducted by the league's 10 faculty advisors.
Senior Cullen Zelachowski, juniors Josh Bryan and Mike King and sophomores David Woolley and Sean Wolf were named Academic All-OAC.
Zelachowski is a three-year regular and a two year starter on the offensive line and is majoring in civil engineering.
A versatile player, Zelachowski started all 10 games this season and played four different positions. He started three times at left tackle, four times at left guard, once at right guard and twice at right tackle.
Eight Ohio Northern men's soccer students/athletes were voted Academic All-OAC for the 2012 season in voting done by the league's 10 faculty advisors.
Senior Nate Bascom, Mac Church, and Austin Windsor, juniors Jeremy Barnes, Brett Bomba, Matt Fleming, Stephen Perkins and Ken Wachtel all earned selections for Northern.
Bascom earned his second straight Academic All-OAC selection. He was also named CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year and was also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team.
