JULY 27 MEDIA RELEASE__Urgent volunteer opportunity: the Ada Soccer Association is seeking volunteer coaches for 2 fall teams – one is a U10 Coed (all boys) team, and the other is a U12 Coed (all boys) teams.
Please don’t be deterred if you don’t have experience with soccer, you can be set up with coach to teach you the basics, give ideas on how to run practices, and drills that would be beneficial. It’s a short season and coaches make their own practice schedules.
ADA – Several Bulldog girls soccer players of the recent past and current vintage squared off on a wet field for the annual alumni vs. varsity game Friday, July 25, in War Memorial Stadium.
It rained hard about an hour before game time, making the synthetic turf slick but also dropping the temperatures to about 79 degrees as the sun disappeared.
Neither team scored in the first 20-minute quarter. Alumni goalkeeper Katie Sizemore made several good diving and sliding saves to keep the game scoreless.
WAPAKONETA __The Ada Gators boys finished a solid fifth at the annual eight-team Western Ohio Aquatics League summer swim championships hosted at the Wapakoneta village pool July 11-12.
The Gators girls took eighth place, and Ada finished sixth in the combined team standings.
The WOAL meet is for swimmers aged 5-18 who are members of one of the league’s eight teams. Over 500 swimmers competed in the hot two-day championship event.
The Bluffton Sardines won the boys/girls team title. The Sardine boys captured first, while the Bluffton girls came in third.
ONU junior Marisa Alfes (Bellbrook) has been named an All-American Scholar for 2024-25 by the Women's Golf Coaches Association.
The criteria for WGCA All-American Scholar honors is a 3.50 GPA, be an amateur and have played in 50 percent or more of the team's events during the season.
A total of 1,499 women's collegiate golfers from 403 programs across the country were honored on Monday.
Alfes, a finance major, is a three-time All-OAC honoree, winning the individual OAC title this season. She finished 25-over par 79-76-82-76—313.
BLUFFTON__The Ada Gators summer swim team competed in a West Ohio Aquatic League triangular meet at Bluffton with Shawnee on Monday evening, June 30 to conclude the regular season.
The host Sardines won the boys meet. They dunked Shawnee 382-96 and beat the Ada boys 328-151. But the Gator males beat Shawnee, 243.5 to 144.5.
The Shawnee girls beat Ada 312-115.5, yet lost to Bluffton 293-211. The Sardine girls defeated the Gator females, 418-85.
The Gator boys finished their summer season with a 4-3 dual meet record. The Ada girls ended up 1-6.
JUNE 27 MEDIA RELEASE__More than 500 swimmers and their families will descend on Wapakoneta July 11-12, 2025, for the annual Western Ohio Aquatics League (WOAL) Swim Champs. WOAL is for swimmers aged 5-18 who are members of one of the league’s teams.
Wapakoneta Village pool is the host site for the 2025 Swim Champs and will host seven teams: Ada Gators, Bluffton Sardines, Findlay Frogs, Kenton Stingrays, Shawnee Tide, Wapakoneta Waves, Westside Wave and Van Wert Marlins. Teams will compete for the 2025 league title.
