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Avon High School wrestling standout Zane Zeman has made school history before the wrestling season even started. The senior signed a national letter of intent on Wednesday to attend the University of Minnesota. Athletic director Erich Frombach said that Zeman is the first Avon High athlete to get an athletic scholarship to a Big Ten...
Every year at the ASICS Junior National Championships, the ASICS High School Wrestlers of the Year are announced. This recognizes the top high school athlete in the nation, regardless of age level. This year’s recipients are Morgan McIntosh of California for boys and Jenna Burkert of New York for girls. McIntosh, a 2010 ASICS Junior...
Everybody’s been there. Your hair is standing on end, you can hardly breathe and it feels like you have just swallowed a bullfrog. If Nick Tavanello (No. 8 @ 215) could break ground, he’d build a house in pressure situations like that. While most would rather sit in the shadows, the Wadsworth junior and 2011...
The Copley Indians fielded two wrestlers at this past weekend’s OHSAA Division I State Wrestling Championships and came away with a champion. Senior Sam Wheeler (H.M. @ 189), a University of Oklahoma recruit, won the 189-pound event with a narrow 1-0 win over Cincinnati Elder’s Kevin Hyland. Wheeler’s eventual road to the title was paved...
Two days after a state tournament usually is time to reflect upon yet another dominant performance by area wrestlers. Not this time. Wrestling is a year-round venture for those who stood on podiums and received medals at last week’s state tournament. For them, next season begins Monday, and 2011-12 promises to be extraordinary. The conversation...
Wadsworth’s Nick Tavanello (No.8 @ 215) became a two-time state champion Saturday evening when he defended his 215-pound title during the 74th annual state wrestling tournament at Value City Arena in Columbus. The junior defeated St. Edward junior Ty Walz (No.15 @ 215) 5-2 in the Division I final at Ohio State University. Tavanello’s finish...
The king is crowned once again. After a year off, the (No. 4) St. Edward High School wrestling team went back to work in retaining a state wrestling championship. The Eagles won their 26th overall state crown in front of over 14,000 fans inside Value City Arena in the Jerome Schottenstein Center on the campus...
Felipe Martinez’s (No.10 @ 145) wrestling season began with a whole bunch of drama, and it ended no differently. A referee’s decision Saturday night to penalize Martinez for stalling with two seconds left in regulation extended the Division III 152-pound state wrestling championship match into overtime, a territory the dominant Martinez has rarely encountered. In...
Six more state champions. An 11th straight Division II state team title. The school’s second-highest state tournament point total with 230.5. Business as usual for the mighty Graham Falcons (No. 5), most would say. But coach Jeff Jordan said Saturday’s showing in the final day of the state tourney at Ohio State University’s Schottenstein Center...
While Avon junior Zane Zeman enjoyed finishing as the Division II state runner-up, he plans on immediately getting to work on an upgrade for next season. Zeman won his first three matches in Columbus to reach the 145-pound final, wrestled two-time state champion Bo Jordan (No.5 @ 145) of St. Paris Graham tough for three...
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