Brady Cossette, left, and Bailey Gross compete during the Marysville track and field 1600 meter run at the summer series meet. The event was held at the MHS track facility. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) — The Marysville High School track and field program held its first summer series meet at the MHS track. “It was a lot of fun,” MHS Head Coach Luke Sundermier said. “We were all really pleased with the way that it went.” Nearly 50 youngsters and adults braved the evening heat to participate in various events. The youngest participate was age five and the oldest…
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Lady Monarch pitcher Tareyn Born fires the ball toward the plate during a game at Thomas Wortington. Born shared pitching duties with Abby Christian. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) — Marysville High School’s varsity softball team won a Division I district title a few weeks ago by using a rather unusual type of pitching rotation. Junior hurlers Abby Christian and Tareyn Born basically split duties each game as the Lady Monarchs rolled to a 25-4 record. It was a strategy that surprised both of them once Marysville returned from its spring break trip to Myrtle Beach. “Coach Segner talked to…
Larry McDonald gets in a workout at the Marysville High School track. McDonald will compete in the Ohio Senior Olympics in Westerville. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) — His running career began in high school and continued through college. He ran road races until his middle 30’s. Now, Larry McDonald of Marysville is preparing to compete in today’s Ohio Senior Olympics at Otterbein University. McDonald got in a workout at the Marysville High School track during the middle of the week. He also participated in the MHS track and field program’s summer series meet. “I’m using this as a warm-up…
Chase Brackenridge of Fairbanks follows through on his first tee shot at the Marysville Golf Club. Brackenridge competed during a Heart of Ohio Junior Golf tournament and won his age bracket. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) — Fairbanks’ Chase Brackenridge had a solid day during the Heart of Ohio Junior Golf Association tournament that was played at the Marysville Golf Club. Brackenridge shot a two-over-par 33-41-74 (including five birdies and seven pars) to claim his first-place win in the 16-18 division. Alex Crowe of Fairbanks and Nicholas McMullen of Galion shared a tie for runner-up honors as both carded a…
Steve Conley has worn plenty of hats throughout his professional career. He’s been a school teacher at Fairbanks High School, served as the Panthers’ athletic director during a couple of stints, coached sports such as football, track and field and boys and girls basketball and served as the director of Parks and Recreation for the city of Marysville. Conley, who is retired from the world of education, has now taken on another title, that of commissioner of the Ohio Heritage Conference. The circuit is the athletic affiliation for Fairbanks and Triad high/middle school sports teams. The commissionership became open with…
Reese Cordonnier, above, and Gabe Filbert are pictured competing during a Marysville High School swim meet. Both are members of the Marysville Stingrays summer program. (Journal-Tribune photos by Tim Miller) — The Marysville Stingrays swim teams dropped meets to the Dublin Muirfins. Dublin captured top honors in the boys meet by a score of 329-301. The Lady Muirfins won their competition, 459-344. Marysville’s top finishes were as follows: -Boys 9-10 100 IM: Josue Tangeman, first, 1:57.0; -Boys 13-14 100 IM: Patrick Filbert, first, 1:07.51; Carter Cancallo, second, 1:12.32; -Girls 15-18 100 IM: Janie Clayton, first, 1:09.21; Reese Cordonnier, second, 1:09.81;…
Jonathan Alder High School’s girls bowling team finished 11th overall during the recent national high school bowling tournament. The event was held in Louisville, Ky. The qualifying round of the tournament left the Lady Pioneers in ninth place (out of 35 teams). They advanced to three additional rounds before notching their final finish. Kadie Walter led Jonathan Alder with a 601 series during the team qualifying round. There were also singles qualifying competitions. Daisy Henderson of Alder finished in the top four during singles competition. She rolled games of 236, 134, 197 and 217 for a series score of 885.…
Reese DeCamp of North Union releases a pitch toward the plate during a 2022 home game. The Lady Cats’ home diamond was just one of many projects funded by Springenfest, which was the predecessor of the North Union Sports Festival. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff) — It sounds as though this past weekend’s North Union Sports Festival in Richwood attracted a good number of people. I was happy to hear that, because I know the good the festival and its predecessor, Springenfest have done for NU athletics for more than four decades. I can go back to the pre-Springenfest days…
Brynn Rychlik clears the pole vault bar for the Marysville Lady Monarchs during a 2021 meet. Rychlik is recovering from a broken wrist before returning to the University of Akron. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) — If you listened to Brynn Rychlik go over her list of injuries, you’d think it would be better for her to just try walking instead of participating in sports. “Let’s see, I’ve broken my back twice, have had a couple of knee surgeries and punctured a lung after breaking a rib,” she said. “Oh… I also had a bleeding kidney because of the punctured…
Elise Freeland has returned to the Marysville High School softball program as an assistant coach. In the photo above, she conducts a running drill during a summer camp session. In the photo below, she is pictured tagging out a runner at second base during her career as a Lady Monarch. (Journal-Tribune photos by Tim Miller) — The late author Thomas Wolfe wrote a 1940 novel entitled “You Can’t Go Home Again.” Marysville High School graduate Elise Freeland must have missed a majority of those chapters. Freeland, a 2017 graduate of MHS, was recently hired as a tenth-grade English teacher…
Emily Daniel rips a base hit for the Marysville High School girls softball team. Daniel recently completed another successful season with the University of Dayton. (Journal-Tribune file photo by Tim Miller) — Emily Daniel made a big name for herself when she played softball at Marysville High School. The 2019 MHS graduate earned first-team honors in the Ohio Capital Conference and Central District (Division I), along with All-Ohio honorable mention accolades. Along the way, she set single-season and career batting average records with respective marks of .559 and .545. Daniel has continued her diamond success on the collegiate level, but…
Members of the 2021-2022 Jonathan Alder High School girls bowling team are pictured, from left, front row, Ella Campbell, Jenise Jordan and Taylor Heineman; second row, Daisy Henderson, Haley Henderson, Danielle Phipps and Trisha Lennex; back row, coach Mike Walter, Karlie Gavula, Trisha Hall, Shea Huntington and coach Rusty Walter. Not pictured, Satavia Kempton, Kadie Walter, Kenlee Monnin, Macie Lane and Jalyn Moore. Several members of the team will compete in the national high school tournament this weekend. (Journal-Tribune file photo) — Members of the Jonathan Alder High School girls bowling team will be competing during the national championship tournament.…
This is a Journal-Tribune file photo of Fairbanks High School swimmer Margo Geer as she trains at the Union County Family YMCA. Geer, who is the head women’s and men’s swimming coach at the University of Alabama, has been named the school’s coach of the year for all sports. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) — Fairbanks High School graduate Margo Geer has been known for a lot of reasons for many years. Most folks in Union County remember her as an eight-time state high school swimming champion during her days at FHS. The 2010 Fairbanks graduate captured state title honors…
Marysville High School varsity softball catcher Haley Winans, left, and first baseman Camryn Harbold go through a throwing drill during a hot and humid first night of summer camp. Pictured in the background are assistant coach Brent Maxwell, left, and head coach Jennifer Segner-Maxwell. The Lady Monarchs, who won a Division I district championship this past season, will be working out on Monday and Wednesday evenings this summer. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller)
Austin Owings, left, takes part in the high jump, while Olivia Baumbarger, right, practices a relay race during the Marysville track and field youth camp. Youngsters will compete in a pair of track and field meets at the Marysville High School facility in the coming weeks. (Journal-Tribune photos by Tim Miller) — Marysville High School track and field head coach Luke Sundermeier wants to keep the sport in local youths’ minds during the summer months. A three-day camp was recently held in preparation for a pair of upcoming summer meets. The event was actually limited to two days due to one…