After spending more than a third of a century in the Buckeye Valley Local School District — first as a student-athlete, then as a teacher and coach and finally as athletic director — Carol Evans is moving on to the next chapter in her life.
Ohio Wesleyan University senior Sharif Kronemer (Silver Spring, Md./Springbrook) won the highest honor at the eighth annual Dale J. Bruce Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner, held on Thursday in the Benes Rooms of the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center on the Ohio Wesleyan campus.
Surrounded by his teammates, Matt Bonfini, forward for the National Champion Ohio Wesleyan University soccer team, holds up the team’s trophy during a victory rally at the university Monday. The team beat Calvin in San Antonio Saturday to win the NCAA Division III Championship. The win gave OWU men’s soccer coach Jay Martin his 608th career victory, making him the winningest men’s soccer coach in all divisions. The team had to overcome unexpected pressure resulting from the theft of items from team vans after arriving in San Antonio. More than 100 students and administrators attended Monday’s event recognizing the team’s accomplishment.
Senior forward Travis Wall (Columbus/Upper Arlington) and sophomore midfielder Paolo Bucci (Dublin/Bishop Watterson) scored goals that gave Ohio Wesleyan a 2–0 first-half lead, and the Battling Bishop defense held off a determined Calvin squad during the second half as the Bishops defeated the Knights 2–1 in the NCAA Division III national championship game on Saturday in San Antonio, Texas.
Sophomore midfielder Jon Stegner (Powell/Olentangy Liberty), senior forward Travis Wall (Columbus/Upper Arlington), and senior forward Tyler Bryant (Chillicothe/Unioto) scored goals as Ohio Wesleyan built a 3–0 halftime lead, and the Bishops went on to defeat Montclair (N.J.) State in a national semifinal game of the NCAA Division III tournament on Friday in San Antonio, Texas.
The Ohio Wesleyan University men’s soccer team will compete in a national semifinal game of the NCAA Division III tournament, it was announced earlier this week.
A total of 6 Ohio Wesleyan University women’s soccer players were named to the All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams, it was announced earlier this week.
The Ohio Wesleyan University men’s soccer team will host third-round and national quarterfinal games of the NCAA Division III tournament on Friday and Saturday at Roy Rike Field on the Ohio Wesleyan campus, it was announced Monday.