Stories by Kermit Rowe
Wrestling Insider: Cougars taking ‘baby steps’ under new coach
SPRINGFIELD — To be a champion, you have to train like a champion.That’s the only way former Graham state wrestling champion Cameron Doggett knows how to do it. In turn, that’s the only way he knows how to teach it as a first-year head coach at Kenton Ridge High School.Call ...
Graham faces top-ranked team
ST. PARIS — Some of the top prep winter sports athletes in the country will be on display Saturday at Graham High School during a rare boys basketball and wrestling doubleheader.The Falcons will welcome Blair Academy of New Jersey for a 3:30 p.m. boys hoops game, followed by a nationally-ranked ...
Wrestling Insider: Rare rebuilding year for many programs
Nearly every wrestling program faces it at one time or another, regardless of how successful it has been.It is the dreaded “rebuilding year.”And this year, traditional powers like Tecumseh and Northeastern are struggling, as are Shawnee and Greeneview.“It’s going on at a lot different places,” said Tecumseh’s Scott Herbert, who ...
Youth program built base for Southeastern wrestling
SOUTH CHARLESTON — There wasn’t a magic wand that someone waved and “poof” varsity wrestling and bowling programs magically appeared at Southeastern High School.Both were a result of a lot of groundwork. The bowling squad started as a club sport. The wrestling team, on the other hand, evolved from a ...
Southeastern gymnast competes as a team of one
SOUTH CHARLESTON — Southeastern High School freshman Katy Clark recently took a tumble while representing the Trojans during an athletic competition ... and it was a good thing.You see, Clark is a gymnast — the only high school gymnast in Clark County. And if she tumbles well, she scores well. ...
Prep Wrestling Insider: Coaches travel different roads to success
For two of them, it’s been a classic rebuilding project, with differing degrees of success. For the other, it has been taking an established program and making it his own.The area’s three new head wrestling coaches may share similarities and challenges. But their paths have been much different in their ...
Prep Wrestling Notes: Shawnee wrestlers in a rebuilding year
SPRINGFIELD — One of the biggest turnarounds among area wrestling programs in recent years has come at Shawnee High School.The Braves have consistently been near the top of the Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division standings under coach Rick Allen and have annually sent qualifiers to the state tournament.But they ...
Harness racers hail Springfield native
When you call the cellphone of Springfield native Tom Charters, the long-time president and chief executive officer of the Hambletonian Society, he jokingly ends his greeting with, “I’ll see you in the winner’s circle.”Charters, a 1966 graduate of Catholic Central, should know the way.His career in harness racing has been ...
Area freshman wrestlers talented once again
With each wrestling season brings a new freshman crop of high school wrestling talent to the area.But rarely do you get a class that experienced the success of last season’s crop, which was highlighted by three state placers — Graham’s state champ Micah Jordan, Mechanicsburg’s third-placer Austin Reese and Kenton ...
Graham will be an underdog at St. Ed’s
If it is mid-January, it must be time for “The Rivalry.”Graham vs. Lakewood St. Edward is not of the magnitude of Ohio State vs. Michigan, but in wrestling circles — both Ohio’s and nationally — when these two schools get together on the mats, excitement is sure to follow.The Falcons ...
Prep Wrestling Insider: Springfield’s big four test each other
SPRINGFIELD — “Big Country” is the nickname for Springfield’s undefeated sophomore, 220-pounder Devin Nye.But it seems to fit the bottom third of the Wildcats’ lineup just as well.Springfield’s four big boys are one of the best collections of upper weights an area school has put on the mat in many ...
Prep Wrestling Notes: Warriors garner respect by winning Clark County Clash
SPRINGFIELD — With each tournament, Northwestern High School’s young wrestling team gains experience, confidence, success and as a result, respect.The Warriors went into the inaugural Clark County Clash on Saturday feeling disrespected, then proceeded to win over a few more believers with the team championship.“I was very proud of the ...
Prep Wrestling Insider: County Clash comes to life Saturday
SPRINGFIELD — It’s been a long time coming, but it is finally here. It’s county wrestling meet time again. Thanks to the efforts of Shawnee head coach Rick Allen and the cooperation of the county’s wrestling coaches, the first Clark County Clash is set for 9 a.m. Saturday at Shawnee ...
Prep Wrestling Notes: Graham reloads after tough meet
ST. PARIS — Graham didn’t exactly have the weekend it was hoping for when it left for Minnesota last week to ring in the New Year at “The Clash” dual meet tournament.But one thing’s for sure: The Falcons have little time to worry about it.They will host Mason for a ...
Giving some workable ‘re-solutions’
Every New Year seems to bring a boatload of resolutions, all of which are made to be kept but end up being mostly broken.Despite this, though, I feel the need to share some of the resolutions I’ve been thinking about lately. It’s an annual exercise in futility that affords itself ...
Prep Wrestling Insider: Tourney wide open without Graham
The biggest news for area wrestling fans concerning the annual Greater Miami Valley Wrestling Association’s Holiday Classic, which starts today at Wright State University, is not who is wrestling, but who isn’t.Graham, seven-time defending GMVWA champion and 11-time defending Division II state champion, decided not to wrestle in southwest Ohio’s ...
Mechanicsburg’s loss of Black called ‘devastating’
One of the area’s best returning wrestlers will not get a chance to prove it, thanks to an injury suffered last week.Mechanicsburg High School junior returning state qualifier Austin Black injured his shoulder during a dual meet Dec. 21 at Covington.“He had a bad separation. It was way out of ...
Northwestern wrestling team has secret weapons
SPRINGFIELD — What a difference a year makes.Last year, the Northwestern wrestling team started off with four wrestlers and ended the season with just two. The future never looked more bleak — if you were focusing on the present.This season, a logical goal would be just to have a team ...
Kenton Ridge responds to new coach with duals win
SPRINGFIELD — When rookie head coach Cameron Doggett was bragging on his young Kenton Ridge High School team during the preseason, the gut reaction would seem to be to chalk the talk up to the naivety of an inexperienced coach.Even if that coach was a former state champion wrestler for ...
Rowe: What has happened to sports?
Sometimes, I wonder what this world would look like to me if I had been in a coma for 20 years, and then suddenly woke up in 2011.I guess I would be stunned by a lot of things that I saw.Like watching people buy $5 fast food burgers and $7 ...
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