The Town Collection All-Sports activities Trophy is closing at Firestone for a 2nd 12 months in a row.
Akron Public Faculties Athletic Director Joe Vassalotti introduced that Firestone earned the trophy for the 2022-2023 faculty 12 months.
Ellet completed 2nd and Buchtel 3rd. North completed fourth, East used to be 5th and Garfield used to be 6th.Â
“One in all our coaches, Paul Gegick [at Firestone], steered in early 2017 {that a} Town Collection All-Sports activities Trophy could be a good suggestion for our league,” Vassalotti stated. “We agreed and started having a look at what different leagues had been doing. So, all over the 2017-18 faculty 12 months, we started festival for this award amongst our conventional prime colleges with OHSAA programming.”Â
Firestone additionally earned the trophy for the 2017-2018, 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 faculty years.
Buchtel gained the trophy for the 2018-2019 and 2020-2021 faculty years.
“Recently, we award issues for sports activities with no less than 4 of our six colleges competing — tennis and football, for instance,” Vassalotti stated. “Fairly extra issues are awarded in sports activities for which all six of our conventional prime colleges have groups — women volleyball and observe and box, for instance. Issues are earned in accordance with the regular-season standings and one by one for a league playoff championship, if appropriate.
“Extra issues are conceivable by way of profitable person or crew OHSAA district, regional, and state championships. Our Athletics Advisory Committee supplies governance in regards to the Town Collection All-Sports activities Trophy.”
Firestone boys groups gained Town Collection regular-season championships in go nation, wrestling, tennis and observe and box. The Falcons earned boys league postseason titles in go nation, wrestling, tennis, observe and box and baseball.
Firestone women groups gained Town Collection regular-season and postseason championships in go nation, volleyball and observe and box.Â
“We’re more than happy with profitable the trophy once more,” Firestone Athletic Director Brian Fuller stated. “I informed the coaches this can be a results of them, their youngsters and all in their exhausting paintings. All of them put the paintings in and do a perfect activity. We admire all of our fellow APS colleges and want them all of the easiest, and are glad to win the trophy.”
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Fuller stated APS introduced an all-sports trophy up to now to a best faculty earlier than it used to be introduced again six years in the past.
Firestone and Buchtel athletes win state championships
Swimmers Jonny Marshall and Tera Brilmyer, wrestler Emily Lorenzon and runner Nate Julien had been amongst Firestone’s best person athletes all over the closing faculty 12 months.
Marshall gained his 3rd consecutive Department I state championship within the 100-yard backstroke. Brilmyer and Lorenzon had been state placers of their respective sports activities, and Julien used to be a Department I go nation state qualifier and a regional qualifier in observe and box.
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Ellet gained Town Collection titles in bowling, softball and baseball, women football and women basketball. Sophomore Caitlyn Holmes earned All-Ohio Department I honors in basketball.
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Buchtel’s crowning second got here in boys basketball with starters Marcel Boyce Jr., Khoi Thurmon, Amire Robinson, Jayden Maxwell and Stevie Diamond main the Griffins to the Department II state name. Diamond and Boyce additionally performed key roles at the Buchtel soccer crew that made a Department IV regional semifinal look, and the Griffins had been neatly represented within the Department II observe and box state meet.
East featured proficient boys basketball and soccer groups that completed 2nd to Buchtel.
Markeise Smith of Garfield and Nye Kimble of North concluded the observe and box season within the Department I state meet. Smith completed because the state runner-up within the boys prime soar.
Michael Beaven can also be reached at mbeaven@thebeaconjournal and is on Twitter at @MBeavenABJ.
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