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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Mason boys tennis wins 2025 DI OTCA team championship; Indian Hill on deck for DII
One day after Greg Bernadsky won the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division I tennis singles championship, his team won the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association's team title. The Comets defeated University School 3-0 in the finals and New Albany 3-2 in the semifinals. Advertisement Bernadsky topped Vishwum Kapadia 6-1, 6-0; Daniel Tonkal defeated Lucas Weidenbecher 6-3, 6-3; and Shreyas Mantha defeated Charlie Christopherson, 6-0, 6-2, according to Scott Gerber from The doubles court matches did not finish. The Mason Comets boys tennis team won the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association 2025 state team competition. In a tight match against New Albany, Bernadsky won 6-1, 6-4 at first singles and both doubles teams won, Tonkal and Janek Teply (6-1, 6-1) and Aron Dornhecker and Mantha (7-5, 6-0) Also playing in the Division II team finals will be Indian Hill, after the Braves beat Columbus Academy 3-2 in the semifinals on the strength of first and second singles wins by Neelan Gandhi and Gareth Kurowski and the first doubles team of Michael Ryu and Jeremy Starczynowski. The Enquirer will update this story with Indian Hill's results. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati high school tennis teams in 2025 OTCA team tournament
Washington Post
4 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
California track-and-field championships draw limited protest over trans student's participation
CLOVIS, Calif. — California's high school track-and-field state finals will award one extra medal Saturday in events where a transgender athlete places in the top three, a rule change that may be the first of its kind nationally by a high school sports governing body. The new California Interscholastic Federation policy was written in response to the success of high school junior AB Hernandez, a trans student who competes in the girls high jump, long jump and triple jump. She led in all three events after preliminaries Friday. The CIF said earlier this week it would let an additional student compete and medal in the events where Hernandez qualified.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
High school football will never be the same in era of transfers, NIL money
When Charles Dickens began his 1859 novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' with the legendary line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,' who knew that it would aptly describe the state of amateur football in 2025? From college athletics to high school athletics, if you're a parent, coach, athlete or fan, you have plenty of stories to tell. Take notes, because there's so much material you'll be able to write a book, launch a podcast or participate in court cases still to be decided. Advertisement 'It's all crazy,' said future Hall of Fame football coach Matt Logan of Corona Centennial. Football isn't in a crisis but it is in a black hole with stakeholders seeking an escape path. With final rules still not adopted in how name, image and likeness is supposed to work and college programs not only paying their own athletes but high school recruits, too, everyone is adjusting on the fly. Parents trying to navigate the changes are hiring agents, who are showing up to high school camps trying to find clients. There's the college transfer portal and something similar in high school that saw more than 17,000 students switch schools in California last year. Until NIL rules are figured out, it's roll your eyes and don't be surprised at anything. Advertisement Read more: High school football transfers tracker: Which top players are switching schools? Some elite high school players have been reclassifying their graduation years to take advantage of money opportunities. And that's after parents held them back entering high school to be bigger, stronger and faster as a 16-year-old freshman. It's all legal and even logical but the changing landscape is riddled with pros and cons and bad actors. One big concern in high school sports is that parents might be too focused on scholarships for their kids and earning NIL money while forgetting the real reason people play sports — for the love of the game. Advertisement 'For me, the whole value in sports has been degenerated,' Logan said. 'You don't play sports to get a scholarship. You play to learn how to lead, how to take orders, how to be a good teammate, how to work together. This could be the only chance to have fun, play with their friends, have a great experience.' There have been football scandals in recent years — twice at Narbonne High, which had City Section championships taken away in 2019 and 2024 for using ineligible players. Now the football community is focused on what the Southern Section intends to do this fall about Bishop Montgomery, which supposedly has numerous transfer students (some from Narbonne) and is so confident it'll 'll be declared eligible that a trip to Hawaii and a nonleague game against powerful Mater Dei have been scheduled. Every week, coaches have to decide how to deal with players and parents who have little patience and many options. It's a balancing act, and for the elite of the elite, coaches can't even count on juniors returning as seniors because of opportunities to skip ahead to college. 'I understand why they are doing it. They have my full support,' said Sierra Canyon coach Jon Ellinghouse, who's losing star defensive lineman Richard Wesley to Oregon a year early after he reclassified to the class of 2026. Advertisement Ellinghouse is embracing the idea his job is to "put them into positions to have life-changing opportunities." There are many different paths to success and failure. Remember how LaVar Ball didn't care that his youngest son, LaMelo, was 13 years old playing summer basketball as a freshman for Chino Hills. He threw him in against older players and the rest is history. He averaged 25.2 points this season for the Charlotte Hornets as a 23-year-old in his fifth NBA season. There are others who were 19-year-old seniors in high school, stopped developing, kept switching schools and will probably blame their coaches for not making the pros when the truth is it's difficult to become a professional athlete. It is the best of times with all kinds of money to be given out for being a good athlete. It is the worst of times because many of the treasured lessons from playing amateur sports no longer receive priority treatment. What happened to the importance of getting a college degree? Advertisement It will take someone with magical ideas to return a balance to the amateur sports world. Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Spring Grove's Ella Bahn adds fifth PIAA gold medal to career haul
Ella Bahn likes to broaden her horizons and push herself, always adding to her athletic repertoire. The Spring Grove junior won a PIAA gold medal in the Class 3A 300 hurdles as a freshman. She added a high jump gold as a sophomore. This year, it was a third 300 hurdles gold and one in the 100 hurdles. Advertisement She runs those races regularly throughout the season. But this year, she focused on the 200 and 400 instead of high jump. She finished second at districts and took seventh at states. 'This has been a bad year for [high jump], but honestly, I'm happy with how today went,' Bahn said after her day ended with the 300-hurdle gold Saturday, May 24. 'I got a medal, and it was a season PR, so I think that's the best I can expect from it as this point.' With one high school season remaining and a college career to plan, she's thinking about branching out to long jump. She'll need it if she wants to try the heptathlon in college. She runs cross country in the fall to help with her endurance and to prepare her for those longer races. It's one of the eight Spring Grove records she owns or is part of (100 hurdles, 300 hurdles, 400 meters, 1600 meters, high jump and two relays). Spring Grove's Ella Bahn waves to family and friends after winning the 3A 100m hurdles during the PIAA Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 24, 2025. Bahn would love to add a couple more before she's finished. Advertisement 'It's something that I can just use to keep pushing myself to try other things,' she said. 'I think it's really good to have a visual goal that I can reach and expanding my horizons with track. I'm not saying it would get boring doing one event, but it certainly makes it more interesting to keep trying new things. 'And that's what high school track is all about. It's getting to try all the different events and find what you're good at for college.' Bahn already knows she wants to run the 400 hurdles in college. She tried it last year at nationals in Oregon and finished second. As she starts to look for potential college homes, she looks at their results to see how she would fit in. She'll also look at the competition on the team and in the conference and see what works best for her. Advertisement Bahn didn't get the competition she was hoping for in the 100 hurdles, but she certainly did in the 300. She and Kennett's Aydriane Bowden crossed the final hurdle in the 300 at the same time. Bahn out-leaned Bowden to win the gold by .06 in 41.98 seconds. The battle she was hoping for in the 100 hurdles never materialized because her biggest competition wasn't in the final. Spring Grove's Ella Bahn competes in the 3A 100m hurdles trials during the PIAA Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University on Friday, May 23, 2025. Chester's Damira Allen was the fastest qualifier in the 100 hurdles at 14.02, a mere 0.2 second faster than Bahn. But when she approached the start area for the hurdles after clearing 5-2 in the high jump, she heard an official say that Lane 4 was going to be empty. Advertisement The lane designated for Allen. The one right next to her. There was a paperwork snafu the day before involving a relay Allen was supposed to run in. The entire relay was scratched, which meant all the runners involved were scratched from any remaining events. Allen was also scratched from the 300 hurdles, where she had the sixth-fastest time in prelims. No replacements were called up to fill either spot. 'I was looking forward to that race because our PRs are a .001 of a second away from each other,' Bahn said. 'We were so close last year in the final. I thought it was just going to feel so good for the two of us to battle it out for the gold.' Advertisement Bahn won the 100 hurdles in 13.64, well ahead of Bowden who finished in 14.07. She will have some time to enjoy these wins and prepare for the next step. She's headed to New Balance Nationals at the University of Pennsylvania next month. Shelly Stallsmith covers York-Adams high school sports for GameTimePA and the USAToday Network. Connect with her by email mstallsmith@ or on X, formerly Twitter, @ShelStallsmith. This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: 2025 state track: Spring Grove's Ella Bahn wins fifth career gold medal
CBS News
19-05-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
2 bills aimed at banning offensive, discriminatory mascots at Illinois schools stalls in State Senate
Two bills aimed at mascots in Illinois high schools have temporarily stalled in the state's senate, but lawmakers say the legislation likely isn't going away anytime soon. One of those bills includes to ban the use of Native American mascots and imagery while the other wants to ban the use of discriminatory disability mascots. Some state house lawmakers expressed concerns over cost to local school districts, like downstate Freeburg. According to the high school's website, its athletic teen has been as the "Mighty Midgets" since the 1930's. "The team is named because of history. because of what went on there and so that's honoring them," Rep. Charlie Meier said "You could be playing another individual at another school who has dwarfism and imagine what that student feels when you are chanting your mascot," Co-director of Mascot's Matter Shelby Holloway said. an extension has been requested for the bill banning the use of discriminatory disability mascots... in hopes to assign it to committee before the end of session.
