Sports Awards

Sports Awards

• Congratulations to the following 2009 spring sports winners:
  
  • high school baseball regular season co-champions are Ellet (coach John Sarver) and Kenmore (coach Joseph Nauer); playoff champion is Ellet (coach Sarver); player of the year is Ryan Harris, Kenmore; coach of the year is Sarver, Ellet
  • high school softball regular season and playoff champion is Ellet (coach Charles Shuman); player of the year is Taylor Charles, Ellet; coach of the year is Bruce Clough, Firestone
  • high school tennis regular season champion is Firestone (coach Craig Sampsell); player of the year is Bradley Minrovic, Ellet; coach of the year is Sampsell, Firestone
  • high school female track champion is Buchtel (coach John Scott)
  • high school male track champion is North (coach Thomas O'Neil)

• Firestone student Sara Hardman was named a 2009 Academic All-Star in the Akron Beacon Journal's Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Year competition. The following Firestone students were awarded honorable mention: Katherine Alkire, Elizabeth Aronhalt, Alysse Bryson, Jordan Reilly, Andrew Scott and Jessica White.
• Firestone senior Christine Coffman is the #1 seed in the Northeast tennis sectional for the second year in a row. She qualified for the state tennis tournament by capturing the #3 seed in the Oberlin District Tournament. Her coach is Craig Sampsell.
• Congratulations to the following 2009 fall sports winners:
  • middle school soccer champion: Hyre (coach David Hardwick)
  • middle school softball champion: Hyre (coach Robert Mosher)
  • high school male cross-country regular season and city champion: Firestone (coach Matthew Cochran); runner of the year: Joshua Clemence, Firestone; coach of the year: John MacLean, East
  • high school female cross-country regular season and city champion: Ellet (coach John Cochran); runner of the year: Cara DeAngelis, Ellet; coach of the year: John Cochran, Ellet
  • high school golf regular season and tournament champion: Ellet (coach Lonnie Kammer); player of the year: Bradley Minrovic, Ellet; coach of the year: Lonnie Kammer, Ellet
  • high school football regular season winner: Buchtel (coach Ricky Powers); offensive player of the year: Tyson Gulley, Garfield; defensive player of the year: Kevin Brewton, Garfield; coach of the year: Ricky Powers, Buchtel
  • high school soccer regular season champion: Firestone (coach Michael Householder); co-players of the year: Matthew Davis of Firestone and Michael Massaro of Kenmore; coach of the year: Roberto Flores, North
  • high school volleyball regular season and city champion: Firestone (coach Stacey Myers); player of the year: Kayla Dadich, Ellet; coach of the year: Francine Blake, Buchtel
• Buchtel became the first APS school in 30 years to win an Associated Press state poll championship in boys basketball, thanks to its 75-66 victory over Dayton Dunbar. Central-Hower was the last APS school to win the Division I crown in 1980.
• Congratulations to the East boys' basketball team – Division I District champions.
• Congratulations to the following 2009-10 winter sports winners:
  • middle school boys' basketball champion: Litchfield (coach Scott Armstrong)
  • middle school girls' basketball champion: Hyre (coach Debra Firtha)
  • middle school volleyball champion: Hyre (coach Debra Firtha)
  • middle school wrestling co-champions: Innes (coach Eugene Calvin) and Litchfield (coach Robert Conley)
  • high school male basketball regular season and playoff champion: Buchtel (coach Stephen White); player of the year: Charles Hearn, Kenmore; coach of the year; White, Buchtel
  • high school female basketball regular season and playoff champion: Firestone (coach Audley McGill); player of the year: Imani Gordon, Firestone; coach of the year: McGill, Firestone
  • high school City Series dual meet wrestling champion: Kenmore (coach Lee Thompson); wrestler of the year: Cody Lambert, Kenmore; wrestler of the tournament: Anthony Bable, Firestone; co-coaches of the year: Thompson, Kenmore; and Michael Laktash, Ellet
• Thirty STEM School students competed in the 46th annual Age Group Track Program held at Firestone, and 27 placed in their events. Students from 30 elementary and three middle schools participated in six events (two field and four running). Results are posted at www.akron.k12.oh.us/dept/050. The STEM school students' coach is Aaron Merz.
• North students in rooms 110, 118, 126, 218 and 420 earned a trophy for their bowling performance at the Riviera Lanes tournament. The trophy is on display in the school's main office.
• The following students were named WAKR's Student Athlete of the Week: Buchtel – Johnathan Coleman (football) and Jason Pitts (basketball); East – Jalisa Gavin (basketball) and Gerald Gregory (football); Ellet – Jeffrey Cockerham (golf) and Cara DeAngelis (cross-country); Firestone – Samantha Cardarelli (volleyball); Garfield – Sheldon Spaulding (basketball); and North – Jesse Unk (track).
• Akron Digital Academy freshman Jackson Harris won two gold medals in speed skating at the Special Olympics. He also lettered in bowling and baseball this year.