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Ohio high school track and field | Live results, updates Saturday from 2024 OHSAA state meet
DAYTON — The Ohio High School Athletic Association three-day state track and field championship meet started Thursday at Welcome Stadium on the University of Dayton campus and continued Friday. Things wrap up Saturday, with finals in Divisions I and II, and in seated track events. Greater Akron is well represented, as usual, with...
Area D-III girls kick off the state track meet
DAYTON – Coldwater junior Izzy Zahn is accustomed to staying busy. Zahn was very busy on Thursday, the first day of the Ohio High School Athletic Association State Track and Field Championships at the University of Dayton. Zahn qualified in four events for this year’s Division III state track...
Area D-II girl athletes place at state meet
DAYTON — Whenever St. Marys’ Syerra Greber and Bath’s Tatum Walsh stepped on the track to compete against each other, it was a sure thing that it was going to be a battle between those two sprinters. On Saturday, the third and final day of the Ohio...
Catch up on the best performances from the 2024 OHSAA track and field championships
After a successful run of regional track and field results, the fastest runners, best jumpers and farthest throwers gathered at Dayton's Welcome Stadium for the Ohio High School Athletic Association state championships. The weekend started on a high note as New Richmond's Grant Harrison won a pole vault state title and Wyoming's Penelope...
Golden day: Crestview's Wade Bolin wins state titles in discus, shot put
DAYTON — Wade Bolin is historic. The Crestview senior thrower won the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division IIII state championship Thursday in the discus, recording a winning throw of 187-10. Bolin had four separate throws that would have won him the state championship, but it was the throw of 187-10 — his...
Rodgers heads to the 2024 Ohio Track State Championships
Belpre, OH (WTAP) - Not a lot of people can say they made it to the grandest stage of high school competition in the state of Ohio. Senior Blake Rodgers though was able to accomplish this task. Even though he just signed to play at Wright State in his collegiate...
Chillicothe's Kiera Archer places seventh to make All-Ohio podium at state track and field meet
DAYTON — Kiera Archer didn't know how her weekend was going to play out. The Chillicothe junior wasn't sure just how she would shake up against her competitors in the 400-meter dash at the OHSAA state track and field meet. In the days leading up to the the meet, she was excited, yet ready for whatever outcome she earned.
Ohioans keep betting more and more on sports, data shows
CLEVELAND, Ohio — For the third straight month the volume of sports betting in Ohio has seen year-over-year growth, showing that 2023′s betting numbers from the first year weren’t all just pent-up demand. Gamblers bet $672 million on sports in April, up 29% from $522 million bet...
Fredericktown, Clear Fork athletes 2nd at state track meet
DAYTON — It was a big day for north central Ohio athletes in the finals of the Division II field events. Clear Fork freshman Davis Hoeflich took state runner-up honors with a leap of 6-8, while Fredericktown’s Ella Bouton was second in the girls shot put with a throw of 41-10.75. Shelby’s Madison Henkel took third in the girls long jump (18-2.75 and Galion’s Miranda Stone was third in the girls discus (140-4).
Granville’s McCracken places fourth in Division I state pole vault
DAYTON — It was an abnormally long wait for the girls pole vaulters to be honored on the podium Saturday, but Annie McCracken was not rushing this moment. The Granville sophomore capped a postseason to remember with another personal best and earned her first medal. McCracken cleared 11 feet, 6 inches to place...
Distance doubles in postseason have Daniela Scheffler ready for 3,200 at OHSAA state track
A loaded 3,200-meter field awaits Daniela Scheffler at the OHSAA State Track and Field Championships. For one of the first times this season, she will be on fresh legs. The Lake High School junior will return to the same 3,200 she ran a year ago where she placed fifth in the state. The...
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