2014 Track and Field Coaches Classic Scholarship

The Southwest Ohio Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association is glad to offer two scholarships to area high school Track and Field athletes during the 2014 spring season. The scholarships will be awarded to one male and one female student-athlete based on several factors, including athletic participation, academic merit, social activism, contribution to sport, leadership, character, and need.

Details:

• Application available January 1, 2014.
• Application due February 19, 2014 by 11:59 PM.
• Awards of $500 each to 1 male and 1 female student-athlete
• Awards are non-renewable
• Monies distributed directly to bursar upon post-secondary matriculation (college, university, community college)

Eligibility:

• Student-athlete must have competed in Coaches Classic Track Meet in at least 2 seasons (probable participation Senior year can be included)
• Student-athlete must be college bound
• Student-athlete must enroll and begin in post-secondary institution to receive scholarship
• Student-athlete must be in good standing in school and athleticse
• Appropriate party must complete respective part of application (Student-Athlete, Coach, Community Member)–All 3 must be complete to be considered for scholarship

Application Instructions:

• We strongly encourage you to fill out the application through the forms linked below.
• One person should fill out each part of the application regarding student-athlete.
  • Student-Athlete should fill out Student-Athlete part
  • Coach should fill out Coach part
  • Community member (employer, religious leader, service advisor, etc) should fill out Community Member part
• If a paper application is absolutely necessary:
  • Print the application in its entirety
  • Appropriate parties complete parts of application. Longer responses should be recorded on separate sheets of paper (preferably typed) and attached to original application.
  • Send all materials TOGETHER to the address below–must arrive by 2/19 (postmarked by 2/15):
    Oak Hills High School
    % Jake Richards
    3200 Ebenezer Road
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45248
  • E-mail Jake Richards at richards_j@ohlsd.org to inform him of paper application.

Questions?

• If you have questions or concerns, please contact Jake Richards (e-mail is the most effective approach):
  • richards_j@ohlsd.org
  • (513) 659-9203

2014 Track and Field Coaches Classic Scholarship

The Southwest Ohio Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association is glad to offer two scholarships to area high school Track and Field athletes during the 2014 spring season. The scholarships will be awarded to one male and one female student-athlete based on several factors, including athletic participation, academic merit, social activism, contribution to sport, leadership, character, and need.

Details:

• Application available January 1, 2014.
• Application due February 19, 2014 by 11:59 PM.
• Awards of $500 each to 1 male and 1 female student-athlete
• Awards are non-renewable
• Monies distributed directly to bursar upon post-secondary matriculation (college, university, community college)

Eligibility:

• Student-athlete must have competed in Coaches Classic Track Meet in at least 2 seasons (probable participation Senior year can be included)
• Student-athlete must be college bound
• Student-athlete must enroll and begin in post-secondary institution to receive scholarship
• Student-athlete must be in good standing in school and athleticse
• Appropriate party must complete respective part of application (Student-Athlete, Coach, Community Member)–All 3 must be complete to be considered for scholarship

Application Instructions:

• We strongly encourage you to fill out the application through the forms linked below.
• One person should fill out each part of the application regarding student-athlete.
  • Student-Athlete should fill out Student-Athlete part
  • Coach should fill out Coach part
  • Community member (employer, religious leader, service advisor, etc) should fill out Community Member part
• If a paper application is absolutely necessary:
  • Print the application in its entirety
  • Appropriate parties complete parts of application. Longer responses should be recorded on separate sheets of paper (preferably typed) and attached to original application.
  • Send all materials TOGETHER to the address below–must arrive by 2/19 (postmarked by 2/15):
    Oak Hills High School
    % Jake Richards
    3200 Ebenezer Road
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45248
  • E-mail Jake Richards at richards_j@ohlsd.org to inform him of paper application.

Questions?

• If you have questions or concerns, please contact Jake Richards (e-mail is the most effective approach):
  • richards_j@ohlsd.org
  • (513) 659-9203

Application Links

• Athlete Link
• Coach Link
• Community Member Link

Pictures of our athletes at post season meets who made all region or all american status at Nike Midwest Regional, Foot Locker Midwest Regional, and Nike Cross Nationals have been added to the featured athlete’s section on the home page.

A short introducton about each 2014 Coaches Classc meet along with returning champions and a registration form has now been added to the home page under the featured athlete’s section

The boys and girls team who have won state championships in Track & Field have now been upload to the site Finding all 14 boys teams photos going to back to 1925 was quite a chore and took a lot of digging, but we now have them all. We are missing identification of the pictured athletes in 1963 DePorres, 1961 DePorres, 1951 Central, and 1925 Hughes. All the scoring for the teams was found by going up to the OHSAA office which has two sources for this: Back issues of the Ohio High School Athlete  beginning in 1941 and actual state meet results in a track &field sports book going back to 1913.

The amateur bylaws found in 4-10 were rewritten in 2003 and approved by the membership for inclusion in the 2004-05 Handbook.  Thus, what you find currently in our 2012-13 Handbook is the same language that was in place in the fall of 2004.  I am not sure it is fruitful to focus on something that happened six or seven years ago, so please forgive me if I redirect your attention to the present.  Our focus must be on providing you with correct and timely information that will serve to protect the amateur status of current students.

Bylaw 4-10-2 c does not allow your students in cross country to receive any expenses from a sponsor such as Nike for competitions in this national event. Please see the text of the applicable bylaw below in red:

4-10-2 An athlete forfeits amateur status if any of the following standards are violated…:

(c) Receiving, from a sponsor, actual and necessary expenses or any form of compensation to participate in athletics practice or competition while not representing a member school. A “sponsor” is a person or entity that undertakes certain responsibilities (such as underwriting, promoting, endorsing or financing) in connection with an athlete or event and who/which is neither  (1) a nonprofessional organization or governing body of an amateur sport which is sponsoring the  tournament or event, (2) a member school or organization connected with the member school through duly recognized action of the member school’s Board of Education (or similar governing body) or (3) any person who is not a “legal stranger” to the athlete. A “legal stranger” is a person who is neither the biological parent nor is the legal guardian or custodian of the athlete nor one who has  no legal obligation to support the athlete.

Any practice for which reasonable and necessary expenses are received must be conducted in a continuous time period preceding the competition except for a practice session conducted by a national team, under the auspices of a United States (USA) national Governing Body, which may be interrupted for specific periods of time preceding the competition;

“Nike” is not an NGB, is definitely not a nonprofessional organization or a member school or a person related to any student who might be invited to this event.  So while OHSAA rules permit the athletes to participate, they may not receive any expenses or compensation for participation.  An exception is found in 4-10-3 c in which the student may accept an award, equipment, etc from the sponsor (Nike) provided the value does not exceed $200.  Also please note that there is no provision for a school coach to be involved in coaching students out of season at this event.

JOHN ANDERSON
Threw shot put and discus for Cincinnati Hughes High School and Cornell University; won two national AAU discuss titles and scored in three others; won the shot put and discus in the 1925 state high school meet to lead his team to the state championship; set one Ohio high school discus record; won the discus in the 1932 Olympics and was fifth in the 1928 Olympic discus.

TED CORBITT
Known as the “Father of American Distance Running,” Ted has run more than 200 marathons in the U.S. and internationally; founder of the New York Runners Club and one of the organizers and founders of the New York City Marathon; competed for Cincinnati Woodward and the University of Cincinnati; AAU marathon champion; held five American records in distance running; participated in one Olympic marathon’ pioneer in American ultra-marathoning.

KAREN COSGROVE
A pioneer for Cincinnati’s women’s running, she won or placed in numerous Avon Running Global Women’s Circuit events, the series that eventually convinced the IOC to add women’s marathon events to the Olympics; placed second at the Columbus Marathon in 1983, becoming the first woman from Cincinnati to qualify for the Olympic trials; worked with the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society to develop the Team in Training program, training ordinary people to run their first marathons and in nearly two decades of coaching has guided more than 9,000 people across the finish line while helping raise more than $10 million for charity. Has run more than 105 marathons without injury; competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic trials; winner of the First Columbus Marathon; in 2008 founded “Miles That Matter,” a sport training program giving runners not only feet to run but wings to ‘fly’ with her ‘can-do’ attitude.

D’ANDRE HILL
Won six events in NCAA meets; participated in the Olympics, the World Championships and the World Junior Meet; ran as a professional in track and field events; head women’s track and field coach for the University of Dayton from 2001-2004.

DEHART HUBBARD
Sprinted and jumped for Cincinnati Walnut Hills High School and the University of Michigan; won the long jump at the 1924 Olympic Games and placed third in the 1928 Oympic long jump; won long jump in six national AAU outdoor meets; won two NCAA outdoor long jump titles and won 100 meter title; won six Big Ten titles; went to high school at a time when the city Board of Education would not allow student-athletes to travel to Columbus for the state track meet; member of National Track and Field Hall of Fame.

CONNIE JO ROBINSON
Ran at Reading High School and North Carolina State University; multiple collegiate All-American; scored three times in the NCAA cross country meet; won the Kinney National (now Footlocker) High School Cross Country Championships in 1981; won four straight Hamilton County Conference National Division 1600 meter run titles; won three 1600 state track titles; two-time individual state cross country champion; set state high school record in the 1600.

BOB RONCKER
Started coaching cross country in 1966 in both high school and, eventually, Xavier University; best known for his chain of running stores in the Greater Cincinnati area; helps train hundreds of runners and walkers for various events each year through his store-based running groups.

BILL SCHNIER
Began his coaching career at Trotwood-Madison High School, where four of his athletes became college All-Americans; has two Olympic medalists from his program, David Payne (silver, hurdles) and Mary Wineberg (gold, 4×400 relay); named Conference USA “Coach of the Decade” in both track and cross country; conference Coach of the Year 15 times; Ohio Cross Country Coach of the Year two times; coached 131 individual conference champions and 21 NCAA Division 1 qualifiers.

JOHN SENCE
1987 State Cross Country Championship Individual Runner-Up; back to back state runner-up in the 3200; was track All American in the 10,000 meters in 1992 and 1993; ACC Conference Team Champion; NCAA Cross Country Championship Team Qualifier; Individual All-ACC; Wake Forest Most Valuable Track & Field Athlete; six-time winner of the Thanksgiving Day run, the most all-time.

GLENN TERRY
Two-time state champion at Sycamore High School in both high hurdles and 300 intermediate hurdles; set seven state records; won five Big 10 hurdle events and captured the NCAA title twice at Indiana University; currently coaching track and field at Radford University in Virginia; member of both the LaRosa’s and Sycamore High School’s halls of fame; two time Penn Relays champion; U.S. Olympic Trials finalist; five-time member of US Track and Field team.

DON WAHLE [LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD]
Began his running career at Hughes High School, then attended the University of Cincinnati where he broke the mile run record that stood for 25 years and the two-mile run record, which stood for more than a decade; started and directed the summer track series that continues to this day; initiated the fall cross-country series that still is being held; elevated the Thanksgiving Day race from fewer than 50 runners to nearly 600 in 1977; now 73 years young, Don still runs more than 20 miles a week and competes in many of the local races year round, even though he is legally blind; he and wife Ginny also bicycle more than 3,000 miles a year on their tandem bicycle; generally regarded as the single most important name in the Cincinnati running community from the early 1960s through the ‘80s.