High school news, features and notes
- St. Vincent-St. Mary wins Div. II district
- Volleyball: Walsh Jesuit wins state semifinal
- Michalik’s one-hitter honors fallen friends, lifts Brunswick to district title
- Cloverleaf’s Dunbar, Copley doubles teams going to state
- High school sports roundup — May 25
- Division I baseball district semifinals: Explorers, Blue Devils advance to district final
- Division I district track and field: Cuyahoga Falls’ Nicole Waibel, Nicole Rozsa go 1-2 in girls pole vault, Firestone’s Thomas tops the girls 400
- High school sports roundup — May 24
- GlenOak and Perry girls tie for district title; GlenOak boys victorious
- Ohio State recruiting: St. V-M’s Dante Booker commits to Buckeyes
- Division II district final softball/Walsh Jesuit 4, Field 2: Lexi Noonan, Taylor Rahach lead Warriors to district title
- High school sports roundup — May 23
- Division II district final softball/Fairless 2, Springfield 1: Falcons advance to regional
- Barberton hires Greg Whitmer as girls basketball coach
- St. Vincent-St. Mary junior linebacker Dante Booker Jr. commits to Ohio State; 9th Buckeyes recruit
- High school sports roundup — May 22
- Walsh Jesuit, Field set to meet in Akron Division II softball district final Thursday
- Softball Division II district semifinals: Fairless, Springfield advance
- High School Spotlight — May 22
- High school notebook: Twinsburg confident after defeating Walsh Jesuit in sectional for second year in a row
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Akron's most famous prep athlete
When I am out of town and people ask me where I'm from, I no longer tell them that I'm from the rubber capital of the world. I tell them that I'm from Akron, Ohio --- the hometown of LeBron James.
Everyone whom I've ever said that to, including some people from Eastern Europe who I met in Las Vegas, immediately makes the conncection. LeBron is by far the most famous athlete to come out of an Akron-area high school, and he probably always will be.
He's so well known that the Beacon Journal's policy on headline writing allows copy editors to make reference to him by his first name only. For example, headlines will read, "LeBron saves Cavs," instead of, "James saves Cavs." The only other athlete whose name is treated in a similar way is Tiger Woods.
I figure that Akron's most famous prep athlete of all-time should be featured on this blog once in awhile even though he enraged me by wearing a Yankees hat to Jacobs Field. So I found a very cool, online chart of LeBron that Beacon Journal Cavs beat writer Brian Windhorst helped create for ESPN.com. The chart traces the evolution of LeBron's mind, body and leadership skills from his high school days at St. Vincent-St. Mary to his current status as one of the NBA's elite players. Click here to view the chart.
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LeBron James drives to the basket during the Cavaliers' 99-94 win over the Utah Jazz on Friday.
