High school news, features and notes
- High school notebook: St. V-M basketball player VJ King helps U.S. U16 team to gold medal
- VJ King earns gold medal with USA U-16 men's basketball team
- Lake's Chaese Vaudrin signs with Geneva
- Perry's Stefano Millin pledges to KSU for football
- WRA student nabs lacrosse honor
- Aurora athlete selects Mount Union for tennis
- Hoban tennis players set to play at Mount Union
- Mount Union football gains Ryan Ross, a OSU transfer & Hoban graduate
- Manchester's Richie Ashley commits to Heidelberg for football
- High school football: OHSAA approves seventh division; several schools drop into lower divisions
- Hudson Junior Invitational: Stow senior Ian Holt takes charge, leads by 6 strokes
- High school baseball: Team Summit tops Team Akron in all-star game
- Hudson Junior Invitational: Kent Roosevelt’s Kory Nielsen tackles first major tournament; Stow’s Ian Holt leads boys with opening 69
- High school all-star softball: Field’s Kerrie Trautman takes one for the team, then scores winning run
- High school notebook: Canal Park to host all-star baseball game Wednesday
- Canal Park set to host all-star baseball game Wednesday
- Hoban baseball players decide on college futures
- Hudson athletes make college decisions
- High school notebook: All-star softball games at Firestone Stadium
- All-Star softball players set to converge on Firestone Stadium
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Johnson, Holt commit to golf at Kent State
Walsh Jesuit junior Chase Johnson and Stow junior Ian Holt both gave an oral commitment to continue their academic and golf careers at Kent State University.
Johnson and Holt are both 16-years-old and have two years of high school remaining and are scheduled to join KSU’s men's golf team in 2014.
“Chase and I are good friends,” Holt said. “This is a great opportunity. I can't wait. It is going to be a blast. I am happy to get it out of the way because it lifts some weight off my shoulders. I just want to keep getting better and give myself a chance to play as a freshman in college.”
Coaches Herb Page and Rob Wakeling guided KSU to a tie for fifth place at the NCAA Division I Championships last month at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
“They are a great program that has been on the rise,” Holt said. “Herb Page and Rob Wakeling are both great coaches. It is just nice to be asked to be part of that.
“It is basically in my background and it is a nationally ranked program, why wouldn't I go there? It was a pretty easy decision when it comes down to it.”
Holt tied with Beau Titsworth, a 2012 Cleveland St. Ignatius graduate, for the Division I medalist honors last year at the Division I state golf tournament on the Ohio State University Scarlet Course in Columbus.
Holt, who plays under Stow coach Ken Miller, said he has a 3.7 cumulative grade point average.
Johnson, a Barberton resident who plays under Walsh coach Joe Denton, has a 3.8 cumulative grade point average. He also competed at the state tournament last year and finished tied for 32nd.
“I am really excited because my family and I have always liked Kent State,” Johnson said. “My dad is my golf coach and he definitely loved that it’s close to home, and I did too.”
Kent State also placed sixth at the NCAA Championships in 2008 and ninth in 2000. The tie for fifth also put KSU among a select group of four schools that have finished in the top 20 at the NCAA Championships during each of the past three seasons. USC, UCLA and Texas A&M are the other three to have accomplished the feat.
“Kent State’s team is really good,” Johnson said. “Herb Page and Rob Wakeling are great guys and I really like them. They have great kids on the team and I'm a Kent State fan. That made my decision pretty easy. I am looking forward to getting back to the state tournament and finishing high school. Getting to college is also on my mind too.”
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