High school news, features and notes
- Norwayne’s Kaleb Harris commits to Cincinnati for football
- Mount Union adds four local student-athletes
- 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
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Olack opts for Toledo
Massillon wide receiver Justin Olack will sign a national letter of intent with the University of Toledo Wednesday, Tigers coach Jason Hall said Monday.
Olack, 6-foot-4 and 205 pounds, had orally committed to the University of Pittsburgh. But the firing of coach Dave Wannstedt and the short-lived tenure of his successor, Mike Haywood, who was arrested on domestic violence charges, prompted the converted quarterback to reconsider. Eventually Pitt hired Todd Graham as its coach.
"He visited Toledo and Pitt again,'' Hall said. "He decided he really enjoyed the education, the social and the football piece of Toledo. It's a place he could be for five years if he had to be.
"I kept saying, 'At the end of the day, if you had to get in the car and drive right now, where would you go? What's your gut?' ''
Hall said Olack will get just as much exposure in the Mid-American Conference as he would playing for Pitt in Big East. The MAC has 15 players on the rosters of the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers, who will square off in Sunday's Super Bowl.
Olack will be reunited with former Massillon offensive lineman Jeff Myers, a redshirt freshman in Toledo coach Tim Beckman's program.
