Clearing the Benches

Bryn Lewis reported for the Boys Basketball team on the Tuesday, January 20th game against Deer Park.

The Cowboys played a team in transition and took care of business.  It's hard to do a write up of a game the team was supposed to win against and did with dispatch because it was just a few short years ago that the Cowboys were a team in transition and beating them was expected on the season calender.  

There will be few notes today. It was a steady deconstruction each quarter but I have to applaud the Deer Park players for playing hard till the last buzzer.  They're having a tough season and to come out and play hard the whole game should be commended.

That said, a few things of note:  The Cowboys were able to get deeper in their bench and get players more court time. Garyn Prater is showing his maturation and growing confidence to shoot in space and traffic.  Nate Lowe continues to get more rebounds, assists and points each game.  Andrew Marty got his most minutes so far and his defense and offensive prowess showed the Cowboys depth. At 2 minutes left in the 3rd qtr., Cowboy Crazies fan favorite, Devon Davis came in and showed his touch with the ball getting 6 points for the game including two long 2s from the right side.  Jack Gildea came into the game less than half way through the 4th qtr and played good defense. Soon after Jared Winter and Jared Lowe came in and Jared had a put back and a top of the key 3 for a total of 5 points in the game.  Jacob Simons and Max Maisel followed with time and showed their progress with the system as well.

Final 65-25

Thanks to Bryn Lewis for the report, and 

Thanks to Rod Apfelbeck for the great pictures.

See more HERE

Senior Night Dive Meet

The Dive meet at UC on Wednesday, January 21st was Senior Night.  Senior Emma Weber earned 2nd place, with Sammi Campbell taking 3rd, and Senior Vera Bostwick landing in 10th.  For the boys, Senior Will Courtney finished in 4th with Charlie Donnelly right behind in 5th.

See more pictures HERE

Dollar Dare Ya

Think you can?

Prove it.

This Friday, and for all Friday night home games coming up, for just a buck, anyone can come out on the court and shoot from the line.  The Athletic Boosters are giving you the opportunity to turn your dollar donation into two.  But c'mon, you're not doing it for the money.  You want, you need, you crave the attention, the adulation, the glory, and that's okay.  And I'm not saying there's going to be special prizes for the best costumes or most spirited (because there isn't, but that's no reason not to dress up anyway).

Like me and have no hope of even hitting the rim? Come on down anyway.  The money you lose goes still goes to support all of our Cowboy athletes.

Photo thanks to Rod Apfelbeck

Final Forms, Finally

Beginning now, for Spring sports, Student Athlete Registrations will now be completed using Final Forms.

Check out the Athletics website for more information HERE

Read the registration Parent Registration Guide HERE

And register HERE

Photo thanks to Arch Cunningham

Day One

After catching up on some sleep, Coach Dave Elliott described the Southwest Ohio High School Swimming and Diving Classic.

What is The Classic Swim Meet?  It is the biggest Swim Meet of its kind in the entire country.  Thousands of swimmers and divers compete in Prelim Sessions trying to qualify for the top 16 spots  at Finals.  The competition is fierce and very very competitive . Unlike the Tournament which will begin in early February, there are NO DIVISIONS separating the competition. Wyoming a DIVISION 2 school in Swimming & Diving was swimming among some powerhouse teams.  All this being said, lets see how we did...

Day One :
After getting up at the crack of dawn (4am),  we arrived at Miami University for Prelims.  Key events on this day were 400 Medley Relay, 50 Free, 200 Breast, 500 Free, 200 Free, and the 200 Free Relay.

Top performers of the day for our Boys:  Stephen Barrett, Max Chou , Carson Burt, Christopher Rutter, and Phil Brocker all making Finals...  more on that later.

Top Performers for our Girls :  Becca Prangley, Sara Washienko , Anne Criddle, and Lia Thomas all made finals as well.

Overall the first day of Classic  was a successful one, with many many best times being achieved throughout the day!!

Finals Time..... After a quick powernap and a Redbull (Just kidding, just tons of water) , the Finalists make their way to St. Xavier High School for one of the most exciting Finals Meets of the season.

Highlights Include:
Carson Burt - 50 free  0:22.19  11th Place      
Stephen Barrett - 500 Free - 4:49.94   18th Place      
Max Chou - 100 fly - 0:51.87   3rd Place

Becca Prangley  -  400 I.M.  4:56.93   22nd  Place  &   200 Breast - 2:31.52  12th Place    
Lia Thomas - 50 Free  0:25.01  12th Place

As for our Relay Events , here's how it went down:  
Boys
400 Medley  3:41.10  - 8th Place  (Burt, Rutter, Chou, Brocker)  
200 Free Relay - 1:29.92 - 7th Place  (Chou, Rutter, Brocker, Burt)

Girls Relays - 200 Free Relay  1:44.96  -14th Place (Prangley, Washienko,  Criddle, Thomas)
Just a sidenote, 200 free relay at Prelims was a season best 1:44.25 with the same relay swimmers !!

That was Day One in a nutshell........  Day Two coming up!!  
Stay Tuned.

As Miami University Aquatics staff has developed canonitis and had a nikondectomy, photos had to be provided by the swimmers.

Athlete of the Week

Wyoming Athletic Boosters'

Gabby's Athlete of Week  

Congratulations to Luke Kremzar on being named Wyoming Athletic Boosters' Gabby’s Wyoming Student Athlete of the Week.

Junior wrestler Luke Kremzar is this week @gabbyscafe Student Athlete of the Week for his performance at the Wyoming Dual Tournament Saturday. (Refresh your memory HERE)
Congratulations Luke!

On Wyoming!

The Wyoming Athletic Boosters' Gabby's Athlete of the Week award is sponsored by Gabby's Cafe.  For being named Student Athlete of the Week, Luke will receive a $10 gift certificates to Gabby's.

Photo thanks to Kim Boyd.

Double Coverage of the Duals

We posted previously about the Matmen and the Wyoming Duals (HERE).  In keeping with the "Dual" theme, we thought we'd bring out a second post of pictures.

Thanks to Kim Boyd for the great pictures.

See more HERE

Still Golden

Want to check in on a local three-time Enquirer Division II Swimmer of the Year, and how about a two-time state 100-yard backstroke champion, and maybe even a record setting two-time setting NCAA Division III 100 backstroke champion, and let's throw in a member of the NCAA record holding women’s 400 medley relay team?

We'll make it easy for you. Wyoming alumna, Celia Oberholzer is all of those amazing athletes combined into one.

Check out Mark Schmetzer's article from The Enquirer HERE

Photo by Joe Robbins/NCAA Photos

Overtime Awards

Intercepted tweets from Coach Hancock show that the Cowboys were named an Academic All-Ohio team, and Hudson Rogers has been named to the Academic All-Ohio team!  If that wasn't enough, we've also learned that DB Parker Chalmers has committed to Butler.

Photos thanks to Rod Apfelbeck

A Close Second

From Coach Pitman

The Matmen were runner-ups at the Wyoming Duals this past Saturday. Asa Palmer is closing in on 90 wins and should reach the mark this weekend at Miami Trace Invitational. Noah Pitman continues his winning ways and should be able to record his 50th win at Miami Trace Invitational this weekend as well.

Both marks are impressive, but something happened this weekend that was even more impressive. Two league wrestlers (Kremzar of the Cowboys and Heglin of Deer Park) wrestled a young wrestler locally (Ryan) that is a special needs student/athlete. Ryan has wrestled a couple years and had never tasted victory.  He struggles to even do one push up but goes to practice daily and gives more effort than many star athletes at any school. You can read between the lines, but Ryan earned 2 wins this weekend. Ryan got to get his hand raised for the first time ever. The league should be proud of Kremzar and Heglin because what they did is to be commended; the idea was brought up by them individually and not by anyone else.

Both marks are impressive, but something happened this weekend that was even more impressive. Two league wrestlers (Kremzar of the Cowboys and Heglin of Deer Park) wrestled a young wrestler locally (Ryan) that is a special needs student/athlete. Ryan has wrestled a couple years and had never tasted victory.  He struggles to even do one push up but goes to practice daily and gives more effort than many star athletes at any school. You can read between the lines, but Ryan earned 2 wins this weekend. Ryan got to get his hand raised for the first time ever. The league should be proud of Kremzar and Heglin because what they did is to be commended; the idea was brought up by them individually and not by anyone else.

Thanks to Coach Pitman for the report, and

Thanks to Rod Apfelbeck for the great pictures.

See more HERE