Students in the VEX Robotics Program at Loveland High School started working on their current robots last summer and will continue to refine them throughout the 2019-20 competition season.
Loveland, Ohio – It may be just a few days before Christmas, but teams from Loveland High School (LHS) and Loveland Middle School (LMS) will be competing with more than 40 other teams from across the region in the VEX Robotics Competition at LHS on December 21, officially kicking off their tournament season. The seven Loveland teams have been hard at work preparing for the 2019-2020 season.
“This game has many challenging aspects, including robot design, programming, and game strategy,” said LHS Robotics Coordinator Amy Stewart.
In the competition, teams of students will use their own designed and built robots to compete against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. This year’s VEX Robotics game, “Tower Takeover,” is played on a 12’x12’ square field with the object of attaining a higher score than the opposing alliance by placing cubes in towers or scoring cubes in goals.
“This game has many challenging aspects, including robot design, programming, and game strategy,” said LHS Robotics Coordinator Amy Stewart.
The matches on December 21 start at 9:45 AM and the event concludes with an awards ceremony around 4 PM.
The competition is open to the public and free of charge.
The competition tests the students’ knowledge of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) concepts, inspiring them to bring their best problem-solving skills to the table while simultaneously building on teamwork, leadership, and communication skills for life. Tournaments are held throughout the year at the regional, state and national levels, with an eye toward the VEX Robotics World Championship, which is held annually in April.
The matches on December 21 start at 9:45 AM and the event concludes with an awards ceremony around 4 PM.
The competition is open to the public and free of charge.
To learn more about this year’s competition game, visit vexrobotics.com.
For more information about programs available to students at Loveland, visit Loveland Robotics at lovelandrobotics.wixsite.com.
State Board of Education and Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria (Image ODE)
Columbus, Ohio – The State Board of Education and Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria announced this week the recognition of schools across the state for achieving high performance, outstanding progress and momentum for students – and among them are Loveland High School (LHS), Loveland Elementary School (LES) and the Loveland Early Childhood Center (LECC).
Loveland High School earned the “Momentum Award” for the third consecutive year in recognition of exceeding expectations in student growth. In order to be recognized, schools must earn straight A’s on all value-added measures on the report card and must have at least two value-added subgroups of students, which include gifted, lowest 20% in achievement, and students with disabilities. Value-added measures use student achievement over time in English Language Arts and Math to measure the gain in learning from year to year.
Loveland Elementary School earned the “Overall A Award” for receiving an “A” as a school on the report card. The overall letter grade is calculated by using results in the six components that make up the state report card: Achievement, Progress, Gap Closing, Improving At-Risk K-3 Readers, Graduation Rate and Prepared for Success.
Loveland Early Childhood Center earned the “All A Award” for receiving A grades on the applicable Ohio School Report Card measures. Only 50 schools and four school districts across the state were recognized for this achievement in 2019.
“I’m incredibly proud of our educational leaders and staff across the district who embrace the mindset of continuous improvement,” said Loveland City School District Superintendent Dr. Amy Crouse. “They have done a remarkable job putting goals into action for the benefit of student achievement and academic momentum at Loveland Schools.”
State Board of Education President Laura Kohler issued a statement in a press release issued by the Ohio Department of Education:
“The students, teachers, administrators and staff honored today are shining examples to peers and colleagues around Ohio. We are so proud of these award recipients and the effort they put into learning, leading and growing every day. We are both encouraged and challenged by the example of excellence they are setting.”
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland City School District operates on a two-hour delay schedule for weather-related delays. This means all buildings will begin classes on a two-hour delay from regular start times, and all buses will run on a two-hour delay to pick up students.
On weather delay days, Loveland Early Childhood Center (LECC) will enact the following schedule:
• Preschool and AM Kindergarten = 11:10-12:50
• Preschool and PM Kindergarten = 2:10-3:50
• All Day Kindergarten & First grade = 11:10-3:50
Breakfast will not be served in any of the buildings on days with a delayed start.
Families will be notified about weather-related delays and closings through the district’s alert notification system, the district website, and on the district’s Facebook (Loveland City Schools) and Twitter (@lovelandtigers). Traditional media outlets will also run listings of school delays and closings.
Loveland, Ohio – On Wednesday, November 13th, several Tigers were recognized for both their minds and their athletic abilities at the 2019 Annual Fall Sports Awards at Loveland High School! LHS Athletic Director, Brian Conatser invited friends, families, and Fall Tiger student-athletes to celebrate their 2019 sports seasons.
Loveland High School Athletic Director, Brian Conaster
Conatser began the heartfelt evening with a tradition of this ceremony at LHS…the senior athletes are announced and led into the gym by their head coach. Conatser invited LHS’s Site Manager and Facilities Coordinator, Jake Elfers to announce the 2019 Fall senior athletes and their coaches.
Next Conatser took the opportunity to thank everyone who made the athletes and coaches seasons so special! “Thank you, Seniors, for your leadership and laying the groundwork within our programs,” Conatser said, “This evening I would like to introduce the administration and members from the athletic department that have joined me in this celebration. Principal, Peggy Johnson, Assistant Director of Student Athletics, Eric Fry, Site Manager & Facilities Coordinator, Jake Elfers. And Finally…our Administrative Assistant in the Athletic Department, Kristy Brulport. A special thanks to all the individuals who support and assist the athletic department and our student-athletes on a daily basis. Parents, Student-Athletes please give your parents a round of applause for their support, feeding you, driving you to and from practices, and always being a part of your games and competition,” Conatser added, “LAB Team Liaisons please stand and be recognized. We appreciate your time commitment and efforts…as you are the link between our Boosters and our Athletic Programs. Thank you for all you do. Coaches, thank you for the tremendous amount of time you spend with our student-athletes. We appreciate you mentoring our young men and women and teaching them the life skills necessary to be successful both now and in their future. Thank you! We are “Extremely Proud” of our teams and programs this Fall season. You have all been Very enjoyable to Watch and Cheer on,” Conatser said.
The Tigers’ 2019 Fall Sports Season marked one of the most successful Fall sports seasons in school history with 5 ECC Champions, 4 ECC Coaches of the Year and 2 ECC Athletes of the Year. With all of these accolades, this puts the Loveland Tigers in the number one spot in running for the All-Sports Trophy. Conatser was sure to give praise to both the coaches and athletes for their designated seasons as he shared the “Coaches Highlights of the Fall Season” told through the coaches’ own words during the ceremony.
Next on the Fall Sports Awards agenda was the recognition of all of the Fall sports athletes who received top ECC honors. You can read about which Tigers received ECC accolades in the Loveland Sports 411 With Cassie MattiaHERE.
Next in the ceremony, each student-athlete who participated in a Fall varsity sport for all 4 years were honored. Conatser announced the following Tigers to receive this particular honor.
Men’s Cross Country
Sam Dippold, Alex Ditchen, Kyle Griffin and Brady Jeffcott
Women’s Cross Country
Sofia Dillhoff, Lexi Duff, Alexi Funk, Sarah Hallock, and Kirstin Thomas
Women’s Golf
Allison Rountree
Women’s Soccer
Maria Bashardoust and Claire Massey
Women’s Tennis
Anna Svitkovich
Following the announcement of the athletes who played all 4 years varsity in their designated sport, was the presentation of the 2019 Fall “Sportsperson of the Season,” and shortly after the presentation of the “Edward Jones Community Student-Athlete Award.” Loveland Magazine plans on featuring these two very special awards and its winners in a separate article coming soon!
At the conclusion of the 2019 Fall Sports Awards ceremony, Conatser recognized individual student-athletes that received awards “beyond” the Eastern Cincinnati Conference. Below are the student-athletes who were recognized for these very prestigious awards.
Women’s Tennis
All-City (GCTCA) Greater Cincinnati Tennis Coaches Association Award
Anna Svitkovich – 1st Team Singles
Tess Broermann and Hannah Wenger – Honorable Mention for Doubles
The Women’s Volleyball Team were ranked 6th in the city
Men’s Golf
District Academic Honors
Matt Rychlik and Luke Sence
Men’s and Women’s Cross Country
Both teams participated in OHSAA Regionals
Women’s Cross Country placed 6th at the State Meet
Jessie Gibbins was named All-Ohio Runner
Women’s Volleyball
All-District Recognition
Jillian Hayes – 2nd Team All-district
Men’s Soccer
All-Southwest City
Cole Harter and Connor Patton
1st Team All-State
Cole Harter
All-Southwest City Coach of the Year
Mike Dunlap
Women’s Soccer
All-Southwest Ohio and All-City
Kaitlyn Andrews, Lauren Donovan, and Clair Massey
2nd-Team All-State
Kaitlyn Andrews
Women’s Golf
Adopt-A-Team winner
Below are the Fall sports teams that received accolades within the ECC and in post-season play.
Women’s Soccer
OHSAA District Champions and OHSAA Regional Runner-ups (Elite 8)
Men’s Golf
2019 ECC Champs
Women’s Volleyball
2019 ECC Champs
2019 Coach of the Year – Brian Baugh
Women’s Cross Country
2019 ECC Champs
OHSAA District Runner-ups
Placed 6th at the State Meet
2019 Coach of the Year – Steve Nester
Men’s Soccer
2019 ECC Champs
2019 Coach of the Year – Mike Dunlap
2019 ECC Player of the Year – Cole Harter
Women’s Tennis
ECC Champs
2019 ECC Coach of the Year – Dara Hudson
2019 ECC Player of the Year – Anna Svitkovich
Loveland Magazine would like to take the opportunity to congratulate all of the Tiger coaches, student-athletes and their families for all the rightly deserved awards they received for the 2019 Fall sports season. I can say as former high school and collegiate student-athlete that your efforts have not gone unnoticed! The hard work, dedication, and motivation that all of you have put in during the season and off-season have paid off and for that, we are very proud to cheer loud and proud throughout the community of Loveland…..GO TIGERS!!!!
Loveland Schools College and Career Counselor Drews Mitchell presented about Tiger Steps Ahead at the Board of Education business meeting on October 15
Loveland, Ohio – Over the past year, students have been placed in internships with several local companies and organizations, including First Star Logistics, the Little Miami River Chamber Alliance, NEST Learning Center, Whistle Stop Clay Works, and Loveland Magazine. Career shadowing opportunities have been created at Real Link, Bond Furniture, Festo and Lifeboat Digital Media.
To prepare students for higher education and career choices, the Loveland City School District has launched Tiger Steps Ahead ̶ a program allowing students a systematic approach to career advising. Starting with activities as early as sixth grade, Tiger Steps Ahead offers students career exploration, internship opportunities, career shadow experiences, and lunch and learn sessions with local professionals to help them hone in on their strengths, interests, and passions.
“We are excited to see the increased engagement and use of career planning tools by our students in sixth through twelfth grade,” said Loveland Schools College and Career Counselor Drews Mitchell. “Using advisory time for career assessments at school helps students better understand their personal strengths and gives them research opportunities to assist them in planning for high school and beyond. The follow-up to the career assessments also creates more awareness of potential academic pathways available right here at Loveland.”
Ricky Mulvey recently won the Region 4 Mark of Excellence Award for collegiate journalism. Mulvey was Loveland Magazine’s 1st paid student intern. Stipends for our paid student interns have been provided through the generous support of Jarvis Global Investments since 2008 when Mulvey was in 8th grade. This photo was from 2012 when Mulvey reported for Loveland Magazine at a campaign rally in Eden Park when Barak Obama was running for President.
Academic pathways have been accessible to students at Loveland Schools for several years and serve as guiding maps for students as they explore personal career interests and make connections to their course sequencing. The district has clearly defined pathways for a list of careers, and partnerships with local colleges and universities that can expedite a student’s chosen path. Academic pathways define core requirements and provide resources for extended learning opportunities, including internships and job shadowing experiences.
While Tiger Steps Ahead is an intentional progression of traditional academic counseling services, it also allows student input data to impact the planning of future programs and courses at Loveland Schools:
“When planning for program expansion and course offerings in the district, it’s critical that we align them with potential career pathways for our students,” said the district’s Director of Teaching and Learning Andrea Conner. “The knowledge of trends in student choices gives us valuable information to make purposeful decisions, while also making us better equipped to support our students in their post-secondary planning.”
In 2013 Gio Ricci catches a pass for a touchdown late in the 4th quarter against the Zanesville Blue Devils. The Tiger win sent them to the State Championship. (Loveland Magazine File Photo by David Burig)
by Cassie Mattia
New York, N.Y. – A talented LHS graduate joined the ranks of 8 semi-finalists for the 2019 John Mackey Award. The candidates are as follows: Harrison Bryant (SR, Florida Atlantic), Hunter Bryant (JR, Washington), Brycen Hopkins (SR, Purdue), Brevin Jordan (SO, Miami), Charlie Kolar (SO, Iowa St), Albert Okwuegbunam (JR, Missouri), Colby Parkinson (JR, Stanford) and Giovanni Ricci (SR, Western Michigan and Loveland High School). The 8 semi-finalists were selected by the John Mackey Award Selection Committee through confidential balloting. The recipient will be announced on December 11th and presented live December 12th at The Home Depot Red Carpet Show at 6 PM ET on ESPNU.
The Western Michigan Football program recently spoke about Ricci’s impressive sports resume.
Among tight ends nationally, Ricci enters this week tied for the lead in receiving touchdowns with eight, tied for third in receptions with 45 and third in receiving yards with 611. A native of Loveland, Ohio, Ricci ranks third within the Mid-American Conference in third-down receptions (15) and third in catches resulting in a first down (29). Ricci’s team-high 611 receiving yards are the third most in the MAC. In 43 career games as a Bronco, Ricci has totaled 92 receptions for 1,083 yards and 11 touchdowns. His 2019 season has been highlighted by a career-high 105 receiving yards on eight catches at Syracuse and two-touchdown performances against Monmouth in the season opener and at Ohio last week. Ricci has topped the 50-yard receiving plateau six times in 11 games this fall.
NFL Hall of Fame member John Mackey is considered to be one of the best that has ever played the tight end position. A tight end by whom all others are measured, Mackey was a role model on and off the field as demonstrated by his Super Bowl Championship, his commitment to the community and his place in history as the first President of the NFLPA.
The John Mackey Award was first presented in 2000 and since has recognized seventeen NFL alumni. Some of the previous recipients include two-time Super Bowl Champion Daniel Graham (‘01), 2006 Super Bowl Champion Dallas Clark (‘02), Kellen Winslow II (‘03), two-time Super Bowl Champion Heath Miller (‘04), Marcedes Lewis (‘05) of the Green Bay Packers, 2008 Super Bowl Champion Matt Spaeth (‘06), Fred Davis (‘07), Chase Coffman (‘08), D.J. Williams (‘10), Dwayne Allen (’11), Tyler Eifert (’12) of the Cincinnati Bengals, Austin Seferian-Jenkins (’13), Nick O’Leary (’14), Hunter Henry (’15) of the Los Angeles Chargers, Jake Butt (‘16) of the Denver Broncos, Mark Andrews (’17) of the Baltimore Ravens and 2018 John Mackey Award recipient T.J. Hockenson of the Detroit Lions.
The John Mackey Award is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA), which encompasses the most prestigious awards in college football. Founded in 1997, the NCFAA and its 25 awards now boast over 800 recipients, dating back to 1935. If you would like to learn more about the NCFAA visit NCFAA.org.
This story produced by WOUB Public Media in Athens, Ohio is about the newly released film by Loveland native and Loveland High School graduate, Dean Parker, Call the Shot. Parker, an award-winning filmmaker is currently studying Integrated Media Production at Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication. Parker was an intern at Loveland Magazine.
OU Student Produced Film ‘Call the Shot’ Coming to Athena Nov. 9
Being a student at Ohio University, there’s ample opportunity to create and collaborate with others, especially when you’re nestled in the foothills of Appalachia- inspiration is everywhere. For some, this means working on passion projects with a group of talented students and making dreams become a reality.
Call the Shot, a short film set to premiere this weekend at the Athena, was written, produced and edited by Ohio University students. Raan Shalom wrote the screenplay, and Dean Parker, Mackenzie Keaton, and Josh Lehrfeld produced the film. Parker also directed and edited the film. The film tells the story of the life-defining conversation a suicidal bar patron has with the bartender.
Loveland, Ohio – The Tigers’ 2019 Fall Sports Season marked one of the most successful Fall Sports Seasons in school history with 5 ECC Champions, 4 ECC Coaches of the Year and 2 ECC Athletes of the Year. With all of these accolades, this puts the Loveland Tigers in the number one spot in running for the All-Sports Trophy.
At the Fall Sports Awards ceremony on Wednesday, November 13 Athletic Director, Brian Conatser was sure to give praise to both the coaches and athletes for their designated seasons as he shared what each coach had written with the near-capacity crowd in the high school gym.
Coaches Highlights of the Fall Season – “Told through their own words…”
Cheer Team Accolades by Coach Emily Christman
Our cheer team had a fun, spirited, and successful season that all started at our annual summer camp. All three teams took home awards in the cheer, chant, band dance, and Game Day competition categories. We also had nine athletes selected for the honor of UCA All- American (Shelby Cline, Hannah Powers, Amy Keyser, Emma Scott, Caroline Staley, Courtney Keyser, Ellie Steinbrunner, and Anya Winfield. In addition to these awards, the entire program took home the coveted “Top Banana!” Although the name sounds silly, the award is given to the team or program who demonstrated exceptional skill, spirit, leadership, and enthusiasm throughout the entire 3-day camp.
During the season, the girls on all three teams demonstrated pride and commitment to this program all season long. Led by our seniors, the girls embraced the idea of being an ambassador for their school and that being a cheerleader is about more than just cheering on the sidelines. The vision statement of our program is to: Be a good cheerleader, but a great person. And the coaches this year believe these young ladies, especially our seniors, really demonstrated that this year!
Men’s Cross Country Accolades by Coach Steve Nester
The boys cross country team had a nice season filled with many accomplishments that hadn’t been done in the past decade or so.
Overall season record of 116-45 and 21-7 against ECC opponents.
Second largest roster in school history at 70 strong.
Highest Finish at the ECC Championships while finishing as Runner-up.
Placed Third at District Championships and posted the fastest time average in school history with all scorers running 16:59 or faster.
Qualified for the Regional Championships for the second year in a row. The first time that this has happened in over a decade.Â
The boys finish at the Regional Championships was their highest team finish in this meet since 2007.
Women’s Cross Country Accolades by Coach Steve Nester
The girls posted the best year of Cross Country in school history. Highlights include:
Season Record of 154-17. They were 27-0 against ECC opponents.
They won their first Conference Championship in school history.
Eight girls named All ECC.
The JV won their second straight ECC Open Championship in dominating fashion.
Finished as the District Runner-up for only the second time ever. 2005 was the first time.
Qualified for the Regional Championships for the second year in the row with their highest finish ever at 3rd place, fastest time average, and lowest regional point total in history.
Defeated power program Mason for the first time this century.
Qualified for the State Championships for only the second time in school history and the first time since 2007.
6th best team in the state out of 175 total.
Three girls were named Academic All Ohio – Ellie Carr, Jessie Gibbins, and Ansley Richards
Jessie Gibbins was named All Ohio Runner
Football Accolades by Coach Andy Cruse
Our Football program had success despite the season record. 2 players were all ECC and 1 was honorable mention. Many players 9-12 got
valuable varsity experience to help build for the future. They threw for over 2,000 yards and 17 different players touched the ball on offense this season. The teams played with relentless efforts and represented Loveland High School the right way.
Men’s Soccer Accolades by Coach Mike Dunlap
The Men’s soccer team finished the season 13-5. During the 16 game regular season the Tigers played 11 teams that were at one time ranked in the top 10 in either Cincinnati, Dayton or Kentucky during the 2019 season. The 13 wins also included an undefeated run through the conference. During conference play the Tigers outscored their opponents by a score of 25 to 2 on the way to
securing another ECC championship. This is the first back to back league titles since 2009 and 2010. During the 18 game season they outscored their opponents 45-16 with 8 clean sheets (shutouts). The foundation of the ECC championship was laid down when the then #4 ranked Milford Eagles brought their undefeated team to Tiger Stadium to face the #6 ranked Tigers in mid September. The 2 teams battled for a scoreless 76 minutes before the Tigers were able to score with 3 minutes left to play and then cling to a 1-0 victory. The Tigers finished the regular season ranked #3 in the city and 15th in the state in Division 1.
Women’s Soccer Accolades by Coach Todd Kelly
The Loveland Women’s soccer team finished the season with a 16-4 record overall and a 5-1 record in the ECC. They won the Sectional Title and District Title and battled all the way to the Elite 8 finishing as the Regional Runner-up losing to the eventual State Champion.
The girls were ranked as high as 2nd in the city during the season. Our four senior captains, Kaitlyn Andrews, Maria Bashardoust, Georgia Early, and Claire Massey led the program to an overall record of 72-8-4 record or an average of 18 wins per season despite soccer having a 16 game schedule meaning they have more wins than what is actually scheduled and have in effect played an extra high school season.
The 72 wins is the most for any Division I High School in Ohio over the past 4 years. They amassed an ECC record of 24-1-1- losing just one game in their 4 year career. Their 72 wins are the second most in program history over 4 years and their 8 losses are tied for the fewest in 4 years. They finish a remarkable four year run that saw go 22-1 in 2017 to win The Division I Ohio State Championship, make 3 Elite 8 Appearances with one Regional Title, 4 District Titles, 4 Sectional Titles, 3 ECC titles, and 3 City Championships finishing the year ranked #1 in the City in three of their four years. They were ranked #1 in Cincinnati for 25 of the 36 weeks there was a poll during their 4 seasons. Offensively they scored 242 goals over 4 years and were shutout just 5 times in 4 years, the fewest times over 4 years in Loveland history. Defensively, they surrendered just 39 goals or 9.75 per year despite averaging playing 21 games per year. In the 84 games played during their 4 years, they recorded 57 shutouts or almost 70% of the games they played.
Kaitlyn Andrews was named Second-Team All-State, and Kaitlyn, Lauren Donovan, and Claire Massey were named All-SW Ohio. Kaitlyn, Maria, Georgie, and Claire have left this program better than when they entered and the coaches are extremely proud of the 2019 team for just being the best they can be.
Men’s Golf Accolades by Coach David Allan
The 2019 boys golf team had another thrilling and decorated season. In dual matches the team had a record of 10-2, going 5-1 in league play, two of those wins coming down to just 1 shot. They claimed the ECC season long title by winning the preview tournament at Glenview with a sizzling score of 302 and finished off the regular season at the ECC Championship with a 307 to claim the league title.
Individually, Jeffrey Main, Tyler Vallee and Joe Jankowski were all named first team ECC and honorable mention All District. Tyler finished with the team’s lowest stroke average at 39.07, taking medalist honors at the ECC preview tournament.
In the post season the Tigers advanced out of sectionals shooting a 308 at Sharon Woods on a tough, baked out and windy day, securing a birth to Districts. Unfortunately the season ended with a 6th place finish at Districts and no trip to the State tournament.
The future is strong though, and the tradition of excellence on the course will continue. The outgoing group of senior leaders will be sorely missed, but the team will return a solid core of players next year including Tyler, Joe and Aiden Callahan. It will be great to see what these men and the team can do to represent Loveland next season and beyond.
Women’s Golf Accolades by Coach Barb Orsinelli
In a very competitive ECC the girls golf team finished 5th in the league. We had a very young group of golfers with 2 sophomores and 7 freshman making up the JV and Varsity Teams.The lady tigers were led by Senior Allison Rountree, who earned medalist honors in 5 matches, named to 2nd team all conference, and honorable mention All City. Allsion signed today to play college golf at Ohio Northern University. Throughout the year we made big strides in our individual and team scoring. We had tremendous leadership from our seniors and look forward to seeing the development of our underclassmen next year.
Women’s Tennis – Accolades by Coach Dara Hudson
Girls tennis had an excellent year in 2019. These athletes worked hard all summer in Open Courts and clinics at Harpers and it paid off. All 3 teams competed well all year with JV A finishing the season with a 17-3 record. Varsity girls were co-champs in the ECC this year by winning the ECC tournament with all 5 courts winning medals at 1st or 2nd place. Congratulations to our Anna Svitkovich who is ECC Player of the Year!!
Other ECC honors included 1st Team All-Conference for Anna Svitkovich in singles and 1st Team All Conference for the doubles team of Hanna Wenger and Tess Broermann. Freshman Grace Haught was voted to Second Team Doubles for Singles and Alex Hytree took the Honorable Mention award. With a 15-2 record to cap off the year, Varsity is ranked 6th in the city.
The Greater Cincinnati Tennis Coaches Association also honored our team by voting Anna Svitkovich to First Team singles in Cincinnati and Tess Broerman and Hanna Wenger were voted to the city Honorable Mention Team. We ended the year with our doubles team of Tess and Hanna finishing 3rd in sectionals, qualifying for districts and winning the first round there. A great year for the Loveland Lady Tiger Tennis team!
Women’s volleyball – Accolades by Coach Brian Baugh
The girls volleyball team finished the season with a record of 20-5 (12-2) and were ECC co-champions and reached the sectional finals. This is the third straight (4th overall) ECC title for the girls volleyball team. This also marks the 4th straight season the girls have reached 20 wins in a season.
This season featured many great wins including defeating Lakota East, Turpin, Anderson (2x), Kings (3x) and Milford. The girls volleyball team had four girls recognized on All-ECC teams, and one individual was All-District.
We had a few players make their way into the record books. Jillian Hayes is now second all-time in blocks, broke the school record for blocks in a match (9), and is sixth all-time for career kills and efficiency. Audrey Planner is now 6th all-time in career aces. Diana Clark is third all-time for serve receive in a season. Abbie Miller is second all-time in career assists.
Overall it was another great season for the Lady Tigers!
Here are photos from the Fall Sports Awards ceremony.
Twelve students from Loveland High School attended the Anthony Muñoz Foundation Youth Leadership Seminar in October and are following up with a Service Challenge Project to benefit students at William Howard Taft Elementary School in Cincinnati. (Left to right: Jacob Cotsonas, Sean McElveen, Carson Deer, Kate Garry, Gabe Ogdan, Cole Harter, Claire Massey, Delaney O’Brien, Jillian Hayes, Andrew Waple, Kaitlyn Kramer and Ellie Carr.)
Columnist Cassie Mattia is a resident of Historic Downtown
by Cassie Mattia
Loveland, Ohio– Here’s a chance to get an early pre-season look at the Tiger Women’s basketball teams and help a very good cause!
Twelve students at Loveland High School (LHS) that were selected to attend the Anthony Muñoz 2019 Youth Leadership Seminar in early October, kicked off a “Service Challenge Project” with Spirit Week at LHS on Wednesday.
The project goal is to raise the funds needed to provide a Ninja Warrior Obstacle Course items for the physical education program at William Howard Taft Elementary School.
OHSAA Foundation Basketball Games
Foundation Service Week is highlighted by a “Foundation Game.” Member schools electing to participate in Foundation Service Week are permitted to use one of their five allotted scrimmages to play a regulation game under all normal game conditions. Foundation Games do not count against a team’s record. Through this initiative, Ohio student-athletes generated in excess of $500,000 for charitable organizations and causes across the nation and beyond
The students are partnering with the LHS Girls Basketball team in a joint effort to raise the money for equipment that the students at William Howard Taft Elementary have both talked about and wished for. Loveland’s game against Fairfield High School has been sanctioned as an OHSAA Foundation Scrimmage and will contribute to the cause. The following is information on the scrimmage!
Tuesday, November 19
Loveland High School is at #1 Tiger Trail
Start time: 6 PM (JV), 7:30 PM (Varsity)
Admission: $5/person
Raffles: Gift basket, Jaxson Hayes (Loveland native and NBA New Orleans Pelicans) signed jersey, and split the pot
Tickets ($1) will be sold for a chance at the half-time three-point shot
“Fill the bucket” – money collections between the third and fourth quarter of the varsity game
Mr. Anthony Muñoz will be attending the event.
About the Anthony Muñoz Service Challenge Project
Anthony Muñoz, a former 13-season offensive lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, started his foundation in 2002 to make a difference in the lives of local youth in the Greater Cincinnati area. The Anthony Muñoz Foundation has since engaged the Tri-State region to positively impact youth mentally, physically and spiritually. The annual Youth Leadership Seminar brings together more than 1,000 students from schools in the region for a day of leadership development, where they have also presented the challenge to meet a need in their community through a Service Challenge Project.
The photo above of the Loveland Marching Band’s Colorguard was taken at the LHS Homecoming halftime
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland High School (LHS) Marching Band recently competed at the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) State Marching Band Competition in Columbus with “Rhapsody in New York” – a show that has been a great success throughout the season. Now, by special invitation, the 140-member band will also perform at the Bands of America Grand Nationals in Indianapolis this Friday, November 15. The event will showcase high school marching bands from across the nation and exhibition performances by some of the most respected university marching bands.
The band recently competed at a contest hosted by Turpin High School. The LHS band earned awards for, AA champs, best general effect, best visual,
best color guard, best percussion, best, best music, and were “Grand Champions”.
The event will showcase high school marching bands from across the nation and exhibition performances by some of the most respected university marching bands.
“The Marching Band has a new life to it this year,” said Band Director Geoff Miller, who leads the band with LHS music and jazz teacher Alex McCoy. “The students have worked incredibly hard and are really performing at a high level. I think they understand how incredible the experience is going to be in Indianapolis and they are rising to the challenge. ‘Rhapsody in New York’ features music by George Gershwin, Billy Joel, and Alicia Keys. The music is fun to play, it has a groove and gets pretty powerful as it progresses.”
Grand Nationals, which will be live-streamed on flomarching.com, is a three-day event including preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals held at Lucas Oil Stadium, a world-class indoor venue. 45 bands perform in two prelim contests; 30 bands advance to the semi-finals, and the 12 bands with the top scores continue on to the finals.
The Loveland band is scheduled to play Friday at 3 PM
This is the first time the LHS Marching Band participates at Grand Nationals. Last time Mr. Miller performed with a marching band at the event was in 1999 when his high school band from Plymouth-Canton Ed. Park in Michigan won the competition.
In March the band will travel to New York City to march in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The parade has been a tradition in NYC since 1762.
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