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Sports by Shane Byler<br />
Fall season filled with Highlights<br />
The 20<strong>17</strong> LCCS fall sports season was filled with a lot of excitement and growth. Highlighted accomplishments<br />
include: the varsity boys golf team winning the PTC Golf Tournament, the varsity girls golf team<br />
advancing to the OHSAA district tournament, and individuals,<br />
Maddy Justice and Caleb Bower, earning Player of the Year honors in<br />
the PTC. In addition to these major accomplishments, we saw tremendous<br />
growth from all of our programs on the whole, and can’t thank<br />
our coaches enough for the time they’ve invested into the student-athletes<br />
they coach. The cross country program conducted a clean-up<br />
service project at the Hartville Marketplace,<br />
along with the volleyball<br />
program organizing the “Volley for<br />
Florida” event which raised funds for hurricane relief efforts in Florida. We also<br />
say thank you to the twenty-two senior athletes who concluded their playing<br />
careers with us at LCCS. In addition to the tangible and intangible signs of<br />
growth in our programs, LCCS is taking<br />
on a much bigger role as a host of events<br />
this year. Our first big event was the PTC<br />
Middle School Volleyball Tournament, a<br />
twelve match, four-day event that included<br />
fourteen different teams from the<br />
PTC County Division. In addition to the PTC Middle School Volleyball<br />
Tournament, LCCS will also play host to the PTC County vs. Metro Boys<br />
Basketball Preview, Hoops with a Heart Boys Basketball Classic, Lady<br />
Tiger Girls Basketball Showcase, and the Annual Baseball and Softball<br />
Tiger Tailgate Tournament. On the whole, our scope is broadening, and<br />
our 20<strong>17</strong>-2018 school year of sports got off to a tremendous start this fall. We look forward to seeing our programs<br />
continue to take steps forward through the effort and support of our athletes, coaches, parents, fan-base and<br />
other important stakeholders.<br />
Winter Sports 20<strong>17</strong>-2018<br />
The LCCS winter sports seasons are right around the corner. We welcome two new varsity coaches to<br />
LCCS with Ryan McGonagle serving in his first year as the varsity boys basketball head coach and Tim<br />
Keene taking over the helm as the varsity girls basketball head coach. Coach McGonagle is a graduate of<br />
Kent State University, currently works as a physical education<br />
teacher in the Plain Local School District, and most recently<br />
led the junior varsity boys<br />
basketball team at Glenoak<br />
High School. On the girls’<br />
side, Coach Keene previously<br />
served as a Junior High<br />
Bible teacher and has been a<br />
staple in the girls’ basketball<br />
program as an assistant coach<br />
the past couple years. Coach<br />
Keene is now excited to assume an even bigger role and build on the foundation<br />
that’s been established in the program. Mindy Ickes will enter into her third year leading the high school cheerleading<br />
program and is excited to continue to build on the enthusiasm established around our winter sports teams.<br />
High school cheer tryouts officially begin on Monday, October 23 rd. High school girls’ basketball officially begins<br />
on Friday, October 27 th, and high school boys begin official practice on Friday, November 3 rd .<br />
THE LIGHT FALL/WINTER 20<strong>17</strong>/2018<br />
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