Wauseon High School Athletics

By Kage

I interviewed Isaac Wilson, a Junior who plays football at linebacker for the Wauseon Indians. Issac had a terrific season for Wauseon in 2019. He recorded 79.5 tackles and returned an interception for a touchdown. I asked him the following questions. How has the coronavirus affected you? How are you staying in shape? Who is your favorite sports hero? What is your favorite sports memory? What made you fall in love with your sport? He said, Coronavirus has made it so I have more time to spend with my family 2) I have been working out with my dad and my brother, and whenever it’s a nice day out I either shoot hoops or do some route running with my brother 3)My favorite sports hero is Ray Lewis, because of the aggressive approach he had to playing football 4)My favorite sports moment is when we came back and won against Patrick Henry. It was also memorable since that was the night we were honoring Thane. 5)The thing that made me fall in love with my sports was my older brother Brendan. He was always playing basketball and football with me in the backyard, and it then turned to me falling in love with both sports. Thanks Isaac on the great insight and congrats on a terrific season! Go Indians!

I interviewed Senior Noah Tester of Wauseon High School’s football, basketball and track team. I asked him a variety of questions. I asked how the coronavirus has affected him and he said, “It has affected me by having me not get to go out and workout with my friends. I haven’t seen a bunch of my friends since the outbreak happened”. I then asked how he was staying in shape during this time and he said, “I have weights and a basketball hoop at my house, so every morning I will lift then play basketball if it is nice outside”. I then asked who his all time favorite sports hero was, he said, “My favorite sports hero is Russell Westbrook because of how hard he plays on both sides of the ball and plays 110% all the time”. I then asked him what made him fall in love with his three sports and he said, “How you are always apart of a family. A bond that can never be broken whether it’s on the field or the court. You have guys that will never leave your side and are in it til the end. Having kids look up to you, especially when you’re a senior. It makes you feel good about yourself”. I cannot wait to see what the future has in store for star athlete Noah Tester! Good luck and I wish the best for you. Go Indians!

By Alex

By Kage

4 members of the boys basketball team earned All-NWOAL conference honors for the 2019-20 season.  the list includes Noah Tester ’20 as he was named to the 1st team!  Earning 2nd Team honors were Sean Brock, ’20 and Connar Penrod, ’21.  Honorable Mention honors was Jonas Tester ’22.  Congratulations on a great season! The swim team had athletes on the podium three different times at the state swim meet in Canton. The list was Brooke Schuette, ’20 who was 3rd in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:53.60.  Its believed this is the highest placing of any Wauseon swimmer at a state meet in school history.  Branden Arredondo, ’20 swam the 100 freestyle in 48.52 to place 8th and the girls 400 freestyle relay team of Brooke Schuette, ’20, Megan Carroll, ’20, Grace Rhoades, ’23, and Sarayna Russell, ’21 also placed 8th swimming in 3:43.06. the Indians sent 4 wrestlers to the state championship meets in Columbus,

Damon Molina ’21 – 113 pounds – District Champion

Lawson Grime ’22 – 138 pounds – 4th place at Districts

Jarrett Bischoff  ’20- 160 pounds – District Runner Up

Sammy Sosa ’20 – 285 pounds – District Champion

A great job by all the athletes!

By Kage

Wauseon High School announces 58 scholar athletes who earned honors during this winter sports season.  In order to win the award, an athlete must earn a varsity letter and have a minimum 3.5 accumulative GPA.  This represents over 55% of our winter letter winners.  Great job by all the athletes and we recognize their hard work. Well done!

With everything going on in the world, it can be very easy to forget about your mental and physical health.

Several ways to improve your mental health would be to set time aside during your busy day to focus on yourself and to relax.

Several ways to improve your physical health would be to watch your diet and to stay physically active.

Now that the weather is becoming warmer by the day, it is good for both your mental and physical health to go outside for a run or walk.

Here is a video of ways to benefit your physical health during this global pandemic.

By Alex

During this global pandemic, it can be very challenging and difficult to stay in shape for all athletes, this blog post is dedicated to all the basketball players. If you are looking to stay in shape and sharpen your basketball skills you can do a few things everyday to get better, stronger and faster.

Some ways to stay in shape would to do at home exercises that simply have you lifting your own body weight. Some examples of this would include, push ups, sit ups, squats, and lunges.

For basketball players, being strong, fast and remaining consitent are some of the most important things that a basketball player must focus on. Some ways to improve your cardio strength is run a mile, jum rope, and burpees. Those are a few ways to improve your overall strength and fitness shape.

A few ways to become more consistent are focusing on your shooting form, if you have a basketball hoop than utilize this. Go outside and make 100 free throws a day. Make 100 layups each side with each hand. Make 100 three’s from various spots. Make 100 jump shots. Practice as you would play, basketball players meed to be consistent and their shooting form is crucial to have it be second hand nature.

Another way to improve your basketball skills is improve your ball handling skills, basketball is not all about shooting, it also involves ball handling.

Here are some videos to improve your strength, fitness shape, shooting skills and ball handling.

Strength Video using NO weights

Improving fitness

Shooting Drill Video

Shooting Drill Video #2

Ball handling video

By Alex

During this global pandemic, it can be very challenging and difficult to stay in shape for all athletes, this blog post is dedicated to all the soccer players. If you are looking to stay in shape and sharpen your soccer skills you can do a few things everyday to get better, stronger and faster.

Some ways to stay in shape would to do at home exercises that simply have you lifting your own body weight. Some examples of this would include, push ups, sit ups, squats, and lunges.

For soccer players, being in shape and having phenomenal cardio strength is crucial. Some ways to improve your cardio strength is run a mile, run on a treadmill, if you have a jump rope then use it for 30 minutes, jog in place, run the stairs in your home or you can even do burpees. Burpees are an excellent exercise that will increase your body’s overall strength.

If you would like some at home workouts to do, feel free to check out Goal Physiotherapy and Sports Performance’s youtube channel. They have posted many videos and tutorials on what workouts to do and how to do them.

A few ways to better your soccer skills at home is to focus on the basics. Some basic skill workouts for soccer players to do are toe taps, basic dribbling through cones. If you do not have cones, you can use shoes or hats, you can be creative of what you set up as an obstacle course to dribble through. Another very simple thing to do is to juggle the soccer ball. Here are some videos that you can watch to get an idea on some things you can do while you are at home during this pandemic.

A 10 minute video

Another 10 minute video

By Alex