Sports

Back in 2000, Mike Rains was receiving his diploma from Northview High School, ending his soccer playing career with the Knights. Fast forward 20 years and the Brazil native is back a part of the Northview soccer family. This time, though, he won’t be on the field...

When Mike Rains took over the reigns as Northview’s boys head soccer coach, he inherited a group that has put together back-to-back winning seasons. Wanting to make that into a yearly occurrence, while staying on top of the little things that create winning habits, the Knights have peeled back the start of the season to working on the basics, while also focusing on the interpersonal parts of the sport...

The IHSAA recently unveiled a COVID-19 Resource Center for anyone to look at the different procedures that will take place as high school sports makes its return. Among the many topics covered inside the Resource Center include the following frequently asked questions (FAQ) with answers listed below...

Four-peat may not come off the tongue nearly as well as three-peat, but Northview girls head soccer coach Don Bryan admitted it had a better ring to it. And after winning three consecutive sectional championships, the Lady Knights are seeking that, which would send the senior class out without ever being eliminated before the regional round...

Like fellow Northview alum Zack Calandrilla, Greenville freshman Sarah Bryan will have to wait a little longer to begin her collegiate soccer career, as the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference issued the following statement regarding the upcoming fall sports seasons:...

TERRE HAUTE – Each summer, the Wabash Valley Road Runners host the Midnight River Run, marking the unofficial start to the high school cross country season. No, it doesn’t count as an IHSAA event, but it does get the competitive juices flowing again and serves as a precursor for what’s to come as several of the Valley’s top runners and teams participate against one other...

Around the country, high ranking decision makers from all 50 states have had the tumultuous choice in deciding what the best way to bring back fall high school sports seasons looked like. Start the year normally? Move the start date back a few weeks in hopes of the coronavirus slowing down a bit?...

Following a successful run in the College Summer League at Grand Park in Westfield, which included being selected as an All-Star, former Northview standout and soon-to-be Indiana University junior Braydon Tucker latched on with the Macon Bacons of the Coastal Plain League to close out the final weeks of summer before heading back to Bloomington...

INDIANAPOLIS – More than one hundred IUPUI student-athletes were named to the Horizon League Spring 2020 Academic Honor Roll on Friday (July 24) as the league honored 1,064 student-athletes league-wide. All total, 113 Jaguars were honored, placing IUPUI fourth among the league’s 10 institutions...

In an effort to showcase his skill set, while also picking up tidbits along the way from coaches and scouts in attendance, Northview senior running back Korbin Allen has spent several weekends throughout the summer at various showcase events. He most recently took part in the Indiana Preps Showcase held at Decatur Central High School in Indianapolis...

INDIANAPOLIS – Former Northview standout Zack Calandrilla will have to wait a few more months to officially get his collegiate football career at the University of Indianapolis underway. On Monday afternoon, the Great Lakes Valley Conference announced it would be pushing all of its fall sports seasons into the spring due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic with the following statement:...

As the 2020 cross country season quickly approaches, IndianaRunner.com has counted down the days by releasing its preseason top 25 rankings. Both the boys and girls programs from Northview cracked the elusive lists. Coming in at No. 22 on the boys list, the Knights appear ready to make another run at getting back to the state finals...

Early on Wednesday afternoon, the IHSAA sent the following tweet, giving the green light for the start of the fall sports seasons: "High school fall sports are on track to proceed as planned! Girls golf practice begins this Friday (July 31) with other sports starting on Monday (Aug. 3)! Have fun and good luck to all participants! #IHSAA #INitTogether"...

BRAZIL – It was a hot and steamy afternoon with little shade to be found at Forest Park Golf Course Saturday, but there were no complaints to be had. Flocks of people from in and around the Clay County area settled into their golf carts for the 10th annual Pierson DeHart Memorial Golf Tournament...

CARMEL, Ind. -- After extensive deliberations, the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) Council of Presidents has unanimously voted to modify the timing of conference competition and championships for fall sports classified by the NCAA as high contact risk (football, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball). ...

The Missouri Valley Conference Presidents Council has announced that it will delay the start of competition in MVC fall sports until Friday, Sept. 18, and the league will conduct conference-only competition in men's soccer, women’s soccer and volleyball...

On Sunday evening, Northview junior pitcher and slugger Gavin Morris took to his personal Twitter page (@Gav1nMorr1s) to break news regarding where he’ll be playing collegiate baseball in the not-too-distant future. “Blessed and excited to announce I will be continuing my academic and athletic career at the University of Southern Indiana. Thank you everyone who has helped me along the way! #goscreags,” his tweet read...

Last week, I published the question and answer story about LPGA golfer Caroline Masson and her fiancé Jason McDede, who is the caddie for fellow LPGA golfer Nelly Korda, and their thoughts on returning to the course after a long layoff caused by COVID-19...

BRAZIL – Over the past two weeks, the Northview girls cross country team has changed up the places in which the Knights have trained. They began at Terre Haute’s LaVern Gibson Championship Course and have since visited Bridgeton and DePauw University’s Nature Park in Greencastle...

ROBINSON – The NJCAA honored 32 Lincoln Trail College student-athletes for their work in the classroom during the 2019-20 academic year. They also recognized five LTC teams for their academic achievements. Four student-athletes earned NJCAA All-Academic First Team honors. Volleyball player Sydni Bailey, golfer Jordan Hosick, baseball player Joey Perkins, and volleyball player and former Clay City standout Emily Yocom all achieved a 4.0 GPA to earn first-team honors...

Impact Baseline Concussion Tests – (Athletes Only) FACE MASKS REQUIRED! Please enter Door #24 southeast corner front parking lot and go to computer lab G112. Schedule Thursday 7/30 – 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. (9th grade girls) 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (9th grade boys) Friday 7/31 – 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. (11th grade girls) 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (11th grade boys)...

As Phase 2 of the IHSAA’s re-entry plan is more than a few days in, most teams are coming out of the ‘finding their sea legs’ stage with student-athletes getting their bodies back into game shape. Northview’s boys cross country team isn’t one that had to start at the bottom and slowly build up to get through the first couple weeks of conditioning, though...

A little over one week ago, while visiting my wife’s family in Florida on vacation, I was allowed to sit down and interview LPGA golfer Caroline Masson and her fiancé Jason McDede, who is the caddie for fellow LPGA golfer Nelly Korda. With the LPGA Tour resuming play Thursday with the Marathon LPGA Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Ohio after a long layoff due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the pair – who are full of interesting insights and stories and will be making the drive, along with their Goldendoodle, Ace, from Melbourne to Sylvania – gave a glimpse into what bringing the sport back will entail.. ...

On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced that he would be signing an order Thursday initiating a mask mandate for the entire state beginning July 27. Later on in the day, Wabash College and DePauw University and its North Coast Athletic Conference partners sent out press releases stating all sports would be suspended for the remainder of the calendar year...

With the third week of the IHSAA’s re-entry plan back to sports beginning on Monday, teams are now permitted to have contact during practices. For most, that’s good news and puts them another step closer to normalcy. Cross country, however, is different...

INDIANAPOLIS – Victory Field, the home of the Pittsburgh Pirate’s Triple-A affiliate Indianapolis Indians, is a place former Northview standout and current Indiana University pitcher Braydon Tucker has fond memories of. After all, the mound he took on Thursday as a part of the College Summer League All-Star Game was the same one he closed out the state championship in 2016...

TERRE HAUTE – Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College head cross country/track & field coach Zach Whitkanack announced the signing of Zachary Hapenny to the 2020-21 incoming recruiting class. Hapenny signed his National Letter-of-Intent to compete as a dual-sport athlete for the Pomeroys...

Take a look back through various photos from former Northview standout and current Indiana University pitcher Braydon Tucker's night at the College Summer League All-Star Game held at Victory Field.

Tuesday, Aug. 4 — 6, 7 & 8 Grade XC practice 4:00 p.m. at North Clay Wednesday, Aug. 8 — 7 & 8 Grade Volleyball, 7 & 8 Grade Football practice after school til 6:00 Any incoming 6th grade student or 7th/8th grade student who did not participate last year will need a new physical...

GREENCASTLE - A total of 123 DePauw student-athletes have earned recognition from the North Coast Athletic Conference as members of the league's 2019-20 Academic Honor Roll. Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore on an active roster in a sport sponsored by the conference and hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher...

TERRE HAUTE — The game was delayed two days by weather. It was played two weeks later than normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the weather was hot. Some of the players scheduled to perform didn’t make it and many players played considerably more snaps than normally happens...

After inclement weather – and the aftermaths of it – pushed the 16th annual Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game at Boys and Girls Club Park from Saturday night to Sunday night to eventually settling on Monday, the two teams made up of the area's top seniors battled it out...

BRAZIL – Troy Farris won his 17th Forest Park Club Championship overall dating back to his first in 1992. Michael Moore led after the first day, shooting a 5-under 66, but shot 1-over 72 the second day to finish third behind second-place finisher Ben Goshen, who played steady golf, shooting 68-70 to finish one shot back of Farris...

Despite the heat and humidity, Crossroads Dragway defied the odds and was able to hold their scheduled program [during the weekend of July 4]. At times during the day, the track temperature was over 140 degrees, but the cars weren't phased and ran great times. ...

TERRE HAUTE – They finally got their night. Although the coronavirus tried to, again, rear its ugly head – with cases spiking all around the country – and put a halt to anything resembling the high school spring sports season, the show went on without a hiccup...

Coming off three straight sectional championships and a pair of regional championship appearances, the Northview girls soccer team recently took the field to begin its preseason workouts. However, entering another season as defending sectional champions looks a lot different in 2020 than it did in either of 2018 or 2019...

INDIANAPOLIS – During the first three weeks of the College Summer League at Grand Park in Westfield, former Northview standout and current Indiana University pitcher Braydon Tucker was among the league’s hardest throwers. In each of the three trips around the schedule, Tucker found his name on the list of the league’s top-10 hardest thrown pitches...

WINONA LAKE – On Monday and Tuesday of last week, Northview’s Benjamin Goshen was one of 110 kids from around the state of Indiana to tee it up at the 94th annual State Junior Championship held at Stonehenge Golf Club. The junior golfer qualified for the event one month earlier in Attica and had to make it through the first two rounds to advance to match play...

TERRE HAUTE – The Terre Haute Junior City Golf Tournament concluded Thursday evening in muggy conditions with a trio of familiar faces residing from Clay County finishing near the top of the leaderboards. In the Boys Championship Flight held at Rea Park, Northview’s Chase Nuckols and Clay City’s Justin Hopkins each carded 152s to tie for second behind Terre Haute South’s Ryan Lieberman, who finished with a score of par-144...

Typically on the first day of cross country practice, the student-athletes either park their cars or get out of their parent’s vehicle in the parking lot directly behind Clay City High School and make their way down the hill towards the track where boys coach Cole Schroer meets them...