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As of Monday, Clay County had seen its COVID-19 positivity rate decrease but remained in the “orange” on the ISDH’s COVID-19 Dashboard Color Code System. Because of that, in conjunction with the Clay County Health Department, Clay Community Schools pushed its school closures back from Nov. 27 to Dec. 4...

Northview athletic events will be moving to online ticketing starting with the winter sports season for all athletics. It is very important that you follow the athletic department on social media for links to purchase tickets. These links will be posted on the athletic website at www.northviewknightsathletics.com and will also be posted on Twitter @knightsath and on Facebook at Northview Knights Athletics. ...

For the last decade, former Northview, Indiana State University and Saint Paul Saints standout, and Brazil native, Brady Shoemaker has returned home during the winter months for different baseball camps and clinics. He started as a young college student looking to earn a little money, while also look to help out a couple of up-and-coming baseball players...

COVID-19 caused many around the country to put their Thanksgiving traditions on hold for the year. That held true throughout the local area as well, but in Brazil, the annual Turkey Trot 5k put on by the Clay County YMCA was able to navigate, with precaution, its way onto Thursday morning’s calendar for several runners...

When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow evening (or yesterday, depending on when you’re reading this), it will be Thanksgiving. It’s a day many around the country have circled on their calendar all year. However, it’s the Friday after Thanksgiving that high school head football coaches around Indiana have bookmarked in their minds...

When Northview’s athletic department issued the following statement on its various social media platforms, a buzz was set off throughout the Wabash Valley: “Northview, South Vermillion, Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South would like to announce the Football Jamboree is back for 2021. ...

Since the age of five, Brazil native Robin Robinett has been showing horses. It’s become a lifelong passion of hers, and she’s been quite successful in her multiple decades in the industry. Robinett has won dozens upon dozens of American Paint Horse championships during her showing career, but has come up empty in the championship category in the American Quarter Horse Association...

At the end of the Clay Youth Football Junior League season, the team that comes away victorious in the championship game receives an honor to go along with the first-place trophy. The coaching staff of the winning team gets the opportunity to pick the players for the All-Star team...

During recent Clay County Special Olympics meetings, county coordinator Sarah Tellechea, as well as those in other positions around her, created the Community Management Team. Their sole focus has been on the group’s first project: the 2021 Summer Games...

On Friday afternoon, Northview senior multi-sport athlete Chase Nuckols took to his personal Twitter page (@chasenuckols) to break news regarding where he would be furthering his athletic career at the collegiate level in the not-too-distant future...

The day after Thanksgiving one year ago, Clay City middle infielder Charly Koehler verbally committed to play collegiate softball at Northern Kentucky University. At that time, she was gearing up for her junior year with the Eels. But that never happened, as COVID-19 swept across the world and into the United States, forcing the IHSAA to cancel all spring sports seasons...

After spending time around the Indiana All-Star cross country team in 2015, when former Northview Knight standout Cam Trout was apart of the group, James Grounds grew interested in finding a role in the program. He attended Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country council meetings, paving the way for relationships to be formed and thus leading to him being asked to fill a coaching spot on the All-Star team last year...

The Indiana Soccer Coaches Association announced its boys and girls All-State teams Monday morning, as well as its Coach of the Year and Player of the Year. And for the fourth year in a row, Northview was represented by Kassidy Kellett. The program’s all-time scoring leader was named to the ISCA Girls Soccer Honorable Mention team after putting up impressive numbers once again...

Abby Maesch, a senior at Avon High School, signed a national letter-of-intent on Wednesday to play volleyball for the University of Georgia in the Southeastern Conference. Maesch is the oldest daughter of Northview graduates Ernie (class of 1990) and Amy (Bunch) Maesch (class of 1993)...

For as long as Kassidy Kellett can remember, playing soccer at the collegiate level has always been a dream of hers. Last Wednesday, she was set to sign her letter of intent after school to do just that. However, that same morning, word came across Northview High School’s intercom that all of Clay Community Schools would be moving to eLearning the next day, and therefore, canceled her signing ceremony...

It was this time last year when Northview’s Lauren Sackett committed to play collegiate softball at Indiana State University. At that time, she was set to play in her first game as a Lady Knight when the calendar flipped to 2020 and the weather warmed up in the spring...

On Wednesday afternoon, Clay County Schools Superintendent Jeff Fritz issued the following statement regarding schools moving to eLearning for the next two weeks, beginning Thursday, Nov. 12: “CCS School Family & Community: The Indiana State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Dashboard’s Color Code System changed Clay County to RED today. ...

Throughout the high school volleyball season, Clay City coach Garicke Rubin would often speak about the talents and work ethic of senior Tori Schopmeyer. He also pointed out where she ranked amongst those in her class, conference and state, noting that she was typically near the top in each major statistical category...

Tuesday marked the first time the Northview girls basketball team had its full compliment of players eligible and able to play. With sophomore forward Maisie Eldridge checking off her final practice after running in the high school cross country state finals, which delayed the start of her hoops career, the Lady Knights walked into White River Valley ready to build their camaraderie, as well as a winning streak...

Having reached the state finals meet in back-to-back years, each of Northview’s cross country programs have laid the foundation for a long and successful future. All seven of the girls running in maroon Northview uniforms two Saturdays ago will be back competing for the Lady Knights in 2021, barring injury...

News of which high school student-athletes were named to the Western Indiana Conference All-Conference teams have trickled out over the last week or so, but on Thursday, they were officially announced. Northview had several representatives in each sport, and they are listed below:...

On Friday afternoon, Clay City Junior/Senior High School principal Jeff Bell sent out the following newsletter: “Because of positive Covid cases and contact tracing, Clay City Jr./Sr. High School and North Clay Middle School will move to an eLearning platform for two weeks beginning on Monday, November 9th...

The college recruiting process is typically different for every student-athlete from sport to sport. Some are highly sought after and have to decide among several Division I programs. Others have a handful of suitors from varying levels of school size and must make the difficult choice of whittling it down to one...

Throughout the high school falls sports season, Northview girls basketball coach Zack Keyes, who often volunteered to be an announcer for the volleyball team and a scoreboard operator for the football team, saw teams lose players left and right due to the need to quarantine...

Northview’s girls basketball team hadn’t played Bloomington North in 10 years. In its last matchup with the Cougars, the Lady Knights were downed by 22 points, extending their winless streak against the Class 4A program to eight straight. That came to an end Thursday night...

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods was No. 1 on Kaylee Lowe’s list of potential colleges she’d like to attend. The Northview senior applied there first and got accepted soon after. Then, Saint Mary’s head soccer coach Craig Hendry made it known he’d like Lowe to become a member of the program...

Playing baseball at the collegiate level has always been a dream for Nolan Harris. At what level? That fluctuated when he was a youngster. However, when the Clay City senior middle infielder had Tommy John surgery on his throwing arm last year, the picture became clearer on what he wanted to do...

While many around the United States hunkered down in front of their televisions Tuesday night waiting to see who would win the different elections taking place, Northview’s girls basketball team took the floor for the first time in 2020. Taking on Edgewood, a team full of height, the Lady Knights clogged the painted area and forced the Mustangs to beat them with shots over the top of their outstretched arms...

The Indiana Soccer Coaches Association, which covers both girls and boys soccer in Indiana, does the weekly polls for all three classes and is a member of the National Soccer Group known as the United Soccer Coaches that helps govern and recognize soccer on a national level, recently released its annual awards for the 2020 girls high school soccer season...