Northview Knights

With rosters changing every year in high school sports, there are always questions about what teams will look like when they open their respective seasons. Northview’s boys basketball team, albeit a group that advanced to a regional championship game last March, is no different...

Just as Northview’s high school football team made history during the postseason by reaching a sectional championship game for the first time in program history, a pair of former Knights entered the collegiate history books at DePauw last weekend. Dylan Hyatt, who was named NCAC First-Team All-Defense after leading the Tigers with six interceptions to go along with four pass break ups and two tackles for loss but was held out of Saturday’s NCAA tournament game with a concussion, and Trey Shaw, who was named NCAC All-Conference Second Team after leading the Tigers with 48 receptions for 769 yards and nine touchdowns, played key roles in DePauw’s 26-21 victory over Rose-Hulman Saturday, marking the first time the program had won a NCAA Division III Football Championship game.. ...

Over 100 runners spent their Thanksgiving morning taking part in the Clay County YMCA’s annual Turkey Trot road race. The race was broken down into several different categories, as well as the usual first to last placements based on time. Northview senior Stuart Bennett was the overall Turkey Trot winner with a time of 16:46...

Northview has opened its high school boys basketball season at home as well as on the road in the recent past. And regardless of the gym the Knights are playing in, there’s a level of excitement with it being the first game of the year. They were originally scheduled to begin the season Nov. ...

For the last several years, Northview’s coaching staff, led by head coach Tony Sanabria and assistants Sarah Tellechea and Pat Brown, have dreamed of the day they would have a big enough all-girls program to hold their own invitational. On Saturday, that dream came true as the Lady Knights, which feature a roster of 14 wrestlers, hosted the season-opening tournament that brought in 115 student-athletes and 20 teams from around the state...

During Northview’s three-game winning streak leading into Friday’s Western Indiana Conference matchup with Brown County, the Lady Knights had found different ways to win ball games. Whether it was the scoring of the state’s No. 5 girls high school basketball leading scorer Macey Timberman putting up 30 points or the Lady Knights drawing up the perfect play to have Audri Spencer sink a game-winning 3-pointer on the road as time expires, Northview’s found a way to get the job done...

There’s been a buzz around the Northview wrestling room the last few months with the girls program growing its roster from four wrestlers to 14. The excitement that’s been simmering will have an opportunity to showcase itself Saturday at the Northview Invitational...

For most of the 2020-21 high school wrestling season, Northview competed with little to no fans in attendance due to COVID-19 restrictions and protocols put into place by the various schools are the state. Because of that, the Knights have been chomping at the bit to get back out in front of an audience and to hear the typical cheering they’ve been accustomed to throughout their high school careers...

With 8.5 seconds left in Tuesday night’s game and Parke Heritage High School’s Wolves Den gymnasium rocking after Grace Ramsay had just knocked down three consecutive free throws to tie the score, the Northview girls basketball team huddled up around head coach Zack Keyes who scribbled out a play he wanted them to run coming out of the timeout...

Last winter, Northview put together its first-ever girls wrestling team after spending several years trying to make the dream Tony Sanabria, Pat Brown and Sarah Tellechea had into a reality. Northview had a four-girl group, three of which (Varzidy Batchelor, Madison Slaughter and Mercedes Tellechea) competed at the highest level of the state tournament...

When Michael Byrum took over as Northview’s head boys basketball coach in 2017, he implemented a start-of-the-season event called ‘A Night Out with the Knights.’ The evening served as an intra-squad scrimmage for Northview’s high school junior varsity and varsity teams, as well as North Clay Middle School’s sixth, seventh and eighth grade teams, while giving them an opportunity to compete against each other in front of as many fans, which got through the doors without paying money but instead by donating liquid soap to the basketball programs or donating non-perishable food items to the Northview Weekend Backpack Program, as possible.. ...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) is pleased to announce that Scott Buell, Athletic Director at Northview High School, has been recognized by the NIAAA as a Certified Athletic Administrator...

At the end of the high school basketball season, the question surrounding Northview won’t be how they played against specific opponents on its schedule, it will be centered around how many wins it had compared to the number of losses it had. So, despite Tuesday’s 58-29 victory over visiting White River Valley not being the cleanest of games the Lady Knights have played early in the 2021-22 campaign, Northview head girls basketball coach Zack Keyes was pleased with the way they bounced back in the second half to pull away from the Wolverines, turning a four-point halftime lead into a 29-point win.. ...

On Sunday night, the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association announced its 2021 All-State teams. Northview’s Gnister Grant was among those to receive the honor of being named First Team All-State. The award comes as no surprise after Grant finished 25h overall in last month’s state finals race with a time of 19:22 to become the Lady Knights’ first-ever All-State runner...

When former Northview girls soccer standout Kassidy Kellett graduated last spring, she left as the program’s all-time goal scorer. Now, playing at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, Kellett has found her footing as a freshman. In the team’s regular season finale, Kellett weaved through a pair of defenders from Shorter University before crossing over with her right foot to escape both of them. ...

On Thursday, Nov. 11, the Northview boys basketball team will host its annual ‘A Night Out with the Knights’ intra-squad scrimmage game. The Knights ask for those that are able to celebrate the start of the 2021-22 boys high school basketball season. Members of the Northview High School and North Clay Middle School basketball teams will be in attendance and will be participating in the game...

Through the first two weeks of the high school football postseason, Northview achieved back-to-back history-making wins. That put the Knights in their first-ever sectional championship game. And making things even better, because of the blind draw held by the IHSAA weeks before, they got to host Friday night’s Class 4A title tilt with visiting Evansville Memorial in front of a jam-packed stadium rooting them on in the frigid November temperatures...

From 2007-2010, Jonathan Bradshaw was a mainstay on Northview’s football teams. Bradshaw played on both sides of the ball but made his calling as a tight end. During his senior season, he had 36 receptions for 372 yards and five touchdowns, which earned him a spot on the Wabash Valley All-Star team...

Each high school football game Northview takes part in, no matter if its home or away or raining or without a cloud in the sky, there are two uniforms that drape over the back of the bench the players sit on in between possessions. One belongs to the late Northview coach Ernie Simpson. The other belongs to the late Kreyton Hunter Quinn, who is a member of the Class of 2022 and is an inspiration to the entire senior class whether they knew him well or not...

Throughout most of Thursday night’s Northview girls basketball home opener against visiting Bloomington North, the Lady Knights held a slim lead. The two never allowed the other to go up by more than two possessions during the first half as the hosts held a one-point advantage going into the break...

Northview’s girls basketball team looked a lot different two years ago when the Lady Knights featured a guard oriented lineup each time they took the floor, marking a change in personnel for head coach Zack Keyes, who had had one or more athletic wings or post players to work with at the start of his career...

Former Northview standout Caleb Swearingen made his collegiate debut recently, suiting up for Olivet Nazarene University, an NAIA school located in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Not only did Swearingen make an appearance for the Tigers, he was in the team’s starting lineup for the season-opener against William Woods...

Having lost a pair of integral pieces – Thomas Chapman and Corbin Butts – to last year’s 21st place finish in the state finals, there was a curiosity around the Wabash Valley about how Northview’s boys cross country team could improve upon a fantastic finish to the 2020 season...

Northview’s girls cross country team was ranked among the very best in the state throughout the entirety of the high school season, and therefore, had expectations to put together a special state finals race Saturday afternoon. And although the goal of placing in the top 10 was not met, the Lady Knights were able to overcome some nagging injuries and tough weather and course conditions to match last year’s 14th overall finish, which tied them for the best finish in school history...

Northview entered Friday’s sectional semifinal football game against visiting Evansville Reitz looking to make history. The Knights accomplished that feat a week earlier when they downed Class 4A No. 3 Jasper on the road for the first time ever. So, why not do it again?...

As soon as Northview’s Stuart Bennett joined the cross country team as a freshman, he immediately became one of the Knights’ top three runners. He’s never left that spot throughout the duration of his high school career. His steadiness earned him the nickname Mr. Consistency, at least that’s what Northview head cross country coach James Grounds called him after the Brown County Semi-State race...

At the end of August, Northview’s Halle Miller had to be quarantined for almost two weeks, keeping her away from her cross country teammates and the practices and meets that come along with that. Being gone for as long as she was, took a toll on Miller, she admitted...

Before transferring to Northview for their senior years of high school, Nolan White and Micah Peals knew what kind of cross country programs the school they were joining was known for. Having competed against them for the last three seasons at Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South, respectively, the two had high praise for what the Knights had built, earning back-to-back trips to the state finals meet...

Northview’s cross country teams have made significant progress in where they’ve finished the last two seasons. Making it to the state finals in back-to-back years, both programs have experienced all of the commotion that comes with the final high school race in which Indiana’s best teams compete side-by-side at Terre Haute’s LaVern Gibson Championship Course...

There’s no denying Northview’s high school football team’s offense is built around the run game. And with a three-headed backfield consisting of Donavin Cherry, Imer Holman and Vinny Bonomo, which has combined for 1,468 yards and 20 touchdowns, that game plan makes a ton of sense...

At the start of October, Northview’s cross country teams took part in the annual Nike Twilight Invitational hosted by Terre Haute’s LaVern Gibson Championship Course. On the night of the race, which begins well after the sun goes down, the sky opened up and dumped buckets of rain on the course, making it hard to see for anyone running or in attendance...

On Tuesday night, Northview head girls basketball coach Zack Keyes announced via his personal Twitter that Macey Timberman had committed to Parkland College to further her academic and athletic career with the following tweet: “Congrats to Macey Timberman on her commitment to play college basketball at Parkland College. The Cobras are getting an outstanding student-athlete! So proud of you Macey!”...

Northview's athletic department recently unveiled the 2021 Jenni Marietta State Farm Holiday Classic bracket. The girls basketball tournament hosted by Northview will take place on Dec. 22 and 23. There will be a total of 12 games played over the duration of the two days leading into Christmas...

Throughout the high school cross country season, Northview’s boys and girls programs have had Oct. 30 circled as the date they wanted to get to. And while the state finals meet was the ultimate destination, the months of August and September served as the ramp up period as the Knights incrementally got themselves into a position to make a deep postseason run...

For the last several years, the storyline hovering over Northview’s football team was that no matter how well the Knights played during the regular season, when the bright lights turned on when the postseason rolled around in October, they would be one-and-done because of the difficult sectional in which they reside...

On both sides of the football, Northview rosters multiple players that have had strong seasons to lead the Knights to a co-Western Indiana Conference championship. One of those players, who may go under the radar a bit considering all that he does on a weekly basis, is Easton Morgan...

On Saturday, Northview’s boys and girls cross country teams will make the trek to Nashville to take part in the Brown County Semi-State, a place and a round of the postseason the Knights are very familiar with. Both teams have advanced to semi-state three years in a row now after winning a pair of regional titles last weekend at Bedford North Lawrence...

When Northview lost to Brownstown Central in the Owen Valley Sectional championship volleyball match Saturday night, it ended the remarkable season the Lady Knights put together. They went from seven wins and a season-ending opening round loss to Edgewood to posting a record of 19-14, winning a Western Indiana Conference championship and reaching the title match after taking down Brown County and Owen Valley during postseason play...

Over the weekend, Northview sent 10 Lady Knight wrestlers - Joslyn Slesinski, Varzidy Batchelor, Mece Tellechea, Alex Brown, Morgan Hughes, Emily Ledeczi, Gelissa Reginald, Kacie Bell, Olivia Slaughter, Kaela Beckley - to the Preseason National tournament held at Warren Central High School...

After winning a pair of sectional championships last weekend, both Northview teams traveled to the Bedford North Lawrence Regional on Saturday. While the Knights entered as team, ran together, and had a high chance of making it out as a team, individually they each were running for their personal best outcomes. ...

Looking at the roster sheet handed out to those who entered the doors at Owen Valley Saturday night for the volleyball sectional championship between Northview and Brownstown Central, it was abundantly clear which team possessed more experience. Nearly half – 6 of 14 – of Brownstown’s student-athletes had an 11 or 12 listed next to their name, signifying they were either a junior or senior while Northview had half the amount of the Braves (3)...

While waiting for the first of Saturday morning’s two Class 3A Owen Valley volleyball Sectional semifinal matches to be completed, an assistant coach from one of the team’s competing in the second sectional semifinal made a note to the media members in attendance...

At the top of the Northview football team’s goals list coming into the season – just as it is every year – was to win the Western Indiana Conference championship. That looked very plausible with the team the Knights had returning despite losing a strong senior class from 2020...

If it weren’t for the numbers shining underneath the words ‘Knights’ and ‘Wildcats’ on each side of Northview’s scoreboard, it would have been hard to determine which team was playing better than the other during Wednesday’s Class 2A Northview girls soccer Regional semifinal...

Throughout the season, Northview’s volleyball team has had a tendency to get off to slow starts in the first or second sets. It’s forced the Lady Knights to dig deep to win in four or five sets instead of three or four. Before Tuesday’s Owen Valley Sectional opening round game against Brown County, Northview head volleyball coach Scott McDonald told his group he wanted to see them start out fast...

The Indiana High School Athletic Association approved a mercy rule for boys and girls basketball that will begin this season. The rule was approved during this week’s IHSAA committee meeting. A running clock will begin in the second half of any game in which one team leads by 35 points or more. The clock will continue without stopping until the game is over...

Thursday’s matchup against rival West Vigo was an important night for the Northview volleyball program. Not only was it Senior Night, the Lady Knights also had a chance to become outright Western Indiana Conference champions with a win. All they had to do was take care of business...

During the Clay Youth Football League Pee Wee Division regular season, there was no doubt which two teams were best positioned to make a run at winning a Super Bowl title. The Kreyton Strong Panthers and the Ace Hardware Bulldogs each posted records of 5-1, with their lone losses coming against the other...

Throughout the high school girls soccer season, Northview head coach Don Bryan has preached the motto ‘Drive for Five’ to his team. Having a collection of talented, yet a smidge inexperienced, student-athletes, Bryan knew it would take some time for them to morph into the group they wanted to become...

With both high school cross country programs ranked among the best in the state, Northview entered Saturday’s Terre Haute North Sectional confident in its chances to bring home a pair of sectional championships if the Knights ran to their abilities...