In the 30-plus year history of the Butler Eagle Scoring Trophy, a darkhorse has emerged to claim the hardware several times. Karns City's Braden Slater certainly filled t...
Football coaches often talk about one season beginning shortly after the previous one ends. Offseason work or lack of it, especially in the weight room, will show up in o...
Northern Steel’s 2011 Blue girls soccer team played a game of “Can you top this?” against itself — and won.
Last year, the squad won the U.S. Club Premier national ti...
The Seneca Valley Sports Hall of Fame recently announced its 2025 induction class. The seven inductees include Susan Fletcher, Jen Rape, Christopher Rebholz, Sam Struss, ...
There’s a lot more than meets the eye with student-athletes’ efforts to be seen by college recruits nowadays. Good sleep and full days at home are hard to come by. Sittin...
A cracked vertebrae sidelined Austin English in the spring of 2023. The injury could have remained just that, a physical setback that kept him from competing for his club...
The grand scenarios some young soccer players dream up have become realities for Butler County teams.
“Think about the stories that we would all come up with when we were...
What was once a singularity in Butler County is now the norm.
Karns City was the first high school in the area to install an artificial turf athletic field, having done s...
Playing on a national stage Saturday, Mars graduate and St. Louis Cardinals Triple-A farmhand JJ Wetherholt demonstrated the talent that makes him the club’s No. 1 prospe...
If one stepped into a time machine and jumped back 25 years, high school sports wouldn’t look the same.
Football teams pounded the ground rather than aired it out. On the...