The Golden Bear Touchdown Club will honor the 2000 Upper Arlington High School State Championship football team on September 10,2010. This is the 10th anniversary for the state championship football team.

A reception for the 2000 team will be held insideMarv Moorehead Stadium near the main entrance from 6:00 to 7:15 pm. Each team member will be given 2 complimentary tickets to the game.

The 2000 team will form a tunnel as the Golden Bears take the field against Toronto Canada's Holy Trinity. A half-time ceremony will take place on the field to celebrate and acknowledge the team's accomplishments.

Please show your support and join the Golden Bear Touchdown Club !

From UA This Week, July 14, 2010:

Upper Arlington High School's decision to go with two athletics directors on an interim basis worked out so well last winter and spring that the school has decided to keep the model in place.

The school board announced the hiring of Michael Schaefer and Jodi Palmer to share the athletics director role July 6. Schaefer, who will oversee the school's 15 boys varsity sports, and Palmer, who will be in charge of 16 girls varsity sports, officially begin their duties August. 1.

"Most schools have between 18 and 21 varsity teams," Schaefer said. "At Upper Arlington, we have 31. With the amount of varsity teams we have, I think this was a great model to pursue."

"Having two ADs is going to be a big advantage," Palmer said. "There were so many athletic events (every day) that it was hard for one person to cover everything. When you're working with a smaller portion of athletes, you can give more attention to each program."

UA has had six athletics directors in the last 15 years, but principal Kip Greenhill hopes having two athletics directors to share duties will cut down on the amount of turnover.

"Basically we have two people sharing the same job so instead of one person being here four or five nights a week, the two will be here just two or three days a week," Greenhill said.

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The LaxPower.com's 24-person All-Western Region team features six attackmen, nine midfielders, six defenders and three goalkeepers who excelled during the 2010 high school lacrosse season. It is made up of players representing 10 different states across the Western region.

From LaxPower.com:

Luke Treece, a future Buckeye, was the Ohio attackman of the year in 2010, leading Upper Arlington to their 12th state championship in the past 19 years. After posting 34 goals and 39 assists this season, Treece will be a marked man in 2011.

Joseph Benedick was on the LaxPower.com Honorable Mention list for his outstanding defense during the 2010 season.

Read the entire article here.

From the Upper Arlington Magazine:

Four generations of the Schmidt family have worn No. 34 on the Upper Arlington High School footbnall team. Geoff Schmidt (left) was a fullback and linebacker from 1966 - 1968 for Coach Marv Moorehead. He was part of the state championship teams in '67 and '68 and graduated in 1969. Sixteen-year-old Drew Karram (center), Geoff and Andrew Schmidt's nephew, in a junior running back on the 2009 team. He'll graduate in 2011. Andrew Schmidt (right) played for Coach Pete Corey from 1971 - 1973. The former all-state middle linebacker graduated in 1974. Max Schmidt (not pictured), Andrew Schmidt's son, played from 2004 - 2006 for current Coach Mike Golden. The former all-league tight end, who graduated in 2007, is currently a lacrosse player for the University of Maryland. Photo by Karen Miller.

From a New York Times article entitled "Expectations Lose to Reality of Spiorts Scholarships:"

At youth sporting events, the sidelines have become the ritual community meeting place, where families sit in rows of folding chairs aligned like church pews. These congregations are diverse in spirit but unified by one gospel: heaven is your child receiving a college athletic scholarship.

Parents sacrifice weekends and vacations to tournaments and specialty camps, spending thousands each year in this quest for the holy grail.

But the expectations of parents and athletes can differ sharply from the financial and cultural realities of college athletics, according to an analysis by the New York Times of previously undisclosed data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and interviews with dozens of college officials.

Read the entire 5-page article that discloses the truths about college athletic scholarships.

Simon Fraser, UAHS Class of 2001, was named to the All Time All Ohio High School Football Team in the Honorable Mention category. Compiled by the Mansfield News Journal, the list includes the names of the greatest Ohio high school football players. Read the article about the All Time All Ohio High School Football Team here.

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