The Los Angeles Dodgers have announced their minor league managerial assignments for the 2017 season. Wadsworth High School Hall of Fame member Drew Saylor will return for a second season as the manager of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the Class-A California League. In his first year with the Quakes, Read more…
The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes have made the playoffs as a Wild Card team in the Single-A California League. The team is managed by Wadsworth Athletic Hall of Fame member Drew Saylor. The Quakes finished with an overall record of 79-61. That’s the most wins the franchise has had since 2011. Read more…
Wadsworth High School is sending another athlete to The Ohio State University in Columbus. Senior Matt Blamble has signed a National Letter of Intent to attend OSU and be part of the Buckeye’s track team. Matt had a very successful track season for the Grizzlies. He was named as the Read more…
New Wadsworth High School Football Head Coach Justin Todd is working his way into being a Wadsworthian. Early in March, Todd was hired to be the head coach of the Grizzlies in 2016, replacing Greg Dennison who led Wadsworth onto the gridiron for the last 21 years. And Todd has Read more…
Twenty-two former Wadsworth High School athletes and coaches will be inducted into the Wadsworth Sports Hall of Fame Nov. 14, 2015 at the Galaxy Restaurant in Wadsworth. Social hour will run from 6 to 7 p.m., with dinner served at 7 p.m. Induction ceremonies will begin immediately following dinner. Reservations are $32 for Read more…
Wadsworth’s own Scott Fletcher played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball between 1981 and 1995 with six different teams. He accumulated 1,376 hits in his Big League career. Scott’s trip to “The Show” started right here in Grizzly Town. Scott is now a minor league coach in the Detroit Tigers Read more…
Wadsworthian Drew Saylor is about to become a new member of the Wadsworth Athletic Hall of Fame for his exploits on the baseball diamond for the Grizzlies. There are a number of all-time record that Drew holds at WHS. Among them, Most runs scored, most hits, most RBIs and most Read more…
You’ve heard the saying “being in the right place at the right time.” That axiom is so true for our latest Wadsworthian Wednesday guest Kaylee Maple. Kaylee, a 2006 graduate of Wadsworth High School has what many people consider a “dream job.” Kaylee works an Animal Program Specialist at the Read more…
Our Wadsworthian Wednesday guest hasn’t really left the city, but his profession has taken him to a new locality. Many parents and students in Wadsworth will remember Brandon Cobb. He graduated from Wadsworth High School in 2003 and attended the University of Akron. He returned to Wadsworth to be a Read more…
1975 Wadsworth High School graduate Mike Foreman has had a vision of planet Earth that most of us can only enjoy in pictures or on a television screen. Foreman retired from NASA last week after working for the Federal Government for 40 years. He was an astronaut on board two Read more…
