Welcome to the Ohio Community College Athletic Conference. The OCCAC is made of eight Community Colleges in Ohio. The Ohio Community College promotes and fosters community college intercollegiate athletics for men and women on the state level.
Friday, Sept 3
Sinclair Basketball Supports MDA
The 2010-11 Sinclair Community College Men's & Women's Basketball teams will volunteer Labor Day Monday at the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon held at the Nutter Center on the campus of Wright State University.
Please watch the Dayton ABC Channel 22 and call in between 11:40am and 12:40pm as Sinclair Basketball will be answering phones to help Jerry's Kids.
MDA supports more research on neuromuscular diseases than any other private-sector organization in the world. MDA scientists are in the forefront of gene therapy research and have uncovered the genetic defects responsible for several forms of muscular dystrophy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease), childhood spinal muscular atrophy, and several other neuromuscular conditions.
Wednesday, Sept 1
Soccer - Cincinnati State Men's Soccer Open Season With Shutout Wins
The Cincinnati State men's soccer team traveled to play Kellogg Community College and Jackson Community College both of Michigan this past weekend. The Surge won both matches to start the season off 2-0-0. Saturday the Surge won over Kellogg 8-0 and on Sunday the Surge won over Jackson 7-0. The Surge will next take on 4-year program Rio Grande.
Volleyball - Owens Express splits with Muskegon and Oakland
Owens Express volleyball team extended their record to 4-2 for the season as they split a tri-match with a victory over Muskegon, 25-8, 20-25, 25-18, 22-25, 15-9 and a lost to host Oakland, 22-25, 19-25, 23-25. For complete statistics, please click here.
Owens first home date will be Friday, September 3rd through Sunday, September 5th in the Express Invitational Tournament. Their first match on Friday is at 3 PM against Schoolcraft College and 6 PM against St. Clair CCC.
Monday, August 30
Volleyball - Owens Express opens season at Grand Rapids Invitational
Owens Express volleyball team opened the season at the Grand Rapids, Mi, Invitational. Owens finished 3-1, defeating Jackson, Mi, Kellogg, Mi, Kalamazoo Valley, Mi, (ranked 15 th in preseason national poll) and losing to Grand Rapids, Mi (ranked 5th in preseason national poll). For complete statistics, please click here.
Saturday, August 28
Volleyball - Sinclair (0-2/0-0) Volleyball opens play in the Central Ohio Invitational
Sinclair Women's Volleyball team opened the 2010 season on the road Friday by dropping both matches in pool play of the Central Ohio Invitational. Returning to action after a long summer the young Sinclair netters got off to a slow start as Muskegon CC (MI) took the first game 13-25. Pulling together for the next two games, the Pride made several runs only to fall short 21-25 & 19-25 to finish the match 0-3.
The loss earlier in the day seemed to wake up the Pride as they came out strong against Lansing CC (MI) winning the first game 25-17. The two teams battled back and forth with Lansing pulling out a narrow fifth set win 15-13 to take the match 3-2.
Sinclair –vs- Muskegon (0-3) 13-25, 21-25, 19-25
Sinclair –vs- Lansing (2-3) 25-17, 22-25, 25-21, 22-25, 13-15
Sinclair (0-2) will return to action Saturday at the Buckeye Volleyball Center (Columbus, OH) as the rest of the teams will gather for the completion of the 2010 Central Ohio Invitational.
Thursday, August 4
Volleyball
Owens and Columbus State in others receiving votes catagory
The Owens Community College and Columbus State Community College women's volleyball teams are in the other teams receiving votes catagory in this year's NJCAA Division II Pre-Season women's volleyball poll. Columbus State CC went to the NJCAA Division II Nationals last season and finished seventh in the nation. The Cougars finished with an overall record of 43-10 overall and 12-0 in the OCCAC. Owens Community College finished third in the NJCAA District E Tournament last season losing to St. Clair (MI) County Community College in the losers bracket final. The Express finished with an overall record 32-19, and finished tied for second with a 9-3 record in the OCCAC.
Tuesday, August 2
Men's Soccer
Cincinnati State Technical & CC in others receiving votes in pre-season poll
The Cincinnati State Technical & Community College men's soccer team is the other's receiving votes catagory in the NJCAA Men's Division I Pre-Season Soccer poll. Last year's Region XII runners-up are one of two Region XII teams in the polls, Schoolcraft (MI) College is 3rd. The Surge finished last season with a 16-3-1 record. They won the OCCAC regular season title with a 6-0-0 record. This season will see all nine region schools will compete in one league with each team playing the other eight teams twice. The top six teams will move on to the Region XII Soccer Championship.
Tuesday, July 6
General
Owens' Rickard and Sinclair's Giamabrone name Co-Athletic Directors of the Year
The OCCAC is proud to announce that Owens Community College Athletic Director Michael Rickard and Sinclair Community College Athletic Director Jack Giamabrone have been named Co-Athletic Directors of the Year.
Rickard led the Owens program that had every team reach the post-season. Owens also had two student-athletes were nominated for the NATYCAA Academic Scholar Athlete Award. The Express also had 24 athletes earn OCCAC academic award winners.
Giamabrone had two teams win conference championships this year and nine athlete win OCCAC academic award winners. As OCCAC Assistant Commissioner he has been key in improvements to the OCCAC.
The OCCAC congratulates both Michael and Jack on the award.
Academic
Sinclair announces academic award winners
The Sinclair Community College athletic department has announced that nine Tartan Pride athletes have earned OCCAC academic awards and one of them has also earned a NJCAA academic award. The list of award winners are below
NJCAA Academic All-American: 3.60 to 3.79 GPA with at least 45 credits
Women's Tennis
Jessica Purvis
OCCAC Academic Award
Women's Basketball
Karen Smith
Rachel Brun
Women's Tennis
Alexandra Myers
Jessica Purvis
Women's Volleyball
Elizabeth Gilbert
Kayla Bertke
Bethnay Messelman
Baseball
Ryan Groene
Jake Heckman
Tuesday, June 28
Academics
Owens announces academic award winners
The Owens Community College has announced that 24 Express athletes have earned OCCAC academic awards and that six of those athletes have earned NJCAA academic awards. The list of the award winners are below.
NJCAA Distinguished Academic All Americans: 3.80 to 4.0 GPA
Jahvan Russell (soccer player), 69 hours with a 3.91 GPA
Jonathon Moore (soccer player) 72 hours with a 3.88 GPA
NJCAA Academic All Americans: 3.60 to 3.79 GPA
Calvin Edwards (men's basketball player), 49 hours with a 3.75 GPA
Lorenzo Carrion-Bistolf (soccer player) 104 hours with a 3.74 second year Academic All American
Additionally Owens Community College has 24 student-athletes that meet the qualifications of 3.30 GPA or better for the Ohio Community College Athletic Conference All Academic Conference Team.
Listed below are the 24 individuals:
Baseball
Garret Busch, Michael Romano
Golf
Brooks Gradner, Lee Schmidlin
Men's Basketball
Calvin Edwards, Derrick Sanderfer Jr.
Soccer
Yadi Aliakbar, Jonathon Moore, Jahvan Russell, Lorenzo Carrion-Bistolf
Softball
Magan Gerding, Keri Seel, Ashleigh Whitacre, Bridget Wolfe
Volleyball
Amanda Drew, Maureen Kurtz, Alyssa LaVoy, Amanda Schuster, Shelby Schuster
Women's Basketball
Renee Bidlack, Kaila Corrothers, Jordan Floyd, Saige Meyers, Karrah Windau
Academics
Columbus State CC annouces OCCAC academic award winners
The Columbus State Community College athletic department has announced that nine of their athletes have earned OCCAC academic awards. The award winners are listed below:
Women's Volleyball
Rebecca Barger
Mogan Kohls
Jessica Householder
Women's Golf
Audrey Nelson
Shelly Post
Hee Soon Federico
Women's Basketball
Amy Hagen
Katherine Monnier
Cuyahoga CC Western Campus announces OCCAC academic award winner
The Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus athletic department has announced that four of their atheltes have earned OCCAC academic awards. The award winner are listed below:
Men's Soccer
Oumarou Oeudrago
Jamie James
Evgeny Kasperovich
Baseball
Robert Euerle
Academics
Lorian County CC announces OCCAC academic award winners
The Lorain County Community College athletic department has announced that three of their athletes have earned OCCAC academic awards. The award winners are listed below:
Women's Softball
Stacy Reid
Women's Basketball
Christa Wodarczyk
Men's Golf
Paul Srnis
General
Owens makes history twice this academic year
The Owens Community College athletic department made history twice this year.
First, two Owens Community College student-athletes were nominated for the NATYCAA Academic Scholar Athlete Award. This is the first time that any athlete has met the qualifications to be a nominee for this prestigious award. The Scholar Athlete award is based on two criteria. First, you must be nominated by the head coach and voted in as an all-conference selection. Second you must be an outstanding academic student with a GPA of 3.6 or better an minimum of 36 semester credit hours. The two nominees are men's soccer student-athletes Lorenzo Carrion-Bistolf and Jonathon Moore.
Lorenzo was nominated based on his OCCAC first team All Conference selection for 2009 and his distinguished academic qualifications of 67 hours with a 3.74 GPA.
Jonathon was also All Conference in the OCCAC and has distinguished academic honors with 60 hours and a 3.86 GPA.
The winner of the Scholar Athlete Award will be announce and recognized at the Annual NATYCAA Convention in June. Both student-athletes also qualify for the NJCAA Academic All American Award that will also be announced at the end of June.
Second, for the first time in Owens Community College Athletic history all seven intercollegiate teams qualified for the NJCAA post season. The last time that all the teams qualified for post season competition in the same year was back in 2003-04 and we only had six teams participate then. The college added Golf in the fall of 2005. The best finish for the post season was second place by the Women's Basketball and Softball teams. I'm extremely proud of all the Student-Athletes and the Coaches for their dedication to their sport's.