Ohio Express College Exposure News

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I will be posting information on the upcoming college exposure events including the OGBR Top 64, OGBR Denison Skills Camp, Exposure tournaments and anything else that our players attend. We are dedicated to helping our players reach their goals in basketball and life.

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Express players participating in the OGBR Top 64 College Showcase
The following players will be playing in the OGBR Top 64 event on Sunday, October 4 at Olentangy Liberty High School. The players will be playing in front of over 200 college coaches from all levels. Congratulations and good luck to the following players:

Ohio Express Players at the OGBR Top 64  Player Ohio Express Team High School
Heather Booth 15U Brent Glass Frontier High School
Briana Kamerec 15U Brent Glass Indian Creek High School 
Molly Ritz 15U Brent Glass Cambridge High School
Karen Sidwell 15U Brent Glass Maysville High School
Emily Brown 14U Jake Stewart Waterford High School
Maggie Mitchell 13U Steve Sole Liberty Middle School (Newark)
Brooke Drayer 13U Mark Lane Waterford High School
Jordanna Rauch 13U Mark Lane Warren High School

The Express will also be sending two teams to the All Ohio Fall Finale College Exposure Event the same weekend. This tournament will be held at Olentangy Orange High School. Teams will begin practicing and preparing for the tournament soon. Check back for updates frequently.

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The Express was represented by 5 players at the recent OGBR Top 64 college showcase. Players playing were Karen Sidwell, Molly Ritz, Briana Kamerec, Emily Brown and Brooke Drayer. Unable to attend because of injury were Heather Booth, Jordanna Rauch and Maggie Mitchell.

There were 188 total coaches in attendance.
With a breakdown as follows.
D-I coaches 134 in attendance
D-II, D-III and NAIA 50 in attendance
JUCO 4 in attendance

Congratulations and good luck during the school year.

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Lots of good reports coming back about players receiving letters of interest.

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Ohio Express players have heard from the following schools, Bowling Green, Kent State, UNC Wilmington, Bucknell, Lehigh, Middle Tennesse State, University of Cincy to name a few. Many D-2, D-3 and NAIA schools as well.

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The Ohio Express 16U Glass team will be attending college exposure events throughout the months of June and July. Keep an eye out for more information. In addition once the season is completed several of the 16U Glass and 15U Stewart players will be attending the OGBR-MGBR Border Battle at Bowling Green State University. Here is a link to the MGBR web site describing the event. http://www.mgbr.org/ssp/event_details?act=event_details&id=43

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The Ohio Express will have six players that will play in the OGBR Border Battle at the end of July. From the 16U Glass team, Heather Booth, Briana Kamerec, Lizzy Reeves and Karen Sidwell. From the 15U Stewart team Emily Brown and from the 13U Little team Kierra Kamerec, will all represent the state of Ohio on teams against Michigan teams. This event will be scouted by well over 250 colleges. Find the complete list here, scrolll down.    http://www.jimdabbelt.org/4.html

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The Ohio Express will have six players attend the WNBA Tulsa Shock Extreme Camp at the end of July and the start of August. Brooke Drayer, Emily Brown, Kaelani Gill, Jordanna Rauch, (15U Stewart) Kendra Lynch (13U Little) and former Express player and current Mount Vernon Nazerene player Jessi Drayer were nominated and will attend the Extreme camp and then have been selected to represent the state of Ohio at the BCI Girls National Exposure Tournament (July 27-30)! Players will play in front of college coaches from across the country in one of the most recognized National Tournaments in the US!  Players will also attend two WNBA Tulsa Shock games as special guests. Players will get to watch pregame shoot-around as well as have an autograph session with Shock players and coaches! Congratulations to everyone on seeing their hard work pay off. Check out the Shock on the web at http://www.wnba.com/shock/

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The Ohio Express 16U Glass team will be playing at the prestigious Run 4 the Roses College Exposure tournament July 9-11. The team will start tournament play at 8:30 on Friday, July 9 against 4 Sports Breakers, they play again on Friday at 2:45 against Maryland Lady Shooting Stars. On Saturday they begin play at 11:00 against Los Phantoms and again at 7:45 against Indiana Flight Red. The team will enter championship play on Sunday. Good luck players and coaches!

http://www.run4theroses.com/

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OGBR Border Battle
On Saturday August 31, girl basketball players from all over the state of Ohio will travel north to Bowling Green State University to participate in the 2nd annual Border Battle. Girls from the state of Ohio will be placed on teams and will take the court against the best the state of Michigan has to offer. Much like their football counter parts Ohio dominated last year winning all but a few contests. This year the Ohio Express will have six players playing and one unable to play due to injury. The Border Battle is the last scouted event of the month of July. The next exposure event will be in early October and we will have many players playing at Pickerington Central High School at the OGBR Top 64.

Players playing in this years Border Battle are:
Briana Kamarec
Class of 2011, Indian Creek High School, Ohio Express 16U Glass
Bri is a 5'8 guard and she has played two years with the Glass team.
Emily Brown
Class of 2012, Waterford High School, Ohio Express 15U Stewart
Emily is a 5'9 forward-guard and has played four years with the Express and the last three with the Stewart team.
Lizzy Reeves
Class of 2012, Walsh Jesuit High School, Ohio Express 16U Glass
Lizzy is a 6'0 post player and this was her first year with the Glass team.
Karen Sidwell
Class of 2012, Maysville High School, Ohio Express 16U Glass
Karen is a 5'9 guard and she has played six years with the Glass team.
Kiarra Kamarec
Class of 2014, Indian Creek High School, Ohio Express 13U Little
Kiarra is a 6'0 forward-post and this was her second year with the Ohio Express and her first with coach Little.
Maggie Mitchell
Class of 2014, Newark High School, Ohio Express 14U Sole
Maggie is a 5'6 point guard and has played with the Sole team for six years.
Heather Booth
Class of 2011, Frontier High School, Ohio Express 16U Glass
Heather is a 5'9 guard and has played with the Glass team for five years.
Heather will be unable to participate due to a sprain in her hand.

Congratulations to these players for their hard work and dedication to the game of basketball. It is a tremendous honor to be nominated for this event

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There were 174 college coaches at the Border Battle this weekend. Great turnout for coaches and Ohio wins 31 to 17.