Ryan O'Leary
The Republic
Jeffersonville, IN, United States
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East senior not satisfied with 15th-place finishes
Columbus East’s Brady Beyer swims the 100-yard breaststroke during Saturday’s Boys Swimming State Finals at IUPUI’s Indiana University Natatorium. INDIANAPOLIS — The final swim of Brady Beyer’s high school career proved emblematic of his last meet as a whole. Not terrible, but not up to the expectations he’d set coming in. The Columbus East senior finished the 100-yard breaststroke in 58.45… → Read More
Edinburgh volleyball enjoying breakthrough season
EDINBURGH — Over Gracie Crawhorn’s first three years of high school, Edinburgh’s volleyball teams had a combined record of 24 wins and 65 losses, never claiming more than nine victories in a single season. Yet Crawhorn — the Lancers’ lone senior this fall — and her teammates could always sense that the 2022 campaign was going to be different. “We worked really hard in the summer to get to know… → Read More
Bull Dogs top Trojans, move to regional final
Christian Cardoso of Columbus North, left, controls the ball during Wednesday’s regional semifinal at Center Grove. Chris Williams | For The Republic GREENWOOD — By the time you reach the regional rounds of the state boys soccer tournament, there aren’t usually any weak teams left. The margin for error becomes much smaller — and if you leave the opposing side a chance to bury you, you’re likely… → Read More
North, East take 5th, 7th in golf regional; Bunker qualifies for state
Columbus North’s Ava Bunker chips onto the green during Saturday’s regional at The Legends in Franklin. Chris Williams | For The Republic FRANKLIN — On a challenging windy day at The Legends Golf Club, not too many players wound up happy with the numbers on their scorecards. Ava Bunker didn’t have much cause for complaint. The Columbus North freshman carded a 2-under-par 70, good for individual… → Read More
Onward And Upward: As future Bull Dog Bunker continues to grow, so has her golf game
Incoming Columbus North freshman Ava Bunker will spend much of July competing at such prestigious golf courses as Pinehurst and Torrey Pines. Submitted photo EDINBURGH — Lounging comfortably in the back room at Timbergate’s pro shop with a pair of pink shark cloud foam slides on her feet, Ava Bunker might as well have been sitting on a couch in her own living room — which, perhaps not… → Read More
Former Central AD taking over at Center Grove
Former Central Middle School athletics director Joe Bronkella has been named athletics director at Center Grove. Submitted photo GREENWOOD — Always shoot your shot. When he heard that Center Grove was seeking a new athletics director, former Central Middle School athletics director Joe Bronkella wasn’t sure what his chances were, but he knew there was only one way to find out. “I was like, ‘Man,… → Read More
Deja vu / Warriors oust Olympians in similar game as season opener
WHITELAND — Decimated by injuries and forced to reinvent itself on the fly over the course of the regular season, the Whiteland football team that ran out onto its home field to face Columbus East on Friday night in some ways bore little resemblance to the one that hosted the Olympians in the teams’ season → Read More
Class A No. 1 Saints end Lancers’ season
INDIANAPOLIS — Ever since the IHSAA’s Class A sectional draw paired Edinburgh up with top-ranked Indianapolis Lutheran, there was a bit of a funereal feel to what most expected to be the end of the Lancers’ most successful football season in a generation. The unbeaten Saints didn’t do much to soften the parting shot on → Read More
North shocks Trojans on PKs, will meet East in sectional final
GREENWOOD — Though his team was undermanned and outshot throughout its Class 3A semifinal match at Center Grove, Columbus North girls soccer coach David Young was confident that if his team could just find a way to extend the game and force a shootout, it was going to win. He wasn’t wrong. Missing injured stars → Read More
3A No. 7 North blanks Woodmen, earns rematch with No. 8 Trojans
GREENWOOD — Center Grove and Columbus North have opened the girls soccer season against each other in each of the last five seasons, and it has always served as the prelude to an eventual sectional meeting. On Tuesday evening, the two rivals assured themselves of yet another dance with one another. The Class 3A No. → Read More
Sabotin advances to state finals in two events
For The TribuneRachel Sabotin cut things a little bit close during Friday night’s state girls swimming preliminaries, but no matter.The Trinity Lutheran junior had one objective — to finish in the top eight in both of her events for a spot in the championship finals — and she accomplished it.“The goal tonight was just to → Read More
A winning formula / Sagarin, Harrell make it all add up for football, basketball fans
For The Tribune BLOOMINGTON Though he grew up in New Rochelle, New York, Jeff Sagarin long felt a connection to Indiana high school basketball. When he was in fourth grade, Sagarin read “Yea! Wildcats!” — a sports novel for young folks written by John R. Tunis in the 1940s about a small-town coach who overcomes → Read More
STRONG FINISH: Seymour senior golfer concludes season in regional play
HENRYVILLE The 16th hole claimed more than a couple of golfers during Thursday’s regional tournament at Champions Pointe. Unfortunately for Seymour’s Tyler Bullard, he was one of them. Competing as an individual, the recently graduated Bullard finished his front nine with a 1-under-par 35, leaving himself well positioned to earn one of the five state → Read More
Senior settling back in with Lancers after a year at East
A year ago, Christian Cox wasn’t on the court for the Edinburgh boys basketball team. He wasn’t even enrolled at the school. But his heart never strayed from the Lancers. Though he spent his junior year attending school in Columbus, Cox was in the crowd for nearly every Edinburgh game, chopping it up with his → Read More
Sophomore guard steps into leadership role for Lancers
No matter how talented they might be, freshmen who are able to crack the varsity basketball lineup often have a tendency to defer to their older teammates, feeling as though it might not be their turn yet. Destiney Ramey may have taken a bit of a back seat for the Edinburgh girls a year ago. → Read More
Pacers must be awful before they’re relevant
Though they haven't won an NBA championship and have only sporadically contended here and there, it's actually pretty amazing how long the Indiana Pacers have gone without being bad. Since the late 1980s, when the team picked second (Rik Smits) and seventh (George McCloud) in consecutive drafts, the Pacers haven't had a team bad enough → Read More
Lancers fall behind early, can’t recover
Strong starts haven’t been a problem for the Indian Creek girls basketball team this season. Maintaining that same level of play across 32 minutes has been. That was the case again on Tuesday evening. Fortunately for the Braves, two and a half quarters of dominance were enough to seal a 64-52 victory against host Edinburgh → Read More
Foam device enables runners to address aches, pains
Whether you’re a runner or not, we’ve all felt the aches. The throbbing. The pain that can come with tight, sore muscles. The voice in your head yelling, “I need a massage like nobody’s business.” Turns out you can have an on-call masseuse in your home for just a few dollars. The masseuse is you, → Read More
In reality, life in the ring is anything but.
For anyone who grew up watching professional wrestling, the memories of seeing stars such as Hulk Hogan, → Read More
If you see a fork in the road, take it
As I sit down to pen my second diary entry, I have come to realize that plans seldom work out the way you intend them to. Naïvely believing that I had the concept of running down pat, I had originally envisioned writing about my food choices and how they play an important role in my → Read More