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Southington Chalker Wildcats

Head Coach: Justin Kren
Years Head Coach (current school): 3
Record (current school): 4-2
Years Head Coach (overall): 3rd
Record (overall): 6-5

Assistant Coaches:
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Record last season: 4-2
League Affiliation: N/A (club)
Last year's playoff results: N/A

Team's style of offense: Multiple

Top players returning on offense:
Tanner Kelson (RB)
Vince Delvecchio (QB)
Colt Levensky (RB)
Ryan Herdman (OL)
Daniel Kellar (TE)
Zachary Pack (WR)
Tegun Nobel (WR)
Gavin Stewart (OL)

Top players lost on offense:
Lucas Whelchel (WR)
Hunter Pequignot (OL)

New impact players on offense:
Leland Bosch (WR) Sophomore
Ethan Bosch (WR) Junior

Team's style of defense: 4-4

Top players returning on defense:
Tanner Kelson (LB)
Daniel Kellar (LB)
Gavin Stewart (DL)
Colt Levensky (LB)
Tegun Nobel (CB)

New impact players on defense:
Leland Bosch (CB)
Ethan Bosch (CB)

Expected starters on special teams:
Team did not use special teams the previous season. Unknown who is expected to oversee special teams

Final Comments:
This year the Wildcats enter a new conference (Northern 8) and will play 8-man, returning to Varsity play for the first time since the 2020 season. Chalker returns alot of young talent, with most players still having another 1-2 years left with the team. Chalker is expected to use a RB duo of Tanner Kelson and Colt Levensky, as well as a QB-WR duo of Vince Delvecchio and Tegun Nobel. Chalker also welcomes back two talented players who had played for them during their middle school days, Leland and Ethan Bosch.

2023 Results:
JV/8-Man RESULTS
8/19 Jackson-Milton (JV) 44-0 (1-0)
8/25 @Sebring McKinley (8-man 54-6 (2-0)
9/14 St. John (Varsity) 28-32 (2-1)
10/5 Warren JFK (JV) 22-0 (3-1)
10/14 Holgate (8-man) 32-58 (3-2)
10/20 Sebring McKinley (8-man) 62-20 (4-2)

2024 Schedule:
8/31 Maryland (8-man)
9/14 @TOLedo Christian (8-man)
9/21 St. Joseph Central Catholic (8-man)
10/5 @Stryker (8-man)
10/12 @ St. Mary Central Catholic (8-man)
10/18 Sebring McKinley (8-man)
10/26 Holgate (8-man)
11/2 Danbury (8-man)
 
 
It's probably good they made the switch to 8-man. Just don't have the numbers.

I don't envy them with all that traveling though.
Best of luck to the Wildcats.
 
NEOne said:
Any chance of combining with another local?
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Looking at a map, best bets would be Newton Falls, LaBrae or Champion.
For a long time, Southington used to play their home football games at Newton Falls.
I feel it's about time to merge or co-op with another district.
 
Struthersfan said:
Looking at a map, best bets would be Newton Falls, LaBrae or Champion.
For a long time, Southington used to play their home football games at Newton Falls.
I feel it's about time to merge or co-op with another district.
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What about Windham? They've been struggling with numbers for a while. Make it a win-win for both communities
 
Windham makes perfect sense. Don't know anything about the politics between the two, but it seems like a pretty good idea.
 
Still don't understand why Ohio can't be progressive and forward thinking like Pennsylvania. If smaller schools don't have the numbers, why not let those schools join together for sports, especially football. I know in Pennsylvania, Clarion, North Clarion and Clarion Limestone form football playing Central Clarion. Separate schools but 1 football team.
 
wildcat71 said:
Still don't understand why Ohio can't be progressive and forward thinking like Pennsylvania. If smaller schools don't have the numbers, why not let those schools join together for sports, especially football. I know in Pennsylvania, Clarion, North Clarion and Clarion Limestone form football playing Central Clarion. Separate schools but 1 football team.
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Chalker did do the but for only one season in the middle school program. They combined with Windham in 2021. However, Chalker is extremely prideful with their sports and their community is working hard to bring good numbers back into their sports. If you seen the journey this school has been on since the 2019 Season, there's a lot of be prideful of. This team faced low numbers and less games due to Covid in 2020, lost their ENTIRE season in 2021, and they have been slowly building back with much more determined kids since then, having played club from 2022-2023, and are looking to head back into 11 man football here in a couple years. This community is really determined to reshape their school and have good numbers again!
 
Anyone talking about co-ops need to remember that the OHSAA does not allow them if it's not the same school district. Southington Chalker is by themselves, and the only way to co-op is to leave the OHSAA. The 'club team' they had last year was a nice way around the rules but there will be no co-ops.

And Southington won't just merge their entire school district with another just so the football team does better.
 
Sykotyk said:
Anyone talking about co-ops need to remember that the OHSAA does not allow them if it's not the same school district. Southington Chalker is by themselves, and the only way to co-op is to leave the OHSAA. The 'club team' they had last year was a nice way around the rules but there will be no co-ops.

And Southington won't just merge their entire school district with another just so the football team does better.
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The fact that the OHSAA doesn't allow co-ops except for their own district ( similar to Ytown Chaney and East several years ago) needs to be studied. The fact that Sebring and Southington have to travel hundreds of miles to play 8 man football as opposed to being able to play with Windham and West Branch is asinine. This should be an easy fix. Northern Trumbull county schools without football can have kids play for a neighboring district if OHSAA can correct this. I'm sure there are other sparsely populated areas that would benefit
I understand Chalker 123 point of view about community pride and building up. But it should be 100% about the kids who are actually playing and on the bus to Toledo. Not some alumni who remembers their glory days.
 
nupanther said:
The fact that the OHSAA doesn't allow co-ops except for their own district ( similar to Ytown Chaney and East several years ago) needs to be studied. The fact that Sebring and Southington have to travel hundreds of miles to play 8 man football as opposed to being able to play with Windham and West Branch is asinine. This should be an easy fix. Northern Trumbull county schools without football can have kids play for a neighboring district if OHSAA can correct this. I'm sure there are other sparsely populated areas that would benefit
I understand Chalker 123 point of view about community pride and building up. But it should be 100% about the kids who are actually playing and on the bus to Toledo. Not some alumni who remembers their glory days.
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The logic that the OHSAA employs is that they don't want multiple schools to form 'super teams' by co-oping many together.

The thing is, PA already solved that, as have most other states.

In PA, the state has to approve the co-op. The enrollment number is combined of the two schools. Only a small school can co-op with a larger school. Lack of players is not the lone condition to form a co-op. So a D2 school and a D2 school would never be allowed to co-op together, for instance. But a D2 and a neighboring D6 or D7 could, potentially. In New York, all co-ops are conditionally, and a 'successful' co-op would eventually be forced to play up a classification OR be forced to split back into its constituent schools.

In New York, two examples: Maple Grove and Chautauqua Lake had a co-op that was quite successful at Class D (lowest class in NY) and were forced to move up to Class C to continue the co-op. Maple Grove opted to leave the co-op to go on their own. Chautauqua Lake found neighboring Westfield (and later Brockton) to form a co-op of their own (both schools were formerly in a co-op among themselves, and later joined Fredonia for a while). Meanwhile, Clymer, Sherman, and Panama (originally forming the Clymer/Sherman co-op) co-opped together and played in Class D. After back-to-back state titles and a successful season, they were forced up to Class C for a year. After not winning their section, the section bumped them back down to Class D where they still play today.*

(*-New York has many small schools, far more than Ohio or even PA could ever imagine. Unlike PA or Ohio, school funding is paid by the state, mostly, with some federal funds as well. This causes many very small districts to stay in existence that would have long since been closed or consolidated in PA or Ohio. These districts are generally too small to field sports teams, especially football, on their own. But co-op together to field them. The biggest issue with why there's no consolidation, is because there's really no easy way to agree how to consolidate schools together. So the state just pays to keep them all open. But there's less bureaucracy among the various districts since they all get mostly the same funding per student tied to local costs, etc).

Ohio very well could require that it be a D6 or D7 public school co-oping with no larger than a D3 public and count all students from the two schools in the co-op. In PA until recently, the co-op only counted 50% of the smaller school to help convince the host school to actually enter the co-op.
 
Sykotyk said:
The logic that the OHSAA employs is that they don't want multiple schools to form 'super teams' by co-oping many together.

The thing is, PA already solved that, as have most other states.



Ohio very well could require that it be a D6 or D7 public school co-oping with no larger than a D3 public and count all students from the two schools in the co-op. In PA until recently, the co-op only counted 50% of the smaller school to help convince the host school to actually enter the co-op.
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The fact that OHSAA is concerned about superteams when involving the Southingtons and Sebrings of the state needs addressed. This isn't Fitch and Chaney teaming up to form some potential D1 power. This is about a school district that has to resort to 8 man ball. And if these schools go to varsity ball in the near future it'll be the same thing. Max of low 20s in participation and going 1-9 getting their teeth kicked in by 3-7 teams.
Mathews was a hiccup from going 8 man ball- playing a couple of 8 man games a few years ago. Now they are playing varsity ball and competing fairly well against their peers. Kudos to them and octogenarian Coach Bohren. But not everybody can salvage their program
 
nupanther said:
The fact that OHSAA is concerned about superteams when involving the Southingtons and Sebrings of the state needs addressed. This isn't Fitch and Chaney teaming up to form some potential D1 power. This is about a school district that has to resort to 8 man ball. And if these schools go to varsity ball in the near future it'll be the same thing. Max of low 20s in participation and going 1-9 getting their teeth kicked in by 3-7 teams.
Mathews was a hiccup from going 8 man ball- playing a couple of 8 man games a few years ago. Now they are playing varsity ball and competing fairly well against their peers. Kudos to them and octogenarian Coach Bohren. But not everybody can salvage their program
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To your point, in the 90's Southington was so low on numbers they started 9 freshman in the 22 positions. Several injuries, one very good player suffered a torn ACL because physically they just weren't ready. A few years later they were 7-2, but with a mix of older kids they could have developed better and been stronger before stepping on a varsity field. Mix 2 or 3 of these tiny schools together and maybe get 35-40 kids out for football, not 17-20.
 
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