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2017–18 Akron Zips Women's Basketball Team
The 2017–18 Akron Zips women's basketball team represented the University of Akron during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Zips, led by twelfth year head coach Jodi Kest, played their home games at the James A. Rhodes Arena as members of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 9–21, 3–15 in MAC play to finish in a tie for last place in the East Division. They lost in the first round of the MAC women's tournament to Ohio. On April 21, 2018, Jodi Kest announced her retirement after 12 seasons at Akron and 26 seasons as a head coach. She finished with a 26 year record of 405–348. Roster Schedule , - !colspan=9 style=, Exhibition , - !colspan=9 style=, Non-conference regular season , - !colspan=9 style=, MAC regular season , - !colspan=9 style=, See also *2017–18 Akron Zips men's basketball team The 2017–18 Akron Zips men's basketball team repres ...
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Jodi Kest
Jodi Kest (born March 30, 1962) is the former head women's basketball coach for the University of Akron. Slippery Rock football Coaching career Kest started her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Northwest Missouri State from 1984 until 1986. In her first season at Akron, the Zips posted double digit wins for the first time in more than eight years. That included a six-game winning streak, which was the longest in several years. Prior to coaching at Akron, she coached at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. She posted a 73–40 () record there, and was named Independent Coach of the Year in 2003, 2004, and 2005. She announced her resignation from Akron on April 21, 2018 after 12 years at the school. In the 2004 season, the Islanders went 23–7, setting school records for wins, and winning percentage. She also served as the head women's basketball coach at Gannon University in Pennsylvania for six seasons. She has a career record of 236–172 () as a college head coa ...
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Austintown, Ohio
Austintown is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and census-designated place within Austintown Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. The population was 29,594 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located directly west of Youngstown, Ohio, Youngstown, it is a suburb in the Mahoning Valley, Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area. History Austintown Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, Austintown Township was founded in 1793 as township 2, range 3 of the Connecticut Western Reserve by purchase from the Connecticut Land Company. It was surveyed as a parcel of land on each side, as were other townships of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Austintown was named for Warren, Ohio, Warren resident and Western Reserve judge Calvin Austin. In 1794, John McCollum of New Jersey became the first settler. Throughout the 19th century, the township slowly grew; by 1880, coal miners and their families increased the population to 2,502. A USPS, post office ...
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Shaw High School (Ohio)
Shaw High School is a public high school in East Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the East Cleveland City School District and serves approximately 630 students in grades 9 through 12. The current Shaw facility was constructed around 2007.School Bell Vol. 9, No. 1
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Larry Ellis is the principal. Athletic teams are known as the Cardinals and the school colors are red and black.


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The school's marching band, the Mighty Cardinal Marching Band, performs at various events throughout the year in and around Cleveland, along with home footba ...
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Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state border. Cleveland is the most populous city on Lake Erie, the second-most populous city in Ohio, and the 53rd-most populous city in the U.S. with a population of 372,624 in 2020. The city anchors the Cleveland metropolitan area, the 33rd-largest in the U.S. at 2.18 million residents, as well as the larger Cleveland– Akron– Canton combined statistical area with 3.63 million residents. Cleveland was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve in modern-day Northeast Ohio by General Moses Cleaveland, after whom the city was named. The city's location on the river and the lake shore allowed it to grow into a major commercial and industrial metropolis by the late 19th century, ...
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Lawrence North High School
Lawrence North High School is a public high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The school was founded in 1974 and graduated its first class in 1976. Lawrence North is one of two high schools in the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, the other one being Lawrence Central High School. Academics Enrollment As of the 2019–20 school year, Lawrence North has an enrollment of 2,619 students. The student population is mostly African-American, followed equally by White and Latino. Thirteen percent of the students are involved in special education, ten percent qualify for English language learner support, and fifty-four percent qualify for free or reduced price lunch. The teachers, however, are seventy-seven percent white, and most of them have more than twenty years of teaching experience. Awards and recognition Lawrence North is recognized by the Indiana Department of Education as a Four-Star School, the highest honor that body can confer. It is also fu ...
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Revere High School (Ohio)
Revere High School (RHS) is a public high school located in Bath Township, adjacent to the village of Richfield, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Revere Local School District and serves students in Bath Township, Richfield Village, and Richfield Township, along with small portions of Copley, Akron, and Boston Township. In 2010, 2011, and 2015, the '' U.S. News & World Report'' named Revere High School a Silver school and ranked it in the top 1,000 schools in the United States. RHS offers 16 Advanced Placement courses from the College Board and in 2017, the school introduced several college credit plus courses where students earn college credit through the University of Akron. History and previous building (1953-2020) In the early part of 1950, the Bath-Richfield School Board supervised the purchase of 28 acres for the site of the new school at the intersection of Revere and Everett Roads. On 5 October 1950, the school board selected ''Revere High Scho ...
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Richfield, Ohio
Richfield is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,729 at the 2020 census. It is located midway between Akron and Cleveland and is part of the Akron metropolitan area. History Richfield was founded in 1809 and incorporated in 1967. The village was named for the richness of their soil. In 1970, Mayor Kenneth Swan signed an ordinance declaring Richfield Village the first "world city" in the United States. Richfield was the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers from 1974 until 1994. They played at the Coliseum at Richfield. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census At the 2010 census there were 3,648 people, 1,384 households, and 1,049 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 1,471 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 96.8% White, 0.7% African American, 0.1% Native American, 1.4% Asian, and 1.0 ...
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Lompoc, California
Lompoc ( ; Chumashan ) is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast, its population was 43,834 as of July 2021. Lompoc has been inhabited for thousands of years by the Chumash people, who called the area , meaning 'lagoon' in the local Purisimeño language.Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation: 2018: 7 The Spanish called the area after Fermín de Lasuén had established in 1787. In 1837, the Mexican government sold the area as the Rancho Lompoc land grant. Following the U.S. conquest of California, multiple settlers acquired the Lompoc Valley, including William Welles Hollister, who sold the land around the mission to the Lompoc Valley Land Company, which established a temperance colony which incorporated in 1888 as Lompoc. Lompoc is often considered a military town because it is near Vandenberg Space Force Base. Name The Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (WIELD) confirmed that the Chu ...
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Saint Joseph Academy (Cleveland, Ohio)
Saint Joseph Academy is the only all-female Catholic high school located in Cleveland, Ohio. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. An Associate of the Congregation of St. Joseph serves as Vice President of Mission, and seven faculty and staff members are Associates of the Congregation of St. Joseph. Background Saint Joseph Academy was established in 1890 by the Congregation of St. Joseph. The Academy is owned and operated by the Congregation of St. Joseph, and it is advised by a board of directors representing religious, corporate and nonprofit professionals. The Academy is the only all-girls Catholic high school in the city of Cleveland. Forty percent of the students are residents of Cleveland, and 43% of students are legacies. The student-body represents 62 zip codes. Athletics Saint Joseph Academy is home to 15 varsity interscholastic athletic programs, including Basketball, Bowling, Crew, Cross Country, Golf, Gymnastics, Indoor Track, Lacrosse, Rugby, ...
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Lakewood is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, on the southern shore of Lake Erie. Established in 1889, it is one of Cleveland's historical streetcar suburbs and part of the Greater Cleveland, Cleveland metropolitan area. The population was 50,942 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third largest city in Cuyahoga County, behind Cleveland and Parma, Ohio, Parma. History Establishment The area now called Lakewood was populated by the Ottawa, Potawatomi, Chippewa, Wyandot, Munsee, Delaware and Shawnee tribes until the Treaty of Ft. Industry pushed them west in 1805. Prior to the treaty, American settlers were prohibited from moving west of the Cuyahoga River. The treaty ceded 500,000 acres of some of the tribes' land to the United States for about $18,000 or 3.5 cents/acre. The Shawnee and Seneca, living with the Wyandot, were to get $1000 "...every year forever hereafter." In 1806, the area was formally surveyed as Defunct townships of Cuya ...
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Columbus Africentric High School
Columbus Africentric Early College is a public high school in Columbus, Ohio. It is a part of Columbus City Schools. The school's previous name, Mohawk Middle School, was changed in the late 1990s, to allow the school not only separation from its original status, but also to expand it into a large school. Africentric was moved into a newly built building near the John Glenn Airport in 2016. Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships *Girls Basketball - 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024 *Boys Basketball 2005, orfeitedRuled an Ineligible player after beating Cleveland's Lutheran High School East in the State Championship Notable alumni *Jordan Horston (2019), basketball player for the Seattle Storm *Dailyn Swain (2023), basketball player for the Texas Longhorns See also *Schools in Columbus, Ohio This is a list of public school buildings in Columbus, Ohio, of historical or architectural importance to the Columbus Public School District. Item ...
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus (, ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the List of United States cities by population, 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwestern United States, Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas). Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware and Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield counties. The Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio, Columbus metropolitan area encompasses ten counties in central Ohio and had a population of 2.14 million in 2020, making it the Ohio statistical areas, largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio and Metropolitan statistical area, 32nd-largest metro area in the U.S. Columbus originated as several Nat ...
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