Ohio Express Girls Basketball

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Clinic Scheduled for August 17
The Ohio Express Girls Basketball Club will be holding a clinic on August 17. There will be a session from 5:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. for girls in 3rd-6th grades and a session from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. for girls in 7th-9th grades. Instruction will be offered in ball handling, shooting, footwork, defensive drills, and etc. The clinics will continue every Sunday evening throughout the summer and the location is the Maysville administration building located at 2805 Pinkerton Lane, Zanesville. For more information contact Brent Glass at (740) 683-3378.

Ohio Express Fall League
The Eastern Ohio Girls Basketball Fall League will begin play on September 7th in Cambridge. This is the second year for the league run by the Ohio Express. We will have divisions for grades 4-5, grades 6-8 and grades 8-12. Eighth graders will be allowed to play in two age divisions (for an extra fee of $15). Cost for the league is $60 with a $10 discount for any non-Ohio Express player referred to the league. Games will be played on Sunday evenings in Cambridge and Zanesville with the majority of the games in Cambridge. Cambridge is conveniently located at the crossroads of I-70 and I-77. The cost includes a reversible jersey. The season will run approximately 7-8 weeks with plenty of games. For more information call Brent Glass at (740) 683-3378 or e-mail brentglass@ohioexpressbasketball.com. You can also visit www.ohioexpressbasketball.com.

Send the following information along with a check made out to Ohio Express to:
3780 Mona Drive
Zanesville, OH 43701-9444

Applications:
http://www.ohioexpressbasketball.com/applications/OEBAPP2009.htm
Waiver
http://www.ohioexpressbasketball.com/applications/OEBWAV2009.htm

Ohio Express to field Exposure Teams
The Ohio Express will be sending three teams to a fall college exposure tournament during the weekend of October 4-5. The teams will be 9th graders coached by Jake Stewart, 10th graders coached by Brent Glass and 11th graders coached by Mike Durant. If you are interested in playing on a team for that weekend contact Brent Glass at (740) 683-3378 or brentglass@ohioexpressbasketball.com This is the third year the Express has sent teams to play in front of college coaches. Teams will begin practicing in late August. The location of the tournament will be announced at the time the teams begin practicing.

Ohio Express to celebrate fifth year of existence
The 2009 season will be the Ohio Express' fifth year of existence and we have seen great growth from our first year. In 2005, we started with five teams and 46 girls; in 2008, we fielded fourteen teams with 145 girls playing. There are eight people who have been a part of the organization from year one all the way through. Coaches Mark Lane, Jake Stewart and Brent Glass have each taken a team every year. Players Maggie Mitchell (Newark), Katie Davis (Zanesvile), Kaelani Gill (Philo), Ashley Glass (West Muskingum), and Karen Sidwell (Maysville) have been a part of the Express since their inaugural season in 2005. Karen and Ashley were members of the first Ohio Express team that competed in the fall and winter of 2004. Brent and Mark coached that team. Kaelani and Katie have been Express teammates for four years and have compiled a very impressive four year record of 98 wins against only 26 losses and winning 12 championships along the way. We look forward to our next five years and seeing the Ohio Express continue to grow and give opportunities to girls throughout eastern Ohio and West Virginia.

Brooks named "Miss Fundamentalist"
Mallory Brooks was named, "Miss Fundamentalist", this summer at coach Morgan Wooten's camp in Maryland. To read the complete article from the Marietta Times, click the following link:
http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/505185.html?nav=5027

Ohio Express Players at OGBR Skills Development and Exposure Camp

Eleven girls from the Ohio Express organization participated in the Ohio Girls Basketball Report's Skills Development and Exposure Camp held from July 4 through July 7.

From left to right: Myranda Wolfe (Utica), Heather Booth (Frontier), Molly Ritz (Cambridge), Brooke Drayer (Waterford), Abby Wetherell (Cambridge, Emiley Masloski (Stuebenville), Leigha Moran (Licking Valley), Ashley Glass (West Muskingum), Emily Brown (Waterford), Rachel Zimomra (Coshocton), and Karen Sidwell Maysville.

According to its website, the OGBR has been "voted by NCAA D-I college coaches as the #1 single state scouting service in America." Most of the major conferences from the NCAA were in attendance, some of the schools represented include: Tennessee, Dayton, Cincinnati, Akron, Bowling Green, Ohio U., Ohio State, Ashland, Purdue, Southeast Missouri State, UNC Wilmington, Penn State, Northwestern, Virginia, St. Francis, etc.

Our girls did very well at the camp, we're proud of their accomplishments and hope to continue our progress to get more of our players exposure so that they can continue to play beyond the high school level. Thanks to the eleven girls who attended the camp for representing our organization so well.