GALION — Six legendary athletes will be inducted into the Crawford County Sports Hall of Fame on April 1.
Galion quarterback Andy Roesch, Galion state wrestling titlist Ryan Hieber, Bucyrus state pole vault champ Mike Pensinger, Bucyrus state track winner Sarah Henize, Colonel Crawford championship track coach Jody Grove, and Wynford’s longtime baseball coach Tom Schreck are members of the latest class
Induction banquet tickets are now available for purchase at the six high school athletic departments in Crawford County.
Tickets are also available at the Crestline Advocate or by calling and reserving a ticket 419-571-6284. The Induction Banquet is April 1, 5 p.m. at the Trillium Event Center, 1630 E. Southern Ave., Bucyrus. The following are being inducted into the Class of 2016:
Ryan Hieber
Ryan Hieber was Galion High School’s first state wrestling champion in 1999, while amassing a record of 49-0, and had the record for most pins at 34 and most takedowns in a season at 206. Ryan’s high school wrestling record was 142-17.
While attending Galion, Hieber was a state placer in 1997, 1998. Hieber was NOL Champion three times and the Alliance Top Gun Champion twice.
Ryan wrestled in the 171-pound weight class and was an All-American and USA World Team member. Hieber wrestled in Europe for the U.S. Olympic Center at the age of 16. While at The Ohio State University, he was a Big Ten Runner-Up in 2001 at 174 pounds and National Qualifier.
Ryan’s college career record was 47-17, and he earned two varsity letters. During Hieber’s sophomore year at OSU, his career was shortened by injury. Hieber was also an Academic All-American two times. Ryan was an AAU champion twice. Hieber was a USA Junior National All-American in Greco-Roman.
Ryan is a 2004 graduate of the Max M. Fischer College of Business, The Ohio State University. In 2007 Ryan received his Master’s in Business Administration. Hieber is currently the CEO of the Police and Fire Credit Union of Toledo. Ryan is married to Andrea and they have a son, Jack.
Jody Grove
Jody Grove has been the Colonel Crawford head girls track coach for 35 years and head cross country coach for boys and girls for 22 years.
When she started her career, she had a very limited background in running. Jody has had a hand in four team state championships, and coached a number of individuals to state titles. She has been named three times District 6 Coach of the Year and three times Colonel Crawford Teacher of the Year.
Under Grove’s leadership, every girl’s record in track and field has been broken. Forty-four girls have participated in the state level of track and field. Jody coached three consecutive state championship teams in 1990, 1991 and 1992.
Grove’s girls’ teams have won the county title eight times, as well as earning two district championship titles. Her boys’ teams have taken the county title seven times and the league title eight times. Thirteen individuals and or relays have been state champions.
Forty athletes and relays have received All-Ohioan honors, nine of those being state champions in their events. While serving as the distance coach for both teams, she has also had three boys claim state championship honors in the 1600 meter run.
Jody was inducted into the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame. Jody was a recipient of the Fred Dafler Career State Coach of the Year Award and the Bob Cline Coach Longevity Award.
Jody is a graduate of Colonel Crawford High School. Jody is a retired teacher from Col. Crawford and served the district as an intervention specialist for 33 years. She is still an active coach for cross country and track.
Sarah Henize
Sarah was an outstanding runner at Bucyrus High School. She made the first state cross country meet in 2002 and 2003. She was a two-time All Ohioan. Sarah also qualified for the state track and field meet in the 800 in all four years of high school from 2001-2004.
In 2004, she was state champion in Division II. She also led her class with a 4.0 GPA and went on to compete in college track and field, first at Miami University 2005-2006, then the University of Iowa 2008-2009. Sarah has many accomplishments including:
Bucyrus High School
• 2004 Division II State Champion, Women’s 800m
• 2004 Division II State Qualifier, Women’s 1600m
• 2004 Division II All-Ohio, 13th Place, Women’s Cross Country
• 2004 Division II Region Honorable Mention, Women’s Basketball
• 2003-2004 National Honor Society Member
• 2003 Division II State Runner Up, Women’s 800m
• 2003 Division II All-Ohio, 12th Place, Women’s Cross Country
• 2002 Division II All-Ohio, 4th Place, Women’s 800m
• 2001 Division II State Qualifier, 10th Place, Women’s 800m
• 12 Varsity Letters:
o 2001-2004: Basketball, Track & Field
o 2001-2003: Cross Country
o 2000: Volleyball
Miami University, B.A., Zoology, Summa Cum Laude (2007)
• 2006 Mid-American Conference, Athlete of the Week
• 2006 Mid-American Conference, Outdoor Track & Field Finalist
• 2005-2006 Miami University Cross Country Team Academic All-American
• 2005-2006 Mid-American Conference, Academic All-Conference
• 2005-2006 Mid-American Conference, All-MAC Team
• 2005 Mid-American Conference, Indoor Track & Field Finalist
• 2004-2007 Dean’s List
University of Iowa, M.P.H., Social & Behavioral Science (2009)
• 2009 First Health News Reporter for the Daily Iowan
• 2008-2009 Big Ten Conference, Academic All-Conference
• 2008-2009 University of Iowa Athletics, Distinguished Scholar Award
• 2008 Big Ten Conference, Outdoor Track & Field Finalist
• 2008 University of Iowa Athletics, 4 x Mile School Record
• 2008 Featured Student in Bi-Annual UI CPH/CBH Department Newsletter
Bowling Green State University, Ph.D., Media & Communication (2013)
• 2012 AEJMC Annual Conference, Magazine Division Top Student Paper
Publications
Torbeck, R., Bankowski, R., Henize, S., Saedi, N. (2016). Lasers in tattoo and pigmentation control: role of the PicoSure® laser system. Medical Devices: Evidence and Research, 9, pp. 63-67.
Ha, L., Hu, X., Fang, L., Henize, S., Park, S., Stana, A., & Zhang, X. (2015). Use of Survey Research in Top Mass Communication Journals 2001-2010 and the Total Survey Error Paradigm. The Review of Communication, 15(1), pp. 39-59.
Selected Works
Henize, S. E. (2012, August). It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white: Breast cancer messages in young women’s magazines. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Ha, L., Hu, X., Fang, L., Henize, S., Park, S., Stana, A., & Zhang, X. (2012, May). Use of surveys in top mass communication journals 2001-2010. Paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
Henize, S. E. (2012, March). Relationships in health communication campaigns: A qualitative literature review. Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Convention, Cleveland, OH.
Henize, S. E. (2012, March). Celebrities and health campaigns: What’s the message? Paper presented at the Association for Marketing & Health Care Research Conference, Park City, UT.
Henize, S. E. (2011, April). Disease as fashionable: A qualitative content analysis of breast cancer messages in U.S. women’s fashion magazines. Poster presented at the D.C. Health Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Sarah currently works at Premier, Inc., where she helps hospitals and health systems succeed in the transition from volume to value of care. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Thomas Jefferson University College of Population Health, for which she teaches a course in the Master of Public Health program.
Sarah is married to Richard Torbeck (2011) and currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She still runs six days a week and enjoys travelling the globe with Rich in her free time.
Mike Pensinger
Mike Pensinger’s accomplishments and awards in athletics at Bucyrus High School and the University of Toledo are many. While representing BHS in football and track, he set new records in both sports. He went on to have a very successful career in track at the University of Toledo, setting records there as well. He even played one year of football.
In football at BHS, Mike was a three-year varsity letter winner. He went on to have an outstanding senior football season. Mike played an integral part in Bucyrus’s first and only undefeated and untied season in school history. His best game came on week seven against Galion.
His record-setting 12 receptions for 209 yards helped propel his team to 32-0 victory and kept their number one ranking in the AP and UPI polls. His team held on to number one until the final week of the season. They were mysteriously jumped in the polls by number two ranked New Lexington. Mike was a unanimous first team NOL wide receiver and second team All-Ohioan.
Mike was a standout in track as well. He was a four year varsity letter winner. His track records include being the first State Champion in school history (individual or team in any sport). His vault of 14’ 5 ¼” set the record for class AA in the newly formed three class system.
He established the Bucyrus High School record of 14’6” which still holds today. Other track records include the high jump with a leap of 6’3” and the 180-yard low hurdles with a time of 20.6 seconds, a record that will remain his forever because that event no longer exists. He also competed in the Ohio Classic track meet his senior year where he won pole vault for all divisions with a height of 14 feet.
He continued his athletic career at the University of Toledo. He played football for one season, then decided to concentrate on his track career, where he went on to be a four-year letterwinner. While at Toledo, Mike excelled in the decathlon.
He participated in the Ohio State Relays where he placed fourth. He set two event records by vaulting 15 feet and running the 1500 meters in a time of 4:24. At the time, he was Toledo’s decathlon record holder with 6,514 points. He set the University of Toledo record in the javelin with a throw of 178’4”, a record that had stood since 1949.
His accomplishments also included personal bests of 15’6” in the pole vault and 23’7” in the long jump. He led his team in points his senior year and holds the distinction of having participated in ten track and field events in the same day.
Mike was never too far removed from track. Over the years he assisted many athletes. One year while his brother Scott, the Galion coach, was deployed to the Middle East, Mike filled in to coach the pole vaulters. He also had the opportunity to coach his niece, Ami, to a fifth-place finish at the state track meet.
Mike is now retired from General Electric after 32 years, and enjoys golf and fishing. He has two children, Nicole and Ian, and four grandchildren.
Tom Schreck
Tom Schreck is a 1968 graduate of Wynford High School. He served as baseball coach of the Wynford Royals for 34 years, 26 at the varsity level. He led his team to the state championship game in 1982, and finished as runners-up.
Schreck’s overall record is 404-191 which includes ten North Central Conference championships, and 12 Sectional, five District and one Regional tournament titles. He was the OHSBCA District 9 Coach of the Year three times and coached the 2001 Mizuno All Star Game.
Schreck was inducted into the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2007. Tom was also inducted into the Wynford High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009. In addition to coaching baseball, Tom coached football at Wynford for 20 years and freshman basketball for 16 seasons.
The first years, he coached junior varsity and also coached Legion baseball during the summer. The next 26 years, he could be found on the baseball field as the head coach for the Royals. After stepping down as head coach, he had the privilege of holding the Assistant Varsity Coach position for six years.
While attending Wynford, Tom participated in football, basketball and baseball and received nine varsity letters and several conference honors. After high school, Tom attended Taylor University in Indiana, and played both football and baseball. In baseball, he lettered all four years and was captain for two years. He also received several conference honors and played on three Hoosier-Buckeye Conference Championship teams.
Schreck received a master’s degree in Administration from Xavier University. He retired from teaching social studies at the junior and senior high levels for 35 years, in 2008. He also served two years as a junior high principal.
Coach Schreck married Candy Kiess and they have two children, Tobey and Tara. Tobey is middle school principal in Ironton. Tobey and wife Missy have three children. Daughter Tara is a clinical pharmacist for Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus. She and husband Rich have three children.
Coaching Honors:
• 3-time District #9 Coach of the Year
• 5-time Coach in District All-Star Game
• 2001 Coached with Jon Smith in the Mizuno All-Star game
• The Wynford Board of Education named the baseball field “Schreck Field”
• 2009 Inducted into the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame
Team Honors:
• 404-191 record
• 10 NCC Championships
• 13 Sectional Championships
• 5 District Championships
• 1 Regional Championship
• 4 Regional Runners-Up
• 1982 State Runner Up
• 25 Winning Seasons
Andy Roesch
Andy was a four-year starter in varsity football at Galion High School. Andy was the quarterback and is a record holder of the number of passes completed in a single game at 426 yards, 2,232 yards in a season and 6, 046 in his high school career. He was named All-Ohio twice.
In 1997 Galion was the NOL Champions. Andy also was a four-year starter in basketball. He was a career leader in rebounds at 860, and placed third in career points at 1,074. Andy was the Crawford County Player of the Year in 1999. He was All-Ohio Honorable Mention in 1999. His basketball teams were three-time sectional Champs.
After high school, Roesch went on to play football at Ball State University, in Indiana. Roesch was the starting quarterback two years and was the only quarterback to throw five touchdown passes in a single game-twice, vs Eastern Michigan and Central Michigan.
Mr. Roesch is a 1999 graduate of Galion High School in Galion, OH. He attended Ball State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 2004 and a Master’s Degree in Education Administration, 2009. Mr. Roesch taught Social Studies at Pendleton Heights Middle School and Muncie Central High School prior to arriving at Mississinewa High School.
He is currently in his fourth year serving as Assistant Principal at Mississinewa High School in Gas City, Indiana. His wife Rachel teaches fifth grade at Northview Elementary. Andy and Rachel have two children, Anderson and Addison.
