Seven Golden Eagle gridders honored at awards banquet

By GARY HENERY

News Man­ag­ing Editor

The Golden Eagles, who extended Big Walnut’s foot­ball tra­di­tion of suc­cess by post­ing the school’s 16th straight win­ning cam­paign, were rec­og­nized at the annual post­sea­son awards ban­quet held Wednes­day, Novem­ber 7, in the BWHS Auditorium.

Big Wal­nut, post­ing a 6–4 record, tied Olen­tangy Orange for third place with a 4–3 mark in the Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion behind OHSAA State Play­off qual­i­fiers New Albany (7–0) and Olen­tangy (6–1) under fourth-year head coach Joe Weaver who has led the Golden Eagles to a 31–14 record for a .689 win­ning percentage.

The Golden Eagles’ last non-winning sea­son came in 1997 when they fin­ished 5–5 under Rex Spon­holtz. Their last los­ing sea­son came in 1996 when they fin­ished 2–8 under Sponholtz.

Big Walnut’s lead­er­ship and strength came from the Golden Eagles’ 20-man senior class led by quar­ter­back Car­son Chat­ter­ton, wide-receiver/defensive back Adam Sha­heen, wide receiver/defensive back Seth Myers, offensive/defensive line­man Julian Simon, tight end/defensive line­man Brant Weiss, defen­sive back Cody Con­ley and line­backer Parker Marsch who swept all seven post­sea­son honors.

Chat­ter­ton was pre­sented with the cov­eted Golden Eagle Award which is based on Char­ac­ter (40 per­cent), Schol­ar­ship (30 per­cent, 3.00 or higher GPA-3.922) and Ath­letic Abil­ity (30 per­cent). On the field, Chat­ter­ton com­pleted 78 of 146 passes (53.4 per­cent) for 971 yards and 8 touch­downs while rush­ing for 314 yards and 4 TDs in 93 car­ries giv­ing him 1,285 yards in total offense and 12 TDs in 239 plays

Sha­heen earned the Most Valu­able Offen­sive Player of the Year Award (24 recep­tions for 222 yards and a team-high 7 TDs while Simon (83 tack­les — 21 unas­sisted, 62 assisted, 7 for losses, 1 sack) and Myers (67 tack­les – 25 unas­sisted, 42 assists, 2 for losses, 8 pass inter­cep­tions) shared the Most Valu­able Defen­sive Player Award. Myers also matched Sha­heen with 24 recep­tions for a team-leading 273 yards.

Marsch was tapped for the Spe­cial Teams Most Valu­able Player Award while Weiss was the recip­i­ent of the Most Improved Player Award and Con­ley was rec­og­nized as the win­ner of the Iron Eagle Award.

Fresh­man Jacob Wat­son was hon­ored with the Brett Stelzer Award in mem­ory of for­mer team mem­ber Brett Stelzer.

Among other Big Wal­nut sta­tis­ti­cal lead­ers were sopho­more Chris­t­ian John­son, junior Alec Eisnnicher, junior Austin Crow and sopho­more Tyler Sat­ter­field. John­son led Big Wal­nut in rush­ing with 638 yards and 5 touch­downs in 116 attempts and did not lose a sin­gle yard on the ground. On defense, Eisnnicher recorded 69 assisted tack­les, 12 tack­les for a loss and 3 quar­ter­back sacks while Crow led in unas­sisted tack­les with 35. Sat­ter­field led the Golden Eagles in place­kick­ing with 26 points, con­vert­ing on 20 of 243 extra points and on 2 of 2 field goal attempts.

Nine Golden Eagles were rec­og­nized for being selected to the All-OCC Cap­i­tal Divi­sion Team. Crow, Sha­heen and Myers were voted to the First Team; Eisnnicher, Simon, Chat­ter­ton and Weiss to the Sec­ond Team; junior Austin Hale to the Spe­cial Men­tion unit and John­son to the Hon­or­able Men­tion squad. Sha­heen was the win­ner of the Ernie God­frey Award.

Divi­sion II All-Central Dis­trict hon­orees for Big Wal­nut included Simon (First Team Offen­sive Line­man), Myers (First Team Defen­sive Back), Eisnnicher (Sec­ond Team Line­backer), Sha­heen (Sec­ond Team Defen­sive Back) and Crow (Spe­cial Mention).

Weaver and his staff, includ­ing Mike Adams, Mike DeLaney, Scott Wet­zel, Brian Mackey, Char­lie Row­ley, Anthony Zarcone, Todd Daw­son, Luke Moore, Zach Walker and Nick Kuhn, awarded 47 var­sity letters.

Three-year let­ter win­ners included seniors Gabe Kitchen, Chat­ter­ton, Con­ley, Myers, Simon and Weiss; two-year let­ter win­ners included seniors Alex Clark, Bran­don Koon, Jim Miller, Anthony Roberto, Logan Williams, Trevor Williams and Dominic Zitello; juniors Grant Burks, Lloyd Huf­fer, Austin Thomas, Joel Win­dle, Carr, Crow, Eisnnicher and Hale; and first-year let­ter win­ners included seniors Noah Kirk, Maxwell McLean, Robert McMa­nis, Nicholas Rus­sell, Bran­dyn Wright, Marsch and Sha­heen; juniors Ryan Grieser, David Her­nan­dez, Chase LaVeer, Logan Perry, Joseph Steller, Christo­pher Thomas, Gabriel Vance and Sean Williams; and sopho­mores Alec Evans, Mohammed Firewick, Mark Lewis, Blake Mar­ioth, Tyler Mar­tin, Justin Richards, Bray­den Shep­herd, William Smith, Dar­rin Tay­lor, John­son and Satterfield.

Senior Plaques were awarded to Chat­ter­ton, Con­ley, Kitchen, Myers, Roberto, Simon and Weiss.

Junior var­sity awards were pre­sented to juniors Odd Gun­nar Aspaas, Logan Crum, Bran­don Hager­man, John Lank­ford, Charles Leav­itt, Ben­jamin Rad­cliff and Caleb Stover; to sopho­mores Michael Black­burn, Riley Carter, Con­ner Fry, Gar­rett Grover, Jacob Lucas, Joseph Mazzi, Jacob Pick­rell, Colin Siders, Joseph Spauld­ing, Cole Stark, Adrian Thomas and Christo­pher Wall; and to fresh­man Tom Fleser.

Fresh­man numer­als were earned by Jar­rett Adkins, Chuk­wuka Aku­soba, Bran­den Ander­son, Hay­den Bow­mar, Matthew Brock­way, Dono­van Chhuom, Larry D’Amico, Ryan Dun­can, Joshua East­wood, Dal­ton Edwards, Samuel Edwards, Zane Eng­lish, Vaughn Fir­malan, Caleb Gib­son, Ethan Hale, Tyler Hogg, Chester Klinedinst, Joseph Kon­tul, Wayne Lam­bert, Isaac Lucas, Justin Nel­son, Anthony Pisano, Joseph Schoo­ley, Joshua Seabrook, Michael Sensi, Jesse Tem­ple, Jason Trainer, Jacob Trott, Jacob Wat­son, Jerry Williams, Andrew Wood, Aaron Zieg and Daniel Zitello.

Twenty-seven mem­bers of the Golden Eagle squad were rec­og­nized as Big Wal­nut Scholar Ath­letes (Var­sity Let­ter Win­ner, 3.20 Grade Point Aver­age) includ­ing Burks, Carr, Chat­ter­ton, Clark, Eisnnicher, Evans, Grieser, Austin Hale, Her­nan­dez, John­son, Kirk, Kitchen, LaVeer, Mar­tin, Miller, Perry, Richards, Roberto, Sha­heen, Smith, Steller, Vance, Weiss, Sean Williams, Trevor Williams, Win­dle and Dominic Zitello.

Sha­heen was also rec­og­nized as an OCC Scholar Ath­lete (Senior, 3.50 GPA).

Also rec­og­nized were var­sity man­ager Matt Bale as well as Ball Boys Kel­ton Thomp­son and George Derenburger.

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Big Wal­nut head trainer hon­ored fresh­men Brandy Pace and Heather Stim­mel for their work with the 2012 Golden Eagle Fall Sports pro­grams. Each received their fist var­sity letter.

Pace was rec­og­nized as a Big Wal­nut Scholar Ath­letes (Var­sity Let­ter Win­ner, 3.20 Grade Point Average).

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