Vol. 16 No. 1 Winter 2019 A W H A A - Preserving and maintaining the rich tradition of West High athletics year as well as All-City. He was offered MELISSA CARMICHAEL, ’03, played UPCOMING EVENT a scholarship to Tulane University but varsity softball 4 years at West High, as played football 1 year at the Univer- #1 pitcher three of those years from 2000 “HALL OF HONOR” DINNER sity of Cincinnati before transferring – 2003. She pitched a no hitter, led the Wednesday, March 20, 2019 to Eastern Kentucky University. Chip team to win the Queen City Conference 5:30 PM helped start the Bridgetown Basketball Championship in 2001, posting a 12-0 The Meadows on Cleves Warsaw Pike Association, coached knothole baseball record in conference games. She re- Addyston, Ohio 30 years on the west side, and junior ceived the Western Hills Coaches Award pro basketball 12 years with many in 2001, was First Team Queen City Con- Reservation Form on back page of those teams never losing a game. ference All-League Pitcher in 2001, and (More information below) Second Team Queen City Conference MICHAEL BOVARD, ’73, received 3 All-League Pitcher in 2003. Melissa also letters in football and 3 letters in track played junior varsity volleyball 1 year and at West High. In football he was All-City varsity volleyball 3 years at West High, re- 2019 HALL OF HONOR DINNER Honorable Mention in 1971, Second ceiving the Most Improved Player Award Team All-PHSL in 1972, West High co- in 2000, and the Queen City Scholar Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 5:30 captain, All-PHSL, and All-City in 1973. Athlete Award, 2000-2003. She attended PM, five outstanding West High alumni His sophomore year, Mike was team Cincinnati Christian University where she athletes will be inducted into the sports captain and on the PHSL championship played volleyball 3 years, 2004-2006. Hall of Honor - Chip Deifel, Mike track team, qualifying for long jump and Bovard, Malcolm Andrews, Melissa pole vault sectionals. Junior year he TREVOR CANFIELD, ’04, played base- Carmichael, and Trevor Canfield. Their was on the PHSL championship team ball, basketball and football for West High induction will occur at the Hall of Honor and qualified for Sectionals long jump his freshman and sophomore years, and Dinner to be held at The Meadows on and pole vault. His senior year he was football his junior and senior years. He Cleves Warsaw Pike, Addyston, Ohio. team captain, on the PHSL and State was on the QCC championship football Sectional championship teams, third team in 2000. He was Second team Reservations can be made using the in Districts, qualifying for Districts pole SWOPL All-League and received the Dinner Reservation Form on the back of vault. Mike was Fellowship of Christian Co-Line of Scrimmage Award presented this newsletter. Cost for the Hall of Honor Athletes and Maroon W President, by coaches his junior year. He was First Dinner is $45 per person, $360 for a Mr. Price Hill, and Junior Olympian team SWOPL All-League, won the Of- table of eight. For additional information representing southwest Ohio in pole fensive Lineman Award, and played in contact AWHAA Secretary Gail Suiter vault. At Earlham College he played the East West All-Star game his senior at [email protected], or Kristie Vene- football, 1974 and 1975, and track and year. Trevor attended the University of man at [email protected]. field, 1974. In the U.S. Air Force, 1975, Cincinnati on full athletic scholarship, Plan to attend this fundraising event to he played softball for the All-PACAF receiving Second team All-Big East support West High’s Athletic Department team and won the championship vs. honors, and playing on the winning In- and maintenance of the “Hall of Honor.” all military bases in the Pacific Theater. ternational Bowl team sophomore year. Help welcome these five alumni athletes Junior year he received Second Team into the prestigious sports Hall of Honor. MALCOLM ANDREWS ’01, was a West All-Big East honors and was on the win- High 4 year varsity basketball player. He ning PapaJohns.com Bowl team. Senior CHIP DEIFEL, ’63, played three years was All-Queen City Conference, 1999, year he helped UC win its first Big East of varsity basketball at West High MVP Queen City Metro, 1999-2000, and Championship, played in the BCS Orange and was All-PHSL junior and senior All-Ohio honorable mention, 2000. He Bowl, the North South All-Start game, years. He was leading PHSL scorer was assist leader, 2000, 2001, and lead- and earned Second Team All-Big East and a top 5 scorer in the City his ju- er in steals, 2000, 2001. He was First and Second Team All-American honors. nior and senior years, West High co- Team Enquirer Division 1 in 2001, and Trevor was drafted by the Arizona Cardi- captain and All-City his senior year. on the Enquirer All-Star Team 2000 and nals in the seventh round of the 2009 NFL Chip played three years of varsity 2001. Malcolm attended Wright State Draft, also playing for the Seattle Sea- football, and was All-PHSL junior and University on academic and basketball hawks, Detroit Lions and New York Jets. senior years. He was MVP his junior and scholarship 2 years then Walsh College senior years, and co-captain his senior where he played basketball 2 years. To the future… The reigning baseball made to Roland that he should try out for conference championship team looks the 1968 Olympic team. He received a forward to start the season in Myrtle set of drawings to use for his own Olym- Beach, SC, for the Mingo Bay tourna- pic C2 strip wood canoe the winter of FROM THE OFFICE OF THE ment. Also, our softball team will cut the 1967-68, that he and his partner Art Pre- ribbon off their new softball field. We will ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ising built that got them into the Olympic have a ceremony before the first game and honor Gabby Rodriguez who was training. They had no coach and didn’t Hello and welcome to the Wild Wild really know how to high-kneel, but they West… I am Phillip O’Neal, the new tragically killed in a hit and run accident. Gabby was a huge voice on the unde- worked at it. They were crushed in a C2 athletic director of Western Hills High sprint race in Canada, but had also built School. This is my seventh year working feated conference team last year and a new United States Canoe Association in Cincinnati Public Schools, previously at would have been a highly recruited player Riverview East Academy and before that by a division-I college team. (USCA) C2 cruiser in which they won the Walnut Hills High School. I am a product 1968 USCA Nationals. of Cincinnati Public Schools, graduating I would love for you all to come to a game from Walnut Hills in 2006. I went on to re- and experience how the mustangs are Without any real local coaching avail- ceive my bachelors from the University of taking back the west. We are the West able, Roland set up a training center in #GoWest… Cincinnati. Following college I joined the his garage. He took movies of the better United States Army Ohio National Guard, paddlers at the 1970 Worlds so he could currently with a rank of first lieutenant. 50 YEARS OF RACING try to emulate their technique. He set up a movie projector in his garage in front My goal is to bring Western Hills back West High Hall of Honor Inductee Roland of the paddling tank, plus mirrors so he to its glory days of being a powerhouse, Muhlen, Class of 1960, has been canoe could see myself, then tried to imitate the but it starts in the classroom. I want our racing for over 50 years. As a West High good paddlers by watching the movies student-athletes to be respectful, coach- swimmer he was comfortable around able and confident that anything they put as he practiced. water, so he initially thought getting a their mind to they can achieve. canoe was a way to enjoy the peace and By 1972, Roland and Andy Weigand Our Varsity Football team had their best solitude of the various rivers in the area. were the fastest C1 paddlers in the US season under Coach Armand Tatum with Racing wasn’t on his mind. He bought his (Andy was a “lefty” and Roland was a a record of 6-4, one game shy of the first canvas-on-frame canoe for $30 that “righty”). They teamed up to race to- playoffs. The team was led by CMAC he and his dad restored with new canvas gether and made the Olympic C2 team offensive player of the year runner-up and paint to create a solid boat. He loved in 1972, 1976, and 1980. junior Kayvon ‘K2’ Britten, leading the paddling and took his $30 canoe to the conference in rushing yards. Boundary Waters for his first major canoe In senior open competition, Roland was trip on his 22nd birthday. The Varsity Soccer and Varsity Volleyball US Champion in C1 500 metres and C2 teams both took a step back from last In 1964 while canoeing with a local chap- 500 metres in 1972, 1974, and 1975. year but the good thing is we are young ter of the Sierra Club, someone told him He competed at three World Champion- and growing.