John Hugley, a senior at Brush High School and standout varsity boys basketball player for the Arcs, recently narrowed down his list of scholarship offers received to play basketball at the Division I collegiate level.  The list of twelve universities includes Pittsburgh, Miami (FL), Penn State, Florida State, West Virginia, North Carolina State, Connecticut, Kansas State, Florida, Nebraska, Missouri and Cincinnati.  Prior to finalizing the list of potential college destinations, John had received upwards of 4 million dollars in scholarship offers!  

The Brush Boys Basketball team capped off another successful season with a recent string of impressive individual honors.  Head Coach Chet Mason was named Coach of the Year by the Western Reserve Conference and Cleveland’s Call & Post newspaper for his efforts in guiding the Arcs to an undefeated conference record of 14-0, and overall record of 20-3.  Several players were also recognized for their outstanding play on the court during the 2019 season.

The Brush High School Boys Varsity Basketball team took its undefeated season record into a highly touted matchup against nationally renowned Spire Institute Basketball Academy earlier this week, coming up short by a tally of 82 – 61. The contest drew a capacity crowd of nearly 1,400 spectators, media from all over the country and a host of college basketball coaches from throughout the country and all divisions of play. One special guest was Tom Izzo, Head Basketball Coach at Michigan State University who not only watched the basketball game in Welser Gymnasium, but also had the opportunity to tour our Arc Fit Health and Wellness Facility with Superintendent Linda N. Reid and High School Principal Karl Williamson. Despite the loss, Coach Chet Mason and his Varsity Basketball team remains one of the top ranked teams in Northeast Ohio and the South Euclid Lyndhurst Schools congratulates the team on a hard fought, competitive game against a team featuring some of the very best basketball talent in the country.

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Recently, members of the Varsity Men's Basketball Program collaborated and decided to shave their heads for Cancer Awareness. Our young men are dedicated to bringing awareness to all types of cancers. Shaving their heads for this purpose is just one small step towards a large goal of being able to continuously support those in need.

Please be sure to encourage, congratulate and support the players as they continue to help make a difference in the lives of those affected by Cancer. Your encouragement means a lot to them and shows that you stand behind them 100%!

Also, please be sure to come out and support your #4 ranked Brush Arcs on Tuesday December 18th as they take on #2 ranked St. Edwards. This game will not only be an exciting game for our basketball program but it will also be an exciting time for our district and community. During the course of the game we will be acknowledging all cancer survivors as well those who are currently in the fight.   Hope to see you there.

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The students and staff at Memorial are proudly celebrating the 8th Grade Boys Basketball team’s 46 to 31 victory over Kenston Middle School on Wednesday, January 17th, which crowned them the 2018 WRC Tournament Champions!  ‘Arc’ pride was on full display before tip-off, as students from the Memorial Student Council greeted the players with huge signs and loud cheers. The 7th Grade Boys Basketball team hopes to capture the momentum and winning spirit of the 8th grade team, as they prepare to play in the WRC Finals on Friday, January 19th.

Quincy Harris is on his way to "floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee".   The Memorial student recently placed 2nd overall nationally in his division in the Junior Olympics Boxing tournaments held in Salt Lake City.  He has been training since he was five years old and started competing at 10.  In the past few years he has worked his way through the Amateur Boxing Rankings to be ranked Number 2 in the US for his age and weight class.  He is the 3x Silver Glove State Champion, 2x Junior Olympic State Champion, Ringside World Champion and the 2x Arnold Schwarzenegger Sports Festival Champion.  Hard work and determination during his training sessions at the 65th Street Gym account for Qunicy's success.   We congratulate Quincy on his achievements thusfar and are looking forward to following him on his journey.

Check out information for the upcoming Winter Sports season! 

Check out Brush-South Football preview from the News-Herald for Thursday’s Night game. The game will also be broadcasted live on Spectrum Sports.

Check out interviews by Quad Brothers Sports Show with Head Coach Jeff Fink, Markel Toney, and Godwin Joe. We look forward to their coverage this upcoming season!

https://www.spreaker.com/user/uplifting/interviews-with-brush-high-school-head-f

The Boys and Girls Track program finished off a successful week at the District Tournament with five Arcs qualifying individually and a relay for this week’s OHSAA Regional meet at Austintown Fitch. Junior Jasmyn Allen continued her winning ways in the 100 Hurdles, winning with a time of 14.70, lowering her school record. She has the best time entering regional competition. Allen qualified in 2016 for the regional competition as well, though she didn’t qualify for finals. Joining her will be senior teammate Raven Drake, who missed regionals last year, she advanced this year in the 300 hurdles, finishing fourth at Mayfield with a time of 49.10.

Tyrie Liddell appeared nervous.

An eighth grader at Memorial junior high in the Brush school district, Liddell had just taken first place in the SELebrate Moms 5K road race, sponsored by the South Euclid-Lyndhurst school district.

He was the champ.

But Liddell fidgeted back and forth standing before Roy Hall, a legendary multi-sport athlete in the early 2000s from Brush who went on to play football at Ohio State and in the NFL.

Hall smiled, probably because he knew what Liddell was thinking and feeling. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that he was a junior high-schooler in awe of those who came through the school before him.

“You took first?” said Hall, with Liddell nodding in affirmation.

“I took second,” Hall joked with the youngster, adding some levity to the moment.

When Liddell told him he ran the 5K race in 20:28, Hall lightened the mood a little more.

“I ran a 20:29,” Hall said.

Again the boy smiled.

The 6-foot-3, 240-pound Hall patted Liddell on the shoulder and said, “good job.”

The untimely passing of Brush junior Alec Kornet in February rocked the entire Arcs community, especially the teammates he played with on the soccer, hockey and baseball teams.

When Tony Maniglia’s team began its season with four games in Tampa, Fla., a pall still hung over the Arcs. Then, in Brush’s first game against New York’s Trinity School, Alec’s younger brother, sophomore Michael, stepped to the plate in the seventh inning of a tie game.

Kornet’s single sent Evan Mularo home and the Arcs walked off winners after a moment Maniglia couldn’t have scripted any better.

“It was enlightening,” Maniglia said. “It really was. Everybody was down and here comes the brother to win the game.”

Congrats to junior Jasmyn Allen who made the News-Herald Girls Track Preview watch list this past week. She opened the 2017 outdoor campaign by winning the 100 Hurdles with a time of 15.3 Wednesday at Kenston. She also ran 53.8 in the 300 Hurdles just finishing behind fellow teammate Raven Drake. Jasmyn qualified and finished second in the 60 Hurdles back in March at the Ohio State Indoor Track Meet. The Arcs will be back on the Track Saturday at the Nordonia Knights Relays.

http://www.news-herald.com/sports/20170403/high-school-track-and-field-preview-2017-girls-watch-list

Charles F. Brush High School is honored with being 1 of 3 schools selected in Ohio to be awarded the OIAAA/OHSAA Award of Excellence this year.

The award, a collaboration between the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) and the Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (OIAAA), recognizes schools that provide exemplary support and promotion of education-based athletic programming in their school and community.

Jasmyn Allen enters this weekend’s Ohio State Indoor Meet with a chance to become the second indoor state champion in school history. She would join Asya Reynolds who won the Long Jump at the State Meet in 2014. Allen qualified for the State Meet last year as a sophomore in the 60 Hurdles. She narrowly missed the finals finishing ninth in the prelims, missing the finals but one spot. She enters Saturday’s meet at the University of Akron with the fourth fastest time in the state this winter in the 60 Hurdles.

Congratulations to Girls Bowling for advancing to the District Tournament. The team finished third at the Division I Ernst Lanes Sectional Tournament. The team finished with a score 2891 including a solid 191 sixth baker game. Senior Jamie Perry individually led the Arcs, she finished with a three-game series of 477 and senior Anna Famadico contributed a 425 three-game series. This is the second straight year the Girls have advanced as a team to the District Tournament, this is sixth straight year Brush has qualified a team or individuals to Districts. The girls will now compete in the District Tournament next Sunday in Akron.

The Arcs were able to clinch the Western Reserve Conference in a closely contested affair with Madison, beating the Blue Streaks by a score of 63-55.

Tyler Williams led all scorers with 18 points, while guards Andre Harris and Deion Burton contributed with 14 and 13 points respectively. Leading scorer for Madison was Zach Guyer with 16.

More importantly, this was the first game since the tragic and untimely death of Brush hockey and baseball player Alec Kornet. Alec’s passing was felt all throughout the community and this game was evident of that. Along with a moment of silence in remembrance of the junior, Brush also honored Alec with a banner with his number 4 which will hang in the Cleveland Heights ice rink. Throughout the night, the Brush crowd showed their love for their fellow student, chanting Alec’s name numerous times, as well as “Play for Alec” as the Arcs clinched the victory.

There is a healthy transformation occurring at Brush High School. The state-of-the-art ArcFit Wellness Complex, completed in 2015, is the site of the new Excel Tecc exercise science and rehabilitation program being hosted at Brush High School. The competitive program will be open to junior and seniors. Ryan Dugan, the Fitness and Wellness Coordinator at Brush High School and the ArcFit Wellness Complex, recently sat with News-Herald reporter Mark Podolski.  Click here for more.

Jake Kudrna has been named the new Boys and Girls Swimming Coach at Brush High School.

Kudrna is a 2008 Brush graduate. Kudrna joined Brett Spicer’s staff last season as an assistant coach. He was also an athlete of Spicer’s from 2004-2008. He was a four-year letterman and two-time team MVP. When he graduated in 2008, Kudrna held the boys record in both the 50 and 100 Free.

Spicer stepped down as swimming coach back in April after 13 years serving as head coach. He had over 70 dual meet victories in his career. He mentored many former athletes to opportunities at the collegiate level including Kudrna.

Thanks to another record-setting game for running back Christian Wright, who stuffed the stat sheet with 398 yards and six touchdowns on 33 attempts, the Arcs were able to pick up a 48-35 victory against Riverside in Brush’s homecoming game.

The Arcs improve to 3-4, and 3-1 in the conference, while the Beavers drop to 3-4, and 1-3 in the conference. On this game and his overall season, Wright said “It just feels surreal… I just want to do it for my team and change the culture at Brush around… I want to go to the playoffs, that’s the main goal.”

Despite a record setting game for running back Christian Wright, who totaled 377 yards and three touchdowns on 33 carries, the Arcs were unable to get a victory over rival Mayfield, the score being 45-41.

Brush drops to 2-4, and 2-1 in the conference, while the Wildcats improve to 3-3, and 2-1 in the conference.

Along with Christian’s monster game, Quarterback Godwin Joe ran the ball 20 times for 112 yards and a touchdown. In the air, Joe went 8-for-24 with 135 yards and a touchdown.

On the back of another big game from Christian Wright, who had 212 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 21 attempts, the Brush Arcs were able to take down the Willoughby South Rebels by a score of 41-20.

The Arcs improves to 2-3, and 2-0 in the conference, while South drops to 2-3, and 1-1 in the conference.

On his huge game, Christian Wright said, “It felt great. This was a big game, and we got this huge conference win.”

Thanks to a huge game from the offense, gathering 476 total offensive yards, the Arcs were able to get their first victory of the year and start conference play undefeated, beating the Madison Blue Streaks 37-12.

Brush improves to 1-3, and 1-0 in the conference, while the Blue Streaks drop to 1-3, and 0-1 in the conference.

Demarris Winters has been named the new Girls Basketball Head Coach at Brush High School.

Winters, 1998 graduate of Brush High School, just recently finished his third season as the Head Coach at Richmond Heights High School. In his three seasons at Richmond Heights he finished with a 51-24 record. He also spent three seasons as the Middle School Girls Basketball coach at Richmond Heights.