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Dayton Christian and Middletown Christian's volleyball teams both enter the week undefeated.

DC, the defending MBC co-champ, is 6-0 with three wins coming in straight sets. Only one match has gone to five sets. Middletown Christian is 4-0 (two matches were cancelled) and has not dropped a set.

Individually, Yellow Springs' Adeline Zinger is at or near the top in several categories including kills (first with 69), passes (first with 2.43 per game), and digs (second with 84).

Here is a quick glance at the week's schedule.

Greene County native Grace Norman won a gold medal at the Paralympics.

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A local Paralympian has won gold once again.

“Oh, man, I am overjoyed. It was a really hard year to get here with a lot of injury, Norman said through tears. “It was is all God out there.”

Grace Norman, a Jamestown local, came in first place in the women’s Paratriathlon event earlier today. Norman was joined by a crew of family and friends in Paris to support her ahead of the race.

“It was a phenomenal race and just taking it all in and being so grateful and running through a place of joy, instead of fear or animosity, or yeah, it was just, I was just so happy.”

With the win, Norman earned the second gold medal of her career, her fourth overall. She won gold, in the triathlon event, for the first time in 2016, as well as a bronze medal in the 400 meter race. During the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Norman took home silver in the triathlon.

With three Olympic appearances on her resume already, Norman is eyeing future competition.

“Oh, we’re looking at L.A., we’re looking at L.A., definitely not done,” Norman said.

Her gold medal winning run came a day after the event was set to be held. The paratriathlon was scheduled to run yesterday, but heavy rain made its presence felt on Friday and Saturday, flooding the Seine river with wastewater and runoff.

With the river saturated with high levels of bacteria like E. Coli, there was no choice but to hold the event until it was safe for the athletes to participate in.

Officials confirmed late last night that the race would go on today after testing concluded that the quality of the water met world triathlon standards. France invested 1.4 billion euros for infrastructure improvements to prepare for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic games.

The recent disruption is another shortcoming for the city, as they’ve worked to clean the river for public swimming in the future, a promise made in anticipation of the Olympics and Paralympics this year. During the Olympics, the men’s individual triathlon event was delayed, as were many swim tests, as a result of high bacteria levels following rainstorms.

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Calvary Christian School to join Metro Buckeye Conference
Bellefontaine, Ohio – Calvary Christian School is joining the Metro Buckeye Conference starting with the
2025-26 school year.
MBC athletic directors unanimously voted to accept the Logan County school during their May meeting.
Calvary, in its second year as an Ohio High School Athletic Association member, had been a part of the Ohio
Valley Christian Conference.
“We are excited to be a member of the Metro Buckeye Conference, to compete with the other member schools
and to contribute to the success of the conference as a whole,” said Calvary AD Tony Carter. “MBC has schools
that are in similar size to Calvary and have the same sports available. The schools are in a closer proximity than
our previous conference and now that we are part of the OHSSA, we were looking to get into a conference with
other schools that were part of it as well.”
Calvary offers boys and girls cross country, boys soccer, girls volleyball, and golf in the fall; boys and girls
basketball in the winter; and boys and girls track in the spring.
According to MBC Commissioner Brian Blevins, Calvary is a great fit.
“The big thing is they’re a growing school that not only fits our size but also we feel is going to grow along
with the conference,” he said.
With Calvary, the MBC is at seven member schools. Blevins said the league is aggressively looking to add up to
three more schools and bring the total membership to eight or 10.

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