Edison State Community College Athletics is the 2021-22 OCCAC All-Sports Award recipient. This marks the Chargers’ second such accolade in the last three seasons after not competing due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-21.
Spring semesters across the conference are officially wrapped up, and a plethora of OCCAC student-athletes have earned Academic All-Conference distinction.
Three OCCAC basketball programs competed at the 2022 NJCAA national championships in March. See how Owens Women's Basketball, Lakeland Men's Basketball and Edison State Women's Basketball faired in the linked results below.
In a basketball season that saw multiple teams ranked among the nation’s best on both the men’s and women’s sides, competition to earn 2021-22 Ohio Community College Athletic Conference season accolades was stiff. Deval Harrell (Bryant & Stratton) and Kailah Johnson (Edison State) rose above the rest to snag OCCAC Player of the Year laurels.
Whitney Staggs (Edison State) and Mike Wallace (Clark State) are the final OCCAC Basketball Players of the Week for this season as both concluded the regular season with a bang.
Trevell Adams (Hocking) and Kailah Johnson (Edison State) earned their fourth and fifth OCCAC Player of the Week honor, respectively, after each pushed their undefeated and conference-leading squads to a pair of wins last week (Feb. 7-13).
Chaze Harris (Lakeland) and Chy’Ra Smith-Isom (Bryant & Stratton) both led their squads to a league win on the road last week and earned OCCAC Player of the Week honors for their efforts.
Rod Harris (Lorain County) and Kailah Johnson (Edison State) are the latest OCCAC Player of the Week recipients, and have now combined for seven weekly laurels this season.
For the second consecutive week Edison State Women’s Basketball and Hocking Men’s Basketball are represented in the OCCAC Player of the Week awards. Whitney Staggs and Trevell Adams both helped improve their respective program’s season record to 17-0 overall and 4-0 in league play—resulting in another individual weekly honor. It marks Staggs second of 2021-22 and fourth of her career while Adams, a freshman, now owns three such accolades this season.
Kailah Johnson (Edison State) and James Moore (Hocking) each guided their squads to a pair of wins last week, efforts which earned them OCCAC Player of the Week recognition for January 10-16, 2022.
Week 9’s Basketball Players of the Week
Freshman Jaison Lipscomb (Lakeland) and Hayley St. John (Owens) both earned their first career OCCAC Player of the Week recognition on Monday for the week of Jan. 3-9, 2022.
Kaliah Johnson (Edison State) and Rod Harris (Lorain County) have both seized their second OCCAC Player of the Week honor of the season. Each standout lifted their squad to nonconference victories.
James Moore, a freshman from Hocking College, is a new face in the OCCAC Basketball Player of the Week world while Edison State’s Allison Siefring returns to this familiar place for the ninth time of her career.
Express Basketball swept the OCCAC Player of the Week accolades for Dec 6-12, 2022. Tommy Moreno is the men’s honoree while Cierra Harris brought it home on the women’s side.
Trevell Adams (Hocking College) and Kailah Johnson (Edison State) are the conference’s player of the week honorees for Nov. 28-Dec. 5. Adams lifted the Hawks to three victories over the past seven days and a 10-0 season mark while Johnson dominated in the Chargers lone contest last week.
Sophomore Whitney Staggs earned her third career OCCAC Player of the Week award on Tuesday, her first while representing Edison State. She twice garnered the league’s weekly honor while competing for Columbus State during the 2018-19 season as a freshman.
Two freshmen, Rod Harris (Lorain County) and Malorie Schroeder (Owens), have been selected for OCCAC Basketball Player of the Week recognition (Nov. 15-21).
Award-worthy nominations poured in for the second straight week and two student-athletes have picked up well-earned OCCAC Basketball Player of the Week recognition for Nov. 8-14 – Edison State’s Allison Siefring and Ibrahima Athie. Athie, a freshman, snares his first weekly honor while Siefring hauls in the eighth of her career.
An extensive OCCAC Basketball Player of the Week nomination list was presented following the opening week of 2021-22, and two student-athletes stood out above the rest – Trevell Adams (Hocking College) and Allison Siefring (Edison State). Adams, a freshman, wasted no time earning his first weekly accolade while Siefring now owns seven such awards in her career.
Edison State women’s basketball and Lakeland men’s basketball have been tabbed as preseason favorites for the 2021-22 OCCAC season. Preseason All-OCCAC Team members Allison Siefring (Edison State) and Datrey Long (Lakeland) are expected to lead these respective league favorites.