College Notes: Staats hired as Capital QB Coach
Brian Staats, who has spent nearly 40 years coaching in the high school and college ranks, has been hired as the new quarterbacks coach at Capital University.
Staats joins the Comets after two seasons as an assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and QB coach at Alderson Broaddus University in West Virginia.
He also worked with the special teams and secondary units at the University of Cincinnati in 1991 as a graduate assistant. But Staats has spent the majority of his career at Ohio high schools, including Johnstown, Northmor, Marion-Franklin, Delaware, Bedford, Barberton, Medina Highland and Wadsworth. While coaching at Northland and Mifflin he won a combined three City League Championships.
"Brian's knowledge of Ohio football is a huge asset to our program," said Capital's Brian Foos. "His knowledge of quarterback play and managing a QB room was one thing that helped him stand out as the ideal fit for our program."
The Comets also promoted wide receivers coach Ben Burns to passing game coordinator. Burns, a 2015 Ohio State graduate, has spent time as an assistant at Ohio Dominican, McKendree and Urbana.
Doggette turning in her best performances
Alabama gymnast and Pickerington Central grad Makarri Doggette tied her career-best on the vault with a 9.875 against No. 3 Oklahoma and tied for first on the bars with a 9.925 in the Crimson Tide's 197.0-196.925 loss to No. 2 Florida.
Doggette, now a college junior, is a four-time USA Junior Olympic National Team member and just the second gymnast to win all four individual events as well as the all-around at the National Championships in the same year (2018).
Area runners setting high marks
— Kentucky’s Abby Steiner (Dublin Coffman) ran the 200 meters in 22.58 at the Jim Green Invitational, just .20 off of her college indoor record time of 22.38 set at the 2021 NCAA Indoor Championships.
— Wooster’s Dylan Kretchmar (Granville) won the 3,000-meter run in her first collegiate meet, the Wooster Invitational, with a time of 10:49.46, which marks the second-best time in the NCAC this season.
— Wittenberg’s Ian McCandlish (DeSales) earned two victories at the Otterbein Snow Globe Invitational with a 1:57.97 in the 800 and a win as part of the Tigers' 4x400 relay team with a time of 3:38.66.
Trio of Ohio State wrestlers go undefeated in latest meet
Three wrestlers went undefeated to win their respective weight classes to power the Buckeyes to third-place at the Purple Raider Open at Mount Union.
Andre Gonzales went 4-0 at 133, Jashon Hubbard won his five matches in the 157-pound weight class and Rocky Jordan beat four opponents to win the 184-pound title.
Paddy Gallagher (157), Bryer Hall (174), Gavin Bell (184) and Hogan Swenski (HWT) turned in second-place finishes.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: College Notes: Staats hired as Capital QB Coach
