Friday, November 24, 2017

Hazel Park has a new Girls Basketball Coach.

Written Friday November 24th at 8:45 AM

The Vikings have a new Girls Basketball coach in Chad Ossman.

Ossman takes over at Hazel Park for Chris Stroud who spend one season in the program.

Ossman comes to Hazel Park from Macomb Christian where his record wasn't the greatest when he was there.

Ossman will be the Vikings third coach in three years. Hazel Park needs coaching stability and hope that Ossman is in for the long term.

What will help Ossman this season is that the Vikings are loaded with ten seniors, one junior, and a sophomore. Hazel Park will be led by returning seniors Trinity Benton, Liz Sternor, and Cantera Clark.

Hazel Park went 13-10 last season before losing in the district final to Detroit Mumford. This season the Vikings will be in the Blue with the likes of Farmington, Oak Park, Avondale, Ferndale, Pontiac, and Berkley. They are in Class A after getting moved up from Class B. Hazel Park will be in a tough district that features Detroit Renaissance, Oak Park, Berkley, and Warren Fitzgerald.

The Vikings open up the season on Tuesday at home against Mount Clemens. The non conference schedule looks very favorable with two games against Eastpointe, Madison Heights Lamphere, Mount Clemens, Hamtramck, Armada, and Walled Lake Central.

Thoughts.

This is an interesting hire for the Vikings to bring in Ossman. His overall record was not the greatest coming over from Macomb Christian. What will help Ossman is that he has Varsity Experience to go along with ten seniors back. Do I think this team is a division championship team, probably not with Avondale, Farmington, Berkley, and Oak Park in there but they could surprise some folks.

Stay tuned to OAA Now for the latest on this developing story.

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I have highest function of autism (Asperger Syndrome.) I'm a huge Dallas Stars fan. I like to play and watch football, especially when the Dragons play on Friday nights. I am a 2006 alum and used to play football for the Dragons. I ran track, I ran the 100, 200, 400 meter dashes along with shot-put and discus. During my time in Orion I was a manager for Junior Varsity Boys Basketball team. I'm the volleyball, girls basketball, and football announcer for the team and do the book on the road for girls basketball. I do the clock for volleyball in the fall along with girls basketball in the winter and announce some boys basketball games as well. In the spring I coach shot-put at Scripps Middle School, in my fifth season coaching. I run the shot-put for high school meets. I played Special Olympics Basketball, I've won three gold medals for them. I host "Between Taorminas" which is on ONTV along with a podcast called "OAA Now". In other various things outside of Lake Orion, I love to jet ski over Saginaw Bay. Saginaw Bay is basically my life. I'm a trained weather spotter for the National Weather Service for Oakland and Huron counties.