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February 26, 2020
Relay For Life Team Alana. Cost
$10 donation at door.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
• Bedford Township board of
trustees meeting last Thursday
each month at 7 p.m. at Township
Hall in Tunnel Hill.
• Coshocton Metropolitan
Housing Authority board meeting
last Tuesday each month at 5:30
p.m. in CMHA Family Center, 823
Magnolia St., Coshocton. Next
one March 31.
SUPPORT GROUPS
• RU Recovery Fridays at 7
p.m. at the Chili Crossroads Bible
Church, 29445 County Road 10,
Fresno. Free childcare. Open
program. Visit www.RuRecov-
eryFresno.com or call 740-545-
9707. Rides available at 6:30 p.m.
Meet in front of 612 Walnut St. in
Coshocton.
• Cooperdale Naz Recovery
Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Men’s
open share at Cooperdale
Church of the Nazarene, 17816
OH-60, Dresden. Call 740-502-
9672 or email cnazrecovery@
gmail.com.
• Freedom Road Recovery
Sundays from 3:30-5 p.m. at
Word Worship Center, 806 Orange
St., Coshocton. Enter through
double blue doors and come
upstairs. Christ-centered program
for women.
• Coshocton Al-Anon family
group every Tuesday from 7-8
p.m. at Central Christian Church,
731 Main St., Coshocton.
VOLUNTEERS
• Interim Hospice seeking
community volunteers for vol-
unteer program for Coshocton,
Holmes and Tuscarawas coun-
ty areas. Specific assignments
based on patients’ needs and
volunteers’ availability and inter-
ests. Call Angel Pica-Jones at
740-623-2331 or email apica@
interim-health.com.
• COAD/Retired Seniors Vol-
unteer Program seeking volun-
teers. Call Elaine Wilson at 330-
204-4347.
Meiser honored by Elks
Madelyn Meiser, the daughter
of Tony and Amanda Meiser, was
named the Elks Teen of the Month.
Meiser is a senior at Coshocton
High School and is both the secre-
tary of the class and the Key Club.
She participates in softball, is Varsi-
ty C. treasurer and is in the National
Honor Society. She volunteers at
Coshocton Elementary School, is
a member of the Active Achievers
4-H club, volunteers at Roscoe Vil-
lage, served as the 2017 Coshocton
Canal Queen and the 2020 Ohio
Swiss Queen, and is a member of
Keene United Methodist Church.
Meiser’s plan for after gradua-
tion is to become a math teacher.
At this time she is undecided as to
what college she will attend.
Submitted
Madelyn Meiser, the daughter of Tony and Amanda
Meiser, was named the Elks Teen of the Month.
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Shaw lands dream job
By Jen Jones
Coshocton High School
graduate Zack Shaw has
been named head strength
and conditioning coach for
the Missouri Southern State
University football team.
Before graduating from
CHS in 2011, Shaw had 450
tackles, making him the
school’s all-time leader. He
also earned First Team All-
Ohio Div. IV honors, East
District Player of the Year
and league Player of the
Year when he was a senior.
After graduation he attend-
ed Indiana University.
Shaw played 49 games
over his college career and
was credited with 130 career
tackles that included 84 solo
stops. He was named an
Honorable Mention All-
Big Ten from Coaches in
2015 and earned the Hoosier
Iron Award for outstanding
performance in the weight
room. When he started at
Indiana, his plan was to
become a special education
teacher.
“Goi ng i nt o my f i r st
semester at Indiana, I want-
ed to be a special education
teacher,” Shaw said. “But
after going through my first
summer of training with the
strength and conditioning
staff, I fell in love with all
the different dynamics of
strength training. In high
school you are told to lift to
get bigger, faster, stronger.
No one ever went into detail
on what was actually going
on or why we were doing it.
But there was so much more
to it, and I knew that being
a strength coach at the col-
legiate level was something
I wanted to pursue after
college.”
Shaw started as an intern
at Western Carolina Uni-
versity in January 2017, and
that summer he became the
assistant director of football
training. He also was the
head strength coach for the
women’s soccer team and
baseball. He only had a few
days notice to begin his new
job in Missouri.
“I received a call ask-
ing if I wanted the job on a
Wednesday and was here
early Sat u rday mor ning
assisting with recr uiting
tours,” Shaw said. “So it was
definitely a quick transition,
but that is just how it works.”
Submitted
Coshocton High School and Indiana University graduate Zack Shaw
was named head strength and conditioning coach for the Missouri
Southern State University football team.
Before graduating from CHS in
2011, Shaw had 450 tackles, making
him the school’s all-time leader. He
also earned First Team All-Ohio
Div. IV honors, East District Player
of the Year and league Player of the
Year when he was a senior.
Shaw also said that has
been the toughest part of
his new job — knowing he
had to pack up and make a
12-hour drive in two days
and also to have all of the
programming ready.
Shaw said he enjoys get-
ting up every morning and
having the ability to make a
difference.
“In the college setting,
you have 100-plus athletes
that train any given day,”
Shaw said. “That’s 100 -
plus opportunities to make
someone better. At the end
of the day, I am the one the
athletes will see and spend
most of their careers with.
It’s my job to help them pre-
pare for the next chapter of
their lives.”
Shaw also said he feels it
is his job to take the athletes
places where they can’t take
themselves.
His parents, Scott and
Tina Shaw, are really proud
of his accomplishments.
“He had an outstanding
college football career, and
he has worked his tail off to
get where he is today,” Scott
Shaw said.
“ He is goi ng t o have
amazing opportunities, and
the sky is the limit for him,”
Tina Shaw said. “I want him
to enjoy the ride.”
Be side s h is new job,
Zack Shaw is looking for-
ward to getting married in
May to Brooke Donaker.
“We’ve been together for 10
years, and she’s so support-
ive. When I told her I was
offered the job, she didn’t
hesitate to tell me to take
it. She’s doing everything
back in North Carolina by
herself,” he said.
Donaker plans to move
to their new home the first
week of March.
“I definitely had aspira-
tions of going pro,” Zack
Shaw said. “I got my shot,
and it didn’t work out for
me. But at the end of the
day, I’m where I’m sup-
posed to be, doing what I’m
supposed to be doing and
loving it.”