Darrah Metz

Darrah Metz

Darrah Metz

(Class of 1991)

One of Wheeling Central Catholic High School’s all-time female athletic greats is Darrah Metz, an All-West Virginia Class AA first-team honoree in three sports. In basketball, Metz scored over 1,000 points and pulled down 980 rebounds while also gaining two-time all-Valley and all-Ohio Valley Athletic Conference laurels. Her junior year saw the Lady Maroon Knights advance to the Class AA state tournament championship game before sustaining a tough overtime loss to Hinton High School.

  Metz was one of Wheeling Central Catholic’s all-time best volleyball players. Twice she was selected the West Virginia Player of the Year and she also gained  all-Valley and all-OVAC honors during both her junior and senior seasons.

  Metz also excelled on the softball diamond where she repeated her two-time all-Valley and all-OVAC first-team berths. Metz was named to the all-West Virginia Class AA squad as a senior.

  After graduating from high school, Metz continued to sparkle as an athlete and later in the coaching field. She earned 10 letters, the most by  a female athlete at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, Darrah captained both the basketball and softball teams her senior year. Along with earning four letters in basketball and softball, she was a two-time volleyball letter winner.

  Metz then went on to coach basketball on the Division 1 level for 13 years. She was a graduate assistant at  Marshall University in Huntington, served as an interim head coach at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, SC, and then had stints as an assistant coach at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD), Evansville (IN) and Toledo (OH). While at Marshall she earned NCAA Graduate Assistant Coach of the Year honors and at Toledo Metz also was the school’s women’s basketball recruiting coordinator. For the past seven years, the Hilliard OH resident has been a deputy sheriff in Franklin County. Her work in law enforcement included starting  the therapy dog program, the first law enforcement agency to deploy a Therapy K9 and only the sixth in the country to do so. Her efforts earned Metz a nomination for Deputy of the year.

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