Chris Harlan stories, Page 55
TribLive HSSN Preseason Football All-Stars gather, excited for fresh faces
Armstrong quarterback Cadin Olsen is a three-year starter, but like many football players across the WPIAL, the senior has a little sense of unfamiliarity heading into the fall. That’s because this is a realignment year, meaning new conferences, new schedules and some new opponents. That leads to more scouting, more...
Brashear linebacker Ta’Mere Robinson chooses Penn State after Nittany Lions ‘stuck with me’Video
While on his official visit to Penn State, Ta’Mere Robinson had dinner with other recruits and each was asked to stand and introduce himself. Caught up in the moment, the Brashear senior admits he nearly got carried away. “I got into talking and I almost committed,” Robinson said with a...
PIAA may strengthen competitive-balance rule by adding all team sports, removing transfers
The PIAA appears ready to rewrite its competitive-balance rule to include all team sports while also making it easier to force successful teams into a higher classification. The current rule applies only to football and basketball. As now written, it measures a team’s postseason success and counts the number of...
MLB Draft ‘starting to feel real’ for North Allegheny’s Cole Young
Rather than fly to Los Angeles, Cole Young will spend Sunday closer to home, watching the MLB Draft on television, maybe from his house in Franklin Park. The recent North Allegheny graduate was invited to attend draft festivities on the West Coast, but the likely first-round pick wasn’t lured by...
PIAA moves closer to allowing NIL deals for high school athletes
Local TV commercials might feature high school football players or a popular basketball star could sell ads on social media. Those ideas are now closer to reality for Pennsylvania high school athletes once they’re allowed to profit from selling their name, image and likeness under a tentative policy the PIAA...
No more ‘Highway to Heinz,’ but WPIAL plans to hold 4 football finals at Acrisure Stadium
The WPIAL football playoffs no longer can be called the “Highway to Heinz,” but the league plans to use the newly named North Shore stadium again this fall for some of its high school football championships. The WPIAL intends to hold four games at Acrisure Stadium, formerly Heinz Field, on...
16-time WPIAL champion boys volleyball coach Dan Schall steps down at North Allegheny
Walking away from a defending state champion can be a tough call for a coach, but North Allegheny’s Dan Schall found it “maybe a bit easier” after winning four in a row the way his Tigers just did. “This season was storybook, very Disney-esque, so that was a pretty special...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Aliquippa’s Tiqwai Hayes
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. At this time last summer, Tiqwai “Tikey” Hayes was running routes as...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Penn Hills’ Julian Dugger
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Camp is still weeks away, but Penn Hills quarterback Julian Dugger is...
Fox Chapel’s Eli Yofan named 2021-22 Trib HSSN Boys Athlete of the Year
As Eli Yofan celebrated on the 18th green at Cedarbrook Golf Course last fall, a thought unrelated to golf came into his head. He’d just shot a 1-under par round, leading Fox Chapel to a WPIAL team title, but his mind was already on winter. “All I was thinking was,...
Trib HSSN top storylines from the 2021-22 school year
Nov. 19-20, 2021 WPIAL soccer teams jump-started the school year by winning five of the eight state championships. For the first time, the WPIAL won three boys titles with victories by Hampton (3A), Quaker Valley (2A) and Winchester Thurston (A). Nov. 20, 2021 The North Allegheny boys and girls swept...
Armstrong quarterback Cadin Olsen commits to Ivy League school
Armstrong’s Cadin Olsen, a dual-threat quarterback and one of the WPIAL’s top passers, committed Friday to Penn. Olsen announced his decision on Twitter. The 6-foot-5, 205-pounder will be a senior in the fall. He passed for 2,051 yards a season ago, third best among all WPIAL passers. He also threw...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Aliquippa’s Cameron Lindsey
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Cameron Lindsey’s favorite play from last season came in the state championship...
Beaver’s Payton List, Mt. Lebanon’s Deirdre Flaherty top all-state softball awards
Mt. Lebanon catcher Deirdre Flaherty and Beaver pitcher Payton List topped the list of players earning all-state honors Thursday from the Pennsylvania High School Softball Coaches Association. Flaherty was named as the state’s top position player, and List shared pitcher of the year honors with North Penn’s Julia Schearer. Two...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Laurel Highlands’ Rodney Gallagher
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Rodney Gallagher ranked among the WPIAL’s top quarterbacks last season, but the...
2022 Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Year: Bethel Park’s Evan Holewinski
2022 Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Year Evan Holewinski School: Bethel Park Class: Junior Evan Holewinski likes to find video of MLB pitcher Max Scherzer and sync his throwing motion with that of the three-time Cy Young winner. They’re both tall right-handers, each about 6-foot-3, with a knack for...
2022 TribLive HSSN Softball All-Stars
In WPIAL softball, there’s no requirement for underclassmen to wait their turn. Just take a look at this year’s champions. Many of them relied on freshmen and sophomores in key roles on their journey to the WPIAL or state finals. Among them, Neshannock freshman pitcher Addy Frye led the Lancers...
2022 TribLive HSSN Baseball All-Stars
This was a good year around the WPIAL for dominant pitchers and slick-fielding shortstops. North Allegheny’s Cole Young should hear his name called next month during the MLB Draft, but the senior shortstop wasn’t the only impact player around Western Pennsylvania this spring. Among the others, Bethel Park’s Evan Holewinski...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: North Allegheny’s Tyree Alualu
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. As a sophomore starter surrounded by seniors, Tyree Alualu’s primary job was...
Evan Holewinski pitches 3-hitter, Bethel Park wins back-to-back PIAA titles
UNIVERSITY PARK — Rarely does a WPIAL baseball team have a chance to win consecutive state titles, so Bethel Park tried to remember and repeat everything that worked a year ago. “We tried to do everything the same,” coach Pat Zehdner said. “We left at the same time. We stopped...
7th-inning rally lifts Montour baseball to 1st state championship
UNIVERSITY PARK — This was a scene Montour senior Ryan Gallagher and his teammates had thought about for years, one where they’re together at Penn State celebrating a state baseball championship on the infield grass. But no one could’ve imagined how they got there. With Gallagher on the mound, Montour...
WPIAL notebook: Class 4A boys basketball crowded with champions after realignment
Lincoln Park and North Catholic have met in the WPIAL boys basketball finals four times in the past six seasons, but they won’t wait that long to face one another again. The WPIAL board on Monday approved a new section alignment for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons that has them...
WPIAL approves new basketball sections without addressing public-private concerns
The WPIAL considered some radical ideas such as splitting public and private school basketball teams into separate sections, but ultimately decided that’s a debate for another day. The WPIAL board on Monday accepted the basketball committee’s recommendation to stick with the status quo approach and approved new sections for the...
Thomas Jefferson’s Jordan Mayer commits to Wisconsin
About two months after restarting his recruiting process, Thomas Jefferson’s Jordan Mayer committed Sunday to Wisconsin. The 6-foot-5, 230-pound tight end and defensive end is a senior in the fall. His commitment to the Badgers followed a decision in April to decommit from Boston College, his original college choice. Rivals...
Schalls share final memorable season with North Allegheny boys volleyball
Caleb Schall comes from a family where his parents and two uncles played college volleyball, his grandfather won state volleyball titles as a high school coach and his dad now leads powerhouse North Allegheny. The sport is clearly a Schall family tradition. “Volleyball is just in our DNA, I guess,”...
