District College category, Page 47
Westmoreland campus clippings: Former Seton Hill basketball standout heads overseas
Tiana Stewart just graduated from Seton Hill, but her basketball career is continuing overseas. Stewart will earn a master’s degree while playing for TeamGLEAS, which gives former college players a chance to keep playing and studying in another country. A 5-foot-9 swing guard, Stewart will play for Newcastle University in...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Penn-Trafford’s Aunkst helps West Virginia to win
Redshirt junior defender Mackenzie Aunkst (Penn-Trafford) dribbled inside the 18-yard box and dropped a perfect cross-pass to teammate Lauren Segalla, who scored a goal for West Virginia in a 4-0, season-opening win over Buffalo. The assist was the first for Aunkst in her career. She has started 31 games for...
Allegheny athletics announces return to Presidents’ Athletic Conference
After 38 years, Allegheny College athletics will return to the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, the college and the PAC announced Monday. Allegheny will be the league’s 11th full-time member and will officially join July 1, 2022. Gators athletics will finish its commitment to the NCAA Division III North Coast Athletic Conference....
Baldwin graduates look ahead to promising college volleyball seasons
Three key senior members of the 2019 Baldwin girls volleyball team — outside hitter Allison Murray, middle hitter Ally Schenk and right-side hitter Riley Lenard-Haley — have continued their careers at the next level. After finishing as a back-to-back section champion and WPIAL runner-up in 2016 and 2018, Baldwin was...
This season will be last for CMU football coach Rich Lackner
Who knows how far the Carnegie Mellon football team will go this season, but the Tartans’ 2021 run will be the last chapter in the long career of coach Rich Lackner. CMU announced Thursday that Lackner, who has the most wins in program history, will retire at the conclusion of...
Belle Vernon, Cal (Pa.) grad Parker Lynn joins Seton Hill baseball staff
As the Seton Hill baseball team made its way through the Division II Atlantic Regional and NCAA championships earlier this summer, Parker Lynn watched with interest. During his time as a player and student assistant coach at Cal (Pa.), Lynn often competed against and admired the Griffins, a fellow foe...
Yough, RMU product picked for NEC Mount Rushmore team
Yough graduate Nicole Sleith Schaffer was one of the most feared softball pitchers to play at Robert Morris. She struck out more than 900 hitters over four seasons and once tossed a perfect game to extend her team’s season. She will go down as one of Northeast Conference’s all-time greats,...
Westminster football picked to win title in tough PAC
Westminster captured the Presidents’ Athletic Conference spring football season. Senior linebacker Ian Barr said the goal is to win two titles in the same calendar year. If preseason polls mean anything, Westminster is the early favorite of the conference coaches and athletic directors, along with media outlets, to do so....
Westmoreland college notebook: Hempfield grad Mackenna Orie finds fit at Arizona
College athletes say it all the time. Their school didn’t “fit,” so they bolted for another one that did. Or, at least that is the idea. That was the case with Mackenna Orie, the former Hempfield standout thrower who announced recently she is leaving one Division I track and field...
Latrobe grad Brady Pevarnik changing course to Bowling Green
Brady Pevarnik’s college golf career is barely off the first tee, but he is chomping at the bit, ready to prove himself at the Division I level. In search of continuity and a clean bill of health, the former Latrobe standout is on his third college after deciding to transfer...
Chris Klimchock looks forward to guiding Pitt-Greensburg men’s basketball in hometown
Chris Klimchock used to be a ball boy at Jeannette boys basketball practices. A peanut-sized toddler who could barely lift a basketball let alone dribble it, he took in the sights and sounds from his father, Rick, who coached the Jayhawks from 1992-2006. He was always in the gym. He...
Hempfield alum Mackenna Orie leaving DePaul track and field program
Mackenna Orie is changing college track and field programs. The former Hempfield standout thrower is transferring from DePaul and will now fling heavy objects at Arizona. Orie just completed her sophomore season. She will join one of the WPIAL’s most decorated and prodigious throwers at Arizona in record-breaker Jordan Geist....
Norwin grad Emily Harrigan starting fresh at Pitt after injury-plagued stint at Rutgers
Calling her next move “a leap of faith,” Emily Harrigan is giving her college soccer career a restart as she gets set to play for Pitt this fall. The former Norwin star who was a two-time Tribune-Review Player of the Year, Harrigan had her patience tested numerous times as injuries...
Norwin product Phipps to help coach Seton Hill
Former Norwin and Bucknell wrestling standout Drew Phipps will join the staff at Seton Hill as a graduate assistant. Phipps served as an assistant at Bucknell, which he graduated from in 2020, last season. He piled up 99 wins at the collegiate level and was a two-time NCAA qualifier and...
Palmer Jackson, Mark Goetz fall back in Southern Amateur
Things were looking pretty good for Murrysville native Palmer Jackson during the third round of the Southern Amateur on Friday at Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, Miss. Jackson was 4-under-par for the round through 12 holes, 8-under for the tournament before things unraveled. Jackson played the final six holes...
Seton Hill announces hall of fame class; Penn-Trafford alums Zimmer, Fawcett among 5 inductees
Tyler Zimmer juggles a busy schedule. The former Penn-Trafford football standout will be an assistant coach at Greensburg Central Catholic this fall, and he also serves as the strength coach for Seton Hill men’s lacrosse and runs Alphalete Performance and Fitness in Export. His athletic background makes all of that...
Carnegie Mellon track coach Gary Aldrich eager to guide U.S. athletes at Olympics
Gary Aldrich is making history at Carnegie Mellon. CMU’s track and field coach will be the first from the school to coach in the Olympics when he guides the U.S. men’s team in shot put, discus, hammer and javelin. Delayed a year by the covid-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics start...
Chatham hockey coach Michael Gershon to lead Team USA in Maccabiah Games
Chatham men’s hockey coach Michael Gershon will be leading another team next summer. The Moon resident has been named head men’s hockey coach for Team USA’s open team at the Maccabiah Games, which will be held next July in Israel. “I believe that any time you can represent your country...
Pitt-Greensburg names Greensburg native Chris Klimchock as men’s basketball coach
Chris Klimchock’s first basketball head coaching job is almost literally in his backyard. Pitt-Greensburg announced Monday the hiring of the Greensburg native as its new men’s basketball coach. He replaces Brody Jackson, who recently was named athletic director and basketball coach at Manchester High School in Akron, Ohio. Jackson was...
Palmer Jackson turns attention to Oakmont for U.S. Amateur
When talking about his summer golf schedule, Murrysville’s Palmer Jackson didn’t seem too worried about qualifying for the United States Golf Association’s Amateur Championship. He was confident in his ability to qualify for the championship for the fourth consecutive season. Jackson did what he predicted when he was the medalist...
Seton Hill’s Jared Kollar transferring to NCAA Division I program
Jared Kollar isn’t playing an extra year of college baseball because he has to. The former Latrobe and Seton Hill pitcher is taking advantage of another year of eligibility because he wants to. He would probably take a sixth, seventh, eighth year if he could. Not that he wants that...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Latrobe’s Ryan Shawley lands coaching gig
Former Latrobe star baseball player Ryan Shawley announced he has accepted a grad assistant coaching position at Keiser, a NAIA program that competes in the Sun Conference, formerly known as the Florida Sun Conference. Shawley, who just finished his senior season at Chatham, was a two-way player for the Cougars...
Quarterback-hunting Highlands grad earns All-American honors at Westminster
Brayden Thimons’ debut football season at Westminster lasted just five games, but he made the most out of each snap. The Highlands product was among the nation’s leaders in sacks and tackles for a loss and was recognized for his stellar performance late last month when he was tabbed a...
Seton Hill baseball coach Marc Marizzaldi earns regional honor
Seton Hill baseball coach Marc Marizzaldi was honored by the American Baseball Coaches Association as the ABCA/ATEC NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional Coach of the Year. Marizzaldi led the Griffins, who finished 39-8, to their most successful season. They were Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division champions, PSAC runners-up and...
WCCC camp focuses on teaching baseball, the right way
West Hempfield seventh grader Alex Hayes wasn’t getting the kind of practice time he had hoped for. Coronavirus concerns shut down his season, so his parents sent him to baseball camp at Westmoreland County Community College this week. Hayes said he’s learned a lot. “I learned proper way to field...
