District College category, Page 52

Sherron Schifino is starting to find his way again at Point Park after sitting out the first semester after transferring from CCAC-Boyce last year. In his first four games this season, the junior guard is averaging 10.0 points and 3.5 rebounds. Schifino scored a team-high 14 points and grabbed six...

It wasn’t all that long ago Max Kaminsky was celebrating a WPIAL golf championship as a freshman at Serra Catholic, the first ninth-grade boy to win a district title. Or, when he was qualifying for NAIA nationals as a long-hitting frontman at Point Park. His game matured fast and so...

Robert Kennedy is on the move again. The former Jeannette football standout is leaving East Carolina and will transfer to Old Dominion in Norfok, Va. Kennedy, a 5-foot-10, 183-pound safety, played in five games last season as a junior, recording 13 tackles and three pass breakups for East Carolina. He...

Seton Hill has high expectations in men’s lacrosse after the team’s season was cut drastically short in 2020. The Griffins begin the season ranked fifth in the Nike/US Lacrosse Magazine Preseason Top 20. They return their top nine scorers and goalkeeper from a team that was 6-0 last season when...

Robert Kennedy is on the move again. The former Jeannette football standout is leaving East Carolina and will transfer to Old Dominion in Norfok, Va. Kennedy, a 5-foot-10, 183-pound safety, played in five games last season as a junior, recording 13 tackles and three pass breakups for East Carolina. He...

With a dart from the right wing, Michelle Burns watched 3-pointer No. 202 of her college career splash through the net. She might have been smiling, but nobody could tell because the Point Park senior guard was wearing a face mask — a sign of the times. Her teammates’ mouths...

There will be basketball at Saint Vincent College this season after all. The sport is coming back in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference with a shared chorus among the 10 schools: better late than never. The NCAA Division III league, which postponed winter sports months ago when the covid-19 pandemic bum-rushed...

Hampton graduate Jason Goodman last winter won a PSAC indoor track championship. This winter, the Slippery Rock senior is doing something even more important. Goodman is working as a nursing assistant at a Pittsburgh-area nursing home during the covid pandemic that canceled all winter sports in the Pennsylvania State Athletic...

Basketball is coming back in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference with a shared chorus among the 10 schools: better late than never. The NCAA Division III league, which postponed winter sports months ago when the covid-19 pandemic bum-rushed daily life, released modified schedules Thursday with each men’s and women’s team playing...

Michelle Burns scored a team-high 29 points and made some school history along the way Tuesday night in Point Park’s 78-74 loss to visiting Ohio Christian. The Hempfield grad and senior guard broke Point Park’s career record for 3-pointers made as she connected on 5 of 12 attempts from behind...

Senior Swade Redman plans to graduate from Carlow in the spring. He longs to play one final basketball season with the Celtics. For now, he will settle for one game. Redman, a Jeannette graduate, led his teammates in their national television debut last week at Youngstown State in a game...

From academics to basketball, Alayna Gribble likes to stay a step ahead of things in her life. She prefers to be on time and get her work done early. Why wait? On a Monday, she already is thinking about Wednesday’s plans. Procrastination is like a turnover on a fast break:...

A selfless act of courage by Jaimire Dutrieuille saved someone’s life and almost ended his. It is the reason he will receive the NCAA Award of Valor, presented to a current or former student-athlete, coach or administrator who demonstrates “noteworthy bravery.” As guidelines state, someone who, when “confronted with a...

On the same day the Heisman Trophy was presented to college football’s top player, Spencer Lee was handed wrestling’s equivalent of the award. Lee, a senior at Iowa and a Franklin Regional alum, was presented in person the Dan Hodge Trophy as the nation’s most dominant college wrestler from the...

Chandler Daniel was a talented offensive and defensive lineman at Yough under former football coach Mark Crovak. He went on to play college football Duquesne where he earned his bachelor’s degree in athletic training in 2018. The Herminie native played both offensive and defensive line for the Dukes (2014-17) and...

Swade Redman plans to graduate from Carlow in the spring. He longs to play one final basketball season with the Celtics. For now, he’ll settle for one game. Redman, a Jeannette graduate, will lead his teammates in their national television debut Monday night. The Celtics will visit Youngstown State in...

Former Norwin standout Jayla Wehner was in a giving mood during the holiday season. The freshman point guard for the women’s basketball team at Marian (Ind.), a NAIA school in Indianapolis, put together a career day last week in a home victory. The floor leader dished out 10 assists in...

Penn State New Kensington athletic director Megan Bratkovich said she wasn’t surprised when the executive committee of the Penn State University Athletic Conference voted unanimously Dec. 18 to cancel all sports for the 2020-21 fall and winter seasons. “Given the current state of the pandemic, I think we all knew...

In a matter of four days, Brandon Stone set his college basketball career on a new course. Last Saturday, he left the La Salle campus. On Monday, he entered the NCAA Transfer Portal. By Tuesday, he had a new suitor: Robert Morris. It happened that quickly for the former Southmoreland...

The athletic programs in the Penn State University Athletic Conference, including Penn State New Kensington, Beaver, Fayette, Greater Allegheny and Shenango, continue to come to terms with Friday’s decision by the conference’s executive committee to cancel all intercollegiate athletics competition for men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer and...

Three former Westmoreland County football players were named to the Westminster All-Decade team which was released Tuesday. Running back Dominique McKinley and defensive end Bobby Noble were named to the first team, and offensive lineman Cameron Mika to the second team. McKinley, a Greensburg Salem graduate, rushed for 3,367 yards...

In a matter of four days, Brandon Stone set his college basketball career on a new course. On Saturday, he left the La Salle campus. On Monday, he entered the NCAA Transfer Portal. By Tuesday, he had a new suitor: Robert Morris. Yes, it happened that quickly for the former...

Jordan Seneca had last worn purple in a softball-game setting in the spring of 2014 as a senior at Plum. This past fall, she again donned that familiar color, beginning a tenure as a graduate assistant coach with the softball program at Division I University of Evansville. It is a...

Iowa senior wrestler Spencer Lee was honored virtually in April as co-winner of the prestigious AAU James E. Sullivan Award, which recognizes the nation’s most outstanding amateur athlete. He actually got his hands on the award over the weekend, accepting it in person. Lee, a Franklin Regional alum, was presented...

Iowa senior wrestler Spencer Lee was honored virtually in April as a co-winner of the prestigious AAU James E. Sullivan Award, which recognizes the nation’s most outstanding amateur athlete. Now he will actually get his hands on the award. Covid-19 is still ravaging the country with spikes in positive cases,...