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Presidents’ Athletic Conference postpones football, most other fall sports
The NCAA Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference is postponing “high- and medium-contact” sports including football, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s cross country, to the spring because of the coronavirus outbreak. Women’s tennis and men’s and women’s golf, considered “low-contact” sports, are allowed to continue in...
No fall sports at Pitt-Greensburg, university announces
Pitt-Greensburg is playing it safe. The university disclosed Thursday that it is postponing fall sports for the 2020 season amid continued concerns over the spread of coronavirus. The fall season normally runs from August to October and includes men’s and women’s soccer, women’s tennis, women’s volleyball, golf and cross country....
North Coast Athletic Conference suspends athletics through December
Another area college conference won’t play sports in the fall. The North Coast Athletic Conference announced Wednesday, “with tremendous regret,” it is suspending athletics until the end of December. The NCAC is an affiliate of NCAA Division III and features Allegheny College in Meadville as one of its members. The...
Pair of Westmoreland County standouts get grad assistant jobs at Mercyhurst
A pair of former WPIAL standouts from Westmoreland County are joining the coaching ranks as graduate assistants at Mercyhurst. Chris Ralph, a former top-tier goalkeeper for Penn State Behrend, will help with the men’s soccer team. Ralph is a Franklin Regional graduate. Devin Austin, meantime, who starred as a wrestler...
WPIAL grads come to grips with PSAC’s decision to suspend sports for fall semester
Michael Marisco walked the golf course as often as possible over the past couple of months. The Fox Chapel graduate built a measure of momentum with successful results and made the field for the West Penn Amateur at Allegheny Country Club with a first-place finish in a qualifier last month....
Marist, Greensburg Salem product Claire Oberdorf nominated for NCAA award
Two-sport athlete Claire Oberdorf, who just finished a decorated career at Marist, is among 259 Division I nominees for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Athletes from Division II and II also are eligible, with 126 and 220 nominees for those divisions. Of all the nominees, 128 played multiple...
Family tradition helps convince former GCC standout Klimchock to transfer from Clarion to Bethany
Asa Klimchock is chasing rings. But the former Greensburg Central Catholic basketball player will do so with a different college program. Klimchock is transferring from Clarion, a Division II school in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, to Bethany (W.Va.) of the Division III Presidents Athletic Conference. The 6-foot, 195-pound guard...
PSAC suspends competitions for fall semester
The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced Wednesday morning it is suspending all conference athletic events and championships through the fall semester because of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. The conference said it plans to shift fall sports to the spring semester if a return to competition can be done safely. The...
St. Francis tabs James Downer as AD
James Downer is set to take charge at St. Francis (Pa.) as the school’s new athletic director. He replaces Erika Renwick, who had been serving as interim AD. “This is a tremendous opportunity to join a university with a legacy of success and a profound commitment to intercollegiate athletics,” Downer...
Reports: PSAC to cancel fall sports
The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference will make an announcement Wednesday morning canceling its fall sports seasons and delaying the start of the winter season, according to multiple reports Tuesday night. The Reading Eagle reported sports will be put on hold until Dec. 31 because of coronavirus concerns. The PSAC is...
NJCAA moving fall sports, winter postseasons to spring
The National Junior College Athletic Association is moving some of its fall sports to the spring due to health and safety concerns over covid-19. The adjusted plan for 2020-21 includes changing football, soccer and volleyball from fall to spring sports. Cross country and Division III women’s tennis will remain in...
Penn State’s Sean Clifford named to Davey O’Brien Award watch list
Sean Clifford, Penn State’s junior quarterback, is one of 30 quarterbacks in Division I football named to The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award watch list released Tuesday. The award is presented annually by the Davey O’Brien Foundation to the nation’s best college quarterback. It is the oldest national quarterback award,...
3 Pitt players named to Bednarik watch list
Only three Division I college football programs have three players on the 2020 Bednarik Award Watch List released Monday. Pitt is one of them, joining defending national champion LSU and USC. Selected to the list from the Panthers are safety Paris Ford, defensive end Patrick Jones II and defensive tackle...
Kiski Area grad Kuhn ramps up for senior season with Slippery Rock football
The accolades poured in for Chad Kuhn after the 2019 college football season. The Kiski Area graduate, a rising redshirt senior defensive end at Division II Slippery Rock, earned first-team All-PSAC West and Division II College Coaches Association honors and second-team All-American recognition from the D2CCA and Associated Press. Kuhn...
Carnegie Mellon athletes show disappointment, understanding after fall seasons canceled
Mia Hartman was focused on a return to competition this fall. A rising junior at Carnegie Mellon, the Kiski Area graduate put in a lot of mileage over the past couple of months toward a return to the Tartans women’s cross country team after missing her sophomore season because of...
Northeast Conference pushes back start of fall sports
The Northeast Conference has decided to postpone the start of its fall sports seasons, with one exception, until Sept. 10, the league announced Thursday. Football teams may play nonconference games before that date at the discretion of the individual schools. The conference also announced that overnight travel will be limited...
NCAA Division III athletes won’t lose year of eligibility if teams play less than half a season
College athletes playing upcoming NCAA Division III sports during the covid-19 era will not have to burn a year of eligibility if their team completes 50% or less of its maximum contests. The decision to offer a blanket waiver for 2020-21 was announced Thursday by the D-III administrative committee. The...
Brett Craig, former Seton Hill lacrosse standout, to play for Philadelphia Barrage
Former Seton Hill All-American Brett Craig is extending his lacrosse career. Craig will play for the Philadelphia Barrage of Major League Lacrosse after spending the 2020 season with the Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League. Philadelphia announced its roster this week. A defensive standout, Craig played in eight games...
St. Francis coaches plan golf marathon for mental health awareness
As golf coaches at St. Francis (Pa.), Lisa Warrilow and Derek Tyson usually are the ones giving instruction, organizing practices, setting lineups and parading around in carts at college tournaments. But on July 22, they will be the players to watch. Warrilow, the women’s coach, and Tyson, who leads the...
Former Southmoreland softball slugger on mend after shoulder surgery
Adeline Nicholson pushed a rock up a hill for the better part of three years. A worsening shoulder injury nagged her college career and threatened to stop it. But somehow, Nicholson did not let it slow her down. She played through some pain at Slippery Rock for two years and...
Carnegie Mellon shuts down fall sports
With growing concern over the widespread coronavirus spike that has made its way to Allegheny County, Carnegie Mellon will not participate in fall sports, the university announced Wednesday. Sports that will be shelved are football, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis and women’s volleyball. All but football and volleyball field men’s...
Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference limits fall sports to league games
The NCAA Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference will limit its fall sports teams’ schedules to conference games only, a move announced by the league Tuesday. All fall sports, except football, are looking at a start date of Sept. 1. Football teams are set to begin their nine-game schedules on Sept....
Former Mt. Pleasant softball standout changes course, transfers to Alderson Broaddus
Meadow Uncapher is hitting the reset button again on her college softball career. A rising junior out of Mt. Pleasant, Uncapher is leaving St. Francis (Pa.) to play at Alderson Broaddus (W.Va.). The move will take her from a Division I to a Division II program, but she believes it...
Seton Hill product Nate Davis inks pro hoops deal with team in Germany
Late in his senior season at Seton Hill, Nate Davis said the stars would have to align for him to continue playing basketball past college. He must have wished upon one because it’s happening. Davis, the second-leading scorer in Griffins history, is set to embark on a professional career after...
La Roche names Cody Golon as its lacrosse coach
La Roche turned to a former Seton Hill player and offensive-minded assistant to lead its men’s lacrosse program. The university announced the hiring of Cody Golon as its head coach. A former assistant at Peters Township High School and a Baldwin grad, Golon was an assistant at Seton Hill the...
