High School category, Page 1062
Trib HSSN May Madness: Neil Walker, Pine-Richland vs. Josh Lay, Aliquippa
Over the course of the next month and a half, May Madness will determine who fans believe is the WPIAL Athlete of the Century. HSSN has put together two 32-player brackets, one for the boys and one for the girls, of WPIAL alums. Outside of a few exceptions, the field...
Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame postpones induction banquet to 2021
The Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet will be postponed until next year, organizers announced Monday, in response to the covid-19 outbreak. The banquet was rescheduled for May 16, 2021. The 45th induction class includes Sam Bechtel (sports journalism), Ron Brown (basketball), Barry Cox (football), Arthur Jason DeLuigi...
Longtime girls tennis coach retires as Hempfield gets fall coaching staffs in order
Hempfield Area School District is looking for a couple fall sports coaches. The jobs opened when girls tennis coach Jerry Way retired and girls soccer Adam Shaffer resigned. Hempfield is also looking for a new athletic director after Greg Meisner resigned in April. Rick Bowen is acting as interim athletic...
Organizers hold off on canceling Westmoreland County 7-on-7 summer football event
With schools closing across the state, high school sports also were shut down for the spring by the PIAA. In line with that decision, local organizations such as the Westmoreland County Coaches Association also have been affected by the paralyzing restrictions of the coronavirus. The association’s spring and summer schedule...
Shady Side Academy earns national athletic trainers award
The National Athletic Trainers Association has recognized Shady Side Academy with its Safe Sports School 2nd Team Award for its athletic training program under the direction of head trainer Chris Rose and assistant Brynn Mahoney. The award honors secondary schools that have met the recommended standards to improve safety in...
Burrell’s Feroce, Malits reflect on stellar careers
Editor’s note: This is the second in an 18-part series profiling nominees for the Westmoreland County Scholar-Athlete Excellence Awards. As a three-sport athlete, with a challenging class schedule and several other school activities, Ricky Feroce didn’t have much down time throughout the academic year. The Burrell senior, a standout in...
Powerade Wrestling Tournament grows to 55 teams for 2020
The Powerade Wrestling Tournament is billed as one of the top high school competitions in the country. And the 54th annual tournament, scheduled for Dec. 29-30 at Canon-McMillan High School, again will feature some of the top wrestlers east of the Mississippi River. The tournament has grown to 55 teams,...
Trib HSSN May Madness: Annie Houghton, Quaker Valley vs. Amani Johnson, East Allegheny
Over the course of the next month and a half, May Madness will determine who you fans believe is the WPIAL Athlete of the Century. HSSN has put together two 32-player brackets, one for the boys and one for the girls of WPIAL alums. Outside of a few exceptions, the...
Trib HSSN May Madness: Darrelle Revis, Aliquippa vs. M.J. Devonshire, Aliquippa
Over the course of the next month and a half, May Madness will determine who fans believe is the WPIAL Athlete of the Century. HSSN has put together two 32-player brackets, one for the boys and one for the girls, of WPIAL alums. Outside of a few exceptions, the field...
Could coach Jeff Ackermann turn around another basketball program in Baldwin?
Baldwin’s boys basketball team hasn’t won a WPIAL playoff game since 2003. The Highlanders reached the postseason only four times in the 17 years since, with four first-round losses. Clearly, there’s room to improve. This past winter they went winless in the section, a year after finishing 1-9. But Baldwin...
Senior Spotlight: Bedi hoped to lead Sewickley Academy tennis on one final title run
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. After dominating WPIAL Class AA for years, the Sewickley Academy boys tennis team tested its mettle in Class AAA in 2019. Leading last year’s charge was Arjan Bedi, who...
Belle Vernon senior duo focuses on future
Editor’s note: This is the first in an 18-part series profiling nominees for the Westmoreland County Scholar-Athlete Excellence Awards. Belle Vernon senior track star Hannah Seitzinger was looking forward toward one more attempt at being a WPIAL and PIAA 400-meter dash champion. But the coronavirus pandemic ended her senior year...
Quaker Valley’s Corinne Washington commits to Boston University
There’s a third Division I basketball player in the Washington household. Quaker Valley’s Corinne Washington, one of the WPIAL’s top juniors, committed Sunday to Boston University over offers from Duquesne, Robert Morris and others. Her brother, Coletrane, was a sophomore this winter at Drexel and her father Jesse played basketball...
Senior Spotlight: Lacrosse only part of Irwin’s starring role at Canon-McMillan
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. When spring began, Ashley Irwin was preparing for starring roles in the school musical and as a scoring middie/attack on the Canon-McMillan girls lacrosse team. Then, the coronavirus pandemic...
Hempfield track coach Ron Colland receives Ferranti Award
Ron Colland has been involved in track and field for more than 60 years, the past 38 as a coach at Hempfield. And while Colland, 72, has retired as a social studies and world cultures teacher and spends time with his family near Phoenix, he returns to Pennsylvania in late...
Woodland Hills’ Peyton Pinkney commits to Eastern Michigan after virtual tourVideo
Woodland Hills junior Peyton Pinkney took a tour of Eastern Michigan’s campus last week and never left her home. That’s the new normal in a pandemic. EMU women’s basketball coach Fred Castro and his staff provided a virtual tour of the Ypsilanti, Mich., campus for Pinkney to watch online. She...
Central Catholic football coaches deliver WPIAL championship rings door to doorVideo
What’s better than one WPIAL ring ceremony? How about 23? The covid-19 outbreak kept Central Catholic’s football coaches from handing out championship rings at school like they’d planned, so they decided to hand-deliver the rings to the 23 seniors on the roster that won the WPIAL Class 6A title. The...
Trib HSSN May Madness results for Friday, May 1
The HSSN May Madness results are in from opening day of the brackets, Friday, May 1, to determine the athlete of the century on Friday, May 1. One matchup went down to the wire while the other was one-sided. On the boys side, one of the favorites to win it...
Senior Spotlight: Bethel Park’s Boff sought to expand on-court versatility
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Tony Boff had an expanded role in mind for his final season with the Bethel Park boys volleyball team. Before the PIAA shut down the spring sports season in...
Butler’s Ethan Morton named Player of the Year in Class 6A all-state voting
Butler’s Ethan Morton’s quest for a PIAA basketball title was cut short, but the senior earned statewide recognition Saturday as the state’s Class 6A Player of the Year in a vote of Pennsylvania sports writers. The Purdue recruit was the first WPIAL athlete to win the award in the PIAA’s...
Hotly recruited Peters Township safety Donovan McMillon names Top 10 listVideo
Peters Township junior Donovan McMillon, who’s quickly become the WPIAL’s hottest football recruit, announced a top 10 list Friday that included Penn State but not Pitt or West Virginia. The Nittany Lions were joined on the list by Arizona State, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas A&M and Virginia...
Knoch senior upbeat despite disappointing ending to long rehab road
James Johnston was ready. The Knoch senior, a cornerstone of the Knights boys lacrosse team, did all he could to be 100% prepared for spring practices and games with several months of recovery from a severe lower left leg and ankle injury suffered during the football season. He was pleased...
Bethel Park’s Liv Westphal commits to Duquesne
Three years ago, Bethel Park’s Liv Westphal and her family took an unofficial recruiting visit to Duquesne before her freshman year of high school. The Dukes were the first women’s basketball team to show interest in the future Black Hawks star. “We were in coach Dan Burt’s office for like...
Senior Spotlight: Norwin senior track athlete keeping chin up before heading to Bucknell
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Matt Federovich is dealing with stay-at-home coronavirus restrictions, well, the best he can. The Norwin senior would be in the middle of an exciting track season if it weren’t...
Senior Spotlight: Frazier softball star helping keep steelworkers safe
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Goal-oriented and driven to overpower hitters, softball pitcher Logan Hartman was nearing the school record at Frazier for career strikeouts. “But unfortunately now, I can’t get it,” Hartman said....
