High School category, Page 217

Caleb Emswiler capped an outstanding baseball career at Eden Christian Academy with a top individual honor. Emswiler, a talented senior pitcher/corner infielder, was named Class A player of the year by Trib HSSN following the 2024 postseason. The right-handed hurler led the Warriors to a section title and WPIAL and...

Londyn Tomman was nervous and excited for the USATF Three Rivers Championship at Slippery Rock University. The uncertainty of an event with such a deep field of competitors was an exciting challenge for her. Sure, it’s possible to do some research with many club teams posting times and information online....

The month of June has been pretty exciting for Isabelle Hoppe. Not only did she verbally commit to Pitt, but she also learned she’ll be a member of the USA Volleyball U19 national team. Hoppe, who will be a junior at Pine-Richland and one of the top women’s volleyball recruits...

North Allegheny’s Leyna Rumpler has been traveling to Tulsa, Okla. for the past four years to compete with wrestlers from around Pennsylvania in the Air Force Special Warfare Junior National Duals. This year, however, was different as it was her last trip as a high school athlete after graduating in...

The WPIAL announced its winter sports realignment for the next two-year enrollment cycle. In basketball, the returning WPIAL runner-up Franklin Regional boys will be in a new-look Section 1-5A along with Albert Gallatin, Gateway, Latrobe, Laurel Highlands, McKeesport, Penn-Trafford and Uniontown. The Panthers’ girls team will compete in Section 1-5A...

Reflecting on her time at Kiski Area brought a realization of the rapid pace the high school years went by for Eliza Miller. “Everyone always tells you that it’s going to go by fast, but you really don’t believe it until you’re actually graduating,” Miller said. “You look back and...

Michael Braun had a couple of major goals he set for his junior year at Freeport. He wanted to earn a top 10 at states in cross country and a top five in track. Some challenges came his way, like a sprained ankle and tendinitis in his knee, but at...

Lily King got her first taste of the Olympic experience last week and she’s anxious to take her swimming to another level. The Mt. Pleasant junior recently competed in the United States Swimming Olympic Team Trials on June 15-23 in Indianapolis and returned home with personal records in the 50-...

While he lives in Indiana, Tyree Turner often feels more like a Greensburg kid because he spent so much time in and around the city. It’s tough to argue that he hasn’t been the face of Greensburg Central Catholic basketball and football, and a key player in baseball, for the...

The new fall season will come with a new varsity sport at Latrobe. A girls golf team will begin play in WPIAL Section 4-3A with Armstrong, Fox Chapel, Indiana, Kiski Area, Oakland Catholic and Plum. Plum also is a first-year program. Latrobe will start as a self-sustaining club team. This...

There is no “I” in team, but there is an “I” in the word individual … and impressive. These district athletes rose above all others to claim gold in their respective high school sports this past school year. This salute to champion’s parade includes these folk who marched alone to...

What better way to honor the top teams from the 2023-2024 school year than to march the WPIAL champions in a victory parade stretching from Lawrence County down to Greene County. Everybody enjoys a nice parade on the brink of out nation’s birthday as we wrap up the District 7...

Here’s a look back at the biggest high school sports stories of the 2023-24 school year. Oct. 11, 2023 Moon’s Bill Pfeiffer, in his 28th season, became the first girls soccer coach in the WPIAL to win 500 career games. Pfeiffer and the Tigers later celebrated winning a third straight...

Championship softball coach Chris Brunson is making the jump to the college level as he leaves the Mt. Pleasant high school team to head to Waynesburg University. Brunson resigned after leading Mt. Pleasant for the last six seasons and accepted the Yellow Jackets’ head coach position. He replaces Brett Shimek,...

Highlands likes to play fast, up-tempo basketball. It always has, even when a new coach took over. From the late Rich Falter and Shawn Bennis to Tyler Stoczynski and Corey Dotchin, the team just liked to get it and go. For their next coach, the Golden Rams will go with...

There is a good old-fashioned quarterback competition brewing in Alverton, and the top preseason storyline for Southmoreland football already has people chewing the fat at gas stations and mini-marts. “It’s the talk of the town,” Scotties coach Tim Bukowski said. “People are asking me, ’Coach, who’s it going to be?’...

Here’s a look at the TribLive HSSN baseball all-stars for the 2024 season. Terrific 10 David Posey North Allegheny, sr., P/1B Posey knew his Tigers needed a big outing from him on the mound in the WPIAL 6A final, and he responded with a no-hitter and 11 strikeouts. The Navy...

Here’s a look at the TribLive HSSN softball all-stars for the 2024 season. Terrific 10 Lexie Hames Seneca Valley, jr., P Hames continued to dominate in the circle and contributed to another championship run. The Clemson recruit went 16-1 with 265 strikeouts in 114 2/3 innings. At the plate, she...

Rising senior John Wetzel has seen first hand the resurgence of the Latrobe football program. He has noticed the change in attitude. The shift in perception. The wins. “We have a lot more we want to do: A state title is the main goal,” said Wetzel, a quarterback and defensive...

After the Mt. Pleasant high school baseball team took first place in Section 4-3A with an 11-1 record this past season, the Mt. Pleasant American Legion baseball team, sponsored by Legion Post 446, is looking to build off of that success in District 31 play. Several players from the section...

Every year, teams often live by a saying or quote that resonates. Coaches put it inside their dugouts and gyms when they work out or even on the back of a shirt. For Chartiers Valley’s softball team, this year’s designated saying on the back of its shirts read, “A dream...

Long postseason runs produce defining moments that teams look back on for years, and for this season’s Chartiers Valley girls lacrosse team, it came down to one goal that was not even meant for the back of the net. After squandering a multi-goal lead to South Fayette in a WPIAL...

The 2024 season is one players and coaches on the Thomas Jefferson softball team will never forget. For the first time in the 65-year history of the high school, there is a state champion at TJ in a girls team sport. Thomas Jefferson ended an improbable postseason run June 13...