A pair of former Pitt-Greensburg coaches landed lead positions at new programs. Sean Strickland, who led the UPG men’s basketball team for seven years before a two-year stint as women’s associate head coach at Penn State Beaver, is the new associate head coach of the women’s program at Muskingum in...

The Akron women’s soccer team is one of the youngest at the Division I level. Only one senior is on the 2019 roster: Plum graduate Ashley Amato. Amato, entering her fourth year as a starting defender, understands her time on campus is winding down, and she wants to do whatever...

Four years ago, a young girl named Lexie Meanor from Sewickley decided she was going to attend college. Not at Robert Morris, not at Pitt, but at Whittier, about 2,000 miles from her hometown. There, she began her collegiate career in lacrosse while making a name for herself in the...

College can open you up to many new experiences. For former WPIAL champion Jason Goodman, it introduced him up to the most multi-faceted of track and field events. Goodman was one of the best jumpers to come through Hampton, capping his career with a WPIAL title in the triple jump...

Virginia redshirt senior Bridget Guy will bring home a bronze medal from Italy. Guy, a former Hempfield standout, took third place in the pole vault while competing at the World University Games in Napoli. She cleared 14 feet, 1.75 inches. Guy came into the event with the sixth-best vault of...

Jordan Geist will throw the shot put July 26 at the U.S. Track and Field Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, and he heads into the event with momentum from a gold medal and a new record at a recent meet in Mexico. Geist, who also earned All-American honors with...

Someday, Julia Menosky plans to create not just her own business but her own empire. As she approaches her senior season with the Point Park volleyball team, the Bishop Canevin grad is thinking about how to use her degree in entrepreneurship once her playing days are over. She won’t reveal...

Incoming junior Derek Orndorff is leaving the Penn State baseball program to play closer to home. Orndorff recently announced on his Twitter account that he is transferring to play at Seton Hill. A utility player who starred at Connellsville — he was a second-team all-state player who hit .542 as...

An annual homecoming weekend match will be particularly special for the Seton Hill women’s volleyball team in the fall. On Oct. 12, when the Griffins host Bloomsburg at 1 p.m., the school will retire the No. 9 jersey of fallen teammate Maggie Murray. Murray, a 2018 graduate, died as a...