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Senior Spotlight: Seton LaSalle’s All-WPIAL goalie to start anew at Youngstown State
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Youngstown State will play its first season of women’s lacrosse in 2021, and Mikaela Staranko is planning to be the Penguins’ last line of defense. The Seton LaSalle senior...
PIAA not ready to endorse NFHS guidelines for reopening high school athletics
The PIAA isn’t ready to endorse the return-to-sports guidelines issued Tuesday by the National Federation of State High School Associations. The lengthy NFHS guidelines cover everything from pre-workout screening, limitations on gathering sizes, requirements for cleaning facilities, the safe use of athletic equipment and athlete hydration. The guide was written...
Yough seniors no strangers to hard work
Editor’s note: This is the last in an 18-part series profiling nominees for the Westmoreland County Scholar-Athlete Excellence Awards. Yough seniors Steven Manon and Sara Krofcheck were no strangers to hard work. They used work ethic and determination to excel on the athletic field and in the classroom, making them...
Greensburg Central Catholic girls soccer coach Ashley Davis resigns
Greensburg Central Catholic is looking for a girls soccer coach after the resignation of Ashley Davis, who guided the Centurions for three seasons. Davis left for family reasons: She needs more time to take care of her 9-month-old daughter, Quinn, who was born just before last season. She also would...
Trib HSSN May Madness results for Tuesday, May 19
The HSSN May Madness results are in from Tuesday, May 19 in the opening round of the brackets to determine the WPIAL athlete of the century. It was a busy day at the polls. Despite the one-sided victories for the two wining athletes, it was the second most votes in...
Athletic director steps in to head troubled Latrobe wrestling programVideo
Greater Latrobe School Board went to the top of its athletic staff to set a new course for the district’s troubled wrestling program. The board this week named its athletic director Mark Mears to also serve as wrestling coach, taking leadership of a program rocked in January by hazing allegations...
Trib HSSN May Madness: Rachel Rohanna, Waynesburg vs. Hunter Robinson, Avonworth
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...
Trib HSSN May Madness: Lamont Wade, Clairton vs. T.J. McConnell, Chartiers Valley
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...
PIAA board says some teams may resume workouts next month, if governor approves
The PIAA board of directors unanimously supports a county-by-county approach to restarting high school sports, once the governor gives his approval. If that approval comes soon, some schools might resume workouts before July 1. The board discussed Wednesday whether the PIAA should set one restart date for the entire state...
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Softball No. 9
From classification expansion to field renovations forcing a change in the venue for the district championships, there was a lot going on with the WPIAL softball championships this past decade. From Lilly Field at Cal (Pa.) to Seton Hill to a mishmash of title games played here and there or...
Senior Spotlight: Seneca Valley senior maintains love of lacrosse despite pandemic
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Noah VandeWater has a love of lacrosse. So much so that not even a quarantine can keep him from playing. “I pretty much play lacrosse two to three hours...
National association issues detailed guide for reopening high school athletics
Players shouldn’t pass a basketball, hand off a football or share a baseball bat when high school sports workouts first resume, according to guidelines revealed Tuesday by the National Federation of State High School Associations. Also, workouts should include no more than 10 people, whether indoors or outside. The NFHS...
Valley seniors planning for careers in service of others
Editor’s note: This is the 17th in an 18-part series profiling nominees for the Westmoreland County Scholar-Athlete Excellence Awards. Madison Gatto’s goal of making a collegiate tennis roster is on hold. The Valley senior and her sister Casey, two-thirds of the Gatto triplets, were accepted into a nursing program at...
Mt. Pleasant boys basketball coach Allan Bilinsky steps down
If he is going to satisfy his basketball fix next season, it looks like Allan Bilinsky will have to do so from the bleachers. Bilinsky is leaving the Mt. Pleasant boys program after two seasons as coach. His decision to step down is rooted in family: He has two sons...
Trib HSSN May Madness results for Monday, May 18
The HSSN May Madness results are in from Monday, May 18 in the opening round of the brackets to determine the WPIAL athlete of the century. One contest was a bit one-sided while the other was a back-and-forth close vote before the eventual winner pulled away. In the boys’ matchup,...
Trib HSSN May Madness: Jess Strom, Steel Valley vs. Morgan Ryan, Hempfield
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...
Trib HSSN May Madness: Ayden Owens, North Allegheny vs. Brendan McKay, Blackhawk
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...
Memories stay fresh for Southmoreland standout seniors Pisula, Comforti
Editor’s note: This is the 16th in an 18-part series profiling nominees for the Westmoreland County Scholar-Athlete Excellence Awards. When Sarah Pisula starts feeling down during this covid-19 era, she recalls some of the feel-good moments from a feel-good girls basketball season at Southmoreland. “That’s actually been one of the...
New South Park girls soccer coach excited for opportunity at alma mater
For T.J. O’Brien, there’s no place like home. No, he didn’t have to click red glass slippers like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. He simply had to say yes when offered the girls soccer head coaching position at South Park. O’Brien, a 2006 South Park graduate and former Eagles...
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Baseball No. 10
While it almost became a theme to repeat in WPIAL softball this past decade, it was nearly an impossible dream for district baseball teams. Wild Things Park in Washington continued to be the home for the WPIAL baseball championships, but only twice in 42 title games was a school successful...
WPIAL adopts 2-game series for section baseball schedules, reveals realignment
The WPIAL adopted a revamped baseball schedule Monday meant to keep teams from pitching their ace twice against the same section opponent. Now, rather than play every team once and then rematch later in the season, WPIAL baseball teams will play a two-game series on consecutive days against every section...
Derry set to finalize football coaching candidates list
Derry athletic director Brett Miller is finalizing the list of candidates for the Trojans’ football coaching position that opened when Tim Sweeney left to accept the same job at Baldwin last month. Sweeney energized a program that was 0-10 and outscored by more than 50 points per game in 2013...
North Allegheny expected to hire Dan DeRose as boys basketball coach
Another high-profile WPIAL basketball coach is expected to switch schools this week. Dan DeRose is expected to be hired as North Allegheny’s boys basketball coach Wednesday, pending school board approval, according to a source. DeRose coached at Penn Hills for the past five seasons and won a WPIAL Class 6A...
PIAA board of directors to discuss restarting sports county by county
Could the PIAA take a county-by-county approach to restarting sports, or should the entire state resume summer workouts at the same time? “We want to have that discussion,” said PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi, who expects that question and others related to the coronavirus shutdown will be addressed Wednesday when...
Trib HSSN May Madness: Annessa Schnur, Butler vs. Maura Huwalt, South Park
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...
