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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....
Trib HSSN May Madness: Amanda Kalin, Pine-Richland vs. Madison Wiltrout, Connellsville
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: Terrelle Pryor, Jeannette vs. Tre Tipton, Apollo-Ridge
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...
Mars’ Michael Carmody, Laurel Highlands’ Rodney Gallagher earn all-state honors in Class 5A boys basketball
Mars’ Michael Carmody and Laurel Highlands’ Rodney Gallagher, whose teams clashed in the WPIAL boys basketball finals, were named first-team all-state Friday. They were the only WPIAL players selected to the Class 5A team in a vote of Pennsylvania sports writers. For Carmody, a Notre Dame football recruit, it was...
‘Size doesn’t matter’ as South Fayette’s Charley Rossi adds first Division I offerVideo
Charley Rossi took a break from helping his dad clean out the garage Monday to return a phone call to a college football coach. He knew how the conversation would go. How’s quarantine going? Is everybody in his family healthy? How’s school? What are his workouts like nowadays? All standard...
Senior Spotlight: Possible golden softball season lost for Upper St. Clair infielder, classmates
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. They weren’t the Fab Five, but in the spring of 2017, you could refer to Zoe Malone, Paige Stevenson, Alex Wunderlich, Haley Beardley, Danielle Orendi and Grace Swigart as...
Senior Spotlight: 4-sport Avonworth athlete racked up 13 varsity letters in decorated career
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Four-sport athletes don’t have much free time on their hands to begin with, so the shelter-in-place order has wreaked havoc on their daily schedules and preparation. But the down...
WPIAL lands 2 players on Class 4A boys basketball all-state team
Highlands’ Johnny Crise and Central Valley’s Isiah Warfield will play different sports in college, but right now they’re both all-state basketball players. The two WPIAL stars were selected all-state in Class 4A on Thursday in a vote of Pennsylvania sports writers. Warfield was named to the second team and Crise...
HSSN May Madness: Vote for the WPIAL’s best of the century
The NCAA college basketball tournament has grown over the decades to become one of the top sporting events on the calendar. Hardcore hoop fans, casual supporters and even folks who don’t watch a single game the entire season love to take part in March Madness, as people across the country...
PIAA considers dropping weight class as wrestling rule changes are made
The National Federation of State High School Associations announced 11 rule changes on Tuesday, none involving the reduction of weight classes. But that was the No. 1 topic discussed Wednesday when the PIAA wrestling steering committee met as a group via Zoom. The PIAA wresting committee is proposing to cut...
Senior Spotlight: West Mifflin infielder proud of program’s growth
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Jaden Arcuri had plenty of ups and downs in her abbreviated three-year softball career at West Mifflin. Starting as a freshman, the Titans struggled and finished 6-13 overall. However,...
North Catholic’s DeGregorios share all-state honors in Class 3A boys basketball
Two months after celebrating a WPIAL basketball title, North Catholic’s Dave and Isaac DeGregorio are sharing some statewide recognition. Isaac DeGregorio, a senior guard, earned second-team all-state honors in Class 3A and his father Dave DeGregorio was named as the classification’s top coach Wednesday in a vote of Pennsylvania sports...
