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Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 competitive spirit season
It was a repeat performance for three teams at the WPIAL competitive spirit championships in January. After claiming district titles in 2018, Bethel Park, Elizabeth Forward and Chartiers-Houston again stood atop the podium at the 2019 championship meet. Bethel Park edged Butler by less than half of a point on...
Hempfield’s Mayo nabs All-America honors in 50 free for second time
Recent Hempfield graduate Gavin Mayo has been named for the second consecutive year to the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association Boys High School Swimming All-America Team. The 6-foot-3 Mayo, a North Carolina recruit, won the WPIAL Class AAA title in the 50-yard freestyle in a time of 20.60 seconds. He...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 WPIBL bowling season
Competitors from the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League made an impact at all levels during the 2018-19 season. Small is big at states Plum’s Shannon Small led the WPIBL with a fourth-place finish (202.5 average/six games) out of 24 in the girls singles qualifier at the Pennsylvania High School State...
George Guido: Leechburg considering artificial turf for football field
Leechburg might be the next local school to get artificial turf for its football stadium. The school board recently approved a line item of $560,000 to consider widening the current football field and installing artificial turf at Veterans Memorial Stadium, where the Blue Devils have played since 1947. The expenditure...
Central Catholic baseball’s Will Ray commits to Wake Forest
Central Catholic’s Will Ray is the lastest WPIAL baseball recruit heading south. The left-handed hitting outfielder committed Monday to Wake Forest, continuing a trend that’s seen ACC and SEC schools recruit players from Western Pennsylvania. Among them, Blackhawk graduate Michael Turconi was a freshman for the Demon Deacons this past...
Union’s Gunn is big man with even bigger work ethic
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. At some point in his high school career, Union junior lineman Aaron Gunn thought...
Alison Riske’s WPIAL coach talks Wimbledon upset, quarterfinals vs. Serena Williams
Peters Township tennis product Alison Riske upset the top seed and world No. 1 at Wimbledon. Her reward? A quarterfinal match against legendary champion Serena Williams. It’s at 8 a.m. Tuesday. And it’ll be played on Centre Court. No pressure. Riske, the No. 55-ranked player in the world, stunned French...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 PIHL season
A year after being shut out in the state hockey finals, the Penguins Cup winners went 1-2 against the Flyers Cup champs in the three Pennsylvania Cup state championship games at the RMU Island Sports Complex in 2019. Pine-Richland became only the second Penguins Cup champion to win a Pennsylvania...
Baldwin’s Dorien Ford ready to produce season of thrills
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. When Kennywood Park opens the Steel Curtain roller coaster Saturday, Baldwin rising junior Dorien...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 boys swimming and diving season
For the second year in a row, a National Federation of High Schools record fell at the PIAA Class AAA swimming championships at Bucknell University. Upper St. Clair’s Josh Matheny, now a rising junior, established an all-time mark of 52.52 seconds in the boys 100-yard breaststroke, surpassing the previous NFHS...
Woodland Hills AD among candidates to coach boys basketball team
Woodland Hills’ next boys basketball coach might already work in the school’s athletic department. Athletic director Ron Coursey, who previously coached basketball at Propel Andrew Street and Greater Works, is among the candidates for the job. The school board is expected to make a decision soon. The group meets July...
Week Zero football showcase at Wolvarena expands to 2nd venue
The Western Pennsylvania vs. Everyone Football Showcase is officially too big for one stadium. The multi-game Week Zero event was held entirely at Woodland Hills’ Wolvarena last season, but this year will grow to include two games at North Allegheny’s Newman Stadium. All combined, there are eight games on Aug....
2 WPIAL football recruits announce 1st Division I offers from St. Francis
Two rising seniors in the WPIAL each received their first Division I football offers this week from St. Francis. Baldwin’s Naseer Penn and Bethel Park’s Jehvonn Lewis announced offers days apart from the Red Flash, an FCS program in the Northeast Conference. Lewis (5-10, 160) plays running back and defensive...
Aliquippa’s Fisher ready to improve on breakout junior year
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during a HSSN Media Day live broadcast at Kennywood Park. When the Aliquippa football team captured its first PIAA state...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 girls swimming and diving season
One of the closest races at the PIAA Class AAA championships at Bucknell University in March saw Butler junior Laura Goettler edge Fox Chapel freshman Zoe Skirboll by 10 one-hundredths of a second for the title in the finals of the girls 100-yard breaststroke. Skirboll, however, would capture state gold...
Like famous uncle, Central Catholic’s Elliot Donald seems poised for ‘great things’
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during Trib HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Central Catholic’s Elliot Donald noticed a video on Twitter this week that showed...
Pine-Richland pitcher Tommy Beam commits to West Virginia
Pine-Richland pitcher Tommy Beam, who helped the Rams win a WPIAL title this spring, committed Friday to West Virginia. Beam will be a junior in the fall. The 6-foot-5 right-hander went 5-3 with a 1.48 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 47 1/3 innings. He earned the win in the WPIAL...
Scholar-athlete distinction surprises Brentwood’s Winkowski
Julianna Winkowski participated in two sports in high school. But there’s no doubt about which one she enjoyed the most. “My favorite sport was swimming,” said Winkowski, a recent Brentwood graduate. “The amount of peace and relaxation that being in the water brings me is impossible to describe. I love...
Quaker Valley’s Blaugrund earns U.S. Lacrosse All-American honors
Quaker Valley departing senior Katherine Blaugrund put in hours to lacrosse, and she has been rewarded. Blaugrund, a midfielder, was named a US Lacrosse Girls High School All-American for Western Pennsylvania. “To be honored with this title is such an incredible way to end my high school career,” said Blaugrund,...
Penn-Trafford’s Faith Anthony eager to play collegiate hockey at Franklin Pierce
The Franklin Pierce women’s hockey team hasn’t been around long. Just like every fledgling sports program, the Ravens took it on the chin the first few years but have built a winning program over the past seven seasons. Now, all the Ravens need is a little Faith, as in Penn-Trafford...
Shady Side Academy’s Lau, O’Connor earn lacrosse All-American honors
Shady Side Academy departing senior lacrosse player Emmie Lau topped a historic season with an impressive honor. Lau, a midfielder, was named a US Lacrosse Girls’ High School All-American for Western Pennsylvania. The 6-foot-1 Lau, who lives in Fox Chapel, scored 60 goals and had 14 assists. She led the...
McKeesport’s Diggs adds different dimension to Tigers’ run-heavy offense
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Once known for a lethal ground attack featuring the hard-to-stop triple option flexbone, McKeesport’s...
West Allegheny’s Hendrick selected to High School All-Star Game
Austin Hendrick, a rising senior at West Allegheny and a Mississippi State baseball verbal commit, will compete in the inaugural High School All-Star Game on Saturday at Progressive Field in Cleveland. Major League Baseball and USA Baseball released the rosters Friday. Forty players, selected from the 80-player Prospect Development Pipeline...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 girls gymnastics season
Just like most of the gymnasts performing their routines, the 2018-19 gymnastics season had a lot of twists and turns that ultimately made it an extraordinary campaign. For the first time in the short history of its program, Thomas Jefferson captured a WPIAL championship. After losing to Moon by a...
Deabner ready to help Thomas Jefferson back to top of WPIAL Class 4A
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Everything was status quo for Thomas Jefferson heading into last year’s WPIAL Class 4A...
