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Former Thomas Jefferson volleyball players recap busy summers
Three senior volleyball players at Thomas Jefferson from last season — defensive specialists Julia Fiedor, Mia Como and Julia Micklo — were lauded in April as Outstanding Young Citizens by Trib Total Media. Fiedor and Micklo were three-year letter-winners in volleyball. Como earned two varsity letters. I was able to...
Fox Chapel cross country teams must fill several spots opened by graduations
Fox Chapel cross country coach Tom Moul will have a lot of running shoes to fill on the girls and boys squads this season. “On the girls side, we lost three of our top five runners in Annika Urban, Sareena Seeger and Anna Folkerts,” he said. “Annika and Sareena were...
Quaker Valley HOF tennis teams dominated opposition
Quaker Valley’s girls tennis program has been a dominant force in the 21st century. The Quakers won four straight WPIAL Class 2A team titles from 2004-07. The final two championship teams (’06, ’07) gained additional honors as they will be inducted into the Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame on...
Quaker Valley’s 2006 hockey team set program standard
Quaker Valley’s hockey team has developed into one of the PIHL’s most consistent programs over the past two decades. The 2005-06 team set the standard, though, when it captured the first Class A Penguins Cup and Pennsylvania Cup championships in program history. That group will be recognized further when it...
Pine-Richland Athletic Hall of Fame announces 1st class
The Pine-Richland Athletic Hall of Fame announced its first class of inductees as decided upon by the Pine-Richland Athletic Hall of Fame Committee. The inductees will be honored at 6:45 p.m. on Oct. 4 before the football team’s WPIAL Class 6A game against Canon-McMillan at Pine-Richland Stadium. A banquet will...
Plum’s Kelly balances sports, music as key cog on soccer team
Cole Kelly does his best to split his time for his two passions — soccer and music — because he loves them equally. Kelly, a rising senior at Plum, was an All-WPIAL defender last year and plays saxophone in the marching band. Every once in a while, the disciplines nearly...
The Herald Spotlight Athlete: Brooke Krally, Fox Chapel
Brooke Krally, a senior on the Fox Chapel cross country team, is entering her fourth year on the team. She was a member of the team that won the PIAA title two years ago. She hopes to keep running in college, and she is considering Duquesne, Pitt, W&J and a...
Linemen Malis, Adams ready to lead the way for Derry
If the Derry football team wants to challenge for a fourth consecutive WPIAL Class 3A Interstate Conference title, it will be the guys in the trenches who will pave the way. Seniors Max Malis and Gavin Adams have been anchoring the Trojans offensive and defensive lines for three seasons and...
Upper St. Clair’s Matheny to swim at World Junior Championships
Upper St. Clair rising junior Joshua Matheny will be among the world’s best under-18 swimmers at the FINA World Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Aug. 20-25. Matheny, 16, was one of 45 boys and girls named Thursday to represent Team USA. Matheny placed third in the men’s 200 long-course...
Reunion to gather Penn Hills football players from ’70s
Mike Fralic, who resides in Colorado, traveled to the Pittsburgh area in April to attend the Penn Hills Sports Hall of Fame ceremony at the Green Oaks Country Club. As he took in the ceremony, Fralic came up with an idea to have a reunion for Penn Hills’ 1970s football...
Shaler boys golf team returns top 4 from last season
Shaler Area boys golf coach John Brough isn’t sure where some of his players heard the team was predicted to finish last in Section 3-AAA. But the perceived slight lit a fire under the Titans, who didn’t have any golfers qualify for WPIALs last season. “They’ve been motivated, and I’ve...
Kiski Area’s Blumer and Delp sit among top 100 recruits in 2020 class
The Kiski Area Cavaliers had one of the best wrestling teams in the state last season. They won their third consecutive WPIAL Class AAA team title and took fourth at the PIAA tournament in Hershey. While that team was highlighted by seniors Cam Connor and Darren Miller, this season’s squad...
Healthy Hartman ‘keeps everything solidified’ for Belle Vernon offense
It’s third-and-long. Belle Vernon breaks the offensive huddle and heads to the line of scrimmage. In years past, the run-heavy Leopards might be tempted to call a run play, or with strong-legged punter Cameron Guess, kicking to the opposition and letting a stout defense go to work a little early...
District 6 denies eligibility for Ligonier Valley senior Silk
Kyle Silk won’t be playing for the Ligonier Valley football team just yet. The senior who transferred from United in June was ruled ineligible to participate in athletics by the PIAA District 6 committee at a meeting Wednesday at Ebensburg Country Club. The motion to make him eligible was denied...
WPIAL rules Isiah Warfield eligible for senior season, ineligible for playoffs
The WPIAL approved Isiah Warfield to play basketball in the regular season, but the Central Valley transfer remains ineligible for the playoffs. The 6-foot-5 rising senior and Liberty recruit was a 25-point scorer at Sewickley Academy. The WPIAL board decided his eligibility Monday based on transfer paperwork submitted by the...
George Guido: Not even war could dim Friday Night Lights
A number of past columns have been written about the effects of World War II on daily life and high school sports in the Alle-Kiski Valley. One example of that is what happened 75 years ago this week regarding Kittanning football. The U.S. Dept. of War, now known as the...
Former West Mifflin coach Lance Maha returns to WPIAL basketball
Lance Maha, who coached boys basketball at West Mifflin for two decades, is returning to the WPIAL after one season away. Maha was announced Tuesday as coach at Propel Braddock Hills, a charter school team that made its WPIAL debut last season. Maha’s teams reached the playoffs 17 times in...
New athletic director Ryan Hayden brings youthful enthusiasm to Jeannette
Ryan Hayden peered out from the press box at McKee Stadium as workers smoothed over gravel and continued to prepare the historic field for artificial turf. The Jeannette faithful are awaiting the big reveal. Count Hayden among them. “It’s a good time to be around here,” Hayden said. “Everyone is...
Aliquippa’s Zuriah Fisher postpones commitment hours before decision day
On the eve of commitment day, Aliquippa linebacker Zuriah Fisher decided to postpone his decision. “Due to the process being a bit overwhelming for me I’ll be pushing my commitment date back,” Fisher wrote Sunday night on Twitter. The three-star recruit had initially said he’d commit Aug. 5. He lists...
James Franklin wants Penn State to host PIAA championships
Penn State’s Beaver Stadium has hosted one PIAA football championship game. Coach James Franklin thinks it’s time for another. At Penn State’s football media day Saturday, Franklin said he would “love” for the nation’s second-largest stadium to host Pennsylvania’s high school football championships. “I think there are a lot of...
Junior Miller leads strong returning core for Shaler girls golf
Emilee Miller needed to shore up the mental aspect of her golf game. The Shaler Area junior knew the perfect antagonist was within the same house. After a season when Miller qualified for the Class AAA WPIAL championships, she played a lot of rounds with her younger brother, Joey. “My...
Fox Chapel’s Fitch hits senior year at full speed
Fox Chapel rising senior Christian Fitch has been a mainstay on the cross country and track teams since his freshman year. He was MVP of the track team as a freshman. For his senior year, Fitch has set high goals for himself and his teammates, but his sights are first...
Gateway goalie Neundorfer survives rigorous tryout for showcase
Maddy Neundorfer traveled to Germany in April as part of a U.S. Olympic Development Program team. The trip, she said, was an on-field and off-field success. The team went 3-0 in game action and gave up no goals in the trio of contests. “It was great to not only experience...
New turf, refurbished track part of renovations at Baldwin Stadium
It was time for a summer facelift. Baldwin Stadium has a new and refreshed look to it, accented with a deep, rich purple color. By the end of July, new stadium turf — with new logos from the district — and a new surrounding asphalt sidewalk had been installed. The...
Stewart cruised past opponents on the tennis court for Quaker Valley
When Cate Stewart moved with her family to the Quaker Valley School District after her freshman year of high school, she wasn’t sure how she would fit into a new community. She had nothing to worry about as she clicked immediately with her tennis teammates and schoolmates. She went on...
