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Shaler Area’s Fugh, Bendel to continue football careers together
Choosing to play football at John Carroll provided Brennan Fugh with many opportunities for building on strong family ties. Fugh’s cousin, Alex Kline, finished his college career with more than 1,000 yards receiving at the school. In addition, when the 2019 Shaler Area graduate heads to school, a member of...
Patrick Weber steps into athletic director role at North Hills
North Hills School District has a new leader in the athletic department, after the school board tabbed high school Assistant Principal Patrick Weber to the position of athletic director, active July 1. Weber replaced Amy Scheuneman, who served as North Hills athletic director since 2016. She has moved into a...
Penn Hills gains valuable reps during 7-on-7 tournaments
After winning their first PIAA football title since 1995 last season, members of the Penn Hills football program have turned the page to focus on the coming campaign. With a young and inexperienced team, coach Jon LeDonne has been trying to find ways for his players to gain valuable experience...
Norwin takes down rival Penn-Trafford to win 1st WCCA 7-on-7 tournamentVideo
For Norwin’s opponents in the ninth Westmoreland County Coaches Association 7-on-7 tournament, it must have, at times, felt more like 7-against-8. With the quarterback and receivers getting the lion’s share of the attention in summer passing events, defensive backs often have to operate behind the scenes. But Norwin helped to...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2019 boys volleyball season
North Allegheny capped an undefeated 23-0 season with its second straight PIAA Class AAA championship and seventh overall, sweeping three games from Central York at Penn State’s Pegula Ice Arena. The Tigers also extended their overall winning streak to 46 games. NA succeeded against Central York after five previous state-final...
Coach Kolankowski right fit for Plum boys soccer
The Plum athletic department didn’t go far to find the next coach of the boys soccer team. Rafal Kolankowski, an assistant the past three seasons under former coach Anthony Russo, was elevated to the top spot in the Mustangs program in May when Russo joined the coaching staff of the...
Norwin’s Salopek focused on leadership role in senior season
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. Jack Salopek is a pro-style quarterback, which pairs nicely with his pro-style demeanor. The...
Accamando and Winkowski named Brentwood scholar athletes of the Year
Sporting a 4.101 GPA and top-10 class rank while serving as Technology Student Association president, Simon Accamando wasn’t flummoxed by much during his 2018-19 senior year at Brentwood. However, he was pleasantly surprised by the announcement at the Brentwood High Athletic Boosters all-sports banquet that he was named senior male...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 boys outdoor track season
Waynesburg’s Daniel Layton became the most talked about track star in the WPIAL this spring, a situation neither he nor his father could have imagined. Layton drew support from track fans all around Western Pennsylvania who wanted to see the reigning WPIAL 110-meter hurdle champion have a chance to defend...
Western PA Bruins earn No. 5 seed for 16U national tournament
In the first year of its girls basketball league-style AAU circuit, the Under Armour Association has been providing players from around the country a unique opportunity they didn’t quite have before. Since April, elite travel teams nationwide have participated in league sessions in Manheim and Westfield, Ind. Not only have...
5 things to watch at WCCA 7-on-7 football tournament
The ninth Westmoreland County Coaches Association seven-on-seven passing tournament will be Thursday at Latrobe’s Rossi and Graham-Sobota fields on the high school campus. The competition begins at 9 a.m. with the championship game — between the winners of two divisions — set to begin around 2:15 p.m. A record 16...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2019 boys tennis season
The streak is over. The second-longest championship run in WPIAL history quietly ended in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAA boys team tennis playoffs when Sewickley Academy lost to Upper St. Clair, 3-2, in May. The loss ended a 15-year WPIAL championship run by the Panthers, second only...
Youth camp helps fund Apollo-Ridge girls soccer team
Last week, the Apollo-Ridge girls soccer team held its fifth annual youth skills camp, which has become a benefit not only for the future of the program, but the present, as well. The skills camp is one of the fundraisers for the Vikings, who are not sponsored by the school...
With college plans in place, Woodland Hills’ Rawlings ready for special senior season
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 tight end, Joshua Rawlings said he has sometimes been compared to former Woodland...
Trinity’s Riley DeRubbo commits to Atlantic 10 champion Fordham
A year after tearing an ACL, Trinity basketball standout Riley DeRubbo celebrated another milestone Wednesday when she committed to Atlantic 10 champion Fordham. The 5-foot-9 guard will be a senior in the fall. She announced her commitment on Twitter. DeRubbo, who injured her knee in AAU season last summer, missed...
Franklin Regional keeper Jeremy Lucas commits to St. Francis (Pa.)
When initial plans to continue his soccer career at Penn State fell through in the winter, Jeremy Lucas reshaped his post-prep plans. The recent Franklin Regional grad would take a gap year, keep playing for his club team and take courses at Penn State New Kensington until a larger-scale soccer...
PIAA doesn’t support ‘diagonal’ pilot program for WPIAL soccer officials
WPIAL soccer referees must keep using the “double dual” officiating system, at least for now. The PIAA board on Wednesday tabled a request for a pilot program in the WPIAL that would have transitioned referees to the “diagonal system of control” used by many soccer organizations worldwide. The PIAA could...
PIAA eligibility hearing for Moon’s Donovan Johnson postponed
The PIAA hearing scheduled Wednesday for Moon basketball standout Donovan Johnson was postponed. “They informed me first thing this morning that their attorney could not make it, so they were unable to come,” PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi said. “We’re going to have to reschedule it.” A new date was...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 girls outdoor track season
Maybe the biggest story of track season came months earlier when the WPIAL decided to move the individual championship meet to Slippery Rock. Baldwin had hosted the Class AAA meet 30 out of 32 years since 1987 (excluding 1989-90), and the Class AA competition moved there in 2009. Both relocated...
Zach Snyder named Mt. Pleasant wrestling coach
Mt. Pleasant has a new wrestling coach. It’s former Hempfield assistant Zach Snyder, who was hired at Monday’s school board meeting. Snyder replaces Zach Sheridan, who was not rehired after serving as coach for the past five seasons. Mt. Pleasant coaches work on a one-year contract. Snyder was an assistant...
Thomas Jefferson QB Shane Stump adds 3rd Division I offer
Thomas Jefferson’s Shane Stump, one of the WPIAL’s top quarterbacks, announced his third college offer from Dayton. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound rising senior added the Flyers on Monday to a list that already included Howard and Valparaiso. Stump passed for 1,833 yards and 24 touchdowns last season as the Jaguars went...
North Allegheny’s Lizzy Groetsch adds 4 more basketball offers
Four more names joined the list of Division I basketball teams recruiting North Allegheny’s Lizzy Groetsch. The 5-foot-11 junior guard added Toledo, Lafayette, UMass and Charlotte since Saturday, raising her total to a dozen offers. Groetsch, a 2021 graduate, already listed offers from Binghamton, Brown, Colgate, Drexel, Penn, Richmond, Stony...
George Guido: Last living member of Ken High’s dream backfield dies
The last living member of the Ken High dream backfield from the 1946-47 WPIAL football championship teams has died. George “Cubby” France, one of the key players in Ken High’s 26-game unbeaten streak, died Monday at Concordia Lutheran Ministries in Cabot. He was 88. France was the quarterback in coach...
Montour’s Padezanin hopes to drive Spartans toward success
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. What a difference a year makes. In his sophomore season, George Padezanin was a...
PIAA schedules eligibility hearing for West Mifflin’s Nahki Johnson
West Mifflin’s Nahki Johnson will learn this month whether he can play football in the fall. Johnson, ruled ineligible by the WPIAL, will have his appeal heard July 30 by the PIAA. The rising junior and Pitt recruit transferred from Steel Valley in December. Steel Valley administrators contested Johnson’s transfer...
