Jonathan Bombulie stories, Page 8

Shady Side Academy junior Nyla Rozier made her college choice Monday, committing to St. Francis. A 5-foot-11 guard, Rozier averaged 19.8 points per game for the Indians this season. As a sophomore, she averaged 14 points per game and helped Shady Side Academy to a 17-3 record, a Section 3-3A...

UFC president Dana White received a great deal of criticism for being the last major professional sports figure to resist canceling events because of the coronavirus pandemic. He didn’t call off UFC 249, which was scheduled for Saturday, until last Thursday. None of that criticism came from local fighter Khama...

Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. For left-handed batters in Section 3-3A, there was a silver lining in last week’s announcement that the PIAA had canceled spring sports. They won’t have to try...

Luke Pletcher is a two-time All-American wrestler at Ohio State and a legitimate Olympic hopeful. He has to wrap up only two more online classes before he graduates, and he has a coaching job — a volunteer assistant position at Pitt — lined up once he does. Yet at the...

The sight of a team full of high school swimmers huddled together in the lobby of Kinney Natatorium at Bucknell, tears streaming down their faces, that’s not something Mt. Pleasant’s Heather Gardner will forget any time soon. Frankly, the way her senior year is ending will probably be seared into...

Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. All-section outfielder Sean McGowan and this year’s crop of seniors on the Bethel Park baseball team emerged on the scene as a group of feisty sophomores...

Daivon Stephens’ college basketball career has carried him to the sunny shores of Myrtle Beach, S.C. Stephens, a former Penn Hill star, committed Thursday to Coastal Carolina University. A 6-foot-7 forward, Stephens led Penn Hills to the 2018 WPIAL Class 6A championship, averaging 17.9 points, 8.6 rebounds and 4.2 assists...

Liv Kelly figured this news was coming. It didn’t make it any easier to take. On Thursday afternoon, Gov. Tom Wolf announced all Pennsylvania schools would be shut down for the rest of the academic year. A few hours later, the PIAA canceled its suspended winter sports championships and the...

Tim Sweeney had a big job ahead of him when he took over as football coach at Derry in 2013. Consider it a job well done. After bringing his alma mater from the brink of extinction to the WPIAL championship game at Heinz Field, Sweeney was named coach at Baldwin...

If the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t shut down the season, the Pittsburgh Penguins probably would have played their playoff opener Wednesday night. Here’s a look at the 10 most memorable playoff openers in franchise history. 1. April 13, 2016: Penguins 5, Rangers 2 — With Matt Murray and Marc-Andre Fleury out...

Conditioned by a fistful of championship runs over the past three decades, Penguins fans know the deal by now. Yeah, hockey season starts in October, but really, the games that matter start at the beginning of April. If it hadn’t been for the coronavirus pandemic suspending play, the Penguins would...

Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. Early in the recruiting process, Seton LaSalle senior Alex Shaughnessy realized the idea of playing two sports in college might be a little too much. A...

It might not have been as obvious as last season, when Peters Township and Chartiers Valley went undefeated on their way to state titles, but WPIAL girls basketball was dominated by a select group of super teams this season. Chartiers Valley went undefeated again while North Catholic and Rochester each...

Editor’s note: Each day, the Tribune-Review will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. For more athletes’ stories, visit TribHSSN.triblive.com. At a time like this, with their lives stuck in an awkward sort of limbo, high school seniors could use...

Latrobe graduate Jake Biss has been named Shippensburg’s male student-athlete of the year. A junior point guard, Biss led the Raiders with 15.9 points per game and was fourth in the PSAC with 4.4 assists per game. He shot 40.3% from 3-point range and 89.9% from the free-throw line. Shippensburg...

Some athletes are motivated by the desire to win. Others are driven by the fear of losing. Chartiers Valley sophomore guard Aislin Malcolm would be happy to talk about which group she belongs to, but there’s a small problem with that. She doesn’t really know what losing is like, not...

Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. Before softball practice was suspended last month, West Allegheny’s Maci Priddi was in the process of making a position switch. An all-section infielder as the Indians...

Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. Quaker Valley tennis player Zach Albert has a philosophy he tries to live by: Only worry about things you can control. It worked for him on...

Tribune-Review Boys Basketball Player of the Year Devin Whitlock Belle Vernon, 5-9, So., Guard A player reaching the 1,000-point milestone is a significant but somewhat common achievement in high school basketball. Seeing a sophomore nudge his career point total into four digits, well, that’s different. That indicates there’s a special...

For the first time in 15 years, Hempfield will have a new athletic director this summer. Greg Meisner will step down from his athletic director position for personal reasons effective June 30, superintendent Tammy Wolicki confirmed in an email Friday. Rich Bowen, Hempfield’s football coach and athletic operations manager, will...

Two-time WPIAL champion Ryan Michaels of Elizabeth Forward has reopened his college recruitment. Michaels, who went 45-3 and reached the PIAA finals at 120 pounds as a senior, announced via Twitter he has decommitted from Campbell University. When Michaels announced his commitment to Campbell in January, he cited the school’s...

Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. What’s the next step in Kevin Kogler’s baseball career? If the spring sports season is called off, the Bethel Park senior may have played his last...

Tribune-Review Girls Basketball Player of the Year Gracie Spadaro Southmoreland, 5-11, So., Forward It was a good year to be a Southmoreland Scottie. In the fall, the football team made the WPIAL playoffs for the first time since 1979. In the winter, the girls basketball team had the best season...

Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. Luke Manion made a name for himself on the Seton LaSalle volleyball team the past three seasons, earning all-WPIAL and all-state honors as a setter for...