High School category, Page 454
Riverview track champion Amberson Bauer selected Valley News Dispatch Boys Athlete of the Year
Amberson Bauer’s high school distance running career wasn’t entirely complete once he left Seth Grove Stadium at Shippensburg University as the PIAA Class 2A boys 800-meter champion May 27. The recent Riverview graduate’s season-best time in the 800-meter run — 1 minute, 53.22 seconds — qualified him to run the...
Multi-sport standout Eliza Miller repeats as Valley News Dispatch Girls Athlete of the Year
Eliza Miller will combine her love of distance running and swimming along with a newer venture in cycle racing on the newly formed women’s triathlon team at Duquesne University. She gave a verbal commitment to the school and to the program earlier this year and already is preparing for her...
Mt. Pleasant state champ Lily King named Tribune-Review Westmoreland Girls Athlete of the Year
Expectations can change, even for someone as talented as Lily King. “I went in expecting to swim the 50(-yard freestyle) and came out with a 200(-yard freestyle) time I never thought I’d be able to get,” said King, a rising junior swimmer at Mt. Pleasant. “I learned to really trust...
Latrobe wrestling champ Vinny Kilkeary selected Tribune-Review Westmoreland Boys Athlete of the Year
Vinny Kilkeary isn’t wasting any time getting started at Ohio State. The Latrobe graduate reported to Columbus last week and enrolled in two summer classes. The three-time WPIAL and PIAA Class 3A wrestling champion also is lifting and training in preparation for his first collegiate wrestling season. He capped off...
WPIAL, Pa. Sports Hall of Fame inductee Robert ‘Tick’ Cloherty dies at 88
Robert “Tick” Cloherty exuded one quality more than any other, according to long-time friend Paul Palmer. “He was a leader in whatever he did,” said Palmer, who played football with Cloherty at what was then Clarion State College. “If there was an award for being big man on campus, he...
Norwin’s Alex Thomas trades skates for shoes to play in international ball hockey championships
Trading skates for court shoes, Alex Thomas still is faster than many of his opponents and can sling an orange ball past goaltenders with the same zip as a hockey puck. The rising senior at Norwin is playing ball hockey this summer and doing so at a high level. Thomas...
Allegheny Force FC girls soccer team advances to nationals
A half-dozen girls soccer players from Franklin Regional qualified to play in a national tournament July 7-11, in Wichita, Kan. The Allegheny Force FC 2007 team worked its way through the youth national series, advancing past local and regional play and winning the coveted U.S. Soccer President’s Cup. Franklin Regional...
New multipurpose field progressing at Hampton
Construction of the new softball/multipurpose field at Hampton High School is rounding second and — slowly but surely — heading for home. Part of the district’s $17.4 million Phase One renovation, the field is expected to be ready for general multipurpose use in the summer of 2024 “at the earliest”...
Trib HSSN Parade of Champions: Teams celebrate WPIAL, PIAA titles in 2022-23
Most parades draw large crowds that are entertained by the many bands and floats and other spectacles that march through a specific route, making for a fun and unique event. This parade was a golden team effort. Trib HSSN is proud to salute the WPIAL and PIAA team champions from...
Bishop Canevin safety Jason Cross, whose recruiting stock soared, commits to West Virginia
As one of the WPIAL’s hottest football recruits, Jason Cross spent months touring far-flung college campuses, with visits to Virginia Tech, Michigan State, Kentucky, Syracuse and Cincinnati on his calendar. Yet the rising senior at Bishop Canevin says a trip to Morgantown, W.Va., bested them all. “West Virginia definitely takes...
Leechburg alum Andrew McDermott takes over as boys basketball coach at alma mater
Andrew McDermott has had plenty of coaching influences in his life. His grandfathers, Joe Boario and Bob McDermott, coached together at Leechburg, and Andrew McDermott played basketball for the Blue Devils under Damian Davies before being his assistant for three years. Now it’s his turn to take the reins. McDermott,...
Belle Vernon’s Viva Kreis earns honorable mention for Billie Jean King Youth Leadership Award
Belle Vernon’s Viva Kreis already gained national attention when she won the $10,000 Heisman High School Scholarship Award last December. Now the recent graduate is being recognized by ESPN. Kreis is an honorable mention for the Billie Jean King Youth Leadership Award, which for the second time will be part...
2023 Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Year: Seneca Valley’s Lexie Hames
2023 Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Year Lexie Hames School: Seneca Valley Class: Sophomore Fear is an emotion that can be a great motivator in sports. It can force great success or lead the way to epic failures. When it comes to high school softball, fear can lead to...
New Mt. Pleasant boys coach congratulated by Mike Krzyzewski
Encouragement from family and friends is one thing. But when Mike Krzyzewski gives you his blessing, you go for it. Annie Malkowiak took a leap of faith when she applied to be the next boys basketball coach at Mt. Pleasant. When she accepted the position, her phone “blew up” with...
2023 TribLive HSSN Softball All-Stars
Neshannock’s Addyson Frye and Union’s Mia Preuhs were only sophomores this spring, yet the standout pitchers are already two-time WPIAL champions each. They’re proof that you don’t need to be a senior to make a big impact. In fact, this year’s TribLive HSSN Terrific 10 has more sophomores (four) than...
Mt. Pleasant hoops coach Malkowiak brings passion to new gig
When she started coaching, Annie Malkowiak was young and brash. Admittedly, she shouted and pushed back, thinking the game was more about her than the team. “I was an idiot,” she said. “I was very passionate, but I was an idiot. I was 21. I didn’t use my energy for...
2023 TribLive HSSN Baseball All-Stars
This was a historic spring for WPIAL baseball teams, starting with Riverside’s undefeated run to a state championship, something no other WPIAL team had ever accomplished. But the Panthers weren’t the only ones celebrating a milestone win. Among the others, Mt. Lebanon won consecutive WPIAL titles for the first time...
Kiski Area QB Heinle reaps benefits of Manning Passing Academy
Kiski Area quarterback Carson Heinle has heard “good ball” before when he has thrown a pass. Hearing those words from two-time Super Bowl champion Eli Manning brought a whole new emotion. “It was insane,” Heinle said. That was one of many highlights during Heinle’s time at the Manning Passing Academy...
Annie Malkowiak to coach Mt. Pleasant boys basketball, a 1st for Westmoreland County
Mt. Pleasant’s boys basketball team will have a female head coach next season. Annie Malkowiak was approved unanimously for the position during Wednesday night’s school board meeting. She becomes the first woman to coach a varsity boys basketball team in Westmoreland County. Malkowiak is the second woman to currently coach...
Ryan Kanner set to lead Greensburg Central Catholic boys soccer team
Growing up and attending Aquinas Academy in Greensburg, Ryan Kanner discovered there was a certain aura around Greensburg Central Catholic. Aquinas serves as the elementary school to GCC, so students have a tendency to look up to the high school athletes. “I was around the high school a decent amount...
KDKA announces 10-game high school football schedule for Pittsburgh’s CW
KDKA will televise regular season high school football games this fall on sister station Pittsburgh’s CW starting with an Aug. 25 contest between Blackhawk and Beaver Falls. The station announced a 10-game schedule Monday that also included North Hills at Upper St. Clair on Sept. 1, South Fayette at Montour...
After another run to PIAA tournament, Southmoreland softball looks ahead to promising future
Among Todd Bunner’s nuances is a habit of hand-writing his team’s season statistics on a homemade chart, a practice that defies logic in an era of electronic saturation. You could say Southmoreland’s old-school softball coach is set in his ways … And it’s not such a bad thing? After all,...
Penn-Trafford’s Tomosovich chooses Army for football future
It wasn’t until the scholarship offers started rolling in hot and heavy that Penn-Trafford’s Zach Tomosovich fully realized he was Division I football material. Sure, the size was there. That gargantuan size for a high school tackle: 6-foot-5, 320 pounds. But the offers validated it all for the hefty rising...
Jeannette coach pleased with performance at Tre Cunningham Memorial Basketball Tournament
There was no one better than Jeannette senior Tre Cunningham in 2018 when he was named the Tribune-Review’s Boys Athlete of the Year. He helped the Jayhawks win the WPIAL and PIAA Class A football title, and he was named the Tribune-Review’s baseball and boys basketball player of the year....
Gateway football players put focus on individual improvement during offseason workouts
Eight months removed from a close loss to Upper St. Clair in the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs and with just six weeks remaining until the start of heat acclimation workouts that usher in the start of the 2023 season, Gateway football team members are leaving no...
