Area athletes, coaches and administrators are responding ardently to Gov. Tom Wolf’s recommendation high school sports be delayed until Jan. 1, 2021.Many want to keep fall sports on schedule and not played in the spring.“You can’t have tennis in January when it’s snowing and we can’t ...
PIAA and WPIAL officials said they were “disheartened and disappointed” when Gov. Tom Wolf suggested the entire high school athletic scene could be shuttered until 2021.During a recent daily coronavirus news briefing, Wolf said “the guidance from us, the recommendation, is that we don’t ...
Following a recent Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association decision, parents, players and coaches across the region are gearing up for high school football this fall.The PIAA board voted to allow football to continue next month, with multiple pages of guidelines relating to the ...
School may be out for summer, but administrators have plenty of homework to do after the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) gave the green light for high school sports. Scholastic athletics had been shutdown since mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic.“There is a ...
For the past seven years, Positive Athlete honors student-athletes based more on character than athletic performance. More than $400,000 has been doled out to athletes who have overcome difficult circumstances, given back to their schools and communities, or who just have an infectious positive ...
Sports are not just a platform for Kelsey O’Leary to showcase her athletic skills.They give voice to her social conscious, too.O’Leary is the Upper St. Clair girls volleyball team’s leading hitter, and its chief fundraiser. The rising senior initiated “Volley For A Cause” where the ...
