Feb 3, 2026 By Eleanor Bailey 4 min read

Dylan Donovan’s record-breaking boys basketball season continued when the Peters Township High School senior scored 14 points in a 66-46 victory against South Fayette on Jan. 30 at AHN Arena in McMurray.

With his 13th point in the game, a free throw at the 5:43 mark in the fourth quarter, Donovan became the all-time leading scorer in Peters Township boys basketball history.

Eric Lang held the previous record of 1,292 points. The mark was set in 2000.

“It feels good,” Donovan said of breaking the record. “It’s crazy to think about. It’s something that I’ve wanted since I was a little kid and now that it’s actually here it’s pretty crazy.”

Donovan had scored 11 points in the first half as the Indians bolted to a 31-14 lead by intermission. However, he had a couple opportunities to breach the mark earlier in the second half.

“I think I had three shots that went in and out and I really just wanted to get it over with,” Donovan said. “Finally I ended up on the free throw line. It’s a pretty crazy feeling. The whole second half was crazy.”

With 1:57 remaining in the game Donovan was replaced by his brother Cooper Donovan, a junior. He also plays with another sibling, Finn, a freshman on the varsity roster as well.

“It’s awesome,” Donovan said. “I get to play with both my younger brothers. That’s really cool for my whole family.”

Donovan comes by his talent naturally. His father, Dan, played basketball as well as football at Bethel Park and later became a player-assistant at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His mother, the former Katie Voelker, was a swimmer and golfer at Bethel Park.

In addition to his brothers, his cousin, Lucas Rost, is a member of the basketball team. Rost was also a member of Peters Township’s WPIAL Class 5A championship football team this fall.

“My parents put us in all different sports but I liked basketball best,” said Donovan, who quit playing football after suffering a knee injury in eighth grade. “I didn’t want to ruin my basketball career,” he said.

Donovan’s career featured appearances in two WPIAL basketball finals; as a freshman in an overtime loss to Penn Hills and last year in another defeat against Chartiers Valley, but it has been peaking this winter.

Back on Dec. 8 in a win against Seneca Valley, Donovan eclipsed the 1,000-point plateau. Twenty players in the entire history of Peters Township basketball have scored 1,000 points, with the most recent Bri Morreale entering on Jan. 28 and with nine of them being males. The school record is 1832 points set by Emily Correal in 2009.

“It’s incredible,” Peters Township coach Joe Urmann said of Donovan’s accomplishment. “It’s a lot of points and you have to play for a long time on good teams and be a major contributor to accomplish that. Dylan certainly checks all of those boxes.”

Heading into this week’s action, Donovan was averaging 19.4 points per game and has the Indians positioned to make another extended postseason run. Peters Township improved to 14-5 after the win against the Lions and solidified its hold on second place in Section 3 with an 8-2 record behind undefeated Thomas Jefferson (10-0).

The WPIAL tournament is expected to begin with preliminary playoff action Feb. 12. The championship games are set for Feb. 26-28 at the Petersen Events Center on the University of Pittsburgh campus.

That’s Donovan’s next goal.

“”Dylan’s a smart player,” Urmann said. “An excellent shooter and a threat to score both inside and out, but like all special players, at the end of the day, he just wants to win and get us back to The Pete.”

Donovan agreed. “Winning is the main goal. The focus is on reaching our goal of winning a WPIAL championship,” he said.

With opposing teams often designing defenses to stop Donovan, balance scoring has been the key to Peters Township’s success.

In the win against the Lions, three additional players scored in double digits. Lucas Saxe and Jayden Greco each buried four, 3-point field goals and finished with 16 and 14 points respectively. Dan Dudek followed with 11 markers.

“It’s nice to see other guys contributing and not always having to rely on Dylan as much as we have in the past,” Urmann said. “When teams are keying on him, being able to open up the floor and get other guys involved is huge.”