Winning changes everything. Just ask Steve Spence. After guiding Chartiers Valley to a 7-4 record, complete with a playoff appearance, last fall, Spence enters his second season as coach with high expectations for the Colts. “We have raised the bar at CV,” he said. “By no means has it ...
If experience equals success, then Bethel Park should be one of the football teams to beat in the Class 5A Allegheny Six Conference. “When you look at the people who return, I’m not sure there’s a team that returns as much (as we do) in the league,” said Phil Peckich, who enters his ...
Bruce Fronk looks nothing like the young Arnold Schwarzenegger from “The Terminator” but the Upper St. Clair resident borrowed his legendary catchphrase upon returning to Mt. Lebanon in the capacity of varsity football coach. Yes, after a three-year hiatus, Fronk is back. In 2017, he ...
The 2026 high school football season gets underway with two of the WPIAL’s storied programs butting helmets in the Battle of the South Hills when Upper St. Clair hosts Mt. Lebanon at 7 p.m. Aug. 28. “This is a great way to start the season,” said USC skipper Mike Junko. “Both towns ...
Second-best doesn’t play well at Upper St. Clair. So after years of almost, the Panthers are prepared to finish this football season. “Expectations here never change,” said Mike Junko, who enters his eighth season as USC head coach. “Challenge for a conference title and find a way to ...
South Fayette football is going back to the future to regain its rank in athletics at the high school. Since winning back-to-back state championships in 2013 and 2014 and a WPIAL title in 2018, the program has become stagnant. Since the turn of the decade, the Lions have enjoyed only one ...
