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North Allegheny graduates Taylor Lake and Brynn Serbin earned top honors in women’s college basketball conferences. Lake, a Chicago senior, was named University Athletic Association Player of the Year and first-team all-UAA. Lake, a 5-foot-10 forward, finished the season averaging 14.1 points and 5.8 rebounds a game. She led the...

Four players — one each from Penn State, West Virginia, Duquesne and Robert Morris — were named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division I all-district teams. Penn State’s Lamar Stevens and West Virginia’s Oscar Tshiebwe were named first team District 7 and 8, respectively. Duquesne’s Marcus Weathers and...

Derry alum and Saint Vincent junior swimmer Zach Baum worked hard all season to make the NCAA Division III championship, only to see it canceled because of the coronavirus scare. “It was pretty disappointing for both of us,” Bearcat coach Josh Gurekovich said. “I was only able to talk with...

Spencer Lee won’t get to go for a three-peat at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships, but he ended the season with a perfect record and that carries plenty of weight for candidates who are up for a national award. Lee, a junior 125-pounder at Iowa and a Franklin Regional...

North Allegheny grad Ann Juneau and Oakland Catholic alum Courtney Coghill were instrumental in George Washington women’s swimming and diving earning its first Atlantic 10 title. Juneau, a sophomore, posted personal-best times in the 200-yard breaststroke (2 minutes, 21.64 seconds), 200 individual medley (2:04.76) and 400 individual medley (4:31.36) in...

Michael Heinl thought there might be a chance everything would be normal. The 149-pound Washington & Jefferson senior wrestler already had made the trip with teammate Hunter Neely to the NCAA Division III national championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. But Heinl found out less than 24 hours before the tournament...

College athletes throughout the country saw their spring seasons come to a sudden end and winter championships halted before completion as the NCAA and NAIA, within a couple of days, canceled all athletic activities amid the widening range of safety measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But before the...

A former Cal (Pa.) women’s basketball standout is considered one of the country’s young, on-the-rise coaches. Kaitlynn Fratz, an assistant at Maryland, was named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association 30-under-30 list for the 2019-20 season. Fratz was selected for meeting the criteria of “involvement in community service, mentorship and...

The ACC announced Tuesday it is shutting down all athletic-related activities, including all competition and practices, through the end of the 2019-20 academic year. It was a unanimous decision made to mitigate the further spread of coronavirus. Each university will continue to work in accordance with its school and state...

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the National Junior College Athletic Association waited as long as they could to make a decision on their spring sports seasons. But, like so many other organizations around the country, both were swept under the current caused by coronavirus. The NAIA and NJCAA...

In all her years of playing basketball, Penn State Beaver senior Cheyenne Lopez never cut down a net. That changed last Wednesday, and in earning that privilege, Lopez and the Lions might have become the answer to a trivia question. What was the only women’s basketball team to win a...

Shippensburg basketball standout Jake Biss had a career season, and his efforts were recognized. The junior from Latrobe was named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) All-Atlantic Region First Team. Biss, who was the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division Athlete of the Year, was the point guard...

Penn Hills graduate Kimani Gregory happily took on a new event as a freshman on the nationally ranked North Carolina State men’s swimming team. Gregory competed in the 100-yard breaststroke, as well as the 50 and 100 freestyles, in the ACC championship meet Feb. 26-29 in Greensboro, N.C. He ranks...

North Allegheny graduates Jack Wright and Jerry Chen were top contributors to their teams at the ACC men’s swimming championship meet Feb. 26-29 in Greensboro, N.C. Wright, a Virginia freshman, made the A final of the 200-yard freestyle, the only freshman in the 12-team field to do so. He placed...

North Allegheny alum and Rochester men’s senior diver Stephen Savchik is capping his career in a big way. Savchik qualified for the NCAA Division III championships March 18-21 in Greensboro, N.C. Savchik placed fourth on the 1-meter board with 463.40 points and 10th on the 3-meter board (429.25) in the...

Her freshman year, it didn’t take Adrienne White long to get acclimated to college diving. Now, the two-time Atlantic 10 rookie of the week is not only focused on her own improvement, but on helping her teammates as well. White finished 10th in the conference championships in the 1-meter diving...

Three state college leagues have chimed in on the coronavirus scare with the best interest of student-athletes and fans in mind, each joining a sports world that has gone dark in the last few days. The Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, and the Presidents’ Athletic Conference and Allegheny Mountain...

Maddie Holmberg, a Penn State senior and Hempfield alum, was named the United Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association Mid-Atlantic Region Field Athlete of the Year. She is a repeat winner of the award, which has a lot of words in its name but almost seems fitting in that...

Julian Batts showed steady improvement over the course of his four years with the Long Island men’s basketball team. While the school underwent a significant change — the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds were rebranded as the LIU Sharks after a merger with C.W. Post — Batts felt he stayed the same....

Marist teammates and former Westmoreland County and WPIAL softball standouts Claire Oberdorf and Kiley Myers swept the latest Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference player of the week honors. Oberdorf, a third baseman out of Greensburg Salem, was tabbed player of the week and Myers, who is from Latrobe, was the pitcher...

Brody Jackson led Pitt-Greensburg to one of the best regular seasons in the history of the men’s basketball program. He was recognized for the accomplishment by being named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year. His counterpart, Hayley Schaetzle, received the same conference honor on the women’s side...

Spencer Lee is considered one of the top amateur athletes in the nation. The proof certainly is in the results: two NCAA wrestling titles at Iowa and an All-American career so far at the collegiate level. The Franklin Regional grad and Hawkeyes junior is now up for an award representative...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. IUP men roll to 2nd straight PSAC title Tournament MVP Shawndale Jones finished with a career-high 24 points as the No. 7 Crimson Hawks routed Shippensburg, 77-59, in the conference title game Sunday. PSAC CHAMPS!!!...

It’s hard to believe Spencer Lee has never won a conference title before Sunday. The Iowa wrestler has won everything else at the college level, and always strives for something greater. But he finally added Big Ten gold to his decorated career. Lee, a junior out of Franklin Regional, was...