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Byline: Chuck Curti Feb. 5When Kate McCauley was hired as the Saint Vincent men's volleyball coach in October 2021, she couldn't help but feel like she was on an island. [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Feb. 3As a senior one of only three on the roster with two years of experience, Kadyn Hannah figured to take on a larger role with the [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Feb. 3The 2023-24 season might have been Vince DeAugustine's first as a college wrestling coach, but after overseeing the Hempfield (16 years) and Norwin (two years) wrestling [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Jan. 27Casey Goff grew up the youngest of three brothers, so it would have been natural for him to try to keep up with the other two. [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Jan. 27As college debuts go, Abbie Johns couldn't have asked for much more. The Kiski Area grad opened her freshman season with the Shippensburg women's basketball team [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Jan. 20Ask a college freshmen about the biggest differences between their current level and high school, and the answers often are similar. Athletes are more accomplished. Game [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Jan. 13Even a coach who has been on the bench for 15 seasons doesn't know everything. So no one could blame Saint Vincent women's basketball coach Jimmy [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Jan. 13Stardom in high school doesn't always translate instantly to college. Sometimes, players who were standouts in high school have to grind just to get playing time [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Jan. 6As a junior at Hempfield, swimmer Jordan Crupie posted a time of 57.57 seconds in the 100 backstroke. That was her personal best at the time, [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 30Seth Erwin said he grew up like a lot of kids in Western Pennsylvania: with a passion for football. He was a standout at Kiski Area [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 30D.P. Harris was away from Saint Vincent for two years while he coached the St. Thomas men's basketball team in Miami Gardens, Fla. But even while [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 23When Kate Botti was playing for Norwin's girls basketball team, she wasn't called upon to score a lot of points. The Knights had plenty of that [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 16For her second season as the Seton Hill women's basketball coach, Maeve Gallagher wanted to increase the degree of difficulty in the Griffins' nonconference schedule. The [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 10While she was being recruited by Pitt volleyball coach Dan Fisher four years ago, Rachel Fairbanks informed him she was able to jump and touch as [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 9Regardless of what else she accomplishes as a college wrestler, Faryn Dewitt already has her name etched in Waynesburg history. On Nov. 3 against Cedar Crest's [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 4Kyrsten Becker-McBride has served on the volleyball staff at Morehead State in one capacity or another for 14 years. Friday, she will lead the Eagles (18-14) [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 4Cat Flood entered the transfer portal. Valeria Vazquez Gomez could have hung up her Pitt volleyball gear after last season. Instead, both decided to spend their [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 2In the moments after the Penn State New Kensington men's soccer team earned a historic victory in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament, coach Mark [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Dec. 2One hundred eighty-one days. That's how long Camille Dominick went without playing basketball after a shoulder injury during junior high volleyball necessitated surgery and a long [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Nov. 25Throughout a three-sport high school career at St. Joseph, Trinity Lockwood-Morris did her share of running. Whether it was on the soccer pitch or up and [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Nov. 18Penn State tight end Tyler Warren has made waves across college football this season. The 6-foot-6, 261-pound senior has contributed to the Nittany Lions' lofty ranking [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Nov. 18Brynne Smith wasn't sure what to expect heading into her freshman season with the Penn State Behrend women's volleyball team. The Knoch grad had hoped to [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Nov. 11Seton Hill wide receiver Todd Phillips suffered a dislocated shoulder in spring practice leading up to his senior season in 2023. Subsequent surgery kept him out [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Nov. 6Were it not for a quirk of fate, Angela Seman would not have had a front-row seat to one of the most important wins in Pitt [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Nov. 4Sometimes finding the right college athletic program isn't about finding the most successful one. It's about finding the one with the best culture, the best sense [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Nov. 4As the volleyball regular season winds to a close in the Presidents' Athletic Conference, the standings are bunched as teams jockey for spots in the conference [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Nov. 3When Chandler McCabe flew to Pittsburgh in March to be introduced as Robert Morris' women's basketball coach, it snowed. Welcome to Western Pennsylvania, Florida girl. But [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Oct. 28There's a running joke among some of Jonas King's Mercyhurst football teammates that he is the second-best athlete in his family. King, a senior defensive lineman [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Oct. 23A curious thing, this burgeoning volleyball rivalry between Pitt and Louisville. It's isn't a product of geography like Pitt-West Virginia or Duke-North Carolina. Nor is it [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Oct. 21Every offensive lineman has the same dream: to score a touchdown. And who can blame them? The guys who do all the grunt work wouldn't mind [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Oct. 21In the second match of the season, Pitt-Greensburg's Emily Bonelli scored what turned out to be the only goal in a 1-0 Bobcats victory. The goal [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Oct. 14Second grader Mia Lindborg got the news all children at that age dread: We're moving. Her father, Ryan, a project manager for Cleveland Clinic, had been [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Oct. 14Tristan Ralph wasn't the first player from the Plum boys soccer team's Class of 2024 to be recruited by Pitt-Johnstown. Two of his teammates, Ethan Andrejeski [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Oct. 10Cat Flood has become one of the most popular players on the top-ranked Pitt volleyball team, particularly among the younger crowd. Maybe it's her trademark two-tone [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Oct. 7From a personal standpoint, Hempfield grad Arin DeLattre was pretty pleased with her freshman volleyball season at Thiel. The middle blocker played in all 25 matches, [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Oct. 7Logan Dexter didn't waste any time making an impression on Edinboro football coach Jake Nulph. Nulph remembers it well: The first rep Dexter, a defensive back, [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Sep. 30Ask Saint Vincent senior linebacker Wiley Purry what he misses most about his native California, and the expected answers are given: his family and the beach. [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Sep. 30La Roche women's volleyball coach Nicole Bajuszik remembers the first time she saw Kalli Grine play. Grine, a sophomore at Leechburg at the time, was taking [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Sep. 23Lexi Colaianni never intended to play two sports at Penn State Altoona, let alone have tennis be one of them. The Kiski Area grad was recruited [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Sep. 23There might not be a moment in sports that creates more tension than a keeper facing a penalty kick. The odds are greatly stacked against the [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Sep. 16For a long time, a meeting between the women's volleyball teams from Pitt and Penn State was a fairly ho-hum affair. Sure, there was the whole [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Sep. 16Mark Mizerak Jr. was the quintessential big fish in a small pond. To his Class A opponents, Mizerak, at 6-foot-4 and near 300 pounds, must have [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Sep. 16Every distance runner knows the value of a good finishing kick. Having some fuel left in the tank for a final push can be the difference [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Sep. 9Chatham students who encounter Paige Watson on campus could be in for a treat. Watson, a sophomore volleyball player, is fond of card tricks and is [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Sep. 9Like any college freshman, Lucas Pittman had the usual uncertainties rolling around in his head when he arrived at Penn State Behrend last summer. New environment, [...]

Byline: Rachel Curti, Arts & Entertainment Editor div class='l-qPg'> Rachel Curti Arts & Entertainment Editor This article contains spoilers for the finale of 'Agatha All Along.' Reader discretion is advised. [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Aug. 19When asked about Kyle Murray's skills as a tennis player, Saint Vincent coach Brian Niemiec readily admits the rising junior isn't the most polished. Murray admits [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Aug. 19Pitt-Greensburg women's volleyball coach Kevin Conroy didn't wait long to name one of his captains for the 2024 season. Immediately after the 2023 season concluded the [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Aug. 12Luke Gildea has to laugh. He has no choice. Even he admits the nickname he received from his Slippery Rock men's soccer teammates, Gramps, is fitting. [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Aug. 12Catie Flohr loves a challenge. Like seeing a blocker or blockers elevate on the opposite side of the volleyball net. Like refurbishing a tractor. Over the [...]