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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. 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: FIELD LEVEL MEDIA | REUTERS Most Outstanding Player Jess Mruzik recorded 29 kills to help Penn State beat host Louisville in four sets to win the NCAA women's volleyball [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Dec. 19Pitt's women's volleyball team had lived the good life this season, experiencing joy, camaraderie and victory in 33 of its first 34 matches. But hopes for [...]

Byline: Alex Abrami, Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, USA TODAY NETWORK CARY, N.C. - Vermont men's soccer had never been here before. The Catamounts defied the odds, anyways. The America East, [...]

Byline: Craig Meyer, USA TODAY NETWORK The most decorated program in women's college soccer history has added another piece of hardware to its already sizable trophy case. Behind a goal [...]

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: Bill Beckner Oct. 28Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference women's tennis power Pitt-Greensburg threw a net over the all-conference honors. The regular season and conference tournament runners-up saw freshman Gabi Moder [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Oct. 25Facing a top-five opponent for the second consecutive match, the No. 1-ranked Pitt women's volleyball team had a near-capacity home crowd on the edge of its [...]

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: Bill Beckner Oct. 7Longtime Seton Hill women's volleyball coach Rick Hall reached a career milestone as his team swept a PSAC West match against Slippery Rock. The win was [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Oct. 4Pitt's No. 1 women's volleyball team lost its first set of the season after a program-record 36 consecutive victories, but in the end, it didn't matter. [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Oct. 2Pitt men's soccer, the No. 1 team in the nation, hit three milestones Wednesday night in an 8-1 victory against Howard at Ambrose Urbanic Field. The [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Aug. 19The American Volleyball Coaches Association released its annual preseason rankings, and it's no surprise that the Pitt women are again among the top 10. Pitt is [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner Aug. 19From Seton Hill to Alabama to Greece, basketball is taking Samuel Tabe around the globe. Tabe, a former go-to scorer at Seton Hill, signed to play [...]

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: Justin Guerriero May 28For the second consecutive year, the West Virginia baseball squad earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The Mountaineers will head to the regional round in [...]

Byline: Gene Wang PHILADELPHIA - Luke Wierman scored just once for seventh-seeded Maryland in Saturday's NCAA men's lacrosse tournament semifinal. Still, the graduate midfielder was invaluable during a 12-6 triumph [...]

Byline: Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY The women's NCAA lacrosse tournament bracket is out, with the 2024 champion set to be crowned on Sunday, May 26, in Cary, North Carolina. NCAA [...]

Byline: Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY Comic legend W. C. Fields might have meant 'I'd rather be in Philadelphia' as a putdown of his birth city. But Philadelphia is the ultimate [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo FORT WORTH, Tex. - The long-awaited, title-winning breakthrough for the LSU womenâs gymnastics team depended on Aleah Finnegan and her ability to stay composed on the balance [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo, Jesse Dougherty FORT WORTH, Tex. - For a brief spell last night, the LSU womenâs gymnastics team wasnât performing like a title contender. Coach Jay Clark had [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner Mar. 25Homer rhymes with Domer. Pitt-Greensburg sophomore baseball player James Domer launched a game-winning home run, and earned his first pitching win, as the Bobcats outslugged Chatham, [...]

Byline: Patrick Stevens Letâs set aside any chatter about NCAA tournament No. 1 seeds entering the penultimate weekend before the postseason, and instead letâs zero in on the teams that [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner Feb. 20Duquesne assistant women's basketball coach Vanessa Abel was selected to participate in the Next Generation Institute by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Abel is a former [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner Feb. 19It was like Saint Vincent had been here before. But if there was a feeling of deja vu, it was probably driven by adrenaline, not history. [...]

Byline: JOHN CHIDLEY-HILL; THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada's Lauren Zaretsky can already cross winning an NCAA tournament off her goals list. The golfer from Thornhill, Ont., led from wire-to-wire to win [...]

Byline: Paul Schofield Jan. 12Thursday was Youth Wrestling Night at Saint Vincent, and that is not a reference to the young Bearcats. Saint Vincent coach Dom Nania invited numerous youth [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner Jan. 1When Mike Shanahan was at Pitt, he played in the Big East. Now, he will coach in the Big Ten. Shanahan, a former Norwin standout wide [...]

Byline: Justin Guerriero Dec. 13For the third straight season, Pitt women's volleyball will compete for a shot at the national championship. The Panthers (29-4) won the ACC Tournament for the [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner Dec. 4Pitt-Greensburg announced its 2024 Athletics Hall of Fame class. It includes a team, an administrator and a pair of athletes. The inductees are the 2002-03 women's [...]

Byline: Scott Allen - - - A caption with a previous version of the article, for a photo that shows members of the 1971 Howard University men's soccer team, incorrectly [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner Oct. 16Saint Vincent's soccer teams should play under the lights more often. The women's team saw six players score goals in an 8-0 victory over Thiel, while [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner Sep. 18Zach Cernuto knew he was not going to play quarterback when he left Southmoreland and joined the football team at Washington & Jefferson. But the thought [...]

Byline: Ingrid Jacques In March 2022, Kim Russell watched as Penn State swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500-yard women's freestyle, becoming the first transgender athlete to win a Division I [...]

Byline: Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY Nebraska is going for the record. Actually, make that the records, plural. One, the NCAA record for women's volleyball attendance, will be obliterated on Wednesday, [...]

Byline: Les Carpenter At first, the idea seemed audacious. Holding a college volleyball match inside the University of Nebraska's massive football stadium? What would it look like? Would enough people [...]

Byline: Thomas Jones, The Austin American Statesman, USA TODAY Network AUSTIN, Texas - On her 22nd birthday, Texas sprinter Julien Alfred got what she wanted. Texas Roadhouse rolls. With extra [...]

Byline: Ainslie Lee, The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun | USA TODAY Network For the 11th time since Mike 'Mouse' Holloway took the head post of Florida's men's track and field team, [...]

Byline: Ryan Alber, The Oklahoman | USA TODAY Network OKLAHOMA CITY - Walking someone - anyone short of Jocelyn Alo or Babe Ruth - to get to Oklahoma softball slugger [...]

Byline: Eddie Timanus USA TODAY PHILADELPHIA - Notre Dame finally did it. The Fighting Irish won their first national championship in men's lacrosse, defeating Duke 13-9 on Monday at Lincoln [...]

Byline: Cameron Jourdan, Golfweek | USA TODAY Network SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Emilia Migliaccio thought her college golf playing days were over. She played four years for the Wake Forest women's [...]

Byline: Ellen J. Horrow, USA TODAY Following an exciting and surprising weekend of regionals that featured incredible comebacks, first-time winners, a perfect game and a shocking upset, the NCAA softball [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner May 23When he left Penn-Trafford to begin a college golf career, Cade Patterson never could have imagined he would have his name etched in a program's record [...]

Byline: Jenni Carlson, The Oklahoman | USA TODAY Network OKLAHOMA CITY - The seeds have been selected. The bracket has been set. Is it Friday yet? While the NCAA softball [...]

Byline: Madison Hricik HARRISONBURG, Va. - In a 15-minute span, Maryland women's lacrosse put on a master class against James Madison to enter the fourth period of its NCAA tournament [...]

Byline: Patrick Stevens Maryland's men's lacrosse title defense didn't make it out of the second weekend of May. The fourth-seeded Terrapins tripped up Saturday night, falling, 16-15, to Army while [...]