German Township speedster Claude Parnell was a comet streaking across tracks and the gridiron in Fayette County in the 1950s.The former Uhlans star is a forgotten gem shrouded by the mists of time.“Claude Parnell was one of the best,” former Connellsville High School football and track star ...
Southmoreland High School cross country and track star Chris Dugan is one of the most celebrated runners to come out of Western Pennsylvania. His career almost never happened.“I had an older brother and we were growing up, we didn’t have a ton of opportunities back in the early 1980s, so ...
Anastasia Georgagis had an award-winning year in 2021, beginning with two medals in the WPIAL Class AA Swimming & Diving Championships.Georgagis won the district bronze medal in the 100 breaststroke and was fourth in the 200 IM. She placed 10th in the breaststroke in the state ...
Every time, save one race, Jolena Quarzo toed the start the Brownsville junior crossed the finish line first.Quarzo repeated as the FCCA and WPIAL Class AA girls cross country champion, and won silver in the PIAA Championship for the second-straight season to once again earn ĢƵ ...
Jolena Quarzo, Ryan Pajak, Kolby Kent and Anastasia Georgagis all had solid individual performances in invitationals over the weekend.Quarzo, a Brownsville junior, placed fifth at the Great American XC Festival in Cary, N.C., with a time of 17:17.1. Morgantown junior Irene Riggs also had a ...
Haste does indeed make waste.Or, in my case Tuesday night, haste makes for an incorrect headline.The lead story in Wednesday's sports page was "Clean sweep: Rams secure section cross country title."That would've been an accurate headline had all of the five boys teams running in the Section ...