High School Sports
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Two Delco High School Football Teams Earn Spots Among Top Ten in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Two Delaware County high school football teams have earned spots among the top ten in Southeastern Pennsylvania, writes Joseph Santoliquito for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Chester, with a 9-2 record last season, placed tenth in the area. For the coming season, the Clippers will be led by twins Daron and Jalen Harris, along with offensive tackle…
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Five Montgomery County High Schools Among Pennsylvania’s Top 25 for Student Athletes
Pennsylvania boasts a legendary athletic legacy, with generations of elite competitors across every major sport – from football and basketball powerhouses to Olympic champions and beyond – cementing the state’s reputation as one of the nation’s greatest hubs for athletic talent, writes Joe Spears for USA TODAY. Over the decades, the state’s high schools have…
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Archbishop Carroll Girls’ Lacrosse Team Continues Winning Streak
Since Lorraine Beers became the girls’ lacrosse coach at Archbishop John Carroll High School in 2000, the team has won every PCL game and championship through 2024, writes Gina Lizzo for Main Line Today. The Radnor school has won four consecutive Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association 2A State Championships. In 2000, one of Beers’ players,…
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Inspiring Haverford High School Legend Ted Keyser Remembered
Ted Keyser, a retired Haverford High School teacher, Hall of Fame coach, and team club volleyball national champion, died on March 17, writes Gary Miles for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He was 97. At Haverford, Keyser acted as a coach and teacher from the mid-1950s to 1987. In the 60s, he began the boys’ volleyball…
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Penncrest Grad Coach Gregg Downer Continues to Steer Lower Merion Boys’ Basketball to Success
For over three decades, Coach Gregg Downer, a former player at Penncrest High School in Media, has steered Lower Merion High School boys’ basketball team to victory, writes Michael Bradley for the Main Line Today. During his 34 seasons with the team, Downer won 696 games and captured three state titles. The first came in…
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Chester Native Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Playing for Jordan, Has Re-invented Himself as Kobe Bryant
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, the former Brooklyn Net from Chester, hasn’t been seen in NBA circles for a while, but he re-emerged at the 2023 FIBA World Cup looking like former Lakers star Kobe Bryant, reports Easy Branches. He has added fascination to the World Cup with a version of Mama Mentality honoring Bryant’s memory and capturing…
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Upper Darby Royals Coach Darrell Dulany Stresses Discipline for His Team
Darrell Dulany brings years of positive coaching experience to the Upper Darby Royals, writes Matt Smith for MediaNews Group. Dulany was on the coaching staff at The Haverford School for four years and most recently oversaw the Bonner & Prendergast freshman team. Dulany stresses structure and discipline, and his practices are well organized. It’s…
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Bonner-Prendie Friars Win in Dublin, Fans Cheer at Home
The Bonner-Prendergast football team may have been far away in Dublin, but Delaware County had its back. Fans of the team got up early Friday morning to watch the game streamed at 6:30 AM from Casey’s Saloon and Restaurant in Drexel Hill. The team was playing in the Global Ireland Football Tournament, held in Dublin,…
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Ridley Park Native Ethan Pecko Drafted as Houston Astros Pitcher
Ethan Pecko grew up in Ridley Park and has always been a fan of Philadelphia baseball, writes the Tribune News Service for the Boston Herald. “Baseball was a sport that always just kind of stuck with me,” he said. “I was a fan from 4 years old until now.” Now this fan’s dedication to baseball…
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Nike’s Kobe 4 Sneakers Returning to Honor Lower Merion High School Grad
Several sources are reporting that Nike will re-release the Philly-flavored Nike Kobe 4 in 2024 in honor of the late Kobe Bryant who was a graduate of Lower Merion High School, writes Robert Mavi for LeBron Wire. The five-time NBA champion was born in the Philadelphia area, but his family moved soon after to support…
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Wilson Sisters Eye West Point as They Keep Their Basketball Passion Alive
Brooke Wilson, a senior at Archbishop Carroll, is facing off-season basketball training for the first time this summer without her best friend, older sister Taylor Wilson, writes Isabella DiAmore for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Taylor, a 6-foot forward, is training at West Point, joining the military academy as a cadet while she continues her basketball career.…
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Bonner-Prendie Grad Kevin McGonigle Drafted by Detroit Tigers
The anticipation is over. Bonner Prendergast’s Kevin McGonigle, a highly successful and motivated high school shortstop was drafted 37th overall in the Major Leagues by the Detroit Tigers Sunday, writes Matthew DeGeorge for the Daily Times. He was the 13th shortstop taken overall. The Aldan native batted .515 over 25 games this season for the…
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Former Lafayette Basketball Coach Fran O’Hanlon Now at Cardinal O’Hara
Former Lafayette College basketball coach Fran O’Hanlon, who retired in 2022, decided he can’t stay away from the Catholic League so you’ll find him now working as the boys’ basketball coach at Cardinal O’Hara High School in Springfield, writes Jim Swan for The Philadelphia Inquirer. O’Hanlon, 74, a veteran in the Philadelphia basketball community, was…
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Ridley Football Coach Joe McNicholas Remembered for His Undefeated Legacy
Ridley High School football coach Joe McNicholas created excellence whether it was in the classroom or the football field, writes Bob Grotz for the Daily Times. He spent his best years coaching football and teaching social studies and history at Ridley. McNicholas passed away last week at age 91. McNicholas generated an aura that became…
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Aldan Native, Bonner-Prendie Grad Getting Noticed by the MLB
Kevin McGonigle, an Aldan native, and Bonner-Prendergast High School graduate, is getting noticed ahead of the MLB draft thanks to some great middle infielder work, writes Ben Silver for Main Line Today. He currently ranks 33rd on MLB.com’s Draft Pipeline. The first round of the draft has 39 picks. The 18-year-old is hard-working as a…
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Sinead Farrelly From Havertown Makes Irish World Cup Team
Sinead Farrelly from Havertown has survived numerous obstacles in her soccer career but now has come out on top with a place on the Irish World Cup team, writes Jonathan Tannenwald for The Philadelphia Inquirer. It looked like she would play her last soccer game in 2015 when she was in a major car crash.…
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Radnor Boys’ Lacrosse Was Determined to Win, and They Did
The energy that had gone into the rivalry between Radnor boys lacrosse and Springfield reached its peak recently at the PIAA Class 3A state boys lacrosse championship game when Radnor High took an 8-1 victory, writes Jack McCaffery for PA PrepLive. It was evident in how passionately the Radnor Raptors played, from the first to…
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Springfield Lacrosse Player Makes Academic All-Area Team
Belle Mastropietro from Springfield ranks as one of Temple University’s most accomplished athletes in recent history, reports owlsports.com. Now she’s been named one of the 12 student-athletes on the PhillySIDA Academic All-Area women’s lacrosse team. Members of the team are nominated and voted on by the sports information offices of 30 area institutions of higher…
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