After Monday night’s school board meeting, Norwin High School has a new football coach.
Art Tragesser, the former head coach of Jeannette and Penn-Trafford High Schools, was named the new head coach at Norwin. Tragesser was an assistant at Greater Latrobe this past season under Ray Reitz.
Tragesser replaces Dan Conwell.
Mike White of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Cannon-McMillan star linebacker Mike Hull shined bright in the National spotlight this weekend, earning Team USA MVP honors after the games traditional powerhouse of the United States got a 17-0 victory over the World at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.
Assembled as a collective squad of the best under 19 American football [...]
This morning it was reported that North Penn would battle Gateway in a week one contest in Monroeville on September 3rd. That game would be the first of two games between the two teams, as the Gators would travel to North Penn in 2011.
However, this afternoon Gateway athletic director and head football coach Terry Smith [...]
POY: Mike Caputo, West Allegheny – It would be one thing to give Caputo the Player of the Year Award for his exploits out of the backfield. Caputo finished 2009 running for over 2,600 yards and 34 touchdowns. But he turned in quite the all-around effort on the football field, and was easily the Indians’ [...]
COY: Al Wolski, State College Area – When you’re the first team to ever do something, it certainly warrants consideration. When you do multiple things for the first time in the same season, it puts you over the top. Wolski guided State College to its second straight District 6/8/9/10 “AAAA” subregional championship in as many [...]
CO-POY: Deontae Howard, Clairton – It’s the second straight year that WesternPAFootball.net has named a Clairton player for its player of the year honor. Howard ran for 2,234 yards and scored more than 30 touchdowns. He ran for 150 yards and a touchdown to help Clairton stifle Bishop McCort in winning the school’s first PIAA [...]
CO-POY: David Miller, Greensburg Central Catholic – You could have confused Greensburg Central Catholic’s offense as the “lather, rinse, repeat” offense. Sure, quarterback Trent Hurley threw for over 1,700 yards this season, but David Miller was the main guy in the skill player department that made the Centurions offense click. Miller ran for 2,535 yards [...]
Dan Smith, Bedford Area
Most teams would be done and prepping for the start of the next season after beginning a football season with a 1-5 record. But Dan Smith and Bedford Area were just getting warmed up. The Bison won six of their next seven games after that rough start and made it to [...]