Track and Field

Claire Conti throws the shot put during an outdoor meet last season.
Fox Chapel junior breaks through in shot put
February 8, 2025
Claire Conti set the Fox Chapel indoor track and field record in the shot put during her freshman season. Now a junior, Conti spent the past two seasons attempting to find a way to hit the 33-foot mark.

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Chartiers Valley’s Domi Crowley vaulting to new heights
January 26, 2025
For someone who spends a lot of time in the air, Chartiers Valley senior pole vaulter Domi Crowley is very grounded.

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Shaler athletes enter school record books at indoor track meet
January 19, 2025
Shaler co-indoor track and field coach Shawn Ryan knows track during the winter can get monotonous.

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Penn Hills’ Tymere Alston hitting his stride in 400 meters during indoor season
Penn Hills indoor track coach Lee Zelkowitz believes junior Tymere Alston is ready to take a step forward. During the offseason, Alston dedicated a lot of his time to becoming one of the best 400-meter runners in the WPIAL.

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Gateway’s Dino Nadarevic throws during a training session Jan. 15, 2025, at Gateway High School.
Gateway’s Dino Nadarevic rises to top of state’s shot put rankings after 1st indoor meet
Dino Nadarevic kicked off his 2025 indoor track and field season in the shot put with a pair of meets at Hempfield Area High School.

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Norwin cross country’s Thomas Gaydos
Norwin distance runner to run at St. Francis (Pa.), joining his sister on the track and field team
January 18, 2025
Proximity to home and quality of education were driving factors for Thomas Gaydos in the college recruiting process.

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Fox Chapel’s Anna Kintner was part of the 800-meter relay team in an indoor meet at Edinboro.
Relay team comes together for Fox Chapel indoor track team
Fox Chapel senior Alyssa Quackenbush knows what happens when a relay team isn’t in sync. She was a member of a Foxes relay team that was disqualified from a race because of issues handing off the baton.

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Plum’s Proskin, Layne find success during indoor track and field season
Plum track and field coach Matt Proskin said he is energized by what he is seeing from his sprinters, jumpers and throwers as the winter indoor season progresses.

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Quaker Valley senior Kwilai Karto will continue her academic/athletic careers at Emory University.
After making mark on Quaker Valley community, senior runner headed to Emory
January 5, 2025
Kwilai Karto has made an indelible impression in her three-and-a-half years so far as a student-athlete at Quaker Valley.

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Lindsay Reese (center) and her Norwin teammates, shown celebrating against Penn-Trafford, will learn their seed in the WPIAL playoffs Wednesday.
Westmoreland high school notebook: Hempfield’s DeMatt will join Bucknell
October 14, 2024
Allie DeMatt plans to compete in multiple track and field events in college.

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Derry’s Sophia Mazzoni wins the girls javelin during the PIAA Class 2A track and field championship May 24 at Shippensburg.
Derry javelin standout Mazzoni excited to commit to Auburn, looks forward to 3A competition
September 26, 2024
The best javelin thrower in the state has made a choice about her future.

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Derry’s Sophia Mazzoni reacts to her throw of 161-10 that won the the girls javelin at the PIAA Class 2A Track and Field Championship on May 24 at Shippensburg University.
Derry javelin champ Sophia Mazzoni commits to Auburn
September 25, 2024
Derry javelin thrower Sophia Mazzoni, an elite talent with state and national titles, committed Wednesday to Auburn.

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The 2002 Quaker Valley girls track and field team at the WPIAL Class 2A championships on May 9, 2002, at Mars High School.
2002 champion girls track and field team to enter Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame
July 27, 2024
The Quaker Valley girls track and field team hit a grand slam in 2002, winning a fourth consecutive WPIAL team championship.

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Kiski’s Eliza Miller take third in the Class 3A 1,600-meter run during the WPIAL Track and Field Championships on May 15 at Slippery Rock University.
Kiski Area 3-sport star Eliza Miller 3-peats as Valley News Dispatch girls athlete of the year
June 29, 2024
Reflecting on her time at Kiski Area brought a realization of the rapid pace the high school years went by for Eliza Miller.

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Freeport’s Michael Braun leads Mohawks’s Jaxon Schoedel finishes third in the boys 1,600 during the PIAA Class 2A Track and Field Championship on May 24 at Shippensburg University.
Freeport runner Michael Braun named Valley News Dispatch boys athlete of the year
Michael Braun had a couple of major goals he set for his junior year at Freeport.

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Derry’s Sophia Mazzoni stands atop the podium after winning the javelin at the New Balance Nationals.
Derry’s Mazzoni wins javelin championship at New Balance Nationals
June 19, 2024
What does it take to become a national champion?

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Shady Side Academy’s Chelsea Hartman wins the girls 3,200-meter run during the PIAA Class 2A Track and Field Championship on May 25 at Shippensburg University.
Shady Side Academy senior overcomes injuries to cap career with state track gold
June 15, 2024
Chelsea Hartman wanted to run more, but she wasn’t sure if her body would allow it. The Shady Side Academy senior was plagued by chronic pain during her freshman and sophomore seasons.

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Ayden Owens-Delerme wins a heat of the 400 meters in the decathlon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Former North Allegheny track star Ayden Owens-Delerme locked in as he prepares for Paris Olympics
North Allegheny graduate Ayden Owens-Delerme will be representing Puerto Rico in the Summer Olympics in France.

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Norwin senior Casey Rose Colcombe
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Norwin’s Casey Rose Colcombe
June 9, 2024
Some sports teams put a lot of their focus into competing on the field, ice, or court.

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Burrell senior Allison Smola
A-K Valley Senior Spotlight: Burrell’s Allison Smola
In last year’s PIAA track and field championships, Burrell’s Allison Smola got hurt in the preliminaries for the 100 hurdles.

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