PIAA upholds WPIAL decision to make Bishop Canevin quarterback ineligible

By: Chris Harlan
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | 7:06 PM

Bishop Canevin football player Brady Wagner remains ineligible for his junior season after the PIAA upheld an earlier WPIAL decision.

Wagner, a quarterback who transferred from Mt. Lebanon, had his eligibility appeal heard Tuesday by the PIAA via video conference. The hearing panel sustained the WPIAL finding that Wagner’s transfer was “motivated in some material way by an athletic purpose,” PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi said.

As a result, Wagner is ineligible in football for one year from his transfer date.

The 6-foot-2, 170-pounder was in contention to start at quarterback for Bishop Canevin. The PIAA decision comes less than a week before teams start heat acclimation.

The WPIAL ruled Wagner ineligible at a hearing April 30. He transferred to the private school in East Carnegie during last school year and played baseball for the Crusaders in the spring. Under PIAA rules, if a transfer is athletically motivated by a specific sport, the athlete still can be eligible in other sports.

Chris Harlan is a TribLive reporter covering sports. He joined the Trib in 2009 after seven years as a reporter at the Beaver County Times. He can be reached at charlan@triblive.com.

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