Senior football games taking a hit during COVID pandemic

April 16, 2020

Football is a fall sport, so COVID-19 hasn’t interrupted much in this high school sport until this week. While the Big 33 Football Classic has been played every year since 1958, that will change due to the coronavirus pandemic. “It is with great regret that the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association will be canceling all our major events around the Memorial Day weekend,” Big 33 executive director Garry Cathell said in a press release. “These events include the Big 33 Football Classic, East-West game, PSFCA combine, USA Football’s 1st Down clinic, Military ...

Passing it on

April 14, 2020

There have been many ways people are giving back during the virus pandemic. Warren Area High School sophomore Emma Ruhlman is doing what she does best — sharing her love of basketball with as many people as she can. Since it can’t be on the basketball court with teammates right now, ...

Trying to find the words

April 11, 2020

This took a while to write. And anyone who knows me knows I can usually knock out a story pretty quickly and this took several hours. But as I looked at the calendar full of games that wouldn’t be played, and thought about the seniors who wouldn’t get their final season, the words just wouldn’t come. How could they? In an instant, it was gone. The games, the seniors, the playoffs, the possibilities. Just . . . gone. And the words wouldn’t come because, what words are there? What can any of us say to those kids that will be of comfort in the moment? The best, ...

With her college basketball career now complete, Hahn reflects on how being a Cal Vulcan helped her grow on and off the court

April 9, 2020

D.J. Hahn was playing perhaps the best basketball of her career. The California University of Pennsylvania senior and Warren Area High School graduate had scored in double figures in eight of her final nine games leading into the Vulcans’ first-round game in the NCAA Tournament against ...

‘Still surreal’

April 4, 2020

There’s a little over 1,200 miles between Buffalo, New York and Winter Haven, Florida. That’s where 2019 Warren Area High School graduates Aidan Morrison (Canisius College) and Kiersten Hoffman (with her Edinboro University softball teammates) were on March 12. And on that day, 1,200 ...

Signs of love

April 2, 2020

Giving back is at the core of every strong community. In the current climate in which we live, it’s more important than ever. In that spirit, the Warren Lady Dragons basketball program has forged a special relationship with the residents of Cambridge Warren, one that has been special for ...