By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Altoona Area High School team, sponsored by the Beard Legal Group, earned its third consecutive berth in the Blair Regional YMCA High School Girls Division basketball championship game Tuesday night, but it came at a hefty ...
By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com HOLLIDAYSBURG — Wednesday night’s Blair Regional YMCA high school boys basketball league championship game between Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic and Tyrone was only a summer league matchup, but, especially in its final stages, it featured all ...
LOUISVILLE — Sideline Cancer recently sent five teams to Kentucky’s Exposition Center to compete in one of the largest AAU girls basketball tournaments in the country. The Run 4 The Roses features 1,600 teams playing on 104 basketball courts in front of more than 1,250 college coaches. Sideline Cancer, led by Mike Reed and Charlie Parker (the coach of the Sideline Cancer TBT squad) led teams with talent from area high schools including Altoona, Hollidaysburg, Bishop Guilfoyle, Bishop Carroll, Williamsburg, Bellwood-Antis, Central Cambria and State College. “AAU basketball is ...
Williamsburg Community High School hired Angela Detwiler as the new high school girls basketball coach at its board meeting Tuesday in a unanimous approval. Detwiler, who is married to Williamsburg athletic director and high school boys basketball coach Jeff Detwiler, was the school’s junior high girls basketball coach the last five seasons. “All of the varsity players, I have coached at the junior high level,” Angela Detwiler said. “Actually, the girls in eighth and ninth grade, Carrie Royer, Jamie Houck and I have coached them since they were five, so I feel like I know all ...
By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic girls basketball coach Kristi Kaack has been named the Pennsylvania Sports Writers’ Class 1A All State Girls Basketball Coach of the Year. Kaack, who led the Lady Marauders to a PIAA championship win over Mountain View in March, earned state-wide coach of the year honors for the third time in her six years at the helm of BG (2020, 2021, 2024). “It’s extremely rewarding,” Kaack said. “It might say my name, but it’s definitely a team effort. I am surrounded by a really great coaching staff and have a ...
By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com Bishop Carroll Catholic, which made it to the PIAA Class 1A semifinals and won a District 6 championship this season in boys basketball, was well represented on the Class 1A Pennsylvania All-State Basketball Team. Senior Luke Repko, who was the Mirror’s Player of the Year, made the second team, and sophomore Jace Casses landed on the third team. “I couldn’t be more happy for them both and really proud of them,” Bishop Carroll coach Cosie Aliquo said. “I was hoping that they would both have a shot at making all state. It is ...
