Additional reporting by Riley North and Meghan Osekowski. After an amazing regular season the Avonworth Varsity Volleyball team is making their way to playoff territory. After winning the first two playoff games, the team has secured a spot in the State Championship Competition. This is an amazing feat that has not been accomplished many times…
Category: Sports
How Athletes Feel About “What team did you root for the most?” question in Fall Survey
||| Additional reporting done by Bailey Tempest ||| Mr. Tuffiash, the eleventh grade English teacher, gave 90 juniors, both boys and girls, an online survey for the end of the first nine weeks. One of the questions and its results stood out from all the rest which was, “What team did you root for the…
Girls Soccer Team Completes Impressive Season
|||Additional reporting done by Katelyn Eng, Maya Berardi, and Carolyn Abramowich||| With Avonworth’s girls soccer team finishing second in their section and winning their first playoff game, they are further confirming the general consensus that this has been an amazingly successful season. On paper, the girls season is impressive. They have a record of 13-5-0,…
Student Fantasy Football Teams and Strategies
We asked multiple students about what players have been stars, breakout players, and busts this season. Also, we asked different students what their different strategies are managing their teams week to week. The first student we asked about their team is Junior Wiley Bozada. Wiley has a record of 4-3 this season and the best…
US Men’s Soccer Team Misses World Cup Qualification
The US Men’s Soccer team was eliminated from World cup contention and will not participate in the competition for the first time since 1986. The World Cup is the biggest soccer event in the world held in a different country every four years. The best 32 teams from around the world compete for one of…
Homecoming Football Game 2017
||Additional reporting by Sadie Stetser|| I asked a couple of the Avonworth football players these two questions: Is the homecoming game different from any other Friday night game? Do you play any differently for the homecoming game? Jake Harper responded with, “No because the focus is to just win and play well.” He also…
Golf Team Updates (to be continued…)
Avonworth’s co-ed golf team, led by senior Katie Carlson’s WPIAL Championship qualification, has had a relatively successful season thus far with a respectable record of 6-3. When asked what he liked about golf, Michael Donovan said, “I like how it is you against the course. You can’t blame anyone but yourself.” A quote that emphasizes the…
Sports Pro/Con: Soccer is Better than Football
Soccer is 110% the superior sport to football. These two sports do not even compare soccer is so much better. People think the atmosphere in an NFL stadium is exciting it is nothing compared to the soccer stadiums in Germany England, and Spain. There are flares burning flags flying catchy and funny chants all the…
Volleyball Update
Additional Reporting by Keyaira Cameron, Haley Reilly, Abby Kline, and Jackson Southern. The Avonworth Girls Volleyball season has been off to a great start with a current record of 5-2. Their most recent game was on Monday, October 2nd, at Montour High School. They fell to Montour 3-0. One match that was noticeably challenging…
Girls Soccer Team Update
|||Additional reporting by Abby Dawley and Riley North||| So far this season, the girl’s soccer team has a section record of 6-3, with an impressive overall record of 8-3. Last year, the girls finished the season with an overall record of 11-6-3. This year the girls have played Brentworth, Charleroi, North Hills, Freedom (twice), Steel…