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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Junior point guard Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.) of the Yale women’s basketball team has been selected as one of 20 watch list members for the 2023 Nancy Lieberman Award. The award, [...]

Junior point guard Alayna Rocco announced a verbal commitment to Harvard. Tribune-Review Terrific 10 basketball player Rocco has received offers from many schools, including recent ones from Buffalo, Richmond, Yale, Georgetown, Navy, Bucknell, Kent State [...]

Western PA Bruins announces a partnership with the Alexandria, VA-based firm Firestarter to provide ongoing personal branding and name, image, and likeness (NIL) education and support to Bruins student-athletes. Firestarter is led by award-winning marketing, [...]

Latrobe standout Emma Blair announced Sunday a verbal commitment to South Carolina Upstate, a Big South school in Spartansburg, S.C. Also a player to watch for the Western Bruins in AAU, Blair saw her recruiting [...]

North Catholic's Alayna Rocco is having another big summer with the Western PA Bruins AAU club, and Division 1 college coaches are pursuing her talents heavily. The 5-foot-10 junior guard just added scholarship offers from [...]

Emma Blair, a 6-foot-1 forward/center who will be a senior, is attracting college attention while playing for the Western PA Bruins 17U National Team this summer on the AAU circuit. Despite the ever-changing nature of [...]

Since graduating from the University of Vermont as the school’s all-time leading scorer in 1997, Eddie Benton has spent most of the past 25 years coaching at the collegiate level, enjoying plenty of success at [...]

A dominant WPIAL player, Plum leading scorer Kennedie Montue was named Valley News Dispatch Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Learn more about Montue and view the first and second team selections here. — Article: [...]

Boys and Girls Clubs of Western PA have named Aislin as 2021 Youth of the Year. As a proud Clubhouse member, state champion and one of Pennsylvania’s top recruits with over 18 Division I basketball [...]

Moon High School point guard Reilly Sunday made a verbal commitment to Duquesne. One of the top junior girls basketball players in the WPIAL, Reilly had more than a dozen Division I offers. She'll be [...]

Senior Baldwin player Anna Lucarelli is a West Liberty recruit with a commitment and love for the game of basketball. Lucarelli's drive has been part of Baldwin's rise, placing the Highlanders on the verge of [...]

Quaker Valley's Corinne Washington became the WPIAL’s newest member of the 1,000-point club during the season opener. Washington isn’t the first member of her family to reach the milestone. Her older brother, Coletrane, scored more [...]

Liv Westphal is a four-year starter for the Black Hawks and a Duquesne recruit who earned second-team all-state recognition last season. Westphal has led the Black Hawks to a 64-14 record and three consecutive trips [...]

Lizzy Groetsch is a senior guard and four-year starter at North Allegheny. Last year she was selected Post-Gazette’s Player of the Year and was named first-team all-state in the largest classification, and is one of [...]

If this were any other spring, Corinne Washington would be traveling to Detroit this weekend with her Western PA Bruins teammates for an AAU basketball tournament in the Motor City. Due to COVID-19, those face-to-face [...]