Sports
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Pottstown’s Payton Ridenour Selected to 2023 BMX Racing World Championship Team
Payton Ridenour, a 19-year-old Pottstown woman, has been chosen for the 2023 BMX Racing World Championship Team, writes Angelina Palermo for USA Cycling. She was appointed to the Elite Women’s team along with four other athletes. To be a professional athlete in BMX is a dream come true for Ridenour. She said, “Growing up, I…
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MLB’s Christian Walker, a Norristown Native, Always Grounds Himself Before a Game
Norristown’s Christian Walker, the first baseman for the Arizona Diamondback’s always takes a walk barefoot on the stadium grass before games, and he is not alone in this practice, writes Janie McCauley for Associated Press. He is a part of a growing trend in the MLB to practice “Grounding” or “Earthing”. Going on a barefoot…
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Collegeville Native Selected by Detroit Tigers on Final Day of 2023 MLB Draft
UConn star David Smith, a Collegeville native and Perkiomen School graduate, got selected on day three of the 2023 MLB Draft by the Detroit Tigers, writes the UConn Huskies. Smith was the team captain at UConn for the 2023 campaign and he was an instrumental part of multiple Huskies teams that broke several records over…
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Fire Damages Clubhouse of Popular Bucks County Golf Course. Here’s What to Know
The property of a popular golf course in Bucks County is dealing with the aftermath of a recent fire, which damaged one of its buildings. The Oxford Valley Golf Course, located at 141 North Oxford Valley Road in Fairless Hills, saw its clubhouse damaged after a fire on Tuesday. Investigators have determined that it was…
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Norristown’s Khalif Wyatt Joins Temple’s Men’s Basketball Team
Norristown’s Khalif Wyatt, a former Temple basketball great, has joined the Owls staff as the program’s director of player development, writes Kerith Gabriel for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Wyatt is coming off an assistant coaching role with West Chester’s men’s basketball program last season. He is a former Big 5 and Atlantic 10 player of the…
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Hatboro-Horsham Track Star Gatorade Pa. Boys Track & Field Player of the Year
Gatorade recently announced that Hatboro-Horsham senior Brian DiCola is the 2022-23 Gatorade Pennsylvania Boys Track & Field Player of the Year, writes Ed Morlock for PA Prep Live. DiCola has had a great track season this spring winning at the league, district, and state level. He is the first Gatorade Pennsylvania Boys Track & Field…
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Upstate Man Builds Wiffle Ball Field Dubbed ‘Mini Bank’ after Citizens Bank Park
After two years of planning and development, Kurt Klinger, a huge Phillies’ fan who lives in the tiny town of Trevorton in Northumberland County in upstate Pennsylvania, turned his dream into reality by finishing his own Wiffle ball field dubbed the “Mini Bank” after Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia in his backyard, writes Mackenzie Witt…
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YMCA National Gymnastics Championship to be Held at Greater Philadelphia Expo Center
The Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board, Valley Forge Sports, and the Willow Grove YMCA have announced that the largest indoor sporting event to ever be brought to the county, the 2024 YMCA National Gymnastics Championship, will take place at Greater Philadelphia Expo Center. The tournament will take place from June 19th to June 25th,…
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A ‘Rising Star’: Boston Celtics Hire Friends’ Central Grad as Assistant Coach
The Boston Celtics have hired Amile Jefferson, a former Duke University and Friends’ Central star, as an assistant coach under Joe Mazzula, writes Gustav Elvin for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jefferson, 30, a Philadelphia native, joins the Celtics after serving as an assistant coach at Duke. Considered a “rising star in the coaching profession,” he also…
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Montgomery County Community College’s Mustangs eSports Team Adds ‘Valorant’ to Roster
Montgomery County Community College and its Mustangs Athletics program are adding a new esports game coming soon to their roster. “Valorant” the wildly popular, five versus five, team-based, futuristic tactical video game will be available for all-gender student-athletes in the Mustangs eSports varsity program to play beginning this fall. Players in the game are assigned to teams…
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Radnor-based Amateur Golf Society Hosting Own Philadelphia Area Tour
The Amateur Golf Society, which is based in Radnor, was the brainchild of Dan Hershberg, co-founder of Workhorse Brewing Co., in King of Prussia, writes John George for The Philadelphia Business Journal. Starting out as just golf tournaments to help promote the brewing company during the pandemic, the Amateur Golf Society has now grown to…
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Cheltenham High School Grad Receives Atlantic 10 Conference Postgrad Scholarship
Justin Grady, a 2019 Cheltenham High School graduate and 2023 George Washington University alumnus, was named the school’s recipient of the Atlantic 10 Conference Postgraduate Scholarship this year, writes Ryan Genova for Glenside Local. The program awards $75,000 in scholarship funding to former Atlantic-10 student-athletes. It was first established to provide continuing education opportunities for…
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Upper Dublin’s Suzy Kolber Laid Off from ESPN After 27 Years with the Network
Sports commentator and on-air host Suzy Kolber was among the recent ESPN layoffs, writes Jeff Blumenthal for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Kolber, a native of Upper Dublin, had been with the company for almost 30 years. She helped the network launch ESPN2 in 1993 by co-anchoring SportsNight with Keith Olbermann. She is a Philadelphia Sports…
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Friends’ Central Athlete Named Gatorade Pennsylvania Girls’ Track and Field Player of the Year
Avery Lewis, a rising star in track and field at Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, has been named Gatorade Pennsylvania Girls’ Track and Field Player of the Year, writes Isabella DiAmore for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The junior recently set a girls’ state outdoor record in the long jump of 20 feet, 9½ inches at the…
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Gladwyne to Co-host 2026 U.S. Amateur Championship
The Philadelphia Country Club in Gladwyne joins Merion Golf Club in Ardmore as co-hosts of the 2026 U.S. Amateur Championship, writes Ryan Sharrow for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The Philadelphia Country Club will co-host the stroke-play portion of the event, while Merion Golf Club will co-host stroke play and host all match-play rounds. Merion Golf…
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North Penn Grad to Continue Her College Softball Career at Penn State
Former Coastal Carolina righty Mady Volpe, a graduate of North Penn High School in Lansdale, will continue her softball career at Penn State, writes Andrew Buckman for The Daily Collegian. Volpe announced via Instagram earlier this week that she would be committing to the blue and white. After graduating high school, Volpe spent two seasons…
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Fanatics, Led by Bryn Mawr’s Michael Rubin, Increases Offer for Sports Betting Business
Fanatics has agreed to pay $225 million, almost double what it originally offered, to acquire PointsBet’s U.S. sports betting business, writes Jeff Neiburg for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The company, which has an office in Conshohocken, agreed to increase their offer after a bid from DraftKings came in. Two weeks ago, DraftKings brought to the table…
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Former Blue Bell Resident Receives an Award Almost 60 Years in the Making
This year’s Graf/Gaffney Awards dinner and fundraiser corrected a nearly six decades old injustice for Edward J. Rivers, a former worldwide materials manager at UNIVAC headquarters in Blue Bell, writes Chris Brock for the NNY 360. Rivers was a star athlete at Watertown High School in New York in the mid-1960s. In 1965, he was…
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