Scholastic Notebook !!!
Posted: December 1st, 2004, 8:28 pm
Scholastic Notebook:
There will be a pair of new faces working the basketball benches in Western Pennsylvania this season as new basketball coaches have been named at Perry Traditional Academy and Sto-Rox High School.
Marco Corona takes over for log time coach Chuck Franklin at Perry. Corona has served as an assitant coach for the Commodores over the last six years.
Franklin retired as a teacher at Perry after last season and had hoped to continue coaching the Commodores. Franklin was 380-169 in his 21 seasons as head coach for PTA.
Nick Pappaterra has been named the new basketball coach at Sto-Rox replacing Bill Minear.
Pappaterra has been the Vikings head basketball coach for the 9th grade team for the past 10 years.
Minear resigned after last season for personal reason after eight years as head coach at Sto-Rox. Minear was 155-63 in his successful tenure, including 2 WPIAL titles and 1 PIAA state championship.
"No Hands", On Experience Needed:
Some of the coaches from this past Saturday's WPIAL title game were star players during their high school careers. But Aliquippa’s Mike Zmijanac never put on the pads.
Zmijanac never played high school football. Yet, he has turned into a very successful coach. He is going after his third WPIAL today.
Zmijanac also was the defensive coordinator on four WPIAL Class AAA championship teams at Aliquippa in the 1980s.
Recruiting:
Getting a verbal commitment from Justin King was big for Penn State. It showed the Nittany Lions still can land one of the top players in the country.
Upper St. Clair’s Sean Lee also looks like he’ll end up at Penn State and play linebacker.
But Penn State needs help on offense and player they would love to get is Derrick Williams of Roosevelt High in Greenbelt, Md. Both Super Prep magazine and rivals100.com rank him the No. 1 receiver in the entire country.
Williams (6-0, 190) already has visited Florida and Penn State. He also has visits scheduled for Oklahoma and Tennessee, and possibly one other school. Williams might make his decision in December.
Future Cavalier:
Upper St. Clair’s Rob Rankin, the PIAA Class AAA shot put champion last year, has signed with the University of Virginia.
Rankin was supposed to be one of Upper St. Clair’s top linemen in football this season, but decided not to come out for the team because he wanted to concentrate on track and field.
Bode All-American:
Upper St. Clair golfer Ali Bode was named a Hewlett Packard Junior All-American by the American Junior Golf Association.
Also, Bode, a senior, wrote an essay for a contest that won first prize. As a result, Upper St. Clair will receive a computer compliments of HP.
The All-American team consists of only 10 females and 10 males who demonstrate the ability to excel on the golf course and in the classroom. To be eligible, girls must have placed in the top five of a AJGA event.
The selections were then based on grade-point average,
class rank, SAT/ACT scores, leadership skills, community service and writing ability. Candidates were required to submit an essay or poem no longer than 400 words that creatively focused on the game of golf.
"The Chops".
There will be a pair of new faces working the basketball benches in Western Pennsylvania this season as new basketball coaches have been named at Perry Traditional Academy and Sto-Rox High School.
Marco Corona takes over for log time coach Chuck Franklin at Perry. Corona has served as an assitant coach for the Commodores over the last six years.
Franklin retired as a teacher at Perry after last season and had hoped to continue coaching the Commodores. Franklin was 380-169 in his 21 seasons as head coach for PTA.
Nick Pappaterra has been named the new basketball coach at Sto-Rox replacing Bill Minear.
Pappaterra has been the Vikings head basketball coach for the 9th grade team for the past 10 years.
Minear resigned after last season for personal reason after eight years as head coach at Sto-Rox. Minear was 155-63 in his successful tenure, including 2 WPIAL titles and 1 PIAA state championship.
"No Hands", On Experience Needed:
Some of the coaches from this past Saturday's WPIAL title game were star players during their high school careers. But Aliquippa’s Mike Zmijanac never put on the pads.
Zmijanac never played high school football. Yet, he has turned into a very successful coach. He is going after his third WPIAL today.
Zmijanac also was the defensive coordinator on four WPIAL Class AAA championship teams at Aliquippa in the 1980s.
Recruiting:
Getting a verbal commitment from Justin King was big for Penn State. It showed the Nittany Lions still can land one of the top players in the country.
Upper St. Clair’s Sean Lee also looks like he’ll end up at Penn State and play linebacker.
But Penn State needs help on offense and player they would love to get is Derrick Williams of Roosevelt High in Greenbelt, Md. Both Super Prep magazine and rivals100.com rank him the No. 1 receiver in the entire country.
Williams (6-0, 190) already has visited Florida and Penn State. He also has visits scheduled for Oklahoma and Tennessee, and possibly one other school. Williams might make his decision in December.
Future Cavalier:
Upper St. Clair’s Rob Rankin, the PIAA Class AAA shot put champion last year, has signed with the University of Virginia.
Rankin was supposed to be one of Upper St. Clair’s top linemen in football this season, but decided not to come out for the team because he wanted to concentrate on track and field.
Bode All-American:
Upper St. Clair golfer Ali Bode was named a Hewlett Packard Junior All-American by the American Junior Golf Association.
Also, Bode, a senior, wrote an essay for a contest that won first prize. As a result, Upper St. Clair will receive a computer compliments of HP.
The All-American team consists of only 10 females and 10 males who demonstrate the ability to excel on the golf course and in the classroom. To be eligible, girls must have placed in the top five of a AJGA event.
The selections were then based on grade-point average,
class rank, SAT/ACT scores, leadership skills, community service and writing ability. Candidates were required to submit an essay or poem no longer than 400 words that creatively focused on the game of golf.
"The Chops".