I am pleased to announce that every Avonworth Coach, paid, volunteer, MS, High School, Varsity or JV has completed a comprehensive coaching workshop and are now certified with the PIAA. Topics that were covered included: CPR, First Aid, Heat Illness recognition and prevention, Sport supervision and Safety, Student Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Conflict Management
2018 Pre- Season Any student grades 7-12 who wishes to participate in a fall sport must have a PIAA COMPREHENSIVE INITIAL PRE-PARTICIPATION PHYSICAL EVALUATION (CIPPE) form turned into Ryan Johnson, our Certified Athletic Trainer, prior to the start of the season. The physical form must be dated and signed by both the Physician and
To all interested community members, As most of you are aware we had a record number of girls try out for our Varsity Cheerleading squad this past spring. After the final selections were made it became evident that there were very few Freshman and Sophomores that made the squad. To maintain the current level of
This Summer, we’re teaming up with our friends at Rapid Replay to hand pick our favorite fan-recorded highlights from this past school year across the VNN Network. Each week, we’ll be spotlighting a new sport’s Top Plays. Got World Cup fever? Us too. Kicking things off this week, July 9, check out last year’s top fan-recorded
This Summer, we’re teaming up with our friends at Rapid Replay to hand pick our favorite fan-recorded highlights from this past school year across the VNN Network. Each week, we’ll be spotlighting a new sport’s Top Plays. Got World Cup fever? Us too. Kicking things off this week, July 9, check out last year’s top fan-recorded
In Softball, we had 4 girls named to the All – Section team Sarah Helfrich Dominique Raught Natalie Marshall Maya Kozup Baseball also had 2 All – Section honorees Turner Grau as an Infielder and Pitcher Jack Reed as an outfielder In track At the WPIAL Meet Hunter Robinson took home 2 individual WPIAL Championships
Karen Siddoway continues to receive accolades from this past season. She just received confirmation that she earned the Scholastic All-American status from USA Swimming. Below are the requirements for attaining such an honor. Grade completion requirement – applicant must have completed 9th, 10th11th or 12th grade GPA Requirement – minimum 3.5 GPA for the currentacademic year Honors, Advanced
All- Star swimmer and PA State Silver medalist Karen Siddoway made a verbal commitment to attend James Madison University in the fall of 2019. Karen will make it official in November when she will sign her binding National Letter of Intent. Karen will join a James Madison team that just completed one of their best
Avonworth Athletics a year in review Avonworth had its most successful year in Athletics. Winning its first State Championship and adding a WPIAL championship and a WPIAL runner-up trophy as well as 2 section championship plaques to our ever growing trophy collection. Individually we had numerous WPIAL and PIAA Champions and Place winners. I
Risks Associated with Sport Specialization in High School Athletes By Timothy McGuine, Ph.D., ATC; David Bell, Ph.D., ATC; Eric Post, Ph.D., ATC on May 09, 2018 In recent years, there is an increasing trend toward intense sport-specialized training (sport specialization) among youth and high school athletes. Sport specialization is often characterized as intense, high-volume training
