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February 23, 2021 Westtown coach Seth Berger, center, holds the 2020 Pa. Independent Schools Athletic Association state championship trophy alongside his sons T.J. (left) and Quin (right). [Photo courtesy Seth Berger] MALVERN >> They may be the most basketball-centric family in all of Chester County. The Bergers live in Malvern. Seth has been the boys’ hoops coach at Westtown School for 14 years and has built the program into a powerhouse that is annually loaded wit...

A senior at Villa Maria, Micaela Shackleford is the school’s Mission and Ministry Service Leadership Team President and its Student Integrity Committee Co-President. She also is a member of Villa

Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review Greater Latrobe’s Vincent Kilkeary (top) wrestles Waynesburg’s Joseph Simon (bottom) in the 113-pound final of the Powerade Wrestling Tournament on Jan. 30, 2021. Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review Malvern Prep’s Cole Derry (left) wrestles Hempfield’s Isaiah Vance (right) in the 285-pound final at the Powerade Wrestling Tournament on Jan. 30, 2021. Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review Malvern Prep’s Cole Derry (right) wrestles Hempfield’s Isaiah Vance (lef...

January 22, 2021 The Malvern Prep swimming team is preparing to dive into the pool for the winter 2021 season, led by All-American junior diver Nick Harris, who was the Inter-Ac, National Catholic and Easterns 1-meter diving champion in 2020. Harris won by a comfortable margin at Easterns, compiling 567.25 points, comfortably ahead of second-place finisher Rowland Lawver of Hun School (442.45). His favorite memory of the 2019-20 Malvern Prep swimming season was at National Catholics. Malvern, P...

Individually, though, stars have developed, and senior Nate Lucier is the latest. Coming off a sixth-place finish at the Class 3A PIAA tournament, Lucier has had to wait an extra month to begin his quest to climb all the way to the top of the podium.  The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the start, and threatened the feasibility of actually finishing the wrestling season, but the social distancing, restrictions and isolation hardly phase Lucier, who’s made a career out of finding ways to improv...

Individually, though, stars have developed, and senior Nate Lucier is the latest. Coming off a sixth-place finish at the Class 3A PIAA tournament, Lucier has had to wait an extra month to begin his quest to climb all the way to the top of the podium. Coatesville’s Nate Lucier. (Nate Heckenberger – For MediaNews Group) The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the start, and threatened the feasibility of actually finishing the wrestling season, but the social distancing, restrictions and isolation h...

The class gives Ohio State a potent pair of big men, as Feldman is the top-ranked heavyweight in the class, and Shumate is the top-ranked 195-pound prospect. Feldman said he choose Ohio State over a list of schools that at one time included Big Ten foes Michigan and Purdue, as well as Navy and Virginia Tech, because of his relationship with the coaching staff and fellow Pennsylvania high school standouts Sammy Sasso and Gavin Hoffman. "[I] just had that feeling," Feldman told  Eleven Warri...

Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Norwin’s Kurtis Phipps paces the sidelines before competing in the 132-pound weight class final at the Powerade Wrestling tournament Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019 at Canon-McMillan High School. Pennsylvania Junior Wrestling recently announced the 2021 junior high and elementary state tournaments, along with Area tournaments, have been canceled because of the ongoing pandemic. The junior high tournament was scheduled for March 6-7 at Cambria County War Memorial Arena i...

The 5-foot-11, 160-pound senior punter for the Malvern Prep football team averaged 40 yards per punt during the 2020 and 2019 football seasons, with no punt returns allowed during that time. A standout student (4.1 grade-point average), Swope recently received an offer to attend and play football for the U.S. Naval Academy. Off the football field, Swope participates in baseball and Irish Dance at Malvern Prep, and is a MECO (Malvernians Encountering Christ in Others) leader. Malvern Prep footba...