LNP|LancasterOnline sports roundtable chats with Lancaster Bible College, Millersville University athletic directors
Lancaster Bible College nor Millersville University will not be playing sports this fall. To shed a bit of light on the subject, Lancaster Bible College director of athletics Pete Beers and Millersville University director of athletics Miles Gallagher are guests on this week's LNP|LancasterOnline sports roundtable.
Beers and Gallagher discuss what went into the suspension of fall sports at their schools and within their conferences, the potential financial challenges presented by the coronavirus, what sports might look like in the spring, and how much both are concerned about the mental aspect for student-athletes and coaches.
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LNP|LancasterOnline sports roundtable chats with Rice University men's basketball coach Scott Pera
On this week’s LNP|LancasterOnline sports roundtable, reporters Mike Gross, Jeff Reinhart and John Walk welcome guest Scott Pera, who is entering his fourth season as the Rice University men’s basketball coach.
Twenty-one years ago, Pera was the head coach at Annville-Cleona High School, steering the Little Dutchmen to the 1999 PIAA Class 2A championship. Pera took A-C back to the state quarterfinals the next year before leaving for California. He soon became head coach at Artesia High School, and eventually won a state title with a team led by future NBA star James Harden.
Pera has since worked his way up through the college coaching ranks, with stops at Arizona State, Penn and Rice, becoming the Owls’ head coach in 2017.
Among many topics, Pera chats about his coaching start as an assistant at Palmyra, reflects on his days at Annville-Cleona and what it was like coaching Harden at Artesia.
Pera, a Hershey native who played point guard at Hershey High School in his prep days, also provides some advice to today’s Lancaster-Lebanon League basketball coaches, and discusses the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has presented to him as a college coach.
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LNP|LancasterOnline sports roundtable chats return-to-play with Annville-Cleona, Warwick athletic directors
LNP|LancasterOnline sports reporters Mike Gross, Jeff Reinhart and John Walk are joined on this week's roundtable discussion by Annville-Cleona athletic director Tommy Long and Warwick athletic director Ryan Landis.
We are a little more than a week removed from Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf declaring that high schools sports under the jurisdiction of the PIAA and the Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association are permitted to resume activities in counties designated in the "yellow" and "green" phases. However, in order to resume sports activities, all schools must create and publish an Athletics Health and Safety Plan, which must approved by the local governing body of the school.
With that said, Long and Landis chat about what the process looks like behind-the-scenes for school administrators as they hash out a return-to-play outline to be approved by their school boards in order to allow for the return of student-athletes to athletic facilities. Additional topics include: What will preliminary workouts look like in July when student-athletes are possibly able to return to school athletic facilities? What are some of the safety guidelines that school officials will have to follow for the health of their student-athletes? What have the last few months been like as athletic directors in juggling in a unique situation that they've never before encountered?
Plus, Long discusses the recently proposed sectional alignment for the L-L/Berks football merger (beginning in 2022).
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LNP|LancasterOnline sports roundtable chats with PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi
On this week's LNP|LancasterOnline sports roundtable, reporters Mike Gross, Jeff Reinhart and John Walk are joined by PIAA executive director Dr. Robert Lombardi.
Lombardi joins the show a day after the return-to-play steps for high school athletics announced Wednesday by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf. Among topics discussed: why is the PIAA leaving it up to each individual school district to develop and approve its own return-to-play plan, the difference for sports under "yellow" and "green" phases, possibly adding a COVID-19 section to the PIAA form that student-athletes have to complete for physicals, what it was like for the PIAA behind the scenes months ago in dealing with the postponements and eventual cancellation of the basketball and swimming championships, and the cautious optimism towards the future return of high school athletics.
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'L-L Basketball Update' show visits Hempfield, chats latest in girls, boys hoops
This week’s 'L-L Basketball Update' show visits Hempfield, where the Black Knight girls are atop the Section One standings.
LNP video reporter Danielle Zulkosky will chat with Hempfield hoopsters Lindsey Durkota and Lauren Riggs about the outstanding season for the Knights thus far. Also in girls hoops, LNP sports writer Jeff Reinhart will discuss Lancaster Catholic’s Summer Reeser joining the 1,000-point club, and give an update on the section races.
We then switch to boys basketball, with LNP sports reporter John Walk recapping two Tuesday games that had impacts on section races, and previewing a pair of big-time games coming up for Lancaster Country Day against the top-two teams in the District 3-1A power ratings.
