The Queen and her Court. (l-r): Haylie Hahn (4th runner-up), Hayley Tate (3rd runner-up), Kaitlyn Caiarelli (queen), Erica Irvin (2nd runner–up), and Jenna Cannon (1st runner-up).

Photos courtesy of PrimeTime Shots.

Each year, the Pennsylvania Wrestling Association honors the achievements of student athletes both in the classroom and on the mat.  For each class, the categories of First Team, Second Team, and Honorable Mention are created to recognize both academic and athletic success.  The committee reviews thousands of applications and creates the All Academic Team based on GPA and the individual’s wrestling record.

Congratulations to our Steel Valley student/athletes that were chosen as members of this years All Academic Team.

In the sophomore class, Tony Salopek, was recognized as being in the top 30 in Pennsylvania when he was recognized as 2^nd Team All Academic. 

Both Gavin Rosso and Frank Guzzi were recognized as being in the top 50 with their being named Honorable Mention for the junior class.

Steel Valley Middle School and 4th grade students from Park Elementary participated in the 2018-19 Math-A-Thon benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and raised $2,513.92. In addition, the teachers and staff members contributed for “St. Jude’s Jeans Days” and raised $665. This was the 28th consecutive year that the Middle School participated in the event with a contribution of nearly $70,000 to St. Jude to help them with their fight against childhood diseases. The Math-A-Thon is an educationally-based fundraising program; participating students obtained sponsors for the number of math problems they completed in special workbooks or online.

Mrs. Amanda Olson’s 8th grade classes competed against each other. The class that brought in the most donations won donuts for th

Today, TFIM (The Future is Mine) hosted its first of many Career Cafes thanks to a POP grant from the Consortium from Public Education. Josh Taylor, a graduate of Schenley High School and Duquesne University joined us to discuss his career and career path.

Josh works for 93.7 the Fan, has his own Sports Talk Radio show and shared his journey with our students during our third period informal presentation. 

Watch out for more opportunities to hear about various careers in the future or see Mr. Goga or Ms. Dunmire-Kuftic for more information! Thanks Josh for a worthwhile morning! 

Steel Valley Varsity Baseball under the leadership of Coach Pat Loughran earns the title of 2019 WPIAL 3A Baseball Champions.   The Ironmen won in dramatic fashion taking the game into extra innings to win 5-4 after trailing for the majority of the game.  Way to go IRONMEN!!!!!!