Section 4 All-Star Emily Weaver has made her college choice.
Lancaster Catholic’s senior sharpshooter will play basketball for Alvernia University in Reading.
Weaver averaged a team-best 12.1 points a game and drilled a team-high 34 3-pointers this past season for Catholic, which went 14-11 overall after finishing second in the Section 4 race, and falling in the first round of the L-L League and District 3 Triple-A playoffs.
Weaver was one of the top snipers in the league, hitting 17 3-pointers in Catholic’s final six games – including six treys and a career-high 26 points in the Crusaders’ win over East Pennsboro in a district play-in pigtail game.
She also scored 20 or more points in a game four times – and now she’ll take her shooting skills to Alvernia, which went 18-10 overall last season under coach Kevin Calabria, and finished third out of nine teams in the MAC Freedom Conference and advanced to the second round of the ECAC playoffs.
Weaver will join four other former L-L League standouts at Alvernia, including Second-Team All-Mid-Atlantic Region pick Alex Velazquez (Manheim Township), Lil Snyder (L-S), CeCe Buzzard (Solanco) and Kayla Long (Manheim Central).
Congrats to Pequea Valley football coach Curtis Waltman, who is set to receive the first Kris Wilson Football Coaching Excellence Award.
Wilson, the former McCaskey and Pitt standout who plays professionally for the San Diego Chargers, will present Waltman with the award at the second Kris Wilson Foundation Summer Gala on July 10 at Liberty Place.
According to the Sunday News, the award will be given annually to a Lancaster County prep football coach who best exemplifies the vision of the Kris Wilson Foundation, which is to help improve literacy and education among youth in the county.
Said Pequea Valley athletic director Greg Fantazzi about Waltman: “I believe Curtis deserves such an award for his desire and enthusiasm he provides for all of his students. He cares more about how the students will do in life rather than just the wins or losses they have during the season.”
Waltman, the former Garden Spot three-sport standout and football player for Villanova, is set to begin his third season as Pequea Valley’s football coach this fall.
Former Columbia standout and NCAA national heavyweight runner-up wrestler Aaron Anspach has a new gig with his alma mater – Penn State.
Anspach is on new coach Cael Sanderson’s staff for the Nittany Lions.
Here’s what he’ll be doing, according to his bio on gopsusports.com …
Former Nittany Lion All-American Aaron Anspach is now in his third year with the Penn State staff. After serving last season as Director of Operations, Anspach moved into the third assistant coach spot last year. Now, with increased duties with the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club and a potential return to international competition, Anspach has moved over to the full-time position with the NLWC.
Anspach, who was the national runner-up at heavyweight in 2007 (but was denied a sixth year by the NCAA), went 22-4 during a senior season that saw him earn his first All-America honor in his first full and injury free season.
The native of Columbia, Pa., graduated from Penn State in the spring of 2007 with a degree in Crime, Law and Justice. Despite a career plagued with injuries that forced him to miss nearly all of two seasons, Anspach left Penn State with a 43-15 career record. His 2007 season went down as one of the most successful heavyweight campaigns in Penn State history, short only of Kerry McCoy’s national title runs in 1994 and 1997 and Bill Oberly’s title in 1955. He went 16-2 in duals in 2007 and of his four total losses, three were to two-time national champion Cole Konrad of Minnesota.
Anspach went 19-4 in dual matches during his career, including a 7-2 mark in Big Ten action (7-1 in 2007). He was 7-0 in matches decided by a major decision and had four pins. In all, Anspach collected 62 dual meet points.
Garden Spot senior Hannah Ertzgard, who helped the Spartans’ girls’ volleyball team reach the state championship match in her junior season, will major in Biomedical Engineering at Penn State.
Ertzgard, a setter who was a First-Team All-L-L League selection and a District 3 All-Star last fall, hopes to continue her volleyball career for Penn State’s club program.
She was named Garden Spot’s valedictorian at the end of the school year.
