Springton Lake celebrates perfect volleyball season
Springton Lake Middle School’s seventh-grade girls volleyball team recently defeated Valley Forge Middle School, 2-1, to complete an undefeated season.
The Spartans finished with a 14-0 record, including eight wins by a score of 2-0.
“The girls worked hard all season,” coach Megan Snyder said. “They consistently demonstrated sportsmanlike qualities. The biggest victories were over Northley and Garnet Valley, who always have been Springton’s most difficult opponents.
“This group of players has shown advanced skills that are typically reserved for a highschool level team. They are to be congratulated for a very successful season.”
Among the members of the team are Makayla Kane, Melodie Campbell, Quin Zilch, Kelly McDonnell, Veronica Master, Mary Kate Cosgrove, Lauren Kurcon, Chloe Breeze, Ava Kearney, Selena Psaris, Liz Kurcon, Fiona O’Loughlin, Ciara Bradley, and Emma Curran.
The Delaware County Athletes Hall of Fame’s board of directors recently mailed ballots to all of its dues-paying members eligible to vote for the athletes who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame as its Class of 2018.
Members have been asked to vote for no more than six of the male candidates on the ballot and no more than four of the female candidates.
Those who are selected for the Hall of Fame will be honored as the association’s annual awards dinner, held Sunday, April 22, 2018, at the Concordville Inn. Social hour begins at 4 p.m., and dinner will be served at 5 o’clock.
Her Game International, located at 5119 West Chester Pike in Newtown Square, is hosting the Shoot & Save Clinic for U-16 and U-19 field hockey players Sunday, Dec. 3.
Megan Davies, former Haverford High and William Paterson University goalie, and former Lower Merion coach Jamie Levy will conduct the clinic.
Field players will learn proper shooting techniques, such as movement on the ball prior to taking a shot, ball positioning while taking a shot and different types of shots. Goalies will have specialized training in advanced footwork, clearing and learning different techniques on how to be more explosive to make a save.
Cost is $120 per player. The clinic runs from 10 a.m.-noon. Registration information can be obtained by calling 610-353-5800 or by visiting www.hergame.com.
The Sports Legends of Delaware County Museum, located at 301 Iven Avenue in Radnor, is featuring one of the cards from its newest collection of top county sports figures each week on the museum’s website at www.sportslegendsofdelawarecounty.com.
The featured card this week is of former Villanova University women’s cross country and track and field coach Marty Stern, a graduate of Upper Darby High and West Chester University who began his coaching career at Interboro.
Stern also coached at Malvern Prep, St. James, Central Bucks East and Central Bucks West before becoming head coach at Villanova in 1984. His cross country teams won five NCAA championships, and he coached 21 NCAA individual champions, 12 worldrecord holders, and 145 All-Americans. Under his guidance, the Wildcats captured 17 Championship of America titles at the Penn Relays.
In 2016, he was inducted into the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
The Sports Legends Museum is continuing its drive to raise funds for a statue of Radnor graduate Emlen Tunnell, a World War II hero as a member of the United States Coast Guard and the first African-American elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The statue fundraising committee plans to have the dedication ceremony in June 2018.
Museum curator Jim Vankoski recently was notified that one of the 19 Coast Guard cutters that will be commissioned in the near future will be named after Tunnell.
Additional information about the statue project can be found by visiting www.sportslegendsofdelawarecounty.com or www.emlentunnell.com.
Rev. John Cartwright, an AllDelco quarterback at Sharon Hill High who broke 13 school records set by Roger Staubach at the United States Naval Academy, will be the guest speaker at the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame/Delaware County Chapter’s fall awards luncheon Tuesday, Dec. 5 in the Heritage Room at Barnaby’s of Ridley Township.
The chapter will present scholar-athlete awards to nine high school seniors — field hockey player Katie Capalbo of Strath Haven; soccer players Wilson Dodds of Haverford High, Corryn Gamber of Penncrest, and Lindsay Haseltine of The Christian Academy; cross country runner Elias Lindgren of Episcopal Academy; volleyball player Juliana Michniak of Sacred Heart Academy; water polo player John Nelligan of The Haverford School; football player Anthony Paoletti of Marple Newtown; and tennis player Lexi Short of Agnes Irwin.
Cartwright became the founding pastor of Calvary Independent Baptist Church in Morton in 1977 shortly after graduating from Liberty Baptist Seminary.
An outstanding football, basketball and baseball player at Sharon Hill, he followed Staubach as Navy’s starting quarterback as a sophomore in 1965. In 1967, he led the Midshipmen to a 5-4-1 record, including wins over Penn State, Syracuse and Army.
Cartwright became an assistant coach at Liberty University under Lee “Rock” Royer, the former PMC College head coach, in 1973. A year later, he was named Liberty’s head coach when Royer died in a plane crash. Cartwright served in that position for three years before graduating from the seminary.
Tickets for the luncheon are $30. Checks payable to PA Sports Hall Delco Chapter can be sent to Chase Beatty, 934 Ormond Ave., Drexel Hill, PA 19026.
The deadline for reservations Wednesday, Nov. 29. is
Entries are being accepted for the 2017 Red Kettle One-Pitch Softball Tournament, which will be held Saturday, Dec. 9, at Maple Zone Sports Institute in Garnet Valley.
All proceeds from the tournament will go to the Merry Christmas Fund, which benefits the Salvation Army in Delaware County.
Additional information, as well as details of the upcoming tournament that will benefit the Providence Animal Center (formerly Delaware County SPCA), can be found on the message board at www.MillenniumSoftball.com.