James 鈥淛unior鈥� Mays forged an outstanding athletic career at Uniontown, but looking back he wishes he had done things differently off the court and off the football field. Mays got an early start in athletics and benefited from Uniontown's great playground culture. 鈥淚 was playing ...
The late Crystal Fields Gallagher was a tremendous athlete and mother who died unexpectedly in 2011, but her legacy and spirit live on through her three children. Fields Gallagher was a standout forward/guard at Albert Gallatin, then known as Tri Valley High School, in the late 1980s and ...
The McLee family is a storied name in Fayette County athletics. Darrin McLee is another member of the clan who made his mark on the hardwood for the Uniontown Red Raiders. 鈥淚 started playing sports at an early age,鈥� McLee reported. 鈥淚 went to Lafayette Junior High School and I'm from ...
It has been 40 years since West Virginia center Georgeann Wells broke the barrier and became the first woman to dunk a basketball in a college game. On Dec. 21, 1984, Wells went on to make history. Playing at Elkins Randolph County Armory against the University of Charleston (W.Va.), with ...
On Jan. 19,1974 a seismic event occurred in college basketball when a Pittsburgh kid, Dwight Clay, hit a corner jump shot to end UCLA's 88 game winning streak. Clay, born and raised in the Hill District in the early 1970s, was a star basketball player at Fifth Avenue High School (now ...
Former Uniontown High School basketball star Don Yates is scheduled to be inducted into the 2023 Legends Class of the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Hall of Fame on Feb. 3 at a brunch at Chartiers Country Club. The class also includes: Dan Bonner, Avonworth High School and University of ...
