Laurel Highlands graduate Stephanie Smith has forged an exciting career showing quarter horses. She caught the horse bug at an early age. “I got started at a riding facility in Uniontown, Lazy J Stables,” Smith stated. “I started riding when I was seven years old and I've been riding ...
Zack Dascenzo came from an athletic family and followed in his father's footsteps and played baseball. Doug Daszenzo had an outstanding high school and college baseball career and then played seven seasons in the big leagues. He is still in baseball, working for the Chicago Cubs as outfield ...
Geoffrey Meadows, who played football and baseball at Southmoreland High School, is another hidden gem from Western Pennsylvania's baseball history. Meadows was born in Connellsville on Aug. 11, 1960. Meadows got an early start in athletics. “We lived in Everson and when I was younger I ...
The Fayette County sports community is still reeling from the news of the sudden death of former Laurel Highlands basketball star and Fayette County Sports Hall of Famer Greg Beckwith. He died at age 60 on Friday May 26 after suffering a heart attack, according to his wife Julie. Beckwith ...
Jory Coughenour was a baseball standout at Uniontown and the University of Pittsburgh and played minor league baseball. He turned his passion for baseball into his life's work. “I started playing baseball at nine years old,” Coughenour recalled. “I think we had 9 and 10 divisions and 11 ...
The name Russell carries a lot of weight in baseball circles in the Mid Mon Valley. The patriarch Jim Russell from Fayette City played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Braves, and Brooklyn Dodgers between 1942 and 1951. The family followed in his footsteps. ...
