Corky Blake

Easton

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Freelance writer with 40+ years experience as sports writer/editor for daily newspapers. Being average is not an option. [email protected].

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Final girls swimming and diving rankings for 2024-25

18 hours ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Corky Blake

Parkland High School capped its unbeaten regular season with an Eastern Pennsylvania Conference dual-meet championship and its sixth consecutive District 11 Class 3A championship meet title by outdistancing No. 2 Emmaus 533-382. The Trojans, who lead the final lehighvalleylive.com Top 10, also defeated Cumberland Valley, which had dealt them their only losses the past two seasons, in a tri-meet. 1. ParklandRecord: 14-0. 2. EmmausRecord: 8-2. 3. Southern LehighRecord: 9-2. 4. NazarethRecord: 10-2. 5.
Girls swimming and diving: Final top times, performances for 2024-25

23 hours ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Corky Blake

These are the best times and performances from lehighvalleylive.com region girls swimmers and divers from the 2024-25 season. Results are compiled from meets, invitationals and championships submitted to lehighvalleylive.com, NJ.com or published at the Swimcloud and BE Smartt, Inc. websites. Only a competitor’s best time or diving total per event is listed and only the best relay team per school is published. Times clocked from a leg of a relay are not considered for individual events.
McPeek’s lifelong love of swimming is on display coaching Parkland’s powerful program

1 day ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Corky Blake

“It’s better to add a chair to a table than take one away.”- Irish proverbAllison McPeek directs the largest and most successful swimming program in the lehighvalleylive.com region. The third-year Parkland High School head coach oversees a girls squad that includes 40 athletes and a boys squad that rosters 32 competitors. This winter, both Trojans teams produced 14-0 dual-meet records and repeated as Eastern Pennsylvania Conference dual meet and District 11 Class 3A meet champions.
LaBaugh’s swimming excellence covered many events for unbeaten Parkland

1 day ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Corky Blake

Take a tour through the lehighvalleylive.com region’s top swimming performances this winter, and it is clear why Parkland High School sophomore Sydney LaBaugh is the Girls Swimmer of the Year. No other swimmer displayed the talent and determination to register impressive times throughout the season in so many different events.
District 11 girls track and field: Easton’s Scalzo bounces back to win fourth district 300 hurdles title

1 day ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Corky Blake

Within less than a week, Maggie Scalzo went from running a race she doesn’t remember to winning a race she’ll never forget. The Easton Area High School senior powered to her fourth District 11 Class 3A girls 300-meter intermediate hurdles gold medal in a driving rain during Day 1 of the annual track and field meet Tuesday at Whitehall’s Zephyr Athletic Complex.
The 2025 lehighvalleylive.com All-Area Girls Swimming and Diving Team

1 day ago | dailyitem.com | Corky Blake

The 2025 lehighvalleylive All-Area girls swimming first team features three seniors, five juniors, one sophomore and a freshman. The 10 first-team honorees combined for 12 District 11 individual championships and six top eight medals at the PIAA championship meets. Top-ranked and undefeated Parkland High School led the way with three first-teamers with the remaining spots distributed among swimmers from seven different schools.
The 2025 lehighvalleylive.com All-Area Girls Swimming and Diving Team

1 day ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Corky Blake

The 2025 lehighvalleylive All-Area girls swimming first team features three seniors, five juniors, one sophomore and a freshman. The 10 first-team honorees combined for 12 District 11 individual championships and six top eight medals at the PIAA championship meets. Top-ranked and undefeated Parkland High School led the way with three first-teamers with the remaining spots distributed among swimmers from seven different schools.
District 11 girls track and field: Easton’s Scalzo bounces back to win fourth district 300 hurdles title

1 day ago | dailyitem.com | Corky Blake

Within less than a week, Maggie Scalzo went from running a race she doesn’t remember to winning a race she’ll never forget. The Easton Area High School senior powered to her fourth District 11 Class 3A girls 300-meter intermediate hurdles gold medal in a driving rain during Day 1 of the annual track and field meet Tuesday at Whitehall’s Zephyr Athletic Complex. kAm{2DE (65?6D52J[ $42=K@ 2=D@ H@? 96C 7@FCE9 t2DE6C?
Girls swimming and diving: Final top times, performances for 2024-25

1 day ago | dailyitem.com | Corky Blake

These are the best times and performances from lehighvalleylive.com region girls swimmers and divers from the 2024-25 season. Results are compiled from meets, invitationals and championships submitted to lehighvalleylive.com, NJ.com or published at the Swimcloud and BE Smartt, Inc. websites. Only a competitor’s best time or diving total per event is listed and only the best relay team per school is published. Times clocked from a leg of a relay are not considered for individual events.
McPeek’s lifelong love of swimming is on display coaching Parkland’s powerful program

1 day ago | dailyitem.com | Corky Blake

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