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Chris Clark is heading back to his alma mater to coach St. Joseph’s Prep’s boys’ basketball team while serving as assistant athletic director, the school announced Thursday. Clark spent nearly a decade as an assistant coach at Temple, where he also played under legendary coaches John Chaney and Fran Dunphy from 2004-08. Now, after 17 years on the college coaching scene, he’s making a change. “It’s really difficult to put into words,” said Clark, who graduated from the Prep in 2004.
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At first, Ava and Gabriel Shapiro were not interested in playing tennis. But their mother, Erin, wanted her twins to compete in the same sport. It logistically made her life easier, although she had to force her then 7-year-olds out the door of their home in Montgomery County to the courts at Delaware Valley Tennis Club. “Then they became really good,” Erin Shapiro said.
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Ryan Goldstein doesn’t spend Memorial Day weekend at the shore. Instead, growing up, the Radnor native attended the NCAA men’s lacrosse Final Four and championship with his family. “That’s the pinnacle of the sport right there,” said Goldstein, a graduate of Radnor High.
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Abi Young has been involved in gymnastics at the Haverford Area YMCA since she was 3 years old. However, Young, now 12, always wondered why they practiced inside a gymnasium, compared to other area Ys that have a dedicated gymnastics space. “They would divide [the gym] in half,” said Young, a sixth grader at Haverford Middle School.
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Jihaad Campbell hasn’t been back to Timber Creek Regional High School since being selected in the first round by the Eagles in this year’s draft. That was until Friday, when the school hosted a welcome celebration for the 21-year-old linebacker, who played three seasons on the Chargers’ football team. On the way to his former stomping ground, Campbell looked out the window at the roads he used to walk on to and from school and thought, “I’m home.”“It’s special,” Campbell said.
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Entering her final year of high school track and field, Veronica Vacca made it a goal to clear 15 feet in the pole vault, a milestone that most athletes don’t reach until college. Now ranked among the nation’s best high schoolers, the Mount St. Joseph Academy senior set a personal record of 14 feet, 3 inches at the state indoor meet last season and has been working to surpass it. However, Vacca, who has mirrored numbers of college athletes for the last three years, has dealt with some setbacks.
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Mark Princehorn is stoic, but behind a dark pair of sunglasses and a cap that shielded his face, Princehorn couldn’t help but get a bit choked up when talking about this year’s St. Joseph’s Prep lacrosse team. That’s because when the coach joined the program in the spring of 2023, he and his wife, Lindsay, were dealing with the hardest obstacle in their lives as parents. In November 2020, they welcomed their first child to the world, a boy named Cole.
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Thunderstorms and harsh rains aren’t exactly ideal weather for a regatta. But by late afternoon on Friday, the sun appeared through an overcast sky along the Schuylkill. After a three-hour delay, the 98th annual Stotesbury Cup resumed. The committee suspended all time trials after the girls’ junior eight race at 10:52 a.m., due to lightning and thunder deemed it unsafe for the rowers. The races picked back up at 2:09 p.m., starting with the boys junior quad.
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Ginny Martino has been here before. For the third year in a row, the West Chester women’s lacrosse coach has led her team to an undefeated regular season. However, the last two years have ended with losses in the postseason. In 2023, the Rams’ final game was in the NCAA Division II championship, when they fell to Pace University, 19-9. For many of the seniors, who were then sophomores, the “devastating” loss has served as their motivation to get back to the Final Four.
