The Monessen girls basketball team put together a powderpuff football fundraiser with senior athletes at the school to help two families deal with tough times. She averaged 13.2 points and grabbed 4.7 rebounds for Norwin, which finished 24-5 after reaching the WPIAL and PIAA semifinals in the state’s largest classification.įour starters are primed to return in Berger, senior forward Lauren Palangio, senior point guard Bailey Snowberger and senior off-guard Ava Kobus. The 5-foot-9 Berger emerged as a go-to scorer for the Lady Knights last winter. One is Fairmont State (W.Va.), a Division II program in the Mountain East Conference, which offered Berger a scholarship. Norwin has one of the top rising junior guards in WPIAL Class 6A basketball.Ĭolleges are beginning to take notice of shooting guard Kendall Berger. 19, and the season-opening Week Zero games - or second scrimmages - are set for Aug. Teams often use stations during heat week, rotating through drills before mandatory water breaks.Ĭamp will last two weeks. Heat week also gives teams a chance to get into a camp-like routine with their schedules and drills. But a lot of times in the season we are not going live anyway, so it’s nice transition from the summer conditioning to full contact the next week.” Obviously, a week of full gear would be nice. It gets the kids used to having shoulder pads on.

“It’s one week closer to real football,” Hempfield first-year coach Nick Keefer said. Players must have five consecutive days of heat preparation before contact drills begin.

They are permitted to wear helmets and shoulder pads. The idea is for players, who are not permitted to have full contact until the following week, to get accustomed to hot and humid weather conditions they likely will deal with in camp. The required five-day period of heat acclimatization was instituted in 2013 by the PIAA. Starting Monday, high school football teams will take part in “heat week,” the customary lead-up to training camp.

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