Taylor Coleman, who coached a JB Hoops girls team in 2018 and was preparing to do so again this season, has been added to the Bucknell University women’s basketball coaching staff. Coleman moves from the University of Scranton where she…
JB Hoops alum Morgan Haefele, a four-year starter in the backcourt at Mid Valley, will continue her basketball career at Misericordia University. Morgan will join her older sister Erica, another JB Hoops alum who recently completed her sophomore season as…
While one JB Hoops alum was completing a highly decorated career, another was continuing her emergence as one of the key players to Misericordia University’s promising women’s basketball future. Senior forward Rachel Carmody was a first-team, all-star while sophomore guard…
By Tom Robinson WILKES-BARRE – JB Hoops alum Blake Gearhart is headed to Clarkson University in upstate New York to continue his basketball career on the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III level. Gearhart was the leader of Delaware Valley…
JB Hoops AAU basketball players Renny Murphy and Asad Whitehead returned from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Track and Field Championships with state medals. Murphy, a Berwick sophomore, finished seventh in the state in the Class 3A girls javelin while…
Recent JB Hoops alums Gracie Guarino and Bethany Maby are headed to Marywood University to continue their basketball careers. Guarino and Maby both helped their high school teams to breakthrough seasons as Lackawanna League all-stars. With Guarino leading the way,…
Renny Murphy, a member of the JB Hoops Girls Regional team, is competing at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Track and Field Championships. The sophomore from Berwick is seeded 13th out of 29 competitors in the Class 3A javelin, which…
By Tom Robinson SCRANTON – Asad Whitehead has kept busy this spring. Each day, the Hanover Area junior can be found playing basketball or participating in track and field at either practice or a meet. Often, he is doing both.…
By Tom Robinson With her senior season at Abington Heights High School on the horizon, Hannah Hughes had a decision to make. After a junior year in which Hughes was a significant contributor to three district championship teams, it was…
Dunmore senior Victoria Toomey highlighted a list of 20 girls basketball all-stars in District 2 in 2018-19, who had spent their previous spring and summer playing for JB Hoops teams. The Rider University commit repeated as District 2 Player of…