Matt Leon

This past week, Jackie Neary was named head coach of Neumann’s women’s lacrosse team. She will also serve as an assistant athletic director there.

Ruley, a former standout Rowan University linebacker and 2013 alumnus will become the university’s eighth head coach in program history, replacing Jay Accorsi, who retired after 22 years at the helm.

Haverford High School product Katie Redding has enjoyed an extraordinary field hockey career at the University of Scranton. Her impact has been so great that she was recently named Scranton’s nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

Holy Family University in the city’s northeast broke ground this week on a new athletic fieldhouse. This will be the first major facility construction on campus since 2005.

In the 15th round of the recent MLB Draft, the Phillies dipped into the well of Philly local college baseball talent and drafted Saint Joe’s right-handed pitcher Luke Gabrysh.

Women’s flag football is exploding in popularity across the country — including here in the Delaware Valley, and Holy Family University Athletic Director Tim Hamill says they are hitting the ground running.

George Trabosh, an assistant basketball and volleyball coach at Ursinus College, is in need of a kidney transplant. The Collegeville community is rallying behind him to help find a donor.

The college football season is underway, and Temple kicks off its campaign Friday night with a tough challenge: the nationally ranked Oklahoma Sooners.

On Saturday, Sept. 14, Deirdre Kane and Dick DeLaney will be forever linked when the basketball court at West Chester’s Hollinger Field House is christened “Kane DeLaney Court.”

To honor the life and work of the legendary African-American writer and civil rights activist, Swarthmore College is hosting a series of events over the next week analyzing every aspect of Baldwin’s work and impact.