Where Is Norwin High School Again?

Just about two weeks ago the WPIAL announced where the WPIAL championship football games will be played next football season.

The 6A, 4A, 3A and 1A WPIAL championship football games will be played at Heinz Field on either November 16th 2018 or November 17th 2018. The 2A WPIAL championship football game will be played at Joe Walton Stadium at Robert Morris University on November 24th 2018. The 5A WPIAL championship football game will be played at Norwin High School on November 23rd.

The WPIAL decided to change where 5A and 1A will play its championship game because "the WPIAL champions will not all enter the PIAA playoffs on the same weekend, and the playoff fields for the WPIAL classifications are not all the same. Plus, it is the WPIAL’s desire to continue to have four title games at Heinz Field, but not six."

If you are a high school football player in 5A or 2A, you cannot be happy at all that if you want to win a WPIAL football ring that you are going to have to play at Norwin High School and Robert Morris to play to get that ring.

It's not like Robert Morris and Norwin's football field is worse than Heinz Field. It's just that if you are a middle school football player that lives in one of the WPIAL schools, you would probably dream that once you get into high school you would be on the varsity football team and win a WPIAL championship at Heinz Field, where the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the best NFL teams, play.

The fact of playing football, at any level, at Heinz Field has to get you excited. This past season when the high school football players from Pine-Richland, Central Catholic, Penn-Trafford, Gateway, Montour, Thomas Jefferson, Quaker Valley and Aliquippa walked into Heinz Field that Saturday in November all those players probably thought to himself that perhaps this is one step closer of their dream coming true and playing in the NFL.

There has to be some football players in 5A right now that feel disgusted that if they want a WPIAL ring in football they have to travel to a regular high school football stadium in Norwin. There are probably some football players in 5A that probably don't know where Norwin is at in the state of Pennsylvania. Norwin High School is in Westmoreland County and is near Penn-Trafford High School and Jeanette High School. I honestly think that some high school football players in 5A are probably less excited to try and get to the WPIAL championship game because it's in Norwin.

You have to feel bad for the WPIAL football teams in 2A as well as they will not play the WPIAL championship game at Heinz Field either. But I guess 2A is used to not playing at Heinz Field because they are probably used to playing at Robert Morris every year now since 2A has been playing there for a long while.

There are 24 teams in 5A and 31 teams in 2A which shows that 5A and 2A are the two biggest WPIAL football classifications out of all six classifications. The WPIAL needs to find a way to make all six WPIAL football games played at Heinz Field as it makes the games only more exciting. If the WPIAL has to schedule the 5A and 2A championship games on a school day like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday they should do that. I promise you that the football players in 5A and 2A would not mind missing time from school and playing in a WPIAL football championship game. I could just imagine during football season how high school football players sit in a boring math or science class and say to themselves "Could Friday Night just come already?''

I would not be surprised if not that many people go to the WPIAL championship football games at Robert Morris and Norwin compared to Heinz Field because let's just be real now. Heinz Field, where the Pittsburgh Steelers play, is greater than Robert Morris and Norwin High School.

But at the end of the day the football players from 5A and 2A cannot do anything to change where there championship games will be played at and all they will do is only focus on is getting those championship rings.