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Player Mobility In The WPIAL Is Fun To Watch


Number 55 Thomas Melonja Transferred To Peters Township After WInning A WPIAL Championship With Lincoln Park just last year.

On July 18th, the PIAA made a new rule that any athlete who is going to enter their sophomore, junior or senior year in Pennsylvania who transfers schools faces ineligibility for postseason play at their new schools. This affects WPIAL athletes a whole lot.

This rule will not be in effect until tomorrow so if you are a sophomore, junior or senior athlete in the WPIAL that wanted to transfer schools after today, you are too late to transfer and will be stuck at the current school you are at unless you want to move schools and play a sport that you can only play in the regular season but not the postseason. I do not see many WPIAL athletes wanting to change schools knowing they cannot play in the postseason. There is a chance though that if you are a WPIAL athlete that you could still move schools and be eligible for postseason play if you have a parent that needs to move because of job employment.

The new PIAA transfer rule is going to decrease the amount of player mobility that happens in the WPIAL. There have been a whole bunch of athletes that have transferred schools in the past three years that it has actually helped people in the media who are covering the WPIAL find new stories to write about.

If this new PIAA started about three years ago the whole entire history of WPIAL champions would change so much it would have been unreal how much change there would be. So for all the WPIAL athletes that transferred before the deadline tomorrow you should be happy and blessed.

There has been so many athletes that have transferred to different schools lately that it makes the WPIAL so much fun to watch. Player mobility in professional sports like the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL is what makes all those sports so much fun to watch and it only helps people in the sports media find more topics to write about. I seriously think all journalists and writers enjoyed writing topics like LeBron going to play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers or like when Peyton Manning went to play for the Denver Broncos or even when Robinson Canó went to play for the Seattle Mariners.

I want to take a look at a list of some WPIAL athletes that have transferred schools in the past three or some years and I bet you will recognize some of these names.

List:

Athlete: Kenny White

Old School: West Allegheny

Year They Moved Schools: In The Middle Of Junior Year

New School: Pine-Richland

Year Athlete Graduates Or Graduated: 2018

Sport They Play Or Played: Football And Basketball

Athlete: Thomas Melonja

Old School: Lincoln Park

Year They Moved Schools: Summer After Junior Year

New School: Peters Township

Year Athlete Graduates: 2019

Sport They Play Or Played: Basketball

Athlete: Joey Porter Jr.

Old School: Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic

Year They Moved Schools: In The Middle Of Sophomore Year

New School: North Allegheny

Year Athlete Graduates: 2019

Sport They Play Or Played: Football

Athlete: Dino Tomlin

Old School: Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic

Year They Moved Schools: In The Middle Of Sophomore Year

New School: Shady Side Academy

Year Athlete Graduates: 2019

Sport They Play Or Played: Football And Track

Athlete: Donovan Johnson

Old School: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Year They Moved Schools: Summer After Sophomore Year

New School: Moon

Year Athlete Graduates: 2020

Sport They Play Or Played: Basketball

Athlete: Isaac DeGregorio

Old School: Hampton

Year They Moved Schools: Summer After Sophomore Year

New School: Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic

Year Athlete Graduates: 2020

Sport They Play Or Played: Basketball

Athlete: Isaiah Smith

Old School: Sewickley Academy

Year They Moved Schools: Summer After Sophomore Year

New School: Lincoln Park

Year Athlete Graduates: 2020

Sport They Play Or Played: Basketball

Athlete: Kaleb Krebs

Old School: Chartiers Valley

Year They Moved Schools: Summer After Junior Year

New School: Seton LaSalle

Year Athlete Graduates: 2018

Sport They Play Or Played: Soccer, Basketball And Volleyball

Athlete: Corey Thomas Jr.

Old School: Serra Catholic & Central Catholic

Year They Moved Schools: Left Serra After Freshman Year and Left Central Catholic In The Middle Of Junior Year

New School: Penn Hills

Year Athlete Graduates: 2019

Sport They Play Or Played: Football

Athlete: Brandon Lipford

Old School: West Allegheny

Year They Moved Schools: Summer After Junior Year

New School: Montour

Year Athlete Graduates: 2018

Sport They Play Or Played: Football

Athlete: Jaden Nelson

Old School: Trinity

Year They Moved Schools: Summer After Sophomore Year

New School: Montour

Year Athlete Graduates: 2019

Sport They Play Or Played: Basketball

Athlete: Anthony Johnson

Old School: Chartiers Valley, Lincoln Park, Taylor Allderdice and Jeannette

Year They Moved Schools: Left CV before Freshman Year Of WPIAL Basketball, Left LP in January of Freshman Year and Left Taylor Allderdice In The Summer After Freshman Year, Left Jeannette In The Summer After Junior Year

New School: Cleveland Heights High School (OHIO)

Year Athlete Graduates: 2019

Sport They Play Or Played: Basketball And Football

Athlete: Alex Shaughnessy

Old School: Bishop Canevin

Year They Moved Schools: In The Middle Of Sophomore Year

New School: Seton LaSalle

Year Athlete Graduates: 2020

Sport They Play Or Played: Football And Volleyball

Athlete: Jamie Diven

Old School: West Allegheny

Year They Moved Schools: In The Middle Of Junior Year

New School: South Fayette

Year Athlete Graduates: 2019

Sport They Play Or Played: Football

Athlete: RayQuin Glover

Old School: Moon Area

Year They Moved Schools: Played Football At Moon In His Freshman And Sophomore Year. Started Playing Football At South Fayette In His Junior Year

New School: South Fayette

Year Athlete Graduates: 2019

Sport They Play Or Played: Football

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