The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
Senior Michaela Burton holds the highest individual scores for the season on both bars and beam with a 9.850 and 9.925, respectively, and she has earned 10 individual event titles so far.

AAI Award nominee Michaela Burton leads Pitt gymnasts

By Hope Matyas, For the Pitt News • February 20, 2020
Since the beginning of the 2020 competitive season, Michaela Burton has been a high-scoring all-around anchor for Pitt’s team.
The Pitt band currently uses the Sports Dome and Cost Center for most of its practice, but the new Victory Heights facility will give them a larger and more updated space.

Pitt band to find home in Victory Heights

By Henry Jackson, Staff Writer • February 6, 2020
With Victory Heights on the horizon, the Pitt marching band will finally have something it has always lacked — an adequate home.
Alex Geiger serves as assistant director of creative content as a member of the Pitt men’s basketball coaching staff.

Pitt creatives lead new fight in recruiting wars

By Stephen Thompson, Assistant Sports Editor • February 6, 2020
The future of a college sports program is linked to its social media accounts. Now Pitt is trying to channel that power with one goal: “Get Pitt on their mind.”
First-year forward Abdoul Karim Coulibaly at Sunday’s 62-57 victory over Miami.

Change a constant in Coulibaly’s basketball journey

By Stephen Thompson, Assistant Sports Editor • February 5, 2020
Raised in Mali’s capital city, Pitt forward Abdoul Karim Coulibaly took the road less traveled and hasn’t looked back.
The Fitzgerald Field House, once home to the Pitt basketball teams, hosted a 17-year-old Kobe Bryant in a dunk contest that preceded the 1996 McDonald's All-American Game.

‘You’re just in awe’: Spectators reminisce on Kobe’s Pitt visit

By Alex Lehmbeck, Senior Staff Writer • January 30, 2020
For Kobe Bryant, the 1996 McDonald’s All-American game in Pittsburgh was a small speck on a decorated and illustrious career. For those in attendance that weekend 23 years ago, it was a memory they will never forget.
Junior Blaise Vera holds Pitt’s school records in the 50- and 100-yard, as well as the 100-yard butterfly.

Vera headlines progress of Pitt swimmers

By Henry Jackson, For the Pitt News • January 22, 2020
The Pitt men’s swim team brought back nearly every member of last year’s record setting group, including speedster Blaise Vera — who at one point this season held the national 50-yard freestyle record.
Kevin Kramer, the Max Scherzer lookalike, was a pitcher on the Pitt baseball team during the 1990s.

Kevin Kramer: Pitt pitcher turned Scherzer look-alike

By Trent Leonard, Sports Editor • January 7, 2020
As a junior pitcher in 1995, Kevin Kramer helped Pitt baseball win its only conference tournament championship ever. 20 years later, people started to confuse him for a perennial MLB All-Star.
Senior lecturer Liann Tsoukas will teach the Women, Gender and Sport class that will be taught at Pitt for the first time this spring.

Q&A: Tsoukas to explore gender and sport in new class

By John Riskis, Staff Writer • January 5, 2020
Is Serena Williams the greatest tennis player of all time? Is the U.S. soccer team the best in the world? Do your answers require gender qualifiers? These are the questions raised in the class description for Women, Gender and Sport, which will be taught at Pitt for the first time this spring by senior lecturer Liann Tsoukas. Though the class is new, it’s been a long time coming for Tsoukas, who has spent the past 19 years at the University teaching classes focusing on American history, gender, race and popular culture
Jonathan Perlman (far left), Pat Gardner (far right) and other students spelled “Pitt Strong” in body paint at an October football game against Miami to honor the Tree of Life victims.

Tri Pi braves elements, paints chests for Pitt football

By Ben Mankowski, Staff Writer • November 22, 2019
When a typical fan might choose to head for Heinz Field’s exits, a select few of Pitt’s most dedicated fans remain. Shirtless, painted and cold, they refuse to let their passion fade.
Junior Cami Moreno transferred from Pitt after the tennis program was discontinued and now plays at the University of South Alabama.

Tennis transfers settle into new homes after Pitt

By Trent Leonard, Sports Editor • October 24, 2019
When Pitt athletics discontinued varsity women’s tennis, the program’s three underclassmen were given little more than a week to pick up the pieces, prepare for the season and determine their next move. Now, they’re adjusting to life after Pitt.
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