{"id":77484,"date":"2015-10-20T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.web.rcn.net\/rcntv\/?p=77484"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T20:58:07","slug":"sportstalk-shop-athlete-game-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/sportstalk-shop-athlete-game-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The SportsTalk Shop: Athlete & Game of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has always been the mission of the \u201cRCN SportsTalk\u201d show to provide news and information on more than just the \u201cbig\u201d sports.\u00a0 While football, basketball and wresting receive the most feedback from viewers, and the professional and major college teams resonate with the widest audience, we have gone to great lengths to make sure we cover as many different sports in as many different schools and cities as we possibly can.<\/p>\n

Last year, we started doing a \u201cSportsTalk Shout-out\u201d to people in the RCN viewing area for doing something out of the ordinary, with the main purpose of trying to find an achievement that wasn\u2019t necessarily well documented or received a tremendous amount of initial media attention.<\/p>\n

This fall, we came up with two additional ways to continue to spotlight our local athletes and teams in the RCN viewing area, in a way we\u2019ve never done before.<\/p>\n

Last month, we introduced the \u201cAthlete of the Week\u201d feature that we unveiled during our Thursday night \u201cSportsTalk\u201d show.\u00a0 This focuses on athletes participating in a sport other than high school football (we also focus in solely on a football player for our \u201cFootball Friday\u201d edition of \u201cSportsTalk\u201d).<\/p>\n

This segment \u201cdebuted\u201d in September by featuring Northwestern senior soccer player J.D. Haff, who recorded a hat trick in four consecutive games.\u00a0 We\u2019ve followed that up by honoring Meredith Sholder of the Emmaus field hockey team and Dana Evans of the Pen Argyl field hockey team.\u00a0 Forget the traditional hat trick; these two ladies scored FOUR goals in a single game respectively earlier this year in helping their teams win games.\u00a0 Diana Hammerstone of Easton\u2019s cross country team outran several schools\u2019 competitors in a dual meet last week ahead of the playoffs, and received honors for her accomplishment on our show as well.<\/p>\n

We invite you to be on the lookout for our next \u201cAthlete of the Week,\u201d each Thursday, 7-8 pm, on our show throughout the upcoming school year.<\/p>\n

Before we tell you about another new innovation for our program, there were a few more athletes, coaches and teams from the RCN region who deserve some \u201cink\u201d for their recent accomplishments as well.<\/p>\n

Former Parkland multi-sport standout and current track athlete at South Carolina, Olivia Hassler was selected as one of eight representatives of her student body to report to the federal government regarding critical academic, social and financial issues facing young people.\u00a0 It\u2019s a tremendous honor for a young lady who has endeavored through hardships in her life (her story was documented on ESPN earlier this year) and she\u2019ll be a fabulous representative who\u2019ll do a great job in her new role.<\/p>\n

Coach Art Corrigan of Notre Dame High School in Easton recently became the most winningest cross country coach in the United States this fall. \u00a0\u00a0He now has over 11-hundred wins and is still going strong.\u00a0 We did a story on Art last year, which you can see by going through the archives of our \u201cSportsTalk Shop\u201d blog here on the website or find it here<\/a> on YouTube under \u201cThe RCNTV\u201d<\/a> section.<\/p>\n

Coach Corrigan was one of two Lehigh Valley head coaches who became the winningest head coach in their respective sport this fall.\u00a0 Emmaus Field Hockey Head Coach Sue Butz-Stavin achieved this honor in September.\u00a0 Coach Butz-Stavin and her team have also been featured on \u201cRCN SportsTalk\u201d a number of times over the last several seasons.<\/p>\n

Two more Lehigh Valley high school alums from rival school districts joined forces to benefit a great cause recently.\u00a0 Parkland\u2019s Toomey Anderson and Liberty\u2019s Darrun Hilliard (now playing for the NBA\u2019s Detroit Pistons) held an event at Allen HS to benefit Kyle Kostic of Allentown\u2014who\u2019s going through some tough times right now.\u00a0 One-hundred percent of the proceeds from that event went to benefit Kyle and his on-going battle with an illness and the costs associated with it.<\/p>\n

Last but not least\u2026after graduating 17 seniors from last year\u2019s team, the Salisbury boys soccer team has had an amazing fall season to date.\u00a0 The Falcons\u2019 story is just one of the many local high school sports features we\u2019ve featured on \u201cSportsTalk\u201d over the last two months\u2014all of them available for you to watch on RCN\u2019s On-Demand services.<\/p>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more!<\/p>\n

Starting on Thursday, October 29, RCN-TV is looking to launch another brand new feature.\u00a0 Each week on our \u201cSportsTalk\u201d show, we\u2019ll have highlights and details of one of the biggest high school games played during the previous week for our viewers watching us in the Washington, DC\/Virginia area.\u00a0 With so many talented individuals and squads playing in that region, it won\u2019t be an easy choice to see who will be in the spotlight each week, but we hope you\u2019ll tune in and find out for yourself and enjoy our recap of our \u201cgame of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n

As always, if you have a suggestion for a team to spotlight or have opinion on our local sports features, whether it be in our Pennsylvania or DC markets, we welcome your feedback!\u00a0 Please email us at RCNSportsTalk@rcn.com<\/a> at any time and keep watching RCN-TV and checking in with our blogs for the latest in spectacular achievements made by the young men and women in the RCN coverage area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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