Three former Butler County high school swimmers have received All-Presidents' Athletic Conference honors.

Seneca Valley graduate Ben Gutmann, a junior at Westminster College, and Butler graduate Brittany Vogel, a freshman at Washington &Jefferson, received first-team honors.

Seneca Valley graduate Drew Snyder, a senior at Grove City College, received second-team recognition.

PITTSBURGH — Frank Cignetti Jr., previously the offensive coordinator at California, took the same position Wednesday at Pittsburgh, where he replaces Matt Cavanaugh.Cavanaugh, a former Pitt quarterback, held the job for four years before returning to the NFL last week as the New York Jets' quarterbacks coach.Cignetti, who has been a coach for 20 years, is the son of Frank Cignetti, the former West Virginia and Indiana (Pa.) University coach. Cignetti played safety for the his father at IUP and later spent eight years as an IUP assistant coach. He began his coaching career as a Pitt graduate assistant in 1989.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Ken Griffey Jr. has decided to return to the Seattle Mariners.The 39-year-old star's contract is for one year and believed to be worth $2 million in base salary, plus incentives.Atlanta appeared to be Griffey's choice on Tuesday for the same reason the former Mariners star left Seattle in 2000: geography. The Braves' spring training camp is about a 20-minute drive from the Griffey family home in Orlando, Fla., and Atlanta is about an hour away by plane.The Mariners have a job as designated hitter and perhaps in left field waiting for him for 2009. The Braves were offering a spot in the outfield — plus that cherished proximity to home.Griffey is fifth on baseball's career home run list with 611.

WARSAW, Poland — Former Olympic hammer throw champion Kamila Skolimowska died unexpectedly at age 26.Skolimowska, winner of the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, died Wednesday in Portugal after collapsing in training, Poland's track and field federation said today.The federation's director general, Jan Slezak, said the cause of death was not immediately clear, pending an autopsy. He said Skolimowska had complained recently of "muscle problems," but would not elaborate.On Wednesday, Skolimowska suddenly felt ill and was rushed to hospital in Vila Real de Santo Antonio where she died despite efforts to resuscitate her.She was in Portugal to begin training ahead of the World Championships in Berlin in August.Skolimowska won gold at the age of 17 when the women's hammer throw was contested for the first time at an Olympics. She failed to medal at the 2004 Athens Games or at last year's Beijing Olympics.