Jake Merda Adams came to the Butler Eagle in May 2024 as its new sports editor.
A Temple University graduate and native of Northampton, PA, he previously worked as the sports editor of The Carlisle Sentinel, sports planning editor for the Wisconsin State Journal and assistant/interim sports editor for the Louisville Courier Journal. He moved back to the Keystone State in 2023 and now lives in Mars with his fiancée and their dog and cat.
Adams has led award-winning sports coverage at the national and state level and covered PIAA champions, state record-breakers and Big Ten football and basketball.
Outside of the office, he likes to run, do yoga, play the occasional video game, try new restaurants and get back to the City of Brotherly Love whenever he can.
Check back in less than three months, and several athletes on this list could be draping PIAA Track and Field Championships medals over their necks.
That’s how talented s...
A year ago, Ashton Grossman set his mind to focusing solely on pole vault.
He hung up his football cleats, did speedwork and strength training in the fall and set goals o...
While the PIAA track and field season got an earlier start this year (March 14), the season truly kicks off in full force April 5 with the Butler County Classic, when mos...
On March 13, 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency due to the coronavirus quickly sweeping the United States and the globe.
It has been five years si...
The 2025 PIAA Basketball Championships semifinals will be held Friday and Saturday, and two Butler County teams are still dancing.
North Catholic’s boys and girls tea...
The second round of the 2025 PIAA Basketball Championships will be Tuesday and Wednesday.
Three Butler County teams remain after the weekend’s opening round: the three-ti...
Santino Sloboda’s trip to the PIAA Individual Wrestling Championships was a chance to prove his growth — physically, sure, but also mentally.
A year ago, Sloboda stru...
Braylee Ireland was seconds away from concluding her first trip to the PIAA Individual Wrestling Championships with a win.
Twenty seconds away, with a 6-1 lead.
But w...
Braylee Ireland’s debut in the PIAA Individual Wrestling Championships was nearly perfect.
The Knoch junior started the state tournament 2-0, but Palisades’ Savannah Witt...
The only thing missing on Mollie Massella’s trophy case is a state medal.
The Slippery Rock senior has one more chance to reach that goal next week at the PIAA Swimming a...
