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.
Butler County cross country coaches have announced their 2024 All-County boys and girls runners.
Freeport’s Michael Braun, who won the WPIAL Class 2A boys championship an...
Slippery Rock football earned the No. 4 seed in Super Region One in the NCAA Division II tournament and will host an opponent it already beat this season.
The Rock wi...
Rob Snyder has known for a while this is one of his most talented teams — he said so in late October before the playoffs began and thought so when practices began in the ...
The first round of the district football playoffs was full of surprises. Will tonight provide more of the same?
Mars and North Catholic certainly hope so, after knocking ...
While classmates are enjoying the start of next summer, Jacob Brock will be overseas on the ice.
The eighth-grade hockey player at Mars Middle School was selected recentl...
The baseball season never ends for Liam Kiddle.
The Butler-area native is just in middle school, but he plays nearly year-round. And in December he’s going to compete in ...
The PIAA on Sunday announced the first-round matchups and sites and times for the state soccer and volleyball championships. And the WPIAL and District 9 football sites f...
Michael Braun never intended to become a state cross country medalist, never intended to be one of the best runners in the state.
But four years after starting his hi...
McMURRAY — Sienna Cozza put it succinctly after the match: whoever won the second set was going to win the game.
She was not wrong.
No. 1 North Allegheny won a thrilling ...
The 2024 cross country season can be largely considered a success for North Catholic’s girls team.
Featuring a roster that’s had as many as five freshman on the varsity t...
