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2025-2026 Online Registration Dates Fall Sports: July 1, 2025 - August 4, 2025 Winter Sports: October 6, 2025 - November 12, 2025 Spring Sports: January 19, 2026 - February 25, 2026 BIGTEAMS STUDENT/PARENT ATHLETIC REGISTRATION GUIDE Dear Parents/Guardians,Welcome. Below are requirements for participating in the Butler Athletics Program. All requirements must be complete by the registration deadline shown at the top of this page in order to tryout or participate. GENERAL REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTSPrior to any student participating in Practices, Inter-School Practices, Scrimmages, and/or Contests at any sport/team in the Butler Athletic Program, the legal parent(s)/guardian(s) of the student-athlete is required to complete the
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**The start date, time and location shown below is the first MANDATORY day for ALL students trying out for or participating in a sport.** WINTER SPORTS - 2025/2026START DATE, LOCATION, & TIMES 1ST PRACTICE DATE/TRYOUTS - NOVEMBER 14THBoys Varsity Basketball - SHS Main Gym - 3:00-5:30 PMBoys 9th Grade Basketball - SHS Aux Gym - 5:30-7:30 PMBoys 7th Grade Basketball - IHS Gym - 5:00-7:00 PMBoys 8th Grade Basketball - IHS Gym - 7:00-9:00 PMGirls Varsity Basketball - SHS Aux Gym - 3:00-5:30 PMGirls 7th & 8th Basketball - IHS Gym - 3:00-5:00 PMVarsity Bowling - Family Bowlaway - 3:00-5:30 PMVarsity Rifle - SHS Rifle Range - 3:00-5:30 PMVarsity Swimming/Diving - SHS Pool - 3:00-5:30 PMBoys Varsity Wrestling - IHS Wrestling Room - 3:00-5:30 PMGirls Varsity Wrestling - IHS Wrestling Room - 5:30-7:30 PMJunior High Wrestling - IHS Gym - 3:00-5:30 PM 1ST PRACTICE DATE/TRYOUT - DECEMBER 2NDIndoor Track (grades 9-12) - Stadium Annex - 3:00-5:00 PM** START TIMES AN
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ImPACT Testing for student-athletes interested in Winter sports will be held in room 227 at the Butler Intermediate High School from 3:00 - 4:30pm on the following dates: Monday, October 27 - - Boys and Girls Junior High BasketballTuesday, October 28 - - Boys and Girls JV/Varsity BasketballWednesday, October 29 - - Boys and Girls Junior High and Varsity Wrestling ImPACT Tests are good for a period of 2 years. If you are unsure if your child needs an ImPACT test, please contact Haleigh Tropeck at tropeckh@upmc.edu.Any testing outside of scheduled dates is by APPOINTMENT ONLY.ImPACT Tests are mandatory for all sports except: bowling, cross country, golf, rifle, tennis, and track&field If you need a copy of your child's baseline ImPACT test for medical purposes or have any questions, please contact one of our athletic trainers listed below. Holly Bachman-Forbes, MS, LAT, ATCUPMC Sports MedicineAthletic Trainer, Butler High Schoolbachmanh@upmc
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Purchase Game Tickets Online at https://s2pass.comorPurchase Tickets at the gate!(we accept cash, credit card, Apple Pay) Ticket prices are as follows, but keep in mind that if you purchase online tickets, a convenience fee is added by our online ticketing partner (S2 Pass). GeneralStudentFALL SPORTSVarsity Football - Reserved Seats$8.00$8.00Varsity Football - General Admission$6.00$3.00Junior High Football$5.00$3.00Boys' JV/Varsity Soccer$5.00$3.00Girls' JV/Varsity Soccer$5.00$3.00Girls' JV/Varsity Volleyball$5.00$3.00 WINTER SPORTSBoys' JV/Varsity Basketball$5.00$3.00Girls' JV/Varsity Basketball$5.00$3.00Swimming$5.00$3.00Wrestling$5.00$3.00 SPRING SPORTSBoys' Varsity Baseball$5.00$3.00Boys' JV/Varsity Lacrosse$5.00$3.00Girls JV/Varsity Lacrosse$5.00$3.00Boys' JV/Varsity Volleyball$5.00$3.00Butler County Track Invite$5.00$5.00 >(Click on the image to be redirected for purchasing tickets online)
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Butler High School Livestreaming on HUDL Butler Athletics has partnered with HUDL for livestreaming home events. Click on the “it's on hudl” graphic below to be redirected to the Butler High School livestreaming home page, or use the QR code from your cellphone.Cost. $5 per game, $15 monthly pass (plus service fee)Viewers need to create a HUDL account. From the website (https://fan.hudl.com/usa/pa/butler/organization/18532/butler-high-school) From your smart phone **The fee includes access to Butler home games played in Art Bernardi Stadium only (soon to include Butler SHS Main Gymnasium).
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School Days: 8 am - 3 pm Phone: 724-214-3232Fax: 724-287-8791 Butler Senior High SchoolAthletic Office120 Campus LaneButler, PA 16001 Physical Location - Butler Senior High School GymnasiumEntrance - Doors between the new blue auxiliary gym and the main gym
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TSTCA cross country championships serve as preview of WPIALsBy: Paul SchofieldThursday, October 16, 2025 | 8:41 PM Christopher Horner | TribLiveButler’s Brendan Eicher leads the pack during the Class 3A boys race at the TSTCA cross country championship meet on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, at White Oak Park.rviousNext With the WPIAL cross country championships just a week away, Thursday’s Tri-State Track Coaches Association race became a tune-up.Sunny weather and low-60s temperatures greeted more than 1,000 runners at the White Oak course. There were plenty of runners who broke personal records.The six winners were Butler junior Brendan Eicher (3A boys), South Fayette sophomore Angela Zeng (3A girls), Knoch junior Carter French (2A boys), Hampton junior Rebekah Hall (2A girls), Winchester Thurston junior Jack Iyer (A boys) and Winchester Thurston senior Abigail Weinstein (A girls).Not all the top teams participated.
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Congratulations to the Boys Varsity Cross Country team on being the team section champions!
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Congratulations to wrestler - Santino Sloboda - who won the WPIAL Individual Championships. Santino is now a 2-time WPIAL Champion!Also, congratulations to Kace Chopp on his second place finish at the WPIAL Individual Championships! What a great accomplishment!
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Congratulations to our Butler High School Rifle Team!The moment we have all been waiting for is official! Butler Rifle Team is the Pennsylvania State Champions for the first time ever! Congratulations to Jackson Jungling for placing first as the Individual State Rifle Champion!Congratulations to Alyssa Miller for placing fifth in the Individual State Rifle Championships.
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Congratulations to Jackson Jungling on placing first in the State Individual Rifle Championships!
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Congratulations to the following Butler Junior High Wrestlers who placed at the 55 team District VII tournament (WPIAL AAA and AA combined).Dylan Thurber - placed 5th at 145lbsBen Kinney - placed 6th at 87lbsBoth placed at each tournament this year and had outstanding seasons.
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Congratulations to the Boys Track & Field Team! 2024 WPIAL CHAMPIONS!
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WPIAL Announces 2024 James Collins Scholar-Athlete Award Winners The 33rd year of the program saw 20 winners selected from a group of 146 nominees 4/17/2024 11:00:00 AM Pittsburgh, Pa. – The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) revealed the recipients of the 33rd annual WPIAL James Collins Scholar-Athlete Award on Wednesday, with 20 candidates (10 male, 10 female) selected from a group of 146 nominees. The 146 nominees are the eighth-highest total since 2000, and the second most since 2015. The candidate pool consisted of 77 female and 69 male student-athletes from a total of 87 schools, with 15 schools submitting at least one nominee after not doing so last year. Among the 2023-2024 group of applicants, 87.7 percent participated in multiple sports with 11.6 percent being four-sport student-athletes. The nominees played a total of 20 different sports, including baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross
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Photo by David Nguyen | MileSplit National Record Moments Bobby Reyes Mar 10, 2024 BOSTON -- It's official now. Drew Griffith ran himself into the record books. After netting an unofficial national high school record for two miles in February, the Butler senior followed it up at New Balance Nationals Indoor on Sunday, and this time he simply left no doubt. Griffith was well ahead of the pacing lights at The TRACK at New Balance and stopped the clock at 8:34.91, even improving on his former mark by four seconds. Last month Griffith made waves when he ran 8:38.67 on an oversized track at the Alex Wilson Invitational. While the performance in February was an all-time, all-conditions No. 1, it wasn't counted officially as a national record, given that it came on an oversized track. Griffith's performance on Sunday solidified himself in the record books. If the record s
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Congratulations to our boys distance medley relay team State Champions! Drew Griffith, Zack Slear, Griffin Bauer & Owen Dressler
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Congratulations to Drew Griffith who won gold in the mile run at the PA Indoor State Championships & set a new meet record!
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National Record Moments Cory Mull Feb 17, 2024 * Butler's Drew Griffith clocked the fastest 2-mile in history on Saturday at Notre Dame Photo Credit: David Nguyen/MileSplit - - - There were signs last year that Edward Cheserek's 2-mile national record was in jeopardy. In January of last year, Jackson Heidesch clocked a historic 8:42.60 effort at 2-miles to outrun Connor Burns in the final laps at the CYUP Misfits Invitational, registering the fourth-fastest time at the distance in history. He would go on to break four in the mile later that year. Burns, however, would avenge that loss just a few months later, posting the seventh-fastest 2-mile in history with his 8:43.24 from New Balance Nationals Indoor. Still, Cheserek's time stood. No athlete in history had gone under 8:40 for two miles. Maybe Drew Griffith had that on his mind on Saturday when he stepped to the line at the Gold
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Canonsburg, Pa. – The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) started a full week of winter championships at the WPIAL/UPMC Sports Medicine Rifle Team Championships on Tuesday, held at the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club in Canonsburg. Across a competitive nine-team field, Butler successfully defended its 2023 title by edging out Trinity, 799-64x to 799-57x. Butler (14-0, 10-0 Section IV) is now a five-time WPIAL team champion, joining Munhall (23), Trinity (18), Mt. Lebanon (7), Bethel Park (6), Hempfield Area (6), Woodland Hills (6), and Churchill (5) among the schools in that club. The Golden Tornado has won three of the last five titles, and now owns trophies from 1988, 1993, 2020, 2023, and 2024. Butler had six of its eight scorers registered tallies of 100, with Nathaniel Aaron recording a perfect 100-10x. Hayleigh Gorog (100-09x), Luke Frazier (100-09x), Madison Krainbucher (100-08x), Tabitha Burke (100-08x), and Grace
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Drew Griffith from Butler high school won the Footlocker Cross Country National Championship Saturday in San Diego, California. Griffith ran the course in a time of 15:09 and finished ahead of another Pennsylvania runner – Ryan Pajak of Ringgold. Pajak had taken first place over runner-up Griffith in the Northeast Regional in Boston two weeks ago. Drew Griffith led the field of 39 qualifiers to become the first boys runner from Pennsylvania in the 44 year history of the race to be crowned the national champion, and also the first Cross Country runner from Butler high school to do so. Article: Posted by Bob Cupp, Butler Eagle Photo: Victor Sailer@PhotoRun Victah1111@aol.com 631-291-3409 www.photorun.NET #victahsailer
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Congratulations Drew Griffith for winning the PIAA State Cross Country Championship with a time of 15.23!
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The fastest time in Pennsylvania history. The second-fastest on Virginia soil ever. The 16th-best performance in the high school record books. Drew Griffith had himself a day at the MileStat Invitational. The Butler (PA) senior unleashed a ridiculous time of 14:21.00 for 5,000 meters on Saturday to claim the elite boys race at Pole Green Park, coming up just two-tenths of a second short of tying Drew Hunter's all-time soil record of 14:20.80 from 2015. Griffith won by a full 22 seconds, which is saying something because runner-up Berkley Nance ran 14:43 and Calvert Hall's Cameron Davis was third in 15:00. But Griffith did do another thing, too. The Notre Dame commit passed Archbishop Wood graduate Gary Martin ('22) with the fastest-time by any boys athlete in Pennsylvania history, moving past the current Virginia athlete's top time of 14:24.16 from 2021 at the Garmin RunningLane XC Championships. To top it off? Gri
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HUNTER SWIDZINSKI - STATE CHAMPION! Butler boys golf was represented at the PIAA two-day championship round at Penn States Blue course Monday and Tuesday. Butler was represented by senior Hunter Swidzinski. Hunter went +2 shooting 73 on the first day and went -8 shooting 64 on the second day to enter a playoff for 1st place in the championship. Hunter clinched the championship with a 20 foot birdie putt on the 3rd playoff hole against WPIAL champion Nick Turwoski from Penn Trafford. Hunter takes home first place, is the first state champion in Butler high history and one of the lowest rounds in PIAA history. Congrats to state champion Hunter Swidzinski... All that hard work has paid off!
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