Seneca Valley Raiders Softball
Welcome to the 2019-2020 Softball Season
Congratulations to Our 2020 Graduating Class
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Kassie Cavanagh
#29, C/1B Describes herself: organized, accountable, goal-oriented Described by her teammates: focused, sassy, scary until you get to know her, sleepy Future Plans: To attend Robert Morris University to major in Criminal Justice and minor in Psychology. SV Softball Memory: Bus rides to away games and our trip to Myrtle Beach. What’s the one thing you want to do when you can leave your house and businesses are open again: Walk across the football field to receive my diploma. You’ve earned it, Kassie! And your Raiders softball family will be cheering you on the whole way! |
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Julia Ehrman
#13, CF 2019 All Conference honorable mention and 2020 Player to Watch Describes herself: driven, predictable, thoughtful Described by her teammates: fast, considerate, clumsy, speedy Future Plans: Plans to attend Robert Morris University to study Biology/Pre-Med and compete on their softball team. SV Softball Memory: Winning the section title freshman year. What’s the one thing you want to do when you can leave your house and businesses are open again: One thing I would love to do when I can leave my house is go to Sunday brunch with my grandmother. Sounds delicious! I’m hope your grandmother wouldn’t mind if we all joined you. |
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Lindsay Hans
#4, OF Player to Watch in 2020 Describes herself: determined, responsible, leader Described by her teammates: determined, motivated, dedicated, persistent Future Plans: To attend Chatham University to study nursing and compete on the women’s softball team. SV Softball Memory: All the laughs I shared during the late nights in Myrtle Beach with all the other seniors. What’s the one thing you want to do when you can leave your house and businesses are open again: Once the world goes back to whatever the new normal is going to be, the 1st thing I want to do is hangout with my friends without taking for granted the time we get to spend together. Well said, Lindsay! |
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Maura Pasquale
#21, SS 1st Team All conference 2019 and Player to Watch in 2020 Describes herself: organized, competetive, passionate Described by her teammates: kind- hearted, level-headed, determined, charismatic Future Plans: To attend Edinboro University to major in digital media production and compete on the women’s softball team. SV Softball Memory: Taking room pictures every night in Myrtle Beach. What’s the one thing you want to do when you can leave your house and businesses are open again: To play softball and walk across the stage at graduation. Maura, we are looking forward to that, too! |
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Kearson Wagner
#17, P/OF 1st Team All conference 2019 and Player to Watch in 2020 Describes herself: outgoing, confident, approachable Described by her teammates: motivated, supportive, wild, leader Future Plans: To attend Edinboro University to major in Speech-Language Pathology and compete on the women’s softball team. SV Softball Memory: Singing our hearts out on the bus ride home from NA after winning the section. What’s the one thing you want to do when you can leave your house and businesses are open again: Go to TJ Maxx and Sheetz and hangout with my friend group, the T’s. Sheetz fried apps on Kearson! |
Julia Ehrman awarded Bertha Murray Award
Congratulations to Senior Julia Ehrman for earning the 2020 Bertha Murray Award. Heather Lewis and George Trew presented Julia with the award, celebrating Academic and Athletic Success. The Bertha Murray award is awarded to one male and one female recipient each year. Congrats Julia!
Celebrating Our Seniors - Senior Night Program
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Link to Download the full PDF Version: seniorprogram.pdf
6 Named as Players to Watch for 2020
Seneca Valley had 6 players named as players to watch for the 2020 season. Even though we are not playing at this moment, congrats are due to the following players:
Maura Pasquale (Sr) - IF
Julia Ehrman (Sr) - OF
Lindsay Hans (Sr) - OF
Kearson Wagner (Sr) - OF
Mackenzie Baker (Jr) - IF
Maddie Gross (So) - IF/P
Check out the full list and season outlook guide:
cover3athletics.wixsite.com/westpa/copy-of-2017-cta-bb-sb-players-of-t
Maura Pasquale (Sr) - IF
Julia Ehrman (Sr) - OF
Lindsay Hans (Sr) - OF
Kearson Wagner (Sr) - OF
Mackenzie Baker (Jr) - IF
Maddie Gross (So) - IF/P
Check out the full list and season outlook guide:
cover3athletics.wixsite.com/westpa/copy-of-2017-cta-bb-sb-players-of-t
SV Softball in the News: We are honored to have such an amazing person on our coaching staff.
In youth sports, we talk all the time about modeling good behavior. The head coach for our Middle School softball team did more than just talk about it.
"For those of you who were not aware, one of our own did something amazingly brave and selfless.
You can’t help but to feel proud that one of our colleagues is a part of something like this.
What a great representative of a building named after Ryan Gloyer." -Anthony Babuski, Principal, SV Ryan Gloyer Middle School
Read the full story here:
butlereagle.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=BE&Date=20200207&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=702079911&Ref=AR
"For those of you who were not aware, one of our own did something amazingly brave and selfless.
You can’t help but to feel proud that one of our colleagues is a part of something like this.
What a great representative of a building named after Ryan Gloyer." -Anthony Babuski, Principal, SV Ryan Gloyer Middle School
Read the full story here:
butlereagle.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=BE&Date=20200207&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=702079911&Ref=AR
SV teacher immediately made decision to help
February 7, 2020 Local News
GABRIELLA CANALES/BUTLER EAGLE
BADEN — Instead of receiving a gift on her birthday, Lisa Tyson gave one.
Tyson, who is a Ryan Gloyer Middle School eighth-grade reading teacher and softball coach, donated her kidney to a neighbor — Donna Francis of Baden — who was a stranger at the time.
“I call it my smacked in the face by God moment,” said Tyson, 52. “Without thinking and without hesitation, I said, 'You can have one of mine.' ”
Francis, 66, referred to Tyson as her “angel” for her donation.
“She made a huge sacrifice,” said Francis. “She gave me a kidney, she gave me a life, and now I feel like she has my heart and I have hers.”
National Donor Day is observed every year on Feb. 14, Valentine's Day. It is designed to spread awareness and education about organ, eye and tissue donation and to recognize those who have given and received the gift of life through a donation, are waiting for a life-saving transplant or who died waiting for a donated organ.
“I feel like everyone comes into each others' lives for a reason,” Tyson said.
Their stories
Francis learned she was in stage 3 kidney failure in 2013 after her blood work was completed for her lumbar laminectomy surgery for spinal stenosis.
“I had no clue I had a kidney problem. There were no symptoms,” she said.
A history of high blood pressure, heavy lifting in her 35-year career as an inventory specialist for Heritage Valley Beaver and time spent sitting for computer work might have caused her renal failure.
At the age of 30, she went on blood pressure medication. High blood pressure runs in her family.
After her back surgery, Francis went on disability because her doctor did not clear her for work.
At that point, she found a nephrologist, a kidney specialist.
In February 2018, she was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney failure and her doctor asked if she wanted to be on the transplant list. Her kidney function went down to 14 percent.
If Francis did not get a kidney, she would have to go on dialysis three times a week for three hours, she said.
“I blocked it out of my mind,” she said. “Every time I thought about it, I actually had anxiety. I would get so nervous just thinking about it.”
That is when she registered with the transplant clinic.
Months later in April 2018, she was notified she was a candidate. However, she was told it could take five to seven years to receive a kidney.
“I'd cry every time I'd think about it,” Francis said. She got a part-time job during the summer at Marshalls to keep her mind off the waiting period.
Several family members offered to donate a kidney, Francis said. However, she did not accept.
At the time, she lived in Ohioville in the home she and her husband built in 1978 and in which they raised their two sons and spent time with their grandchildren.
“I was having a very hard time climbing the steps in our home,” she said. “I couldn't even carry a gallon of milk. I just felt like I was going to fall over.”
In October 2018, they sold the family home after the kidney worsened over a period of five years, Francis said.
“Paul knew I was getting worse, and I had to find a home on one floor,” she said of her husband, who would have to leave behind his garden and passion for tending it. “I knew he was going to be sad. No matter where we went, he never said that to me.”
On Dec. 8, 2018, the couple moved into a home in a complex in Baden.
That December, Tyson, who is athletic and active, watched the television show “American Ninja Warrior.” Francis moved in nearby, unbeknownst to Tyson.
On the episode, a participant, who wore a telephone number people could call for information on organ donation, donated an organ to his friend in the audience, Tyson said.
“I remember thinking, 'I would do that in a heartbeat,' ” she said, noting that the donor could take part in the physical challenge after the transplant. “How amazing would that be to save somebody's life?”
But she didn't give organ donation any further thought at the time.
In the summer of 2019, Francis and Tyson, who lived two blocks from each other, met at the swimming pool.
They became acquaintances and occasionally saw each other at the mailboxes at the complex entrance near Francis' home.
That fateful day
Tyson saw Francis in her garden when she picked up her mail on Aug. 9, her birthday, and asked how she was doing.
Francis said she had just come home from another doctor's appointment, and that she was in stage 5 kidney failure — which she had learned the day before. Her kidney function had dropped to 12 percent.
“I never told anyone about my kidney problem,” Francis said. “I don't know what made me open up to her, because I never told any of the other neighbors.”
Tyson said she was stunned.
“I almost fell over. It felt like somebody punched me in the face,” Tyson said. “You can't tell somebody (something) like that and walk way.”
Francis told her she would need a transplant or would be on dialysis by Christmas, prompting Tyson to tell her she could have one of her kidneys.
Francis insisted that Tyson think about the decision.
“What's to know?” Tyson told her. “You are a human being who needs something, and I have what you need.”
Francis cried, hugged Tyson and called her an “angel” about 20 times, Tyson said.
“Let me know what I need to do,” she said.
That night, Tyson found Francis on the donor website and told her family about her choice during her birthday dinner at a restaurant. Her family ultimately supported her altruistic act.
“I feel like I was the one giving a gift in that moment,” Tyson said. “I felt like, what an amazing thing, what a beautiful thing to do.”
February 7, 2020 Local News
GABRIELLA CANALES/BUTLER EAGLE
BADEN — Instead of receiving a gift on her birthday, Lisa Tyson gave one.
Tyson, who is a Ryan Gloyer Middle School eighth-grade reading teacher and softball coach, donated her kidney to a neighbor — Donna Francis of Baden — who was a stranger at the time.
“I call it my smacked in the face by God moment,” said Tyson, 52. “Without thinking and without hesitation, I said, 'You can have one of mine.' ”
Francis, 66, referred to Tyson as her “angel” for her donation.
“She made a huge sacrifice,” said Francis. “She gave me a kidney, she gave me a life, and now I feel like she has my heart and I have hers.”
National Donor Day is observed every year on Feb. 14, Valentine's Day. It is designed to spread awareness and education about organ, eye and tissue donation and to recognize those who have given and received the gift of life through a donation, are waiting for a life-saving transplant or who died waiting for a donated organ.
“I feel like everyone comes into each others' lives for a reason,” Tyson said.
Their stories
Francis learned she was in stage 3 kidney failure in 2013 after her blood work was completed for her lumbar laminectomy surgery for spinal stenosis.
“I had no clue I had a kidney problem. There were no symptoms,” she said.
A history of high blood pressure, heavy lifting in her 35-year career as an inventory specialist for Heritage Valley Beaver and time spent sitting for computer work might have caused her renal failure.
At the age of 30, she went on blood pressure medication. High blood pressure runs in her family.
After her back surgery, Francis went on disability because her doctor did not clear her for work.
At that point, she found a nephrologist, a kidney specialist.
In February 2018, she was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney failure and her doctor asked if she wanted to be on the transplant list. Her kidney function went down to 14 percent.
If Francis did not get a kidney, she would have to go on dialysis three times a week for three hours, she said.
“I blocked it out of my mind,” she said. “Every time I thought about it, I actually had anxiety. I would get so nervous just thinking about it.”
That is when she registered with the transplant clinic.
Months later in April 2018, she was notified she was a candidate. However, she was told it could take five to seven years to receive a kidney.
“I'd cry every time I'd think about it,” Francis said. She got a part-time job during the summer at Marshalls to keep her mind off the waiting period.
Several family members offered to donate a kidney, Francis said. However, she did not accept.
At the time, she lived in Ohioville in the home she and her husband built in 1978 and in which they raised their two sons and spent time with their grandchildren.
“I was having a very hard time climbing the steps in our home,” she said. “I couldn't even carry a gallon of milk. I just felt like I was going to fall over.”
In October 2018, they sold the family home after the kidney worsened over a period of five years, Francis said.
“Paul knew I was getting worse, and I had to find a home on one floor,” she said of her husband, who would have to leave behind his garden and passion for tending it. “I knew he was going to be sad. No matter where we went, he never said that to me.”
On Dec. 8, 2018, the couple moved into a home in a complex in Baden.
That December, Tyson, who is athletic and active, watched the television show “American Ninja Warrior.” Francis moved in nearby, unbeknownst to Tyson.
On the episode, a participant, who wore a telephone number people could call for information on organ donation, donated an organ to his friend in the audience, Tyson said.
“I remember thinking, 'I would do that in a heartbeat,' ” she said, noting that the donor could take part in the physical challenge after the transplant. “How amazing would that be to save somebody's life?”
But she didn't give organ donation any further thought at the time.
In the summer of 2019, Francis and Tyson, who lived two blocks from each other, met at the swimming pool.
They became acquaintances and occasionally saw each other at the mailboxes at the complex entrance near Francis' home.
That fateful day
Tyson saw Francis in her garden when she picked up her mail on Aug. 9, her birthday, and asked how she was doing.
Francis said she had just come home from another doctor's appointment, and that she was in stage 5 kidney failure — which she had learned the day before. Her kidney function had dropped to 12 percent.
“I never told anyone about my kidney problem,” Francis said. “I don't know what made me open up to her, because I never told any of the other neighbors.”
Tyson said she was stunned.
“I almost fell over. It felt like somebody punched me in the face,” Tyson said. “You can't tell somebody (something) like that and walk way.”
Francis told her she would need a transplant or would be on dialysis by Christmas, prompting Tyson to tell her she could have one of her kidneys.
Francis insisted that Tyson think about the decision.
“What's to know?” Tyson told her. “You are a human being who needs something, and I have what you need.”
Francis cried, hugged Tyson and called her an “angel” about 20 times, Tyson said.
“Let me know what I need to do,” she said.
That night, Tyson found Francis on the donor website and told her family about her choice during her birthday dinner at a restaurant. Her family ultimately supported her altruistic act.
“I feel like I was the one giving a gift in that moment,” Tyson said. “I felt like, what an amazing thing, what a beautiful thing to do.”
Softball Boosters Mailing List
Parents of any Middle School Softball players interested in trying out for the 2020 Middle School Softball team should email svsoftballboosters@gmail.com to be added to our mailing list. This is the best way to stay up to date on conditioning, try-out information, and booster information.
Parents of any Middle School Softball players interested in trying out for the 2020 Middle School Softball team should email svsoftballboosters@gmail.com to be added to our mailing list. This is the best way to stay up to date on conditioning, try-out information, and booster information.
College Commitments
Congrats Maura Pasquale on making your commitment official to attend Edinboro University to major in Digital Media and continue your softball career career!
Congrats to Lindsay Hans on committing to Chatham University where she will major in Nursing and compete on the softball team.
Kearson Wagner has officially committed to Edinboro University to study Speech Language Pathology and compete on the softball team. Congrats to Kearson!
Julia Ehrman has committed to Robert Morris University, where she will study Biology and compete on the softball team. Congrats Julia!
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