Tyrone senior Amber DelBaggio was one of three recipients of the 2003 Blair County Sports Hall of Fame scholarship awards
\n\u201cWe are pleased to continue the tradition of honoring the top student-athletes in the county,\u201d Hall of Fame president David Andrews was quoted as saying. \u201cOnce again, the recipients are outstanding role models.\u201d
\nAmber DelBaggio ranks number one academically in her class of 163, with a grade-point average of 4.33 and scored 1220 on her Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
\nAmber earned three letters in both basketball and volleyball and served as captain in both sports. DelBaggio set the school record for most career assists in volleyball, in addition to be selected to the Mountain League\u2019s First Team All-Star squad.
\n\u201cAmber is obviously very deserving of the award,\u201d said Tyrone volleyball coach Dave Eckberg. \u201cHer academic accomplishments at the school, being valedictorian of the senior class. Her schedule is always so full, but she always had time to excel for us, both on and off the court.\u201d
\nAmber is a member of the Student Council and National Honor Society, and plans to attend Penn State Altoona, where she plans to try out for the volleyball team and perhaps the basketball team.
\n\u201cAmber is truly what a model for what every student-athlete should be,\u201d said Tyrone Athletic Director Tony Yaniello.
\nDelBaggio was the winner of the Levine Award at the 2003 All-Sports Banquet, which is presented to the outstanding female athlete at Tyrone Area High School and also received the Gordon L. Norris Memorial Scholarship Award presented to the outstanding graduating senior girl who has excelled both athletically as well as academically , with special emphasis in the field of mathematics. Amber was also a Scholar Athlete, at Tyrone having a grade point average of 3.75 or better, carrying five or more credits during her senior year with recommendations from all her teachers and coaches.
\nDelBaggio, along with Tom Forr from Bishop Guilfoyle and Matt from Altoona High School will be formally recognized when the Blair County Hall of Fame announces its 2004 inductees in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tyrone senior Amber DelBaggio was one of three recipients of the 2003 Blair County Sports Hall of Fame scholarship awards \u201cWe are pleased to continue the tradition of honoring the top student-athletes in the county,\u201d Hall of Fame president David Andrews was quoted as saying. \u201cOnce again, the recipients are outstanding role models.\u201d Amber DelBaggio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}