WARREN, Pa. – Kennedy Catholic’s Layke Fields was even better as a junior then she was during her brilliant sophomore season, leading Kennedy Catholic to its second consecutive PIAA Class 2A title and earning herself YDL Sports Network District 10 girls’ basketball Player of the Year honors powered by TapnPay+.
Joining Fields as major award winners are Fairview’s Paige Garrity (Rookie of the Year) and Fields’ coach, Justin Magestro (Chuck Daly Coach of the Year). First-, second-, and third-team All-District 10 teams were also named.
Also see: D9 Girls’ Team • D9 Boys’ Team • D10 Boys’ Team
The first team includes Cathedral Prep’s Jayden McBride, Addie Biel, and Lena Walz, Kennedy Catholic’s Fields and Monique Vincent, Mercyhurst Prep’s Olivia Kulyk, and Northwestern’s Makayla Presser-Palmer.
The second team consists of Kennedy Catholic’s Bella Magestro, Garrity, Harbor Creek’s Brooke Przybylski, Eisenhower’s Clara Steinberg, Wilmington’s Lia Krarup and West Middlesex’s Caitlin Stephens.
On the third team were Warren’s Sammie Ruhlman, Sharpsville’s Lily Palko, Maplewood’s Savannah O’Hara, Kennedy Catholic’s Tori Harvey, Grove City’s Piper Como, Erie’s Aundraya Neavins and Conneaut’s Lainie Harrington.
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2024 YDL SPORTS NETWORK GIRLS’ DISTRICT 10 BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR POWERED BY TAPNPAY+
Layke Fields, Jr., Kennedy Catholic – Fields was a dominant force in leading Kennedy Catholic to its second straight PIAA Class 2A title, including scoring 29 points and 17 rebounds and the game-winning bucket with 5.1 seconds to play in the Golden Eagles’ 42-40 win over Marion Center.
She averaged 20.6 points, 12.0 rebounds, 2.9 blocks, 2.2 assists, and 1.1 steals per game and recorded 23 double-doubles in 29 games including a double-double in all five PIAA playoff games where she averaged 26.6 points and 14 rebounds per game.
She shot 68.9% (250 of 363) from the field.
Fields will enter her senior season with 1,503 career points and 896 career rebounds.
Kennedy Catholic’s Layke Fields puts up a shot while Marion Center’s Mya Lipsie tries to get a hand in her face. Photo by Paul Burdick
2024YDL SPORTS NETWORK GIRLS’ BASKETBALL DISTRICT 10 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR POWERED BY TAPNPAY+
Paige Garrity, Fr., Fairview – After losing the program’s all-time leading scorer, Hope Garrity, to graduation following a trip to the PIAA quarterfinals last season, Paige Garrity helped lift Fairview to the same heights again this season.
Garrity averaged 13.2 points per game and made 82 3-pointers and shot 82% from the charity stripe for a Fairview team that edged Warren to win its second consecutive District 10 Class 4A title, as well as reach the PIAA quarterfinals for the second year in a row.
Fairview’s Paige Garrity.
2024 YDL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL DISTRICT 10 CHUCK DALY COACH OF THE YEAR AS PRESENTED BY THE CHUCK DALY FOUNDATION POWERED BY TAPNPAY+
Justin Magestro, Kennedy Catholic – Magestro helped guide the Golden Eagles to their third consecutive trip to a PIAA title game and second consecutive title in Class 2A.
The Golden Eagles went 25-4 and won 21 of their 25 games by double figures.
Kennedy Catholic’s Justin Magestro. Photo by Paul Burdick
About Chuck Daly: Daly was a 1948 graduate of Kane High School who started his coaching career at Punxsutawney High School (1956-63, 111 wins, D9 title in 1958 and league titles in 1958, 1962, and 1963) before moving into the college and pro ranks where he won two NBA titles with the Detroit Pistons. Daly also coached the 1992 United States Olympic “Dream Team” to a gold medal finish. He was inducted into the James Naismith National Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994. In addition to coaching the Pistons for nine years going 467-271, he spent a little under a season coaching the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1981-82 and coached the New Jersey Nets and the Orlando Magic in the 1990s. He was also the head coach at Boston College and Penn in the college ranks. The NBA continues to honor his coaching legacy with the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award given annually to a longtime NBA coach’s life in basketball and his “standard of integrity, competitive excellence and tireless promotion” of the game.
About the Chuck Daly Foundation: The Chuck Daly Foundation was formed in Punxsutawney in 2016 by 1960 PAHS graduate George “Butch” White, who played basketball under Daly. The foundation was formed primarily to create scholarships for both male and female student-athletes in both basketball and golf.
2024 YDL SPORTS NETWORK GIRLS’ FIRST-TEAM ALL-DISTRICT 10 POWERED BY TAPNPAY+
•Jayden McBride, Sr., Cathedral Prep: 14.0 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 4.0 apg, 37% 3-point, 84% FT
•Lena Walz, Sr., Cathedral Prep: 11.5 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 48% 3-point, 91% FT
•Addie Biel, Jr., Cathedral Prep: 16.0 ppg, 10.0 rpg, 71% free-throws
•Layke Fields, Jr., Kennedy Catholic: 20.6 ppg, 12.0 rpg, 2.9 bpg, 2.2 apg, 1.1 spg
•Monique Vincent, Jr., Kennedy Catholic: 11.3 ppg, 4.4 apg, 2.8 spg, 2.0 apg, 40.7% on 3’s, 77 3-pointers made
•Olivia Kulyk, Sr., Mercyhurst Prep: 17.9 ppg., 61 3-pointers made
•Makayla Presser-Palmer, Soph., Northwestern: 24.7 ppg, 11.0 rpg., 3.6 spg, 3.1 apg
2024 YDL SPORTS NETWORK GIRLS’ SECOND-TEAM ALL-DISTRICT 10 POWERED BY TAPNPAY+
•Clara Steinberg, Soph., Eisenhower: 20.2 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 3.6 apg, 3.3 spg
•Paige Garrity, Fr., Fairview: 13.0 ppg, 82 3-pointers, 82% FT
•Brook Przybylski, Jr., Harbor Creek: 18.1 ppg., 60 3-pointers, 78% FT
•Bella Magestro, Soph., Kennedy Catholic: 11.8 ppg, 5.7 apg, 4.4 rpg, 2.1 spg, 39 3-pointers made
•Caitlin Stephens, Sr., West Middlesex: 20.9 ppg, 76.7 FT
•Lia Krarup, Jr., Wilmington: 19.3 ppg, 71 3-pointers made, surpassed 1,000 career points
2024 YDL SPORTS NETWORK GIRLS’ THIRD-TEAM ALL-DISTRICT 10 POWERED BY TAPNPAY+
•Lainie Harrington, Jr., Conneaut: 17.0 ppg
•Aundraya Neavins, Jr., Erie: 11.4 ppg, 3.3 spg, 2.7 rpg
•Piper Como, Sr., Grove City: 15.5 ppg, 51 3-pointers, 80% FT
•Tori Harvey, Fr., Kennedy Catholic: 10.7 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 2.9 apg, 2.8 spg
•Savannah O’Hara, Sr., Maplewood: 12.2 ppg
•Lily Palko, Jr., Sharpsville: 17.1 ppg, 53 3-pointers
•Sammie Ruhlman, Sr., Warren: 10.0 ppg, 6.2 apg,, 5.2 rpg, 3.3 spg
