Track & Field News

By: Jared Barton 

Two multi-sport athletes took home the 2025 North Allegheny female and male athlete of the year awards this spring.

Senior volleyball and girls flag football player Macey Casten, along with senior cross country and track athlete Jack Bertram, were given the awards as the school year came to a close.

Casten was an All-State volleyball player who led the Tigers in 2024 with 572 digs. She also led the team in aces with 60 and had 56 assists, which was good for fourth on the team. Casten was also named first-team all-section, first-team all-Big 56 and was first-team All-WPIAL. The team captured its eighth straight PIAA title back in the fall. On the gridiron, she was a first-year player who had to fill some big shoes, replacing graduating quarterback Kyra Schmidt. Casten completed over 110 passes and had only turned the ball over four times during the 2025 regular season. She also played defensive back, where she had three interceptions. The two-way player was a member of the Big 33 Girls Flag Football Classic team. Casten is set to attend Penn State in the fall.

Bertram had a tremendous senior campaign, becoming the fastest distance runner in North Allegheny history.  He won three WPIAL gold medals in track, winning the 1600-meter and 3200-meter while also being the anchor on the 4×800-meter relay team that took home gold. Then he came in second at the PIAA Championships in the 3200-meter run with a school-record time and third in the 1600. The 3200-meter run was the sixth-fastest in PIAA Class 3A championship history and broke North Allegheny’s school record of 8:56.43, set by Matt McGoey in 2015. In the winter, Bertram won state gold in the 3000-meter run, defeating the field by three seconds. Back in the fall, he was named the Post-Gazette Athlete of the Week for finishing fifth at the Red, White & Blue Invitational at White Oak Course in McKeesport in September. He was the top WPIAL finisher at the event.  Bertram will run for the University of Notre Dame next year.

Congrats to both Casten and Bertram on tremendous careers at North Allegheny and good luck in your futures!

North Allegheny cross country and track & field runner Anthony Miklos officially signed with Baldwin Wallace on Thursday afternoon to continue his academic and athletic career.

Miklos made two appearances in the WPIAL and PIAA cross country championships. He was a part of two WPIAL Championship teams in 2022 and 2023 and one PIAA Championship team in 2022. Individually, Miklos finish 19th in 2023 and 27th in 2024 at the WPIAL Championships.

In 2024 and 2025 Miklos made two WPIAL Individual Championship appearances in the 1600m run in track & field and was apart of the 2023 WPIAL Championship team at North Allegheny.

Miklos joins a Baldwin Wallace team that competes in the Ohio Athletic Conference. The Yellow Jackets had a runner-up finish in men’s in 2025. The men’s cross country had a sixth-place at the 2025 OAC Championships. Miklos will be majoring in Engineering at Baldwin Wallace.

North Allegheny senior soccer player and track & field member Elliana Vitale was named the Richard J. Collins Scholarship recipient for the 2024-2025 school year.

Vitale is a four-year member of Best Buddies, a National Honor Society Inductee, Science NHS and Key Club. Elliana has been a scholar athlete for four year in both girls soccer and track and field. She was a four-year member of the North Allegheny girls’ soccer team and the team captain her senior year. Vitale was named to the 2023 and 2024 Big 56 and WPIAL All-Section teams.

Vitale was also a four-year member of the North Allegheny track and field team and an NA GOLD Counselor for four years. She was a camp counselor for the NA Just 4 Girls Sports Camp for two years and has been a NA Project Water Dodgeball Tournament Volunteer.

Vitale is still deciding on her college choice, but she plans to major in biomedical engineering wherever she enrolls.

North Allegheny senior Jack Bertram participated in the nationally renowned Arcadia Invitational in Arcadia, California over the weekend. Bertram put a great race together and broke the school record in the 3200-meter run.

Bertram came in eighth in the event with a time of 8:47.76. He beat the previous North Allegheny record by eight seconds. The 3200-meter record was previously held by Matt McGoey who ran a 8:56.43 in 2015.

For complete meet results, click here.

Bertram and North Allegheny will be heading to Seneca Valley this afternoon to take on the Raiders in a section meet at 4 p.m.

Three North Allegheny runners signed letters of intent to continue their running careers at the next level.

Greg Abel signed with High Point University to run track and field. Abel has started the 2025 season off strong coming in first-place in the 1,600-meter run at North Allegheny’s opening meet of the season. Abel will be joining a Panthers team that competes in the Big South. High Point has finished in the top five at the Big South Championships every year since 2012. He will major in International Business.

Jackson Beemer will continue his career at Kenyon College to run cross country and track and field. In the fall, Beemer finished in 33rd place at the WPIAL Championships along with a 64th place finish at the PIAA Championships. Beemer is joining a Kenyon squad that has produced two All-Americans, 32 all-Region runners and at least one All-NCAC performer every year since 1993. Beemer will major in English/History.

Zachary Nash will run at Duquesne next season. Nash got off to a great start in the spring 2025 season winning the 400-meter dash against North Hills and Shaler in North Allegheny’s opener on March 19. Zach also played soccer for North Allegheny in the fall where he scored seven goals for the Tigers along while receiving All-Section and All-WPIAL honors. Nash will join a Dukes team that competes in the Atlantic 10 Conference. He will major in Biology.

All three Tigers are a big part of a North Allegheny boys’ track and field team that is looking to get back to the mountain top and win WPIAL gold like they did in 2023 after a third place finish a year ago. The Tigers are currently 2-0 overall and in the section on the young season and will return to action on Wednesday, April 9 at home against Butler at 3:30 p.m.