Jake Merda Adams came to the Butler Eagle in May 2024 as its new sports editor.
A Temple University graduate and native of Northampton, PA, he previously worked as the sports editor of The Carlisle Sentinel, sports planning editor for the Wisconsin State Journal and assistant/interim sports editor for the Louisville Courier Journal. He moved back to the Keystone State in 2023 and now lives in Mars with his fiancée and their dog and cat.
Adams has led award-winning sports coverage at the national and state level and covered PIAA champions, state record-breakers and Big Ten football and basketball.
Outside of the office, he likes to run, do yoga, play the occasional video game, try new restaurants and get back to the City of Brotherly Love whenever he can.
It wasn’t exactly hot this week during heat acclimatization, but the sounds of pads, panting and whistles filled the air around Butler County.
Those sounds portend the qu...
New head coach Clay Kohlmeyer and Moniteau player leadership are preaching two things heading into 2025: accountability and no quitting.
Those were two qualities lack...
CHERRY TWP — Brendin Sankey was a serviceable quarterback last year despite Moniteau football’s 0-10 record.
He completed 91 of 193 passes (47.2%) for 1,019 yards, six to...
It’s not often an area is so deep in underclassmen, but that’s exactly what Butler County is this year in cross country.
Butler’s Zari Golojuh, who broke out last year as...
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Over the last eight years, the Golden Tornado have made the PIAA Class 3A Cross...
Evelyn Bliss is learning not to underestimate herself.
But that’s difficult when she keeps blowing by her target.
The former Union/A-C Valley athlete and Bucknell Uni...
Fourteen days remain until the start of the high school football season. Fourteen days until fans get to see the payoff of an offseason of weight room training, playbook ...
No Butler County girls tennis team had a better 2024 season than North Catholic. Really, no school had a better tennis year than the county’s Catholic school, which saw b...
Coaches are not sleeping on Slippery Rock this season.
The PSAC unveiled its preseason coaches poll Thursday, and the conference voted The Rock the No. 1 team in the PSAC...
In two weeks, the games count.
The 2025 PIAA high school football season kicks off Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, across the Commonwealth, and all 11 Butler County area teams wi...
