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.
Perhaps no local team lost more talent to graduation than Butler girls basketball.
How the Tornado respond and reload will go a long way to determining if they return to...
There is budding excitement ahead of the 2025-26 PIAA basketball season — the joys of a preseason, when everyone is 0-0 and ready for a new year to begin.
For some teams,...
Butler County cross country coaches had a difficult decision to make this year when picking the top boys runner of the 2025 season.
They choose to pick all three options,...
And then there were two.
Karns City and North Catholic are the last two Butler County teams standing in the 2025 WPIAL and PIAA playoffs. And their paths forward are onl...
Butler County Community college women’s volleyball has finished a program best fifth at the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III National Championshi...
It has been nearly 20 years since Jason Cardillo and Charlie Pienaar took home silver in the PSAC Wrestling Championships, and since they and several of their teammates c...
Hours after punching their tickets to the state semifinals, Freeport girls soccer and Seneca Valley boys soccer know when and where they will play.
The last two Butler Co...
Once again, North Catholic girls tennis had a banner-worthy year, taking home silver medals in the district and state team championships this season.
The Trojanettes are ...
BUTLER — The first Butler Eagle Basketball Media Day was our chance to take stock ahead of the 2025-26 high school season.
It’s a chance to ask how players and coaches t...
Butler boys basketball’s Andrew Gettinger enters his senior season with one big decision off his plate: where to play in college.
The guard-forward verbally committed...
