Mike Vukovcan We’re coming to the end of the calendar year, so I wanted to look back at the previous year.
After we re-launched the website in February and changed things over to Vikings Sports Now, we have written 648 stories on athletes and teams in Hopewell.
Whether it was youth sports, junior high, high school or former Hopewell athletes, VSN did our best to keep you updated on what was happening in our township.
As I looked back and scanned through the stories, we had a lot of great things happening both with our teams and with individual athletes.
This wasn’t an easy thing to rank but I did my best. I’m not going to list them in order, instead I’ll just list what I feel were the Top 10 Biggest Stories in Hopewell from 2025.
Top 10 Biggest Stories in Hopewell from 2025:
*These are not ranked in order; I’m just listing the 10 biggest stories.
1) Hopewell Girls Volleyball Team wins the section and advances to the WPIAL finals for the second consecutive year.
2) Hopewell High School Football Team qualifies for the playoffs for the first time since 2012.
3) Emma Palmieri Sets 4 Hopewell High School Track and Field Records (200M Dash, 4×100, 400M, 4×400 M Relay).
Hopewell’s Emma Palmeri
4) Hopewell HS Bowling Team Wins 1st Ever Southwestern Sectional Title.
5) Hopewell Hires Doug Biega as the HS Boys Basketball Coach.
6) Hopewell Hires Matt Mottes as the permanent HS Football Coach.
7) Zack Kovell Joins the 1,000 Point Club as a Hopewell HS Basketball Player.
Hopewell’s Zach Kovell
8) Connor Progar Sets School record in the Pole Vault (13’10”)
9) James Franklin Visits Hopewell HS to Extend offer to sophomore quarterback James Armstrong
10) Hopewell Sophomore Quarterback James Armstrong Receives 4 Power 4 Scholarship Offers (Pitt, Penn State, North Carolina and West Virginia)
James Armstrong visiting Pitt
