SIDMAN, Pa. – Five Forest Hills High School seniors announced they will continue their academic and athletic careers in college Tuesday afternoon.
Claire Cabala and Kevin Edmondson will each compete on the St. Francis University track and field team. Tyler Caron is slated to join the cross country and track and field squads at Geneva College.
Marleigh Gray will play soccer at St. Francis. Logan Moss is slated to wrestle at Penn State Altoona.
• Cabala has seen her numbers improve in track and field.
She feels as if her career will only improve when she competes at St. Francis.
“I decided to go to St. Francis because I toured up there and I really like the environment,” Cabala said. “I also met a lot of people who were super-friendly. I really liked it up there. They have good education. They have really good percentages for employment after college, so I really liked it there. The coaches at St. Francis were really friendly and they’re a big reason why I wanted to go there.”
“I like that field because it’s pretty easy to get into, but then you can really build on it,” Cabala said. “It’s something that there’s a lot of options for, so I like that about it.”
Also a member of the 2025 District 6 Class 2A championship soccer team, Cabala will compete in long jump, triple jump and pole vault at St. Francis, which is led by coach Douglas Hoover and will transition from the NCAA Division I level to Division III this fall within the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.
“I like those events a lot because I feel like they’re very technical and there’s a lot you have to work on,” Cabala said.
“It’s a little different from just running and throwing.”
Track and field opened up a new door for Cabala to go through.
“I never really thought that I was going to do sports in college until I started doing track and field,” Cabala said. “I really liked it and became pretty good at it.”
• Caron found a school in Geneva that he believes he can achieve more success in due to its supportive culture.
“Some things that stood out about Geneva to me was their team being really good right now,” Caron said. “Their cross country and track programs are going to have kids to help push me to get better at running. With their teaching program being really good, that’s what I really care about is to become a better educator for the students I’ll be teaching.”
A Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference selection in cross country, Caron will major in secondary mathematics at the NCAA Division III school. The Golden Tornadoes are members of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.
“I liked how the campus was small and together so I didn’t have to go across town for one class and to another,” Caron said. “I really liked how it was a small campus where I could walk maybe not even a mile to one side to the other.”
Caron will compete under the direction of Geneva director of cross country and track and field Phil Thompson. He enjoys how there is margin for error in distance running events.
“I just like how it’s long and even if I mess up at the beginning of the race, I have time to make up for it,” Caron said.
“My mom ran in college (St. Francis), so I always had that aspect of my life where I wanted to go and run in college just like my mom did. Now, I get to do it, so I’m pretty excited to do that.”
Caron broke the Forest Hills course record in 2025 during the cross country season.