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By: Tim Birney | PIAA District IV | January 31, 2025
ATHENS - The Athens boys and girls celebrated Senior Night with big wins over Wellsboro and Towanda here Thursday in NTL swimming action.
Sophomore Brayden Pettitt and Eli Hicks, and seniors Ethan Hicks and Ronel Ankam were triple-winner, and senior Ryan Gorman and junior Ty Lezak were double-winners in wins over Wellsboro and Towanda.
Sophomore Kaitlyn Leonard won four events, and juniors Evelyn Panek, Elizabeth Denlinger, and Olivia Thompson were triple-winners in Athens' wins over Wellsboro and Towanda.
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Tim Birney is the founder / owner of River Road Media Group. He was born and raised in the Valley, graduating from Waverly High School in 1984.
Birney earned an Associate's Degree in Journalism from SUNY Morrisville in 1986 and a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism / Public Relations from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1988. He began his newspaper career at The Daily Review in Towanda in 1989, before moving on to The Evening Times in 1995. He spent more than 10 years at the Times, the last four as Managing Editor.
River Road Media Group includes five sites in "The Sports Reports" family that cover 24 school districts in five counties: Valley Sports Report (launched Aug. 10, 2009), Tioga County (NY) Sports Report (Aug. 13, 2018), and Northern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 31, 2020); Northern Tier West Sports Report (March 15, 2021) Southern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 16, 2021).