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Norah Busch, a 6-foot-1 middle hitter, led the Golden Panthers to a 26-0 record and a third straight PIAA Class 3A state title this past season. Pope John Paul II junior Norah Busch has been named the 2024-25 Gatorade Pennsylvania Volleyball Player of the Year. She is the first student-athlete from PJP II to receive this honor. Gatorade Player of the Year is a top honor in high school sports, annually recognizing one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 state

In its 40th year of honoring the nation’s most elite high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Norah Busch of Pope John Paul II High School is the 2024-25 Gatorade Pennsylvania Volleyball Player of the Year. Busch is the first Gatorade Pennsylvania Volleyball Player of the Year to be chosen from Pope John Paul II High School. Gatorade Player of the Year is the top honor in high school sports, celebrating the nation’s best high school athletes for their success on the cou

The Pope John Paul II Golden Panthers show off their medals and trophy upon clinching the District One 4A championship in a 51-35 victory over the Bishop Shanahan Eagles. (Photo by Dan McCarty) What a turnaround of a season it has been for the Pope John Paul II High School Golden Panthers boys’ basketball team. The squad went from a 2-7 record to clinching the PIAA District One 4A title with a 51-35 victory over the top-seeded Bishop Shanahan Eagles on Saturday,  Feb. 24 at H

2022 PJP Volleyball team Pope John Paul II captured the 2022 PIAA 3A Girls’ Volleyball Championship in thrilling fashion on Nov. 19 on the campus of Cumberland Valley High School. The Golden Panthers edged North Catholic, 3-2 (15-25, 25-12, 18-25, 25-16, 19-17) to seize its first state title in program history and conclude its memorable 2022 campaign with a perfect 27-0 record. Trailing by a 9-6 margin in the intense fifth set, defending 2A champion North Catholic rallied to

Traveling to Conshohocken normally would mean a road trip for Pope John Paul II High School, but the Royersford-based Catholic school traveled across Montgomery County for its Sept. 28 home game against  Phoenixville High School. The alumni of the “legacy” schools that over time consolidated and became Pope John Paul II in 2010, including St. Matthew, Archbishop Kennedy, Bishop Kenrick and Kennedy-Kenrick High Schools, were invited to the Conshohocken “A” Field where home gam