Nina Scalise is a Junior in her second year as a High Post staff member. She has been a part of the WCAT-TV broadcasting studio since her freshman year. While this is Nina’s second year on staff, this year she returns as an Editor. Nina likes to write sports stories and take photos of the sports teams, which allowed her to travel to the DMAC awards at RMU to win an award. She is a varsity letterman for the Latrobe girls’ field hockey team and the Latrobe girls’ lacrosse team. Last season, Nina was awarded Athlete of the Week for the Latrobe Bulletin and was an Honorable Mention for the WPIAL all-section. Nina is an active member of the Interact Club and Key Club. She is also a member of the Spanish National Honor Society and Quill and Scroll Honor Society. Nina is looking forward to this school year and taking on new roles in journalism. Digital Media Arts Consortium, Robert Morris University 2025 Award of Excellence – News/Feature Photojournalism 2026 Award of Excellence – Feature Story   Myron Cope Awards, Point Park University 2026 Best Sports Podcast, 1st Place 2026 Sports Segment in the Field, 3rd Place 2026 Best Journalist for High School Newspaper, 2nd Place 2026 Multimedia Journalist of the Year, 2nd Place   Best of Sno 2025 – One Last Game

Haley Marucco is a Junior at Greater Latrobe High School for the 2025-2026 school year.  Haley is starting her first year in journalism and is very excited about this amazing opportunity. She was born and raised in Latrobe and has lived here her whole life. Haley is a part of the Latrobe Girls Basketball team and has been playing since third grade. She is also involved in Key Club and is in the Spanish National Honor Society. She loves helping the school and being involved with the community. In her free time, Haley loves to spend time with friends and family and be active. Haley loves writing stories and taking pictures for various events. She is most excited to write stories and take pictures of sports, but also wants to go out of her comfort zone and try new topics. She hopes to get better at taking pictures and learn more about the process. Her biggest goal for this year is to improve her writing skills and write as many stories as possible. Once again, she is so thankful for this opportunity and can’t wait to start working with the staff!