Jamie Bahnisch has been appointed as Golf Australia’s new High Performance Director of Pathways.

Most recently the High Performance Manager for the Queensland Academy of Sport, Bahnisch brings to the role a wealth of knowledge and experience guiding Australian athletes.

In his new role, he will be focused primarily on delivering three key objectives. Focus on pathway athletes in the US College system, further parent education framework delivery, and create greater focus, engagement, and connection with athletes at the 12-16 age bracket.

Prior to his role at the QAS, Bahnisch also worked in roles at the Victorian and South Australian Sports Institutes, Walford School for Girls and his experience across a wide-variety of sports such as volleyball, football, hockey, rugby 7s, water polo, and archery, and these systems will ensure the successfully delivery of the key objectives.

“It’s going to be really exciting. I’m really looking forward to it,” said Bahnisch.

“I’m very keen to be able to listen, observe, and learn from everyone. For me that’s a really big part, learning from people and understanding from them what’s working, where do we need to get better, and what are the opportunities. It’s an amazing role to help develop and contribute to the foundations for others to succeed in.

“From my experience at the Queensland Academy of Sport, I will bring the learnings from team sport environments, and I guess bigger squad environments.

“Being able to identify what are the skills or what are the transferables from other systems that you could bring into a golf environment will be important.

“I’m very grateful for the development and lessons learned through my time at the QAS, where I look forward to applying these experiences with our team at Golf Australia.”

Bahnisch will be with Australia’s top golf talent from the moment they are identified as a junior, all the way until they have established themselves as a professional.

“We couldn’t be more pleased to have Jamie on board to continue the success of the Golf Australia High Performance program,” said Brad James, Golf Australia’s General Manager – High Performance.

“Working with athletes, parents, coaches and Australian Golf stakeholders, Jamie will work collaboratively to help our golfers realise their potential.

“He brings aligned skills from his previous role in Queensland and other sports and will hit the ground running and be an invaluable asset to the team.”

To find out more about Golf Australia’s High Performance program, CLICK HERE.

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Penn-Trafford veteran boys volleyball coach Jim Schall looked exhausted after Thursday’s WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal against No. 3 Latrobe, and he did not even play.

But the cagey coach had his team ready for a thrilling match as his No. 6-seeded Warriors stunned the Section 2-3A champs, 3-2, by scores of 21-25, 28-26, 25-18, 18-25 and 16-14.

The Warriors (12-6), who lost twice to the Wildcats (16-2) in the regular season, will face No. 2 Seneca Valley in the semifinals Tuesday.

Schall said the match swung in the second game when his team started to serve better.

“Once we did that, we put them on their heels,” Schall said. “I am really proud of how we played. It was a tough match, and we put everything we had into it. I guess I did too.

“In Game 1, we did not give them much trouble with our serves. We served better starting in Game 2. We had some guys who really served well. We started putting them in some tough spots.”

Latrobe dominated the first game behind the setting of senior Eric Bisignani and the hitting of Owen Ward.

Penn-Trafford swung the momentum its way in Game 2 early, but Latrobe battled back and tied the score at 25. The Wildcats actually toook a 26-25 lead before the Warriors, behind kills by Caiden McDonald and Nick Laskey, rallied to tie the match, 1-1.

Schall felt Owen Gisi played well up front in all five games with his blocking ability.

The teams split the next two games, Penn-Trafford winning 25-18 and Latrobe answering 25-18, to set up the thrilling Game 5.

“This is playoff volleyball,” Latrobe coach Drew Vosefski said. “We had beaten them twice, but there is an old saying that when you get punched to the face, how much do you punch back? They punched back.

“Beating a team for a third time bothered me, but I am not going to make excuses. They played well, and I think we got the short of the stick on a few calls that we should have gotten.”

In a fifth game, the first team to 15, win by two, moves on. The game was close and went back and forth.

Penn-Trafford took a 12-10 lead, but the Wildcats tied it 12-12. P-T went back up 14-12 as Gisi, McDonald and setter Natheniel Rugh started making plays.

Latrobe senior Luke Fiore tied the score at 14 with a service ace, but the next serve sailed long, setting up the final point and McDonald finished it with a block.

“That was a tremendous team we beat,” Schall said. “They have an excellent setter and hitter. But we stepped up. I knew we would have to be really good, and I thought we’d be in the ballgame.”

Paul Schofield is a TribLive reporter covering high school and college sports and local golf. He joined the Trib in 1995 after spending 15 years at the Daily Courier in Connellsville, where he served as sports editor for 14 years. He can be reached at pschofield@triblive.com.

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A main storyline from the 2025 Long Beach Poly baseball season has been the Jackrabbits’ lack of a true home field. And while Gwynn Family Field remains under construction during Poly’s campus overhaul, the program may have stumbled upon a permanent home for their playoff games.

The magic of the 2023 postseason was in the air on Thursday afternoon on LBCC’s Joe Hicks Memorial Field, where the Jackrabbits (15-13) opened this year’s CIF-SS Division 5 playoffs with a 2-1 walk-off win over Mayfair High (20-9).

Poly has walked off winners in their last two games at LBCC, with both of those wins coming in the playoffs. In fact, the last three playoff home games for Poly have ended in walk-off victories. 

Thursday’s hero for the Jackrabbits was senior Daylen Carey, who was wearing a Moore League champion shirt earned during that 2023 season. That Poly team opened the playoffs with a dramatic victory over Beckman, and made a triumphant return to the scene just two years later.

“I was just really excited,” said Carey of his walk-off hit. “I can’t really describe it, but yeah, it was fun.”

Carey not only delivered the game-winning single in the bottom of the seventh, scoring Giovanni Migliazza from third, he was also the starting pitcher for the Jackrabbits, allowing only one run on four hits while striking out eight Monsoons in his complete game effort.

This was the first time head coach Solomon Williams and his Jackrabbits have played a game at LBCC this season, and it ended up as their first walk-off victory in their 28th game of the season. He was understandably impressed by what he saw from his senior right-hander on the mound, as he locked in down the stretch to keep Mayfair off the scoreboard and without a hit over the final three frames.

“What I saw was just utter domination,” Williams said of Carey. “If you’re going to make a playoff run, that’s what it’s going to need to be, is your seniors that have been here for four years, been invested in this program, they’re going to need to take control. And that’s what Daylen Carey did today for us.”

Mayfair took the lead in the fourth inning when freshman Jacob Brown lined a ball into right field that snuck under the glove of the diving Poly outfielder and bounced all the way to the fence for a leadoff triple. He would then score on a balk to put the Monsoons up 1-0, but Mayfair’s offense didn’t do much after that. Carey would retire the next 10 batters he faced, and only gave up a walk the rest of the afternoon.

But Poly’s offense had yet to collect a hit at that point, going up against Mayfair junior Spencer Cummins. It was Carey who finally broke Poly into the hit column, beating out a grounder to short with two outs in the bottom of the fifth.

After a passed ball put pinch runner Alex Morales into scoring position, leadoff man Tate Hammond delivered with a clutch two-out RBI single into left center, tying things up at 1-all.

“We were stoked to answer back right there and not let it go too long (with Mayfair in the lead),” said Williams of that two-out rally. “Just because we go through the lineup twice with no hits, we’ve got to stay with our exact same approach. It’s not time to give up. It’s time to stick with the same thing we’ve been working on and it paid off for (Hammond( right there.”

The Jackrabbits also supported Carey with some solid defense around the infield. Third baseman Deven Munoz had a great diving catch to rob extra bases, and both Izaiyah Gutierrez and Hammond made terrific plays charging ground balls from shortstop and second base, respectively.

Poly’s decisive seventh inning rally started with the No. 6 hitter in the lineup, Migliazza, laying down a great bunt for a hit. The throw to first base sailed high, allowing him to advance to second base to start the frame. Antonio Yepez came in as a pinch hitter and placed a textbook sac bunt that turned into another infield hit, putting Jackrabbits at the corners. Once Fausto Gaxiola was hit by a pitch, it loaded the bases and set the stage for Carey’s heroics.

“I was just thinking, hit the ball hard,” Carey said of his approach in that at-bat. “With no outs, there’s no pressure, because you’ve got three chances, plus the top of the lineup is right behind me. So I was just thinking, hit the ball hard, and whatever happens, happens. I got into a fastball count, so I figured it was coming. I was late on the first one, but I got my pitch on that one.”

Long Beach Poly will be hosting their second round game on Tuesday, welcoming Riverside Poly to (where else?) the LBCC campus. A walk-off win is never guaranteed, but at this point it would be unwise to bet against it.