OLSH’s Jonah Schollaert captures WPIAL 2A boys golf championship

• OLSH senior Jonah Schollaert won his first WPIAL Class 2A boys golf championship.
• Schollaert qualified for his fourth consecutive PIAA state championship.
• Sewickley Academy freshman Trey Susa and West Allegheny sophomore Nico Ward also qualified for the PIAA championships.

MCMURRAY — When OLSH’s Jonah Schollaert stepped onto the first tee box in the final round of the 2025 WPIAL Class 2A boys golf championship at Valley Brook Country Club Sept. 30, the senior led the field by two strokes. 

Despite shooting three-over in the final round, the senior qualified for his fourth consecutive PIAA championship and captured his first WPIAL Class 2A title, carding a 75. 

“This feels amazing,” Schollaert said. “I have wanted to win the WPIALs for a while and came so close throughout high school. It feels nice to finally be able to clutch up for once and achieve the goal.”

The senior golfer is no stranger to golfing in big matches throughout his high school career, qualifying as a freshman at Quaker Valley, finishing tied for 13th and also the past two years at OLSH (3rd & T-4th). 

However, the golfer has never come into the final round leading the pack, until today. 

But instead of feeling pressure of holding the lead, Schollaert remained composed and did not try to do too much. 

“I am sure that there was extra pressure, but I felt the same as I normally do when I golf in these types of matches,” Schollaert said. “There was definitely some added pressure on the first tee box, just like everybody else feels, but I wasn’t that nervous and surprised myself.”

It was an up and down round for the senior, carding a pair of bogeys on the front and back nine, while making a birdie on No. 16

While he may not have played his best round, Schollaert continued to focus on the goal of winning a WPIAL championship, blocking out his previous holes in the round and pushed forward. 

“It wasn’t my best round of golf today,” Schollaert said. “Nothing was great, but nothing was terrible. I scrapped my way through, hit enough good shots to outweigh the bad ones and made enough pars to make out.”

As Schollaert concluded his WPIAL individual golf career qualifying for four-straight PIAA Championships, Sewickley Academy’s Trey Susa began his high school career, qualifying for the state championship with the freshman tying for third, finishing +6 overall.

“I made a ton of clutch putts out there today to put me in this position. It feels great to be able to compete amongst some of the best golfers in the WPIAL,” Susa said. 

In the freshman’s first round match, the short game was a weak spot for Susa, recording four bogeys on the front nine. 

But in the championship match, Susa locked in, as after two bogeys on the first three holes, he carded birdies on No. 9 and 15 to complete the round one-over. 

“Today I focused on taking extra time when I was on the green and my putter got hot,” Susa said. “I was hitting my spots and played a lot smarter off the tee, playing irons and three woods instead of my driver.”

Along with the pair of PIAA state qualifiers from Class 2A, in the WPIAL Class 3A Championship at Butler Country Club on Sept. 29, one Beaver Valley golfer qualified for the PIAA State Championships. 

West Allegheny sophomore Nico Ward finished the championship shooting even par with a score of 142 in two rounds, finishing with WPIAL bronze. 

This is the second time in Ward’s high school career that he has qualified for the state finals, finishing tied for ninth in 2024. 

While Ward will be heading to State College again, Ambridge’s Colt Hisiro golfed a historic round, becoming the first golfer in the program’s history to qualify for the WPIAL Championship. 

“Qualifying and playing in the WPIAL Championship gives me some pride that they [Ambridge] can put it on a piece of paper saying that this student attended and represented us as a community in the WPIAL Golf Championships,” Hisiro said. 

Hisiro came into the final round, tied for 16th, two spots away from qualifying for the state championships. 

While the final round might not have gone his way after carding an 86 (+16) and tying for 34th overall, the experience of playing in the championship is something he will always remember. 

“The course was really pure and one of the best that I have ever played at,” Hisiro said. “You have to rely on your short game, but it was my irons that failed me. When I shot well in the previous two rounds, I was hitting greens. It was long playing from the tips, so you had to hit fairways.”

The PIAA State Championships will tee off on October 20 at the Penn State Golf Courses in State College, Pa.