JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Following two successful years at the helm of the men’s basketball team, Chris Weakley has been hired as Pennsylvania Highlands Community College’s women’s basketball coach.

Weakley will lead the women’s basketball program into its first season of competition in more than 25 years. The program previously competed as an official National Junior College Athletic Association-sanctioned sport from 1998-2000, when the team was known as the Cambria County Area Community College Shawnee Cardinals.

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