{"id":173001,"date":"2026-04-22T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173001\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:07:13","slug":"erie-firsts-collins-makes-college-hoops-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173001\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie First\u2019s Collins makes college hoops choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wed, April 22, 2026 at 4:04 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/996d10a845168b29943061156010b2e6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Erie First\u2019s Collins makes college hoops choice<\/p>\n<p>In local high school boys basketball news, Erie First Christian Academy\u2019s Avery Collins has made his college choice official.<\/p>\n<p>The all-time leading scorer in the city of Erie, Collins, will head to Edinboro University to play for head coach Justin Jennings and the Fighting Scots.<\/p>\n<p>Collins led the Eagles to back to back D-10 titles while winning three championships in his time with the program.<\/p>\n<p>Erie First reached the PIAA class A state quarterfinals this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, April 22, 2026 at 4:04 AM UTC Erie First\u2019s Collins makes college hoops choice In local high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[77561,77565,77564,36826,136,138,137,77562,77563],"class_list":["post-173001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-avery-collins","tag-college-choice","tag-collins","tag-edinboro-university","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fighting-scots","tag-justin-jennings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}