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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Josh Pratt, who is a senior that plays basketball as a guard for Lincoln Park High School, was ruled fully eligible for the 2025-2026 Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League basketball season after a hearing on Tuesday by the WPIAL Board of Directors. According to WPIAL executive director Scott Seltzer, a hearing panel granted Pratt playoff eligibility. Pratt and his brother Jeremiah Pratt both transferred on June 12th, 2025 to Lincoln Park High School from Aliquippa High School. Pratt has college basketball offers including offers from Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, along with Columbia University, Drexel University, Hofstra University, Robert Morris University and Northeastern University. Pratt has a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Assoication and a WPIAL title as a sophomore playing for Aliquippa High School and went to the playoffs for both the PIAA and the WPIAL playing for Aliquippa High School as a junior. Pratt had 22 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game as a junior and during that time, he became the WPIAL Class 3A player of the year. During Pratt’s sophomore and junior seasons playing for Aliquippa High School, Pratt was named in the Pennsylvania all-state teams for the PA Sports Writers. Pratt is hoping to get the Lincoln Park High School basketball team back on track now that he is on their team, because during the 2024-2025 basketball season, the Lincoln Park High School Leopards finished 0-12 in WPIAL Class 5A Section IV play and 2-20 overall.