Charles E. (Chazzie) Brown, II - Inducted 2022

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A 1967 graduate of Chambersburg Area High School, Charles E. (Chazzie) Brown II played football and basketball for the Trojans and was a two-year letter winner on the court. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army and was decorated as a combat infantry veteran serving in Vietnam. 

After military service, Chazzie's football career took off when he joined the Cardinals Semi-Pro football team. A defensive stalwart who played safety, Chazz led the Cardinals to the 1969 IFL Championship. He was named All-League in 1970 and 1977.

After stints with the cardinals in the Seaboard League and Cumberland Colts where he earned All-League honors, he played for the Chambersburg Yellow Jackets. In 1974, they captured the IFL Championship and, in 1975, made the playoffs when Chazz played both offense and defense. Showing his versatility, Chazz returned to the Cardinals in 1976 and earned All League honors at Outside Linebacker. 

After playing Tight End for the Waynesboro Tigers in 1977, he capped his playing career as Tight End/Defensive End for the Franklin County Minutemen. That 1978 squad was led by Chazzie's performance on both sides of the ball as the Minutemen won the Mason-Dixon League Championship. Again, he earned All-League honors at both positions. Chazz later coached youth league football and at the high school level. 

Inducted into the AFA American Football Association Semi-Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010, Chazz was an assistant coach for the Chambersburg Cardinals that won the NAFL National Championship in 2010 and won the GDFL National Championship in 2017. Chazzie's achievements as a star football player and coach paved the way to his well-earned place in South Central Pennsylvania sports history..

INDUCTED IN 2021

Tim Ebersole was given two golden opportunities by Shippensburg University in his life, and he's made the most of both of them. As a student-athlete, he quarterbacked the 1981 edition of the Red Raiders to a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) football championship with an  11-0 record.

The team advanced to the NCAA Division II tournament, where Ebersole came up especially big in the quarterfinal round, passing for two touchdowns and running for two more in Shippensburg's 40-27 win over Virginia Union. That win earned Shippensburg's its only berth in the national football

semifinals to date.

By the end of his career Ebersole had set or tied 31 school records for total

offense and passing. His 1981 NCAA passer rating of 156.1 ranked him third in the nation in passing efficiency for the season. Those results also garnered notice attention in the larger football world. Ebersole was an AII-PSAC and All-Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference first team selection in 1982, an honorable mention All-American player in 1981 and 1982, and the PSAC and ECAC Player of the year in 1981.

But his contributions to Shippensburg were far from complete. After

sandwiching stints as a school teacher and coach in York and Westminster, Md., around an eight-year tenure as an assistant on Jim Monos's football staff at Lebanon Valley College, Ebersole was offered an assistant coaching job back at Ship. But a funny thing happened on the way back to Seth Grove Stadium.

Then-Shippensburg President Tony Ceddia intercepted Ebersole and

convinced him to fill a new administrative position focused on alumni, government and community relations. It sidetracked his coaching career, but Ebersole would hold the title of Executive Director for University Relations for nearly 20 years before switching into a new role leading academic support services for Shippensburg's athletes.

Ebersole did maintain one other competitive outlet though, even if this one

didn't always endear him to the fans: He worked for more than 20 years as an NCAA men's basketball official, calling games in multiple Division I conferences up and down the Eastern seaboard, and officiating the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball National Championship game in 2010.

Now 60, Ebersole has just retired from officiating so he no longer runs the

hardwoods, but he does keep his hand in the game by scheduling officials for six different collegiate leagues, including the PSAC. The York native says he's

gratified both for the opportunities Shippensburg gave him, and the chance he had to pay it back during the course of his career.

The lessons learned in football - dedication to goals, working in a team

environment - were used "in everything that I've done," Ebersole said recently. "And that allowed me to give back to the institution that really helped to lay the groundwork for me professionally."

But he's says after all that, he's most proud of his children and grandchildren.

Ebersole lives in the New Cumberland area, where he's staying active with his coordinating duties and watching those grandchildren grow..

INDUCTED IN 2019

Tonight, we honor another area footballer who has made a career at the highest level of the sport, longtime NFL offensive line coach and Delone Catholic High School graduate Patrick Flaherty. If blocking and tackling are truly the heart and soul of football, then you can consider Flaherty a master cardiologist. In 2019, he will be entering his 42nd year of coaching in a new post as offensive line coach for the Miami Dolphins and their first-year head coach, Brian Flores.

It is not by accident that Flaherty is still doing this. He is noted as one of the top 0-line coaches in the league, with a: resume that is highlighted by a long affiliation with the New York Giants during head coach Tom Coughlin's 2004-15 run that included three NEC East titles and, of course, Super Bowl championships in 2007 and 2011.

For Flaherty, his football odyssey can be traced to the fields of the old Blue Mountain League, where he suited up for the Delone Squires from 1970 through 1973, playing both ways as a lineman and linebacker. Flaherty's all-league career there earned him a ticket to East Stroudsburg University, where he played center for four years, eventually becoming an All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and Associated Press Division II All American honoree.

Flaherty broke into coaching immediately after graduation, albeit under somewhat sad circumstances. He returned home after his college graduation to help stabilize his family after his father, JT Flaherty's, sudden death in 1978. He coached at Delone and then worked two years at East Stroudsburg before getting his big break by landing on Joe Paterno's Staff at Penn State as an offensive line assistant in 1982. It was there, under the tutelage of Paterno lieutenant Dick Anderson, Flaherty said, that he helped the Nittany Lions win their first national title and really earned his graduate degree in teaching and coaching offensive lineman. Flaherty would follow Anderson to Rutgers in 1984, starting what would become an 18-year stretch at a variety of Division I programs.

In 2000, Flaherty transitioned into the National Football League, when he was hired to join then-Coach Norv Turner's staff in what would be the last year of that regime. After three years with the Chicago Bears, where he enjoyed a productive relationship with Dick Jauron who had worked with Tom Coughlin in Jacksonville, Flaherty got the call to join Coughlin's staff in New York. Their success together was great on a lot of levels for the obvious - the Super Bowl rings - to the kind of things that professional coaches could appreciate: a stable situation that allowed the Flaherty’s' children to do most of their schooling in a single location.

Most recently, Flaherty reconnected with his old boss in Jacksonville, where Flaherty was offensive line coach for the Jaguars in their 2017-18 seasons. And now, it's on to Miami. Flaherty comes into the Hall just as charged up about this assignment as any he's ever had. "I get excited every day," he said, "and I get really excited on game days for the competition." 

As far as Flaherty's football journey has taken him, it must also be noted that he has never lost sight of or cut connections to his football roots. Every summer, the coach returns to Delone's field - now named after the elder Flaherty who was a longtime coach, teacher, dean of students and athletic director there - to run the Mason-Dixon Lineman Clinic, a one-day camp aimed at teaching kids in grades 7-12 the finer points of playing on the most important unit on the field. Proceeds from the camp go to scholarship funds at Delone.

Tonight, Flaherty joins his dad as a member of the South Central Pa. Sports Hall of Fame. (J.T. Flaherty - was enshrined in 1988). For that, and because of the reflection this honor shines back on a whole host of former coaches, players and supportive family members, Flaherty says he is grateful. "I feel very, very honored because of the people who came before me," he said. "To be mentioned in the same breath with these other inductees ... It really gives you a bolt of energy."

INDUCTED IN 2018

Russ Greenholt took the Bermudian Springs football program to unprecedented heights in the 1990s, winning three league and three District III Championships in his 11 years as head coach. Greenholt's Eagles flew to a combined 84-45 record form 1988 through 1998, and in the middle of that string they once put together a remarkable string of 34 straight regular season wins. 

Described in the press as a master motivator, it was said that Coach Greenholt stressed four goals to his players at the start of each season: Strive for daily progress, both on and off the field; shoot for a winning season; be sure to put your best foot forward for your league games; and, hopefully, compete for a division championship. Greenholt's Eagles always checked off more than one of those goals, and many times, all four.

The thing about Greenholt's coaching that seemed to set him apart was a unique ability to get his players in the best position to achieve their goals, and then, whenever the ride ended, to help them also take the full measure of enjoyment out of what they had accomplished together. "The psychology of coaching always intrigued me," Greenholt said recently. "Like how could I do a better job of making sure that our kids were not complacent? Because complacency was going to be the death of us"

You want button-pushing? How about the time Greenholt asked the Bermudian Springs librarian to laminate copies of The Scranton Times from Dec. 5, 1992, the day after his charges were throttled by Valley View 32-0 in a state semi-final appearance. Sure, it was a state semi-final appearance, and no one was dismissing that. But Greenholt believed it would be useful for his 1993 players to understand that while they might be cruising through their own regular season schedule, there are always going to be bigger tests out there. "It is a grim reminder to our kids of how we felt last year. It brings them down to Earth real quick," Greenholt told The Patriot-News at the time.

And as for not overlooking the journeys you've had? Greenholt had that perspective covered, too. "You don't get everything you want," Greenholt told The Patriot after a tough, 14-7 defeat in the '93 state AA semis, a game that closed out a three-year run that included a 37-4 record, two league titles and a pair of District Ill championships. "But what (the seniors) have given our school over the last three years is something that I'll never forget."

Of course, the sustained success at Bermudian took more than motivation. Looking back, Greenholt credits consistency in his staff and in what they asked their players to do, as well as a decade's worth of great kids. 

Greenholt left coaching after one last district title in1998 as future career opportunities in school administration opened up for him. He would go on to serve as principal at Bermudian Springs and York Suburban high schools, before joining Conewago Valley School District in Adams County as assistant superintendent in 2012. Since 2014, he's been superintendent at Conewago Valley, based in New Oxford.

Outside of his school responsibilities, Greenholt also served as president of the York-Adams Interscholastic Athletic Association from 2010 through 2012, and he was inducted into the Adams County Chapter of the Pa. Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. A former Delone Squire, Greenholt is a graduate and football alum of East Stroudsburg, where he graduated in 1982. He lives in Conewago Township, outside Hanover, with his wife, Kathy. They have three daughters and three grandchildren.

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 After a life spent as something of a backstage manager, Susan Fumagalli Mahoney gets her closeup tonight. Fumagalli Mahoney is honored here for a career spent in perfecting the art of making things happen, whether it's running a seamless conference or national championship, or promoting a student-athlete for a post-graduate scholarship.

Our inductee has been doing those things since 2004 as a member of Gettysburg College's athletic department, where she's been a driving force behind the Bullets' pursuit of excellence on a national scale. As Senior Associate Director of Athletics since 2018 Fumagalli Mahoney fills a variety of roles, including managing the department's budget, writing NCAA gender equity reports, and serving as liaison to other campuses entities. She also manages awards programs and promotes individuals for national awards, including NCAA postgraduate scholarships. Since her arrival, five Bullets have been named postgraduate recipients.

But where she's really shined, colleagues say, is in administering the big event, whether it's bringing together hundreds of swimmers for a Centennial Conference championship meet, or hosting an occasional NCAA national championship. Fumagalli Mahoney has managed three of the latter during her tenure at Gettysburg: the 2010 Division II and Ill Women's Lacrosse Championships; and the 2014 Division Ill Women's Lacrosse Championship.

Fumagalli Mahoney was always interested in sports, growing up in Barre, Vt. as a Red Sox and Celtics fan, and spending her youth as a swimmer. But she said the possibility of athletics as a career hadn't dawned on her until, as a freshman at St. Michael's College in Vermont, she saw an article about her

college's sports information director. "I never realized that such a thing existed," Fumagalli Mahoney said.

Lightbulbs popped in her head, and she had a target to aim for. After four years as a swimmer and work as a student assistant to St. Michael's SID, Fumagalli Mahoney launched her sports administration career with brief stops at Bucknell and the U.S. Naval Academy, before becoming SID at Widener in 1994.

She came to Gettysburg in 2004. Fumagalli Mahoney genuinely relishes the backstage role, which she says boils down to making sure coaches and athletes can focus on their performance. And then when they do well, to make sure everyone knows about it, from fans to the people handing out NCAA post-graduate scholarships. "I get to do what I enjoy every single day, and I honestly don't feel like I've worked a day in my life," she said. "And I've never met a championship that I just absolutely didn't love."

Fumagalli Mahoney and her husband, Mike, are tackling a huge life challenge now, as an undiagnosed condition in Susan's lower legs has left her, as of this summer, a bilateral above-the-knee amputee.

INDUCTED 2018

Wendy Keller comes into the South Central chapter of the Sports Hall of Fame as one of the most successful field hockey coaches of her day in an area that is literally a national hotbed of field hockey talent. Keller's coaching career was headlined by 15 years as head coach at Carlisle High School, where she led 14 Thundering Herd teams to District III tournament appearances in the pre-playoff expansion era, and consecutive Mid-Penn Conference division titles in 1997 and 1998. What's more, Keller's teams finished lower than second in the big-schools division in the Mid-Penn Conference only twice.

Throughout her 20-year career, which began with shorter stops at Delaware Valley and Big Spring high schools, Keller's teams posted a cumulative record of 240 wins, 92 losses and 42 ties. Players that she mentored went on collegiate careers at Division I schools including Penn State, Maryland, Virginia, the University of Connecticut, Columbia and Kent State.

In those cases, it must be said, Keller was basically trying to coach those kids up to her level. A three-sport athlete at Lock Haven in the 1970s, in 1978 she was selected as an alternate for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Field Hockey Team. That was Keller as women's sports pioneer: As a teen at Big Spring High School, she literally picked up a field hockey stick for the first time in 1972, when the Bulldogs started their program.

After two years of varsity hockey (and other sports) she landed at Lock Haven, and eventually found her way to Olympic Development camps. Her national team experience was cut short by the now-infamous boycott of the 1980 summer games, and Keller and many of her teammates got on with their careers. For Keller, that meant a short stint as a physical therapy assistant, and several years as a counselor for court-adjudicated teens, before she followed one of her early mentors, Dave Eavenson, to Carlisle in 1985.

Keller retired from coaching in 2000, after a personal hourglass that she had long ago set for herself ran out. "In my experience, I saw an awful lot of coaches just coaching when it didn't really seem they were passionate about what they did," she said recently about that decision. "I knew there was never going to be a good time to leave ... but I just felt like I didn't want to push past that point and have any regrets." For Keller, it was a clean break, as she joined her partner Kelly Hart in western Massachusetts, and began what would be a long tenure as an adjunct faculty member at Westfield State University and many seasons as a high school and college field hockey official. Lacrosse also deserves a footnote here. Having picked up that sport at Lock Haven, Keller served as assistant women's lacrosse coach at Dickinson College from 1992 through 1997 and has also served as an official in Massachusetts. 

Keller's take on sustained success? She credits the Carlisle athletic department under Eavenson, which she believes was a little ahead of the curve when it came to supporting girls' sports, great assistants including her longtime defensive coach Cecelia Clippinger, a plan of attack developed from her own involvement at the sport's highest levels, and the ability to set a good work ethic. "I used to tell our girls, if you're not working as hard as you can, somebody else is, and when the two of you come head-to-head, the harder worker is going to beat you out," Keller said.

Now residing in Holyoke, Mass. with Hart, Keller is enjoying her semi-retirement and staying active with her teaching, golfing, biking and walking, outside Hanover, with her wife, Kathy. They have three daughters and three grandchildren.

INDUCTED IN 2019

If you've ever spent any time around competitive swimmers, you understand that there are waves and waves of talent in those waters. Carlisle's Jim Kornish created a big one on the mid-state scene in the 1970s and '80s. As part of what was then a new swim team at Carlisle High School, Kornish used his own talents, tireless work ethic and a stepladder of coaches including, to name a few, Peg Owen at the Carlisle Industrial Pool, Brad Charles at the Carlisle YMCA, and eventually, Gary Shank at Carlisle High School, to blaze through a career that included two Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association 100-yard backstroke championships, in both 1982 and 1983, and two YMCA National Championships for high schoolers: the 100-yard backstroke in 1982, and 200-yard Individual Medley in 1983.

Kornish said he got his start in swimming in a way that was ordinary enough - his grandmother insisted that all her grandkids learn how to swim. When his family moved to Carlisle in the early 1970s, that meant joining the swim team at the Carlisle Industrial Pool.

Nothing was ordinary about Jim's swimming career from that point on. It's not clear who realized they had a phenom in Jimmy first, but it was pretty obvious that this was a kid to watch by 1976, when as a 10-year-old Jim set the first of what would be several state records in YMCA swimming, with a 28.43 in the 50-yard freestyle.

Like most athletic kids, Karnish dabbled in several other sports along the way. But swimming was what he excelled at, and it was at the pool where his relationships with coaches and teammates - and he still seems to remember every one of them - became the strongest. He brims with admiration for those coaches, noting "It's a special person who agrees to meet a group of kids at 6 in the morning, and then meets them again at 7 o'clock that night because they want to swim."

Karnish still relishes the bonds built with teammates, from those who he set a 14-&-under national YMCA record with in the 200 medley relay - a crew that, with the help of passionate parents, convinced the Carlisle school board of that era that, yes, this might be a pretty good time to start a high school swimming program - to the relay swimmers he ended his competitive career in 1987 with as an Ivy League Champion, NCAA qualifier, and honorable mention All-American, and still sees regularly at alumni meets.

Which brings us to the second half of Kornish's stellar career. Heavily recruited out of high school, Karnish opted to enroll at Harvard College, where he graduated with a degree in American history and swam four years with the Crimson, earning All-Ivy recognition each year, and breaking a conference record in 1987 as a member of the aforementioned 400-yard freestyle relay team. 

Why Harvard College? It was an opportunity to combine highly competitive swimming, (Harvard was a perennial top 25 program at the time), with academics that are in a league of their own. For a kid who loves challenges, what was not to like? He was actually part of a string of extremely driven Carlisle swimmers who would land in the Ivy League in three successive years, including Tim Bixler (Yale), and Mike Mangan (Penn). For Karnish, coming-of age in a pre-Phelpsian age where there really was no professional training for swimmers who were out of school - competitive swimming ended after college.

But he has no regrets. "I'm the luckiest guy in the world," he says, recounting a life that has included a stint in the Peace Corps, and a master's from Harvard College in education and curriculum.

These days, Karnish enjoys teaching, being with his family in Boulder, Colorado, where his wife, Laura, is a marketing professor at the University of Colorado, and keeping a keen eye out for, potential swimmers that he can help steer to that certain school in Cambridge, Mass. And he is humbled to have been nominated by, and to now join, his old high school swimming coach Gary Shank in the South Central Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. "This is really all about Gary, Brad and the other coaches I've had," Kornish said. "I'm really just a reflection of them."

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A graduate of Central York High School, Brad went on to earn his Health/PE Deg fee at West Chester University and Master's at Millersville University. At Central York, Brad played football and baseball earning All-League honors his senior year. Due to high school injuries, he was the manager of the West Chester Football team and then soon turned his attention to coaching beginning in 1970 at Central York.  

Brad was the Panther's head football coach from 1982 through 2015, compiling a 277-753-4 career record, and was Coach of the Year twice as his teams honor shared 10 division titles between 1984 and 2013. A member of the York Area Sports hall of Fame and Central York High School Athletic HOF, Brad also coached Boys' Volleyball for the Panthers from the Spring of 1977 through 2015, and was the head coach from 2002 to 2015. Central York won PIAA State Championships in 2017 and 2014 while earning District Ill titles in 2002, 2010 and 2014. 

Brad also coached Wrestling for nine seasons at the freshman and varsity level. He has been a volunteer assistant for the Panther Boys' Volleyball team for the past three years as well as an assistant football coach at Northern York High School from 2016 to present.

In 2012, Brad was inducted into the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. In 2018, he was inducted into the Pennsylvania Coaches Scholastic Football Hall of Fame (PSFCA) / Big 33 Hall of Fame.

INDUCTED IN 2023  

Dave McCollum began his coaching career at Bermudian Springs High School in the 1977-78 season. As the head wrestling coach for 46 years, his mentorship of Eagles’ student-athletes in generational. First, taking a step back further in time, Dave was a three-year starter for the Susquehanna Township High School wrestling team, going 55-10 overall, earning District III Semi-Finalist honors and being named team captain in his senior year (1972-73). 

Attending Bloomsburg University to earn a teaching degree, McCollum continued his mat success as a two-time varsity letter winner, was voted the Most Improved Wrestler his junior year, was named the Athlete of the Week, and at 118 pounds, placed fourth in the EWL Tournament at Penn State. Nicknamed “Mouse” by his late friend and teammate Floyd “Shorty” Hitchcock (NCAA Division I and II National Champion), McCollum was also voted team captain his senior year (1976-77).  

At Bermudian Springs, McCollum taught fifth grade math, science, reading and spelling for 35 years and retired from teaching in 2012. As a wrestling coach he compiled a record of 638 wins, 237 losses and three ties – a 74% winning percentage. He is one of only four coaches in Pennsylvania to reach 600 career wins. A member of the PIAA District III Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame, the Adams County Chapter of the PA Sports Hall of Fame, and the Pennsylvania Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame, McCollum has coached 110 Sectional Champions, 40 District III Champions, 12 Southeast Regional Champions, 112 State Qualifiers, 40 State Medalists,10 PIAA State Finalists, and 3 State Champions. Under his guidance, a total of 27 wrestlers have reached the 100 Win Club and 5 wrestlers have attained “membership” in the 150 Win Club.

In McCollum’s tenure at Bermudian Springs HS, the wrestling team has earned 21 League Championship titles, 14 Sectional Individual Team Championships, 4 District III Individual Tournament Team titles, 1 Southeast Regional Individual Tournament Team Title, 6 Top 10 State Individual Tournament Team Finishes, 22 District KKK Team Tournament appearances with 15 Top 4 finishers including 3 District III Championship Titles and 6 runner-Up finishes, 8 PIAA State Team Tournament appearances with 4 Top 5 finishes including 1 State Runner-Up finish, 20 Individual Tournament Team Championships, and 17 Dual Tournament Team Championships.

Coach McCollum’s accomplishments and legacy also include mentoring many wrestlers who have gone on to compete at the intercollegiate level, many former wrestlers who now coach the sport at various levels and several former wrestlers who are currently officials. McCollum has also spent 45 years as an assistant football coach and was also a head Junior High Volleyball Coach for 10 years.

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A 1968 graduate of Shippensburg High School, Jim went on to get his degree in Social Studies from Shippensburg University (1972) and then his Master’s from Western Maryland College. At Shippensburg HS, Jim lettered in Football, Basketball, and Baseball and was inducted into the Shippensburg HS Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015. In the college ranks, Jim was an All-PASC athlete in Football and Baseball and was the first Red Raider Quarterback to complete 100 passes in one season. From 1979 to 1985 he was the Offensive Coordinator at Shippensburg University including the 1981 season when the team was an NCAA Division II Semi-Finalist. Jim was inducted into the Shippensburg University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1981. 

Jim’s long coaching career has included roles as a Head Baseball Coach, a Head Basketball Coach, and an Assistant Football Coach including seven years as at Bloomsburg University (1997-2003) as the Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks & Wide Receivers coach. At Bloomsburg, Jim’s Huskie teams also won five PSAC East Championships and were an NCAA game finalist for the Lambert Cup at the Division II level. 

As the Head Football Coach at Lebanon Valley College, Jim became the all-time leader in wins in LVC’s 125-year program history and led the team to four post season appearances that included three ECAC and one NCAA Championship games. His LVC squads won the 2009 and 2011 ECAC Southwest Bowl Championships. Jim was the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Coach of the Year in 1989 and 2013. He was also the AFCA Regional Coach of the Year in 2013 when the LVC Dutchmen gridders were MAC Co-Champions. Jim’s coaching legacy includes 145 All-MAC players, 20 All-Region selections and 13 All-American selections.

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Julie Ramsey Emrhein has helped shatter a few glass ceilings in her Career as an athletic trainer, including becoming one of the first women to work as game day staff in the NFL. That took talent, smarts and courage to be sure. But it might never have happened if not for a high school ankle injury.

Emrhein, at the time, was a three-sport athlete at Cocalico High School anxious to get back on the basketball court. A sports medicine physician and his staff helped make it happen, and "it gave me an interest in that field," she said. She pursued that interest as a field hockey-playing student-athlete at Lock Haven University. After launching her career as a trainer at California University of Pennsylvania, Emrhein took the opportunity to move closer to her Lancaster County roots, becoming the first full-time female athletic trainer at Dickinson College. Eventually rising to head trainer and Senior Woman Administrator in Dickinson's athletics department, Emrhein was breaking gender barriers all the way, But probably none more celebrated than in 2001, when she stepped in to assist the then-Washington Redskins staff during the team's training camp at Dickinson College.

In 2003, she took a sabbatical from Dickinson and served on the Redskins staff for the full season, making her one of the first females to work on the sidelines in NFL history. There were a few hiccups along the way. Emrhein remembers stressing a few times early on over questions like, 'Where do I change for the game?' and 'Where do I go to the bathroom?' But the work part was, in it's own way, routine. "I was treated like one of the guys," she recalls. "I think it goes back to if they see that you can do the job, they're going to respect you whether you're male or female."

Another career highlight was getting the chance to do research as a postgraduate student with Dr. Joseph Torg, a sport medicine pioneer whose work ultimately led to changes that outlawed "spearing" from the football world. Emrhein's work with Torg concerned standards for allowing someone with back injuries to return to play in collision sports like football, wrestling or lacrosse.

Since 2012, Emrhein has capped her career by working as clinical supervisor of Sports Medicine and Athletic Training for Wellspan Health in Lititz, supervising staff who provide training services at about 20 high schools across the region. But she remains a trainer at heart. We know this because she says the greatest reward she's found in her career has always been seeing athletes return to the field of play, sometimes after significant injury. It's what the doctors did for her more than 40 years ago, and she's happy to pay it forward.

A married Mom of one, Emrhein said she's especially grateful to her husband, Dave, for understanding the hours of an athletic trainer. They are the proud parents of Marleise, a recent graduate of and field hockey player for the University of Michigan 

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Any conversation about Carlisle High School football history includes 1967 graduate Gary Raymond. In the 1964 season, joining senior fullback Bert Nye, Gary's prowess as a sophomore halfback helped pace the heard to a 9-l record as the duo combined for 1430 yards - with Gary accounting for 854yards. Arguably, Nye and Raymond were the very best one-two offensive punch combinations in Carlisle's storied, half-century of football history up to that time.

As a junior in 1965, he rushed for 863 yards on 114 carries to solidify his stature as a South-Central Pennsylvania star when he helped lead Carlisle to an undefeated, 11-0 season. Through nine games among independent high schools in Pennsylvania that season, Gary posted 60 points on 10 touchdowns, second in the state only to teammate Scotty Shank. 

After Carlisle blanked Cumberland Valley, 59-0, Patriot-News sportswriter Ronnie Christ described Gary Raymond as "a slick halfback who has the speed of a bullet and enough moves to confuse even ricochet rabbit." In that game, Gary rushed for 112 yards on 10 carries, had two rushing touchdowns and caught two TD passes. Carlisle head coach John Whitehead would later earn "Coach of the Year" honors for that remarkable season. 

Over his prep career, Gary played a significant role during an era (1960-65) when Carlisle amassed 43 victories in 51 games. After graduation, Gary served in the National Guard for six years, and later played Semi-Pro football with the Cumberland Colts.

When not excelling on the gridiron, Gary's athletic prowess extended to the baseball diamond for the Thundering Herd, and in Teener and Legion leagues where he was named to several All-Star teams, In 1965, with a .390 average in 41 at bats, he finished second in in batting in the Cumberland County American Legion League. A co-founder of the Carlisle Midget Football Organization, Gary also served on the Executive Board.

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Frank “Jimmy” Rich was a baseball player of distinction and one of Williamsport, Pennsylvania’s own. In 1939 Rich was one of the first Little Leaguers playing for a Lundy Lumber team in the “Original Little League.” He also was the first Little Leaguer to play organized professional baseball. 

His early career took him to Louisiana where he played for the Houma Indians. In the Evangeline League, Tich was noted in an Associated Press article as follows: “Pitcher Jimmy Rich went all the way for Houma, gaining his second win in as many starts.”

At 5’8” and 148 pounds in uniform and cleats, Rich’s nickname was derived from sportswriters who compared him to “Little Jimmy Dickens,” a popular Country Music singer and songwriter at the time who was later inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1983. 

Another stint as a pitcher with the Class C Minor League San Angelo, Texas Colts preceded time with the El Dorado Oilers in Arkansas. At El Dorado in the Cotton States League (Class C), Rich continued his success with a 4-3 win over Monroe and an article noted: “Jimmy Rich hurled good ball for the Oilers, allowing only five hits which he kept scattered after the first inning.”  In another game in 1951, Rich threw six innings of no-hit ball in a 4-2 win over Greenville.

Frank was the father of Jim Rich, a Cumberland Valley High School standout and South Central Hall of Famer, Kathy (Rich) McFarland, and Randy Rich. Devoted husband to the late Mary Lou (King) Rich, Frank passed away in February of 2020 but his legacy in South Central Pennsylvania sports lives on.

INDUCTED IN 2021 

Paul Richards can talk with anyone about the nuances of the flip-turn, or the proper hand position for the butterfly stroke. But he's just as happy to tell you about being invited to read at the wedding of a former swimmer or highlighting the latest professional accomplishment of one of his many charges.

Richards retired in 2020 as head swimming coach at Dickinson College after 26 years on the pool deck. The lengthy tenure was made possible by sustained success in the pool and the classroom and sustained by a mutual affection between place and person. The men's and women's teams posted a combined dual meet record of 374-200-1 through his Dickinson career. Richards recorded his 500th overall coaching win in 2019 and finished his career with 520 wins. 

Some other measurements of success:

· Four Centennial Conference Championship meet outstanding performer awards

· Nine AII-Americans 

· 21 All-Conference swimmer honors

· 58 Conference Championship event champions.

· Nine different league "Coach of the Year" awards, earned at Dickinson or during earlier stints at Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, Va.) and Hartwick (Oneonta, NY).

· Richard’s women’s teams earned Scholar All-America team honors every single semester of his Dickinson tenure, while the men posted a streak of 48 consecutive semesters on that honor roll.

Still, for Richards, his greatest legacy lies in the lasting relationship he's built with his swimmers. "That's been very fulfilling as a coach," Richards said, "to know that you were able to make a difference in someone's life, and in more ways than just swimming fast."

Coaching wasn't always the master plan. Though Richards was a championship-level swimmer himself, winning four district titles in high school in Wilkes-Barre sharing in a PSAC 400 free relay title at Bloomsburg University, he initially aimed for a career in business and finance. But after several years in the banking and trucking industries, Richards said he wasn't finding happiness, and he reached out to his old college coach seeking advice. Two weeks later, he was hired by Bloomsburg to fill in for a physical education instructor on medical leave and assisting with the swim team. The next year, after another sudden departure at Hartwick, Richards suddenly found himself a full-time swim coach.

By the time Richards arrived at Dickinson in 1994, he'd had a highly successful career at Mary Washington, where he led his team to nine conference championships. But with some concerns about changes in Virginia’s public higher education system, of which Mary Washington is a part, Richards moved to Carlisle, and a life/work love-fest ensued. A 1975 graduate of Bloomsburg, Richards earned a master's degree in sports sciences and aquatics administration from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1990. At Dickinson he also served as Aquatics Director and chair of Physical Education.

In retirement, Richards enjoys spending time with his wife Jeanette and their dog Jake. The Richards son, Paul, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and now works as a · communications director there 

INDUCTED  IN 2022    

Tim Rimpfel has a legacy that stretches across 43 seasons of high school football and the demands of being a successful student-athlete. As a longtime educator and mentor, Tim not only emphasized commitment while on the field, but he also championed a strong work ethic off the field, both in the classroom and in the community. A 1965 Bishop McDevitt graduate, Tim earned a BS degree in secondary education (geography) from West Chester University in 1969, and then received his Master's degree from Shippensburg University.

Through Tim’s relationships (45 years) at Trinity, Bishop McDevitt, Cumberland Valley, and Boiling Springs, Rimpfel helped bolster the caliber and quality of the Mid-Penn Conference. Finite details mattered, and many of the principles learned in the first few seconds when players met with Coach Rimpfel, would continue to make a difference both on and off the field.

Tim’s head coaching career included stops at Bishop McDevitt (1981-87) and Trinity (1977-79). In 1980, Tim began his long and successful career at Cumberland Valley, initially under the leadership of Harry Chapman. After Chapman passed, Tim took the reins and lead the Eagles from 1989 to 2012. During that time the Eagles made 19 postseason appearances, won nine District 3 Championships, and captured the exciting (in the snow!) and memorable 1992 PIAA Class 4A State Title in a 28-14 win over Upper St. Clair. 

Coach Rimpfel amassed a 307-100-3 career record and is one of only 11 coaches in Pennsylvania to eclipse the 300-win mark. His list of players included Ricky Watters and Jon Ritchie.

Tim Rimpfel, who coached Team Pennsylvania in the 2011 Big 33 game, retired from coaching in 2012. In 2018, he joined Brad Zell (former CV player under Rimpfel) at Boiling Springs as an offensive line coach when Zell was hired as the program’s head coach.  Zell gave credit to coach Rimpfel for pushing him into becoming a head coach.

"He loved the game of football," Zell said. "And he took the time to teach you, whether you were a player of a coach. I got to learn from the very best, and not everybody has that opportunity. It's very important for me to carry on the things he taught me." 

The sports writers provided further accounts of Tim's far-reaching impact. Countless former assistant coaches, including Joe Headen, Josh Oswalt, Brad Zell and more are now continuing Rimpfel’s legacy as head coaches in the Mid Penn Conference. Former coach and current Shippensburg University Assistant Michael Whitehead remembered Rimpfel as a 'father figure.’

"I learned so much from him," Whitehead said. "I learned how to run a team, and all of those little things you think back on that mold you as a person."

Tim Rimpfel also had another side, the part that wasn’t visible on Friday nights... and that was his love of family. He was a great football coach and was also great at being a husband and a father. Sadly, Tim Rimpfel passed away on Tuesday September 21, 2021. 

 INDUCTED IN 2019

To the expansive, outstanding high school football coaches' wing in the South Central Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, we add George Shue. Shue was one of a group of coaches who set the standard for the old Blue Mountain league that spanned Central Pennsylvania's southern tier, heading teams at Littlestown High School that captured seven league championships between 1973 and 1989, not to mention two Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association District Ill crowns (in 1984 and 1989), once the district playoffs started in 1982.

His 188-75-5 record with the Thunderbolts included three undefeated regular seasons, in 197 4, 1978 and 1983. Shue capped that with a shorter, but equally successful six-year run at Red Lion High School from 1998 through 2004, winning two York Adams Interscholastic Athletic Association titles in 1998 – immediately after the Lions had suffered through an 0-10 season; and then again in 2001.

Shue stepped off the sidelines at that point to grab a seat in the bleachers. "I set a goal that I wanted to watch my son play football, and we also have a daughter who is involved in sports and I want to watch her play, too," he told reporters at the time. (The Shues' son, Cody, was ready to launch his career at South Western High School outside Hanover at the time, and their daughter Jade was playing field hockey).

The coach's combined win-loss record of 226-98-5 was good enough for entry in the Pennsylvania Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2004, and to this point it remains the highest career win total in York and Adams Counties. Among other individual accolades, Shue was PIAA Class A coach of the year in 1984, and the Djstrict Ill Coach of the Year in 1998.

Shue graduated from South Western High School in 1964. A high school running back and defensive back, he enrolled at Mansfield University, graduating in 1968 with a resume that included four years of football and track & field. He already knew, at that time, that he wanted to stay in football and, inspired by mentors like his own high school coach (and now-fellow SC Hall of Farner Jack Connor), that that was going to involve coaching. He might not have said it to prospective employers at the time, but "I could not have taken a teaching job without being a coach," Shue noted recently. Shue also remembered an 8th-grade autobiography assignment from an English teacher. As he imagined and wrote about the future George Shue, he recalled, "I said I was going to be a football coach."

The job, with the necessary assistant coaching gig attached, came from Littlestown, and by 1971 Shue had the head job there. He also coached track for the Thunderbolts for 24 years, which he said was the perfect complement to his #1 passion: "You show me a good track team, and I'll show you a good football team in the fall," he quipped.

Shue attributes his sustained success to a cadre of good assistants, communication skills, having a steady stream of student-athletes who care and want to perform, and having the luxury of time, something he is grateful to his family for sharing. 

Shue, who continues to live outside Hanover with his wife, Jo, still keeps his hand in the game today as assistant executive director of the Pennsylvania Football Coaches Association, and he is his peers' representative to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association. "The greatest tribute to George is to talk to past athletes that he has coached and ask them about their memories," said past rival and colleague Don Seidenstricker. "I can tell you, to a man, the feedback is incredible."

INDUCTED 2019

Jay Snyder can accurately say he lived at the top of the professional tennis world longer than Billie Jean-King, Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer. As a chair umpire working Davis Cups, the Olympics and all of the Grand Slam events, a director of officiating and eventually director of the U.S. Open, Snyder became one of the sport's top American executives as it grew into its modern era.

His baby, though, was the U.S. Open, where he worked for 40 years - including an eight-year tenure as tournament director that included development of the Open's modern competition site that's seen the two-week tournament become the world's highest-attended annual sporting event.

None of this might have happened but for the weird combination of a physics class and the Vietnam War. As Snyder tells it, he was cajoled into joining the tennis team at Susquehanna University as part of a negotiated deal to survive a tougher-than-expected freshman year physics class. The professor was the new tennis coach. Snyder honed his game in indoor practice sessions that winter and went on to letter all four years before graduating in 1964 with a degree in English literature and the number one spot in the military draft.

A recruiting sergeant decided he was leadership material and signed him up for Officer Candidate School. Snyder was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in June 1965, and after a brief stop for paratrooper training, he was in Vietnam by September. While in combat, he started exchanging letters with his younger sister's college roommate, Jeanne Carson, the woman who would eventually become his wife. Jeanne's father, George, was a tennis enthusiast from the Philly suburbs, and such a regular at the Germantown Cricket Club that for years he occupied a locker next to the great Bill Tilden.

"My dad had four boys, and none of them was interested in tennis, so it was a big attraction to my dad that Jay was into tennis," Jeanne Snyder would tell The Patriot-News years later in a feature on Jay's career.

George Carson was also a tennis official at a time when that mostly meant that he would come out of the stands to help umpire when asked. Carson started taking his son-in-law to matches with him at the Germantown Club and pretty soon, Snyder was coming out of the stands to umpire matches too. He liked it, attended an officiating clinic the following summer, then got an invitation to call the lines at the Pennsylvania Grass Court Championships. By fluke, Snyder was assigned to an umpire's chair - a job that normally requires six to seven years of officiating experience. The more matches he called, the more Snyder realized how much he liked umpiring. He was good at it, too. He rose through the tennis officiating ranks almost as quickly as he rose through the ranks of state government in Harrisburg, where in his day job, he became executive director of the Pennsylvania Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. Snyder called his first U.S. Open match as chair umpire in 1978, and soon became known as one of the best in the business.

"The impressive thing about Jay is that he was never intimidated," U.S. Open Director of Officials Rich Kaufman told The Patriot. "Deep inside he might have been panicking, but you'd never know. He had a calm about him, a certainty."

That demeanor was tested by the likes of John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and llie Nastase, all famous for harassing officials as they powered through the men's tour. But the combat-tested Snyder knew why he was able to stay unruffled: "After you've called in an artillery strike basically 20 meters from where you are, having John McEnroe yell at you is nothing."

By 1990 Snyder moved into tennis full-time, becoming the U.S. Tennis Association's first director of officials. Three years later he was named director of the U.S. Open, where he stayed through 2002, and then worked another 10 years as a consultant. 

Now fully retired and living near Harrisburg, Snyder still plays tennis several times a week, and enjoys speaking about his time in the sport to local groups. "There's a satisfaction to having worked your way to the top of your field that I can't deny," he says, reflecting back on his years in the game and the friends he's made. As Snyder puts it, "tennis has made the world a much smaller place for me."

INDUCTED IN 2019

Harold Swidler used his distance running prowess to become a city champion (in Harrisburg), a state high school champion, and a national collegiate champion (at New York University). But you really can't get to that part of the story without first understanding his family's first run: the run for survival from Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. 

At their home in modern-day Belarus, Jewish families were being rounded up for internment in a ghetto when Swidler's father decided that he would rather take his chances elsewhere. The family escaped and literally lived with the aid of some friendly locals in a bunker built into the side of a hill for several years until the Nazis were overrun. Only then were they able to move into a displaced persons camp for war refugees.

Moving to America after the war when young Harold was about 13 years old, the family began making its way in Harrisburg and Harold started tentatively becoming an American. Tentatively, that is, until one day Swidler saw some members of the William Penn High School track team putting in their paces at a practice. "I said to myself, 'I can do that!"' Swidler recalled recently. "So I started running (with the group), and I beat them all."

That was the start of one of Harrisburg's area most improbable success stories. Swidler would go on to score an incredible set of repeat championships in 1952 and '53, winning the mile races in both the district and state high school championships. 

Swidler's athletic success helped him to become the first in his family to go to college, and he received no less than 17 athletic scholarships. But he was persuaded to sign on with New York University, a perennial national track and field power at the time that was led by legendary coach Emil Von Elling. Von Elling had produced many American Olympians and was often referred to at the time as the "Knute Rockne" of track and field.

In New York, Swidler's success continued, and he was a part of a relay team that scored an upset win in a four-mile relay at the 1955 Penn Relays in Philadelphia. The heaviest of the NYU runners, newspaper reports from the day noted, weighed 133 pounds. And then in 1956, Swidler was part of an NYU cross country team that won the NCAA championship in that team competition.

Swidler entered the Army as part of an ROTC commitment after graduation, and gradually retired from competitive racing. But he never really left the sport. Setting up base in Carlisle after his Army service, Swidler launched a successful business career that would include retailing, (Do you remember the Swid Brothers variety stores in Carlisle, Shippensburg and Harrisburg?) family entertainment, and, eventually, owning and operating a cluster of radio stations.

It was during that time that Swidler invested some of his personal success back into the sport that gave him his start. "If it wouldn't have been for sports, I don't think I would have gone to school," Swidler recalled.

As baseball, football and basketball solidified their standing as America's top spectator sports, Swidler decided that he wanted to do something to raise the profile of distance running, and the athletes who did that. So, in the mid-1960s, he started sponsoring the Swidler Invitational, a five kilometer road race that annually brought together as many as 30 area high schools. The race continued annually until about 1980, by which time the running revolution had captured America and more and more mid-state schools were running their own invitationals.

Swidler would later champion the return of live high school football broadcasts on his radio stations after a long absence, featuring Cumberland Valley games on WI00 from 2009 through 2016, and later adding returns to the radio for Carlisle and Shippensburg.

Swidler's amazing race through life continues tonight as he is inducted into the South Central Chapter of the Pa. Sports Hall of Fame, and at age 84, he couldn't be happier about it. "I appreciate this a lot," he said. "It's an honor to have people recognize that I was a champion in the past."

INDUCTED IN 2023  

A 1988 graduate of Dickinson College, Dave Webster returned to his alma mater to coach in 2001 and has compiled one of the most storied men’s lacrosse programs in Division III athletics. In the last 14 seasons, Webster’s Red Devil teams have won six Centennial Conference Championships. They have also advanced to the “Elite Eight” of the NCAA Tournament on four separate occasions. 

In addition to success on the field, one of the hallmarks of the Dickinson Lacrosse experience is the commitment to service and to community. Under Webster’s leadership, the Red Devils have received numerous accolades for their off the field commitment to service. Both the American Red Cross and the National Association of Athletic Administrators have recognized the program for their outreach and service.

Dickinson Lacrosse players also consistently earn All-CC and All-American honors. In addition, multiple players have competed in the Division III North-South All-Star game. In 2013, Brand Palladino (Class of 2013) became the first player in conference history to be named First-team All-Centennial for all four years of his career. He was a two-time USILA National Long-Stick Midfielder of the Year and named the USILA Player of the year in 2013 as well. A few years later, following the successful 2018 season, eight Red Devils were named to the USILA All-American Team.

Prior to coaching the Red Devils, in 1991, Webster started the lacrosse program at Marymount University. Marymount quickly grew into a much-respected program and Webster was twice named Capital Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.

After seven seasons at Marymount, Webster was hired by Centennial Conference rival Franklin & Marshall College. In three seasons at the helm of the Diplomats, Webster was able to recruit and coach several All-American and led his 2001 team to a postseason ECAC playoff game.

Early in his fifth season as head coach at Dickinson, Webster recorded his 100th career win and soon after became Dickinson’s all-time win leader. Through the 2023 season, his 32nd overall, and 22ndseason in charge of the Red Devil’s program, Webster’s overall coaching record is 300 wins and 179 losses and his Centennial Conference record is 129-78 (including his tenure at Franklin & Marshall).

Webster also serves as an Associate Athletic Director for Dickinson College while still an active member of the lacrosse coaching profession and has served in various leadership roles for “his” sport. Besides serving as a longtime member of the NCAA Lacrosse Rules Committee, Webster also served as Vice President to the USILA and as Treasurer to the Men’s Division Coaches Committee of US Lacrosse. Webster was honored by his peers in 2008 for his service to the college game. Webster resides in Carlisle with his wife Megan, daughters Grace and Lily, and son Luke.