Tim Samec former West Hazleton High and University of Virginia acclaimed athlete is currently head wrestling coach and assistant football coach at Hazleton Area HS. He is currently a substitute teacher in the Hazleton Area School District. He played Beaver Banks Little League baseball for manager...
Don Rohn, started his award-winning wrestling coaching career at Hazleton High School. Rohn was a state champion wrestler Saucon Valley High School and was a NCAA champion at Clarion State University. His first coaching job was at Hazleton High where he quickly brought the program...
Shelly Ritz-Buntz was not only a 1000-point scorer for the West Hazleton High girls basketball team, but she was also the 1983 class salutatorian. She was the leader of three Lady Wildcat teams, two coached by Cal Ferrari and one coached by Robbie Wallace, that won...
Frank "Bumba" Maddon participated in a variety of local sports in addition to playing varsity football at Hazleton High School and Mansfield State College. He was also on the HHS varsity track and JV wrestling teams. "Frank has demonstrated tremendous courage in the face of extremely...
Chris Long is one of the relatively few athletes from Hazleton Area who signed to play Division I college basketball at Princeton University following a fabulous high school career. At Hazleton High School, where he was a 1993 top-ten academic graduate, he became the first Mountaineer...
Kozlowski lettered in football, basketball, and baseball at Hazleton High. At Bethel High School in Hampton, VA. he coached six state championship teams, three in football and three in track. He taught and coached at Bethel for 32 years prior to retiring last year. At Bethel,...
Deborah Kaschak-Antolick made Hazleton High history when she became the first female athlete to letter in four sports, track, cross country, basketball, and swimming. The 1983 HHS graduate joined select company by lettering in four sports. She lettered in track in 1980-81, and '83, in cross...
Fallabel, nickname "Scrap Iron" because of his aggressive style of play, is also an Army Combat veteran of World War II. While serving in the Army during World War II, Fallabel played for the GB-181 Battalion, 26th Division team at Camp Burlingame, Rhode Island. Following...
Joseph Falatko Sr., more commonly known as Joe or "Ganze", attended Foster Township High School, he lettered in both basketball and baseball for four years, earning a total of eight letters. Falatko not only served his country with the Army Air Corps during WWII but...
Mark Cassarella, won two gold medals and a bronze in the World Disability Games. Prevented from participating in high schools sports at West Hazleton High School (Class of 1990) because he suffered severe injuries in an auto accident, Cassarella conquered his disability in wheelchair competitions...
John C Andrefsky, M.D., graduated from Hazleton Senior High School in 1982 and completed his B.A. in chemistry from Franklin and Marshall College in 1986 where he received a Hackman Research Fellowship. At HHS, he lettered in varsity basketball for 2 years and varsity track for...
Ed "Big Daddy” While was born in Shenandoah, PA. He was a 1951 graduate of J.W. Cooper High School, now Shenandoah High School. He played four years of football, basketball and baseball earning seven letters. He went on to Mansfield State College earning his B.S....