Brea Lynn Seabrook, a 2015 G.A.R graduate, was the epitome of a true athlete. Brea was a multi-sport athlete. As a freshman she was named Wyoming Valley Conference Most Valuable Player as a soccer player. As a basketball player she was a thousand-point scorer and...
Josh was born into a family with a strong passion for shooting and the outdoors and growing up in rural Sullivan County only helped fuel his fire into eventually becoming one of the world’s top shotgun shooters. After firing his first shot, at the early...
Rosalyn is the daughter of proud parents Frank and Roseanne Wentko, and is a 2004 graduate from Dallas High School where she was a three-sport stand-out receiving four letters in basketball, four in soccer and three in field hockey. During her time on the court,...
Linda Messner graduated from Liberty Jr./Sr. High School in Liberty, Pa. The school provided only two organized sports for girls: basketball and track and field. She played 6 on 6 basketball in high school prior to Title IX. Half of the players remained on the...
Tim McGinley has been involved in the sport of wrestling for over sixty years. His first experience with the sport was one of disappointment when he as an eighth grader failed the physical to participate. Unhappy that his older brother Ned was participating, the Kingston...
Over the past 20+ years, Amy Mantush Filanowski has put her stamp on the athletic world both as an athlete and a coach. Hailing from Drums, PA, the 2016 Hazleton Area Sports Hall of Fame inductee had one of the most decorated athletic careers in...
Megan Krebs was born in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. She was active in Field Hockey, Soccer, and Basketball. She held a starting position all four years at GAR Memorial High School in these respective sports. Megan was awarded First Team All-State for Field Hockey in 2004 and...
A proud native of Forty Fort, Ed grew up playing Forty Fort Pioneers Youth Soccer, Forty Fort Little League Baseball, and intramural basketball through Wyoming Valley West. However, it was not until his younger sister, Sara, joined the cross-country team at Wyoming Valley West that...
Pamela graduated from Tunkhannock Area High School in 1991. She played basketball, volleyball, and ran track and was a four-year starter in each sport. The Times Leader newspaper featured her in an article titled "A Threat for All Seasons." Her volleyball highlights include first-team All-State...
Shelley's track and field career took off her freshman year at Coughlin High School under the direction of coach Paul McGrane. Her presence made an immediate impact across the conference, the district and the state. From freshman through senior year, Shelley went on to four-peat...
Seated: Amy Mantush Filanowski Linda Messner Rosalyn Polacek Brea Lynn Seabrook Pamela A. Hughes DO Megan Krebs-Kriso Shelley Black Leap Standing: Joshua M. Richmond SFC Edward S. Kopec Jr. Charles Robert Suppon, Jr. Ed.D. George P. Toma Christopher J. Shovlin Gary Thomas Verazin MD Timothy M....
Seated: Corey Welch Ashlee Ward Harold "Red" Grange (Rosemary Maria) Shana Welch Jacqueline Hardwick Joseph Costello Standing William Sexton Eric Speece Vince Yurko (Paul Yurko) James Desiderio (Mike Desiderio) Matthew Kolojejchick Paul Lupinski (Jim Martin) ...