INDUCTEE If you were going to make a list of the top 5 athletes ever to play at Mt. Carmel High School you would have to include the name of Tom Vernon. He won 12 letters as a Tornado athlete, and was outstanding in every sport. He is the only athlete in the school’s history […]

SCHOLAR ATHLETE Jen continues the proud tradition of Mt. Carmel Area athletes who combine success on the athletic field with outstanding accomplishments in the classroom. As a scholar she is first rate; she has received the Distinguished Honor Roll all four years of High School; and is Secretary of the National Honor Society. She recently […]

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Brian, a senior at Lourdes Regional, is a young golfer you will be hearing about in the future. He is a terrific all around athlete; but once bitten by the golf bug he abandoned all other sports activities to concentrate on his first love. Brian has led Lourdes to three straight SIAL […]

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD JOEL GONZALO Only the fourth player in school history to be names All State in successive years. Was Tornadoes All-Time Leading Receiver, with 123 catches for 1850 yards and 20 TD. Also had team record 11 interceptions and 14 passes broken up. Team Co-Captain, he was Reading Eagles receiver of the year. […]

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (COACH BRESLIN’S REPORT) “The Mile Relay Team was the backbone of that undefeated track squad. Made up of only one natural quarter miler, Adam Williams (who also won the State Championship in the 440), the remainder of the team was made up of George Teufel, a sprinter; Jake Patrick, a hurdler, and […]

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD The 1945 squad of coaches Mike Terry and George Wrona began the season under a lot of pressure. After the stunning success of the 1944 team which had won 11 in a row and the Eastern Conference Championship they felt pressure to maintain the unbeaten streak and to repeat as champions. Coach […]

INDUCTEE “Vic” Dall was a big, strong, tough, intelligent, mostly quiet guy who was universally requested by people who knew him as an athlete, official, and school administrator. Viewed from the perspective of a seventh grader, he was imposing…a guy so big he seemed to fill up the room. You just knew that he was […]

INDUCTEE “Lefty” Kerdock was a Mount Carmel buy who has the dream and almost made it come true. He grew up fantasizing about playing with the St. Louis Cardinals and in 1928 he achieved step 1 by being signed by Branch Rickey, then general manager of the Cardinals. He began his career in the South […]

INDUCTEE “Sheppy” was a dominating football player on every level. Yet he got better as he went along, and by the time he finished at Bloomsburg University he held most of the career and season tackle and defensive point records for the Huskies. A tipoff on how well he was regarded at Bloomsburg: he was […]

INDUCTEE Tommy Cole was a special athlete. A great combination of strength and intelligence, speed and power. You might say he was bred for the job. He set the school shot put record, broken in 1992 by Mike Fantanarosa. But until Mike got in the act, that record was strictly a family affair. Held originally […]