SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT Coach Dave “Whitey” Williams Since coming to Mt. Carmel, Coach Williams has a record of 46 wins and only 8 loses. Overall as a head coach he is 74-23-1. In his 4 year stint with the Tornadoes they have won 2 State Championships, 1 Eastern Conference Championship, 1 District 11 Championship, and 1 […]

INDUCTEE Eds Menapace was a solid two-sport athlete at Mt. Carmel Township. However, he grew as an athlete after High School and became even more outstanding as he matured. He became a three-sport letterman at Susquehanna University in 1949, 1950 and 1951. He was a fullback in football, a catcher in baseball, and a solid […]

INDUCTEE “Big Frank” Zorica had it all come together in one day for him, and as a result he won a State Championship over some people who had come into the day with better reputations. Frank had been a solid, but unspectacular, performer for Coach Jerry Breslin all year. His trademark had always been consistency…and […]

INDUCTEE Joe Grey was a big, raw kid who made himself an outstanding player. He starred as both an offensive tackle and linebacker for the Big Red. And even though he was surrounded by an all star cast he was good enough in his own right to be named to the 1973 Big 33 Team, […]

INDUCTEE The Bach family of Mt. Carmel and Mt. Carmel Catholic High School has made a significant contribution to Coal Region sports. The youngest of the family Frank has also kept the banner flying as an athlete and citizen. Frank’s senior year in High School was the first year of the jointure between Mt. Carmel […]

INDUCTEE The thing you remember about Maria Fantanarosa as a basketball player is this non-stop, all-out, go all the time whirlwind. She was everywhere. She could shoot great…that’s proven by the fact the she is still the State’s all-time leading scorer…for both men and women. But don’t think that she was some kind of ball […]

INDUCTEE Billy Coyne was the “other” tackle on the Mt. Carmel High School 1954 Championship team. The more highly publicized teammate was, of course, Dan Ficca. But Billy Coyne has an outstanding career on his own…and went on from High School to play extremely well on the college level at Gettysburg. At Gettysburg, Coyne was […]

INDUCTEE Dave Kijewski was an outstanding 3-sport athlete whose accomplishments get bigger the more you read them. Maybe because he played on teams with so many outstanding players his own records tended to get taken for granted. But viewed from the present day perspective Dave Kijewski had one helluva athletic career at Mt. Carmel High. […]

INDUCTEE “ABAJAB” was one of Mt. Carmel’s great all-around athletes. He was outstanding in every sport, in every season. And even though he excelled at football and basketball, when you saw him in action you felt “what God has in mind here was a baseball player”. After high school he attended Wake Forest on a […]

SCHOLAR ATHLETE Eric fits the mold of previous winners of this award perfectly. He is ranked 5th in his class; and carries a GPA of 97. He is a member of the National Honor Society and was nominated as a National Scholar while representing Pennsylvania at the Young Leaders Conference. He is on Student Council […]