SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT Al Bailey has recently concluded an outstanding football career at Mount Carmel Area High School. He is a four year letter winner at MCA as well as being a 3 year starter. Al is now the only player in MCA history to have played in 3 state championship games, winning in the 1996 […]

INDUCTEE Mike Woytowich is a 1964 graduate of Kulpmont High School where he earned nine varsity letters. He led the football team in scoring, averaged 14 points per game for the basketball team, batted over .300 in baseball and was voted the best All Around Athlete by the Kulpmont Athletic Club, as well as honorable […]

INDUCTEE Being able to adjust and make changes is a quality all of us would like to have. No one was able to use this ability as well as Rob Varano. Robbie came on to the Mount Carmel athletics scene as a sophomore and broke into the starting lineup as a defensive back for coach […]

INDUCTEE Jim began his athletic career as a tackle on Mount Carmel Catholic High’s 1962 Catholic League Championship football team. That team went on to a 9-1 record, losing only to powerful Lebanon Catholic. Many people believe that the Ram offensive line of Petroski, Wolnock, Bach, Cesari and Sheenan was one of the best in […]

INDUCTEE For Mark Sassani, winning has been the one constant in his life as a high school athlete, college wrestler and high school wrestling coach. After breaking into the starting lineup of a very talented wrestling squad, Mark suffered a broken arm in his first varsity match as a freshman. Little did he know at […]

INDUCTEE Nine varsity letters in three different sports. Not bad for a great high school athlete, except we’re talking about a college athlete! Today’s inductee, Bert Jones, did just that at Gettysburg College from 1929 thru 1933. You must also consider that freshman in those times were not allowed to participate in varsity athletics. Bert […]

INDUCTEE For those of you who were Tornado football fans in the late 60s and early 70s, the picture will be forever embedded in your minds. That of the wide receiver running downfield with his arm behind his back directing his running back which way to go. That running back was Gary Diminick in the […]

INDUCTEE The Play! 1981 – third game of the year – less than one minute remaining in the game with Whitehall leading 12-7 and inside the Tornadoes 10 yard line at the Bleacher Creatures end of the field. Instead of downing the ball and letting time run out, the Whitehall coach decided to run up […]

INDUCTEE Imagine spending six decades of your life involved in athletics – as a player, as a a coach, as an administrator, as an official. It is only fitting that today Jim Bush be honored for his dedication to athletics in this lower anthracite region of Pennsylvania. Jim’s involvement began as a player in the […]

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT As August approached during the summer of 1970, expectations were as high as they had ever been when discussing the prospects for the latest edition of the Mount Carmel Area Red Tornadoes. After all, they were coming off the 1969 season where they had gone 12-0 and won the Eastern Conference Championship in […]