INDUCTEE Joe Ahrensfield has had the good fortune to be able to be on championship teams at every level of his playing and coaching careers. As a high school football player at Mount Carmel Area, Joe was a letter-winner on MCA’s 1970 Southern Division Championship team. As a senior in 1972, Joe was one of […]

INDUCTEE Known for his rugged and physical type of play, Phil Klaus finally adds his name as an inductee in the Ed Romance Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Phil joins 8 other classmates form the class of ’71 and 13 other team mates from the 1970 Southern Division Championship team. Phil started […]

INDUCTEE In 1939, Edwin Rakocy stood atop the podium at Penn State’s Rec Hall as a state champion wrestler – Mount Carmel’s FIRST ever wrestling state champion. Rakocy won the state championship wrestling in the 155 pound division, back in a time when winning a state championship was as tough as qualifying for the medal […]

INDUCTEE In 1965, Ray would break the Mount Carmel Cross Country course record by 8 seconds in running a 12:03 over the 2.3 mile course. The old record had been established 16 years earlier by the famous Lowthert twins from Pottsville. Ray would also establish a new District IV record in winning the first-ever individual […]

INDUCTEE Beth Santelli made it a point to keep herself busy. Busy enough that she would earn 12 varsity letters in four different sports during her career at Mount Carmel Area. You can add four years of winter track to that list to see how busy she really was. Beth first made her presence felt […]

INDUCTEE “One of the best distance men I have ever coached”. That quote coming from legendary track coach Jerry Breslin in talking about Mount Carmel Area’s Jeff Yoder. Jeff burst on to the athletic scene in 169 as a cross country runner for Coach Breslin and would become a three-time place winner at the District […]

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT After winning the North Schuylkill League Championship in 1965, MCA baseball suffered through 9 consecutive losing seasons. In 1975, Coach Ed Kaczmarek took over the reigns and immediately led the Tornadoes to an 8-8 mark in his first season. That was only the beginning as Big Red would go 13 – 5 in […]

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT Up until 2007, Mount Carmel Area had only had 4 athletes who had achieved 100 wins in their varsity wrestling careers. They were Mike Garcia at 140-9, Eric Lupatsky at 122-24, David Evans at 112-23, and David Fantini at 105-17. MCA has added three more grapplers to that special club, all under the […]

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT Up until 2007, Mount Carmel Area had only had 4 athletes who had achieved 100 wins in their varsity wrestling careers. They were Mike Garcia at 140-9, Eric Lupatsky at 122-24, David Evans at 112-23, and David Fantini at 105-17. MCA has added three more grapplers to that special club, all under the […]

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT Up until 2007, Mount Carmel Area had only had 4 athletes who had achieved 100 wins in their varsity wrestling careers. They were Mike Garcia at 140-9, Eric Lupatsky at 122-24, David Evans at 112-23, and David Fantini at 105-17. MCA has added three more grapplers to that special club, all under the […]