One of the upper-classmen I looked up to at PSU was
Bill Kvashay. Bill was an 800M runner (among other events) at State College High back in the days
when color photos were sorta kinda new. hee hee He went on to the Armed Services (I think Marines?) before enrolling at PSU. I believe Coach Groves himself was instrumental in having Bill try out for the team.
(all of these facts are up for review and correction.) Following graduation, he won the Penn Relays Marathon in a Olympic Trials qualifying time,
except a policeman sent him the wrong dirction through campus 300 meters from the finish. He has been a fine coach since and a teacher of calculus. Someone we all can really look up to. An example of the upper echelons of what our group is all about.
Bill now coaches at
Lake Lehman High School and must be one heck of a coach. I've kept up with him sporadically via the interwebby thingie and occasionally seeing him at Track and XC meets over the years.
One of Bill's athletes,
Dominic Hockenbury just won the Class AA 3200M in
9:17.18,
a 24 second PR at the PIAA meet. Dominic is a Sophomore. Congrats to Bill and Dominic.
I add that he would make a very fine Nittany Lion.
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| Dominic Hockenbury with Coach Bill Kvashay, right. |
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