The Penn Manor Athletic Wall of Honor just got a dozen new members. Three former student athletes, one coach and an athletic team were formally inducted during a dinner and ceremony on January 10.
This year’s inductees included Jennifer Bradley, Greta Lindsley, Chris Perry, former soccer coach Dick King and Penn Manor’s 2016 bowling team.
Watch a video of the ceremony.
Bradley was named All American, All League, and All State in field hockey and was a member of Penn Manor’s 2008 state championship team. In lacrosse, Jenn was twice named L-L League Player of the Year and was a member of the L-L League championship team.
A member of the Class of 2009, she played field hockey at American University.
Lindsley was named L-L League Cross Country Runner of the Year and L-L League Champion four straight years, won the district cross country championship and placed eighth in the state.
In track and field, she was a four-time L-L League champ (1600 and 3200 meters), three-time District III Champion (1600 meters) and placed second and fourth in the state (1600 meters), and was named an All-American and Penn Manor Female All Around Athlete of the Year.
A member of the Class of 2014, she ran cross country and track at Penn State University.
Perry, who passed away in 2022, was a Swimming All-American, two-time District III champ, and two-time state place winner. He held five school individual swimming records and three team records.
A member of the Class of 2009, he was a swimmer at the University of Pittsburgh.
His parents, Patricia and Keith, accepted his honor at the ceremony.
The 2016 bowling team was the first-ever state bowling champion from Lancaster County. The team also was L-L League and Section champions and placed second in the Eastern PA Bowling Championships.
The team included Zach Bowers, Jordan Wakefield, Austin Curtis, Nicholas Fisher, Tanner Simet, Michael Morris and Nick Mease, along with coaches Chris and Neal Vital and Ed Fisher.
Nearly all members of the team were on hand for the Wall of Honor ceremony.
King, who died in 2023, coached boys’ soccer from 1979 to 1993 and started the Penn Manor Youth Soccer Program. His teams earned a Section II Championship and finished third in District III in 1991, and he was twice named L-L League Coach of the Year.
Longtime Penn Manor coach and retired teacher Joe Herman accepted his award.
After the ceremony, the recipients were honored during halftime of the boys’ basketball game against Cedar Crest.
Congratulations to these new inductees!