Category: Awards

• Penn Manor’s Nick Fafel, Alyssa Schriver earn Brackbill Awards

  For only the second time in 30 years, two student athletes from the same high school have earned the prestigious A. Landis Brackbill Scholar-Athlete Award, which this year goes to Nick Fafel and Alyssa Schriver of Penn Manor High School. The award is given annually to a male and female senior student-athlete who maintains a…

• Coaches Association names Soto Field Hockey Coach of the Year  

  Penn Manor coach Matt Soto has been named Field Hockey Coach of the Year by the National High School Coaches Association. “We are extremely pleased to honor Coach Soto,” said Eric Hess, Executive Director of the Association. “Coach Soto has not only established Penn Manor as one of the top programs in Pennsylvania, but also as…

• PMHS earns fourth straight Silver Medal, No. 1 ranking in county

  For the fourth year in a row, Penn Manor High School has been honored with a Silver Medal from U.S. News & World Report and is ranked the No. 1 high school in Lancaster County! Penn Manor is ranked No. 36 in Pennsylvania, and No. 1,335 in the United States, based on the magazine’s 2018…

• Manor MS student earns Scholastic Writing poetry award

  Manor Middle School eighth-grader Ella Layton has earned a Scholastic Writing Award for a collection of poems she wrote over the past year. Ella chose five poems – “Unsaid,” “Hesitation,” “Bind,” “Paradise” and “Mess” — to submit to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition. She earned a Silver Key, the second-highest award, for the…

• Penn Manor honors 2018 retirees, Outstanding Educators & Employee

  Penn Manor honored 18 retirees with nearly 450 years of  combined service May 2 during the 39th annual Employee Recognition Dinner in the high school cafeteria. Attendees watched a video presentation of comments (plus one song-and-dance number!) by 12 of the retirees — Jeff Roth, Marilyn Springer, Donna Brady, Anne Butterfield, Cheryl Dearolf, Frank Dell’Estate, Sue Frese,…

• Penn Manor HS students place first in Sea, Air & Land Challenge

  A team of Penn Manor High School students placed first in the Sea, Air and Land Challenge, held April 24 at Lancaster Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13. Moses Buckwalter, Graham Thomas, Maxwell Kreitzer, Wesley Kendig and Thomas Hockenberry – all freshmen – won the air portion of the competition, which required teams to design, build and fly drones over a simulated wooded…

• Penn Manor students bring home state TSA awards

  Congratulations to Marticville Middle School student Jaden Smith, who placed first in Pennsylvania in the Children’s Stories category of the Technology Student Association State Conference, held April 18-21 at Seven Springs Resort. Jaden was among the 14 Penn Manor students who finished in the top 10 in the competition, which included more than 1,900 of…

• Four named to Penn Manor Alumni Wall of Honor

  Congratulations to the four new members of the Penn Manor Alumni Wall of Honor – Joshua Herr, Craig Kauffman, J. Samuel Walker and Jan Mindish. Herr (Class of 2001) is Design Director for Creative Direction for Adidas and leads the Originals team, which works with celebrity designers. Herr’s team developed XENO, a new shoe material…

• Two PMHS students named Agricultural Sciences Scholars

  Two Penn Manor High School juniors have been selected to attend the prestigious Pennsylvania School for Excellence in the Agricultural Sciences. Arilyn Tegtmeier-Oatman and Rylee Mellott were named PSEAS Scholars and will attend the four-week program in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State University. Only about 40 students from across Pennsylvania are selected…

• Peyton Cassel earns national Scholastic Writing Award

  Penn Manor High School junior Peyton Cassel has won another award for her writing — a national Silver Medal in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition. Peyton won the award in flash fiction (under 1,000 words) for her story “The Apology,” which previously won a regional Scholastic Gold Key Award. The national Scholastic Award…