Butler County Sports Hall of Fame

2002 Sandie (Starr) Everhart

Sandie (Starr) Everhart

2002 Sandie (Starr) Everhart A Mars HS graduate where she played basketball and track earning All-State honors. She went to play basketball at Allegheny College earning All-American honors.She then became a high school coach.  

2002 Joseph Gracik

butler county sports hall of fame

2002 Joseph Gracik A Butler HS graduate who excelled as a gymnast,winning WPIAL and PIAA honors. He went on to be an All-American gymnast at the University of Pittsburgh.

2002 Robert Despirito

Robert Despirito

2002 Robert Despirito He played football and lettered at the University of Rhode Island in 1950. He served as the head football coach at the University of Bridgeport from 1960 – 1964. For the next three years he served as an assistant coach at Bucknell University. He then became the head coach at Slippery Rock […]

2002 Mark Harvey

butler county sports hall of fame

2002 Mark Harvey The Butler HS graduate was a PIAA Track Champion, and went on to earn All-American status as a sprinter at Slippery Rock University as a PSAC Champion Sprinter.

2002 Larry Thompson

butler county sports hall of fame

2002 Larry Thompson A Butler HS graduate who played baseball and basketball and then went on to play basketball at Slippery Rock University setting the assist record at SRU. He went on to coach baseball, basketball, and track at York HS.

2002 Laverne Kline

butler county sports hall of fame

2002 Laverne Kline A Butler HS graduate who played football and track. He went to play football at Thiel College earning All-Conference MVP honors. He became a baseball and football coach at Wilmington HS after college.

2002 Edward Hoyn

butler county sports hall of fame

2002 Edward Hoyn A 1930’s ERA Butler HS graduate who played baseball and swimming. He entered the US Army in 1942 through 1945. In 1952 he began umpiring in the Alabama State League and then moved on into the West Texas – New Mexico League, and then in 1953 he was assigned to the Alabama […]

2001 Scott Milanovich

Scott Milanovich

2001 Scott Milanovich An early 1990’s Butler HS graduate who was a three sport athlete playing basketball, football ,and track. He went on to attend the University of Maryland where he played quarterback. He was named the MVP of the Blue Squad in the Blue-Gray Classic for the University. He signed as a Free Agent […]

2001 Charles Dunaway

Charles Dunaway

2001 Charles Dunaway A Slippery Rock University football and tennis player earning All-Conference honors. When he finished at SRU, he became a full-time Athletic Director and multi-sport coach at Butler County Community College.  

2001 George Mihalik

George Mihalik

2001 George Mihalik He as Slippery Rock University’s head football coach for 28 seasons from 1988 – 2015, when he retired from a long career as both a professor and coach at the University. He also starred as the starting quarterback for three-years at SRU in the early 1970’s winning back-to-back conference championships in 1972 […]