Plenty of Chambersburg athletes have become professionals in a variety of sports, but none have had a pro career as long or successful as Tom Brookens. Brookens was a Major League baseball player for 12 years, which included winning a World Series title with the Detroit Tigers in 1984. Brookens

Tim Cook could have been selected to the inaugural class of inductees for the new Chambersburg Athletics Hall of Fame as an athlete, or as a coach. Put those two sides together, and add in that he was the first Trojan to win a PIAA state championship as an athlete

In the history of athletics at Chambersburg, there may not have been a player who meant more to her team for her whole career than Stephanie (VanBrakle) Prothro. Prothro was a dominant softball player for four years, from 1999 to 2002, for the Trojans, who were contenders for PIAA titles

This is how good Ron Etter was in his senior football season at Chambersburg: He was recruited by some 60 colleges to play football for them and the final five schools he chose from were Alabama, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Penn State. Etter was a terror on both

Mitch Stahl had the height and he had the athleticism, and when he mastered the skills of playing volleyball, he turned into a force. Stahl, who was considered the top volleyball recruit in the nation after his senior year of playing for the Trojans, was chosen to be included in

If you were to gather up all of the state gold medals that Marshay Ryan won in her high school career and placed them in the sun, about the only thing brighter than them would be her charismatic smile. Ryan is perhaps the most decorated athlete in Chambersburg sports history

If you were to look for a pioneer of girls athletics at Chambersburg, look no further than Marcia (Logue) Brown. She was directly or indirectly responsible for starting three girls sports programs, coached two of them and was a coach in two other sports. Brown was hired as a permanent

You can list all kinds of great individual stats about Lori Reese, and we’ll do that later in this story. But if you want to get to the bottom of her greatness, take a look at these team stats: In Reese’s senior year at Chambersburg, the field hockey team was

When a program collects wins in nearly 9 games out of every 10 played, you would expect plenty of good things are going to happen. And that’s certainly true in the case of longtime Chambersburg softball coach Harvey Staver, whose teams seemed to be in the chase for state championships