Harvey Staver
2025
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Harvey Staver

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

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Donald “Mike” Waters
2025
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Donald “Mike” Waters

If you want some indication of how good Donald “Mike” Waters was as a football player at Chambersburg, check out these statistics from a 39-7 win over Hanover in October of 1950 at Henninger Field: In 13 carries, he gained 154 yards (11.8 avg.), including scoring runs of 80 yards

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1984 Baseball Team
2025
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1984 Baseball Team

At one point in the 1984 baseball season, Chambersburg did not look like a championship team. The Trojans went 0-3 over a 10-day span in early May, committing a total of 13 errors, and were left with a 9-4 record. But in the next game, a 4-1 win over Mechanicsburg,

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Angie Rideout
2025
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Angie Rideout

Angie Rideout Lowe was an outstanding three-sport athlete at Chambersburg and a two-sport star in college at Kutztown University, leaving her marks all over the record books at the two schools. What made her great were her superior jumping skills, which she put to good use in volleyball, basketball and

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Ben Gabler
2025
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Ben Gabler

During his four-year career in boy’s tennis at Chambersburg, Ben Gabler was unfamiliar with the word “lose.” Because of that, Gabler put together a stellar career for the Trojans in the early 1990’s and is by any measure the school’s greatest tennis player ever. Gabler has been named to the

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Doug Walter
2025
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Doug Walter

Doug Walter collected numerous medals in his excellent running career at Chambersburg, including a pair of PIAA gold medals in the 1984-85 season. But he lists a team achievement as his favorite memory of his time with the Trojans. Doug Walter was a two-sport PIAA gold medalist for Chambersburg. He

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Garett Hammond
2025
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Garett Hammond

Because Pennsylvania is considered the home of the best high school wrestling in the country, winning a PIAA individual title in that sport is quite an accomplishment. Garett Hammond liked winning a state championship so much in 2012 that he did it again in 2013, giving Chambersburg its only two-time

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Chris Clever
2025
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Chris Clever

Chris Clever grew into a perfect body for throwing the javelin – long and lean with a powerful right arm. And he made the most of it in his time at Chambersburg, securing a pair of PIAA Class 3A boys javelin titles in his junior and senior seasons. The best

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Lori Reese
2025
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Lori Reese

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

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1990 4 x 400 Relay Team
2025
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1990 4 x 400 Relay Team

It’s not possible to be the winner of a track & field relay race unless every member of the team runs a good leg and every handoff is clean. That’s just the formula Chambersburg’s girls 4 x 400 relay team, Tammy McClanahan, JuliAnn Hopkins, Beth Muehl and Rebecca Davis, used

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