Kevin Tresolini
Over 43 years, Kevin Tresolini has reported on Delaware sports at all levels. He has been named Delaware Sportswriter of the Year a record 13 times over five decades by the National Sports Media Association. As The News Journal’s primary high school reporter from 1986 to 1999, Tresolini built a rep¬u¬tation for care, sensitivity and […]
Jonathan Stoklosa
Jonathan Stoklosa won the gold medal at the Special Olympics World Summer Games and has excelled since in powerlifting competitions outside of Special Olympics. Despite being the youngest and lightest in his weight class, he won a gold medal in the bench press with a lift of 285 points. His 340-pound dead lift earned him […]
Dave Raymond
The original Phillie Phanatic, Dave Raymond made the mascot one of the best-known in sports. He was named Best Mascot in Sports and Best Mascot Ever by several publications. An intern with the Phillies, he was talked into working inside a newly designed mascot suit and worked his first game as the Phillie Phanatic in […]
Marcy Levine
Marcy Levine, a Brandywine High School graduate, was a national women’s collegiate gymnastics champion in a career where she led Penn State to three national championships. As a Penn State frosh in 1979, she won the floor exercise at the national AIAW collegiate championships for the national champion Nittany Lions. As a sophomore in 1980, […]
Cheryl Hamilton
Cheryl Hamilton has been an internationally recognized judge of elite gymnastics for over 45 years, officiating at four Olympics, world championship competitions in 21 countries and numerous World Cups. She was the USA Judge of Olympic competition at Tokyo (2021), Rio de Janeiro (2016), London (2012) and Atlanta (1996), continues to judge gymnastics at the […]
Cliff Brumbaugh
Cliff Brumbaugh played 16 seasons of professional baseball, including stints with the Texas Rangers and Colorado Rockies, followed by eight years in South Korea, Japan and Mexico, after leading the University of Delaware to a three-year record of 117-48 that included two North Atlantic Conference titles. A third baseman, he was named third-team All-American by […]
Paul Worrilow
Paul Worrilow played eight years in the NFL after a decorated career at Concord High School and the University of Delaware. He was named Delaware’s Athlete of the Year for 2013 and played for the Atlanta Falcons in the 2017 Super Bowl. Worrilow was a starting linebacker for the Falcons for three seasons after making […]
Charles Wahlig
Charles Wahlig’s accomplishments in the sport of roller skating include winning national speed skating and dance competitions, medaling at the world championships, coaching teams that dominated international competition for several decades, serving as president of USA Roller Sports for eight terms, and owning four Delaware roller rinks. Wahlig is the only person to have won […]
Joe Tiberi
One of the top boxers in Delaware history, Joe Tiberi had an amateur boxing record of 44-4-2 with 31 knockouts, followed by a professional record of 18-5-2 with 13 knockouts during the 1970’s and 80’s. He fought eight undefeated boxers, beating five of them. In his first professional bout, he knocked out veteran welterweight Prince […]
Ginger Smith
Ginger Smith was Delaware’s preeminent female sprinter and hurdler in the 1960s. At age 16 in 1964, coached by Bob Behr, she became the first Delaware runner to qualify for the Olympic Trials, advancing to the semifinals in the 80m hurdles, 100m, 200m, and 400m dashes. The first Delaware woman to run at the Penn […]