Coach Ron Faust, referee Jim Chacko, 1989 Peters Township Boys Soccer and 2011-2012 Canon-McMillan Wrestling were announced among the WPIAL Hall of Fame Class of 2024. The honorees will be officially inducted on Friday, May 31 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Green Tree.
Ron Faust led Wash High boys basketball to 653 wins, 22 section titles, four WPIAL championships and a pair of state crowns over his two stints as head coach. Jim Chacko followed his 1,000-point high school basketball career at Charleroi with a long run as a WPIAL/PIAA official in football, basketball and baseball.
The 1989 Peters Township boys soccer team went 23-2-2, allowing just 19 goals in the season on the way to WPIAL & PIAA championship repeats. The Indians did not allow a post-season goal, blanking opponents 23-0 over the WPIAL/PIAA tournament run.
Canon-McMillan’s 2011-2012 team went unbeaten (26-0) to win WPIAL and PIAA Team titles, lead by state champion Kody Wiercioch and seven other PIAA place-winners, three of them joining Wiercioch as WPIAL individual champions. The Big Macs downed North Allegheny to win the WPIAL Team Tournament, then topped McDowell a week later in the PIAA Finals.