Photo Album: Mt. Lebanon Hall of Champions
Mt. Lebanon added the Distinguished Blue Devil category to its Hall of Fame and introduced its latest inductees during a ceremony at Cefalo’s Banquet Facility in Carnegie. Legendary coaches Art Walker (football) and Charlie Stull (tennis) headlined the first class of Distinguished Blue Devils. Walker coached from 1967-87, compiling a 170-56-6 record that included 10 conference championships, three WPIAL runner-up trophies and five WPIAL titles. Overall, Walker was 207-73-6. For 25 years (1969-97), Stull served as boys’ and girls’ tennis team coaches. He had a career match mark of 855-70. He coached 27 individual WPIAL champions (13 boys and 14 girls) and 22 PIAA winners. Russ Jones, Tyler Bluemling and Vince Russo joined Walker and Stull as Distinguished Blue Devils along with the 1952 880-meter relay team of Bruce Klingensmith, Bill Bilingsley, George Wells and Jim Murphy. The automatic entries into the Hall of Champions were: Aiden Cain (all-state football); Molly Mangan (WPIAL track champion); Ally Klaber and Lexi Gibbons (All-America lacrosse players; Trinity Ward (WPIAL butterfly champion) as well as the WPIAL champion 200-yard medley relay team that includes Ward, Hannah Morelli, Maddie Dorish and Libby McDyer.