Seven selected for Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame | Indiana County Sports

The Class of 2023 will begin admission on Sunday, May 21 at 5:30 p.m. at the Indiana Country Club. Tickets will be available at a later date.

NORMAN ANDRY: The 1950 graduate of Homer City High School set a 45-1 record as an amateur boxer and won the 1950 Gold Gloves championship at 132 pounds and was named boxer outstanding at the event. He is considered the most outstanding boxer from the renowned stable of Johnny Costas. He also boxed for three years at Michigan State, a premier boxing school at the time, and compiled a 14-1 record. After a military career in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, he now lives in California.

BRIAN BROZESKI: A 1996 graduate of Blairsville High School and an all-round standout at 6-foot-6, he helped lead Blairsville to county championships in basketball and track and field, and was a Big 33 quarterback nomination in football. In basketball, he led the field in goals, rebounds and blocks. In athletics, he set school records in the high jump and discus throw and finished fifth in the high jump at the state tournament. He played football at Penn State and earned a berth as a walk-on wide receiver/tight end on teams that made four straight bowls.

KEVIN CRAIG: The Indiana High School graduate will be inducted into the Hall of Fame along with his father, Ralph, and brother, Eric. He was a three-year-old wrestler who posted a 25-6-2 mark as a senior and won the section, finished runner-up at the Regionals, and qualified for the state tournament. He played on football teams that posted 18-3-1 records and went to Slippery Rock, where he played as a lead blocker for four 1,000-yard rushers for four years. From 2006 to 2014 he coached running backs and special teams at Clarion.

RALPH DAVID: The 1976 Blairsville High School graduate had 2,892 yards and 46 touchdowns in three seasons and rushed for nearly 2,500 yards as a junior and senior. He was on the team that won the inaugural Appalachian Conference football championship and was named Offensive/Running Back of the Year by The Indiana Gazette and Greensburg Tribune-Review. He also helped the basketball team win the Indiana County title and the Appalachian Conference Division title. In track and field, he won county titles in the 100 and 220 yards as a junior and senior. He then played football at Carnegie Mellon under Chuck Klausing and was a letterman for two years, heading the Presidents’ Athletic Conference in punt returns as a freshman.

CHUCK GLASSERS: The 1978 graduate of Marion Center High School played basketball for four years and scored more than 1,200 points in his career. He made All-Gazette first team his junior and senior seasons and earned honorable mentions in his sophomore year. In the spring of 1978, he was named MVP of the Gazetteland All-Star Basketball Game by the IUP. He then played college basketball at Pitt-Johnstown and became a postcollege PIAA basketball umpire, officiating numerous District 6 championship games and one PIAA state championship game.

Sam Kelly: Known in Indiana as the “Father of Hockey,” he started the hockey program and turned it into a varsity sport that thrived at the PAHL (amateur) and PIHL (scholastic) levels. As a USA Hockey Certified Coach, he taught hockey to boys, girls and adults. He coached the IUP club program for 18 years and posted a record of 406-227-51, won 11 regular-season championships and four playoff championships, and made 10 appearances in the ACHA national tournament. In six seasons as Indiana’s coach, he went 110-56-16, made the playoffs every six years, reached the state level three times, and reached the Penguin Cup once. He was inducted into the American Collegiate Hockey Association Hall of Fame in 2021.

CHRISTINA (SGRICCIA) DEAR: The 2004 graduate of Penns Manor High School was the 2004 state champion in the triple jump and went on to compete in Penn State track and field, where she competed annually in the Big Ten meet. She still holds the Penns Manor records in the long jump, triple jump and high jump and has won four state medals including gold, silver and bronze. She helped the volleyball team win district titles in 2001 and 2002 and the basketball team to reach the state tournament. She earned letters every four years at Penn State while attending eight Big Ten championship meetings and helping the Nittany Lions win the 2008 conference title. She was the winner of the Big Ten Scholar-Athlete Award in 2008.