Wellsboro Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024

Elizabeth was a three-sport athlete in volleyball, basketball and track & field during her Wellsboro career and was the MVP of all three sports in her senior year. The John Antoine Prevost Female Athlete of the Year winner in 1989, Hoover led her volleyball and track teams to district titles her senior year, while being named Regional Athlete of the Year for New York/Pennsylvania, and All-Twin Tiers Athlete of the Year for New York/Pennsylvania. Hoover was a four-year district qualifier in the shot put, discus and javelin while winning all three events her senior year at the District IV championships. She qualified for the PIAA State Championship meet as a sophomore, junior and a senior in all three throws, and placed in the top-10 her junior and senior year for all three events. She still holds Wellsboro's girls discus record at 129-ft, 4-inches.

After graduation Hoover attended Susquehanna University, as a member of both the basketball and track teams. She was a four-year starter and letter winner for the basketball team that were Middle Atlantic Conference Champions her last three years, and National Playoff contenders during those three years, making the sweet sixteen tournament her senior year. During her senior year on the track team, she qualified for the NCAA Championship meet in Ohio in the javelin, where she placed 4th in the nation with a SU record throw of 143-ft, 6-inches, solidifying her All-American status and 2002 induction into the Susquehanna University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Ted graduated from Wellsboro in 1968. He was a four-year member of the Hornet football, baseball and basketball teams, and was named the John Antoine Prevost Male Athlete of the Year. Ted was drafted into the U.S. Army after high school, trading in any post-high school sports dreams for a trip to Vietnam. Upon his return from this overseas deployment, Ted raised a family in Wellsboro and coached many years of little league baseball and small fry football. He taught athletic skills and life lessons to countless young athletes during that time.

Over the past fifty years, Ted has been one of Wellsboro's greatest supporters, and you can always catch him in the stands at a variety of sporting events, but especially during the basketball season, where he basically has a reserved seat at mid court.

From 1990 to 2010, Dr. Sayre coach multiple sports including Middle School Cross Country, WAYS Youth Soccer, flag football, and Little League Softball, where he amassed a perfect 144-0 regular season record and two district championships.

In 11 years as the cross country head coach at Rock L. Butler Middle School, Coach Sayre recorded 235 wins and only 26 losses. Five of his boys' teams and four of his girls' teams were undefeated with first place finishes at the McQuaid Invitational, the Bloomsburg Invite, the Northern Tier Coaches' Invite, and the Lasagna XC Invite.  His teams numerically dwarfed opposing teams with 35-45 members participating yearly in a sport where only the top 5 runners score. Coach Sayre's middle school team was the seed bed for the successful high school XC teams of that era. Many college XC teams also benefited from the spark of interest generated at that time in his young runners' careers.