2004 Gateway Hall Of Fame Inductees

 Gateway Sports Hall of Fame | 2004 Gateway Hall Of Fame Inductees

Harvey Smith Jr.
As member of the Gateway varsity football team in 1980 and 1981, Smith was a two-year letter winner and all-conference selection at quarterback. He led the Gators to two conference championships a two-year conference record of 18-0 and an overall mark of 21-3. Smith, who was named all-state in football, was also an all-conference basketball player. After high school, Smith walked on as a football player at West Virginia University, where he eventually earned a scholarship. As a receiver for the Mountaineers, he earned four varsity letters and was a three-year starter. He finished his career at WVU with 58 catches for 1,198 yards and 14 touchdowns. A member of three Mountaineer bowl teams, Smith earned first-team All-East honors while playing at WVU. He was inducted into the West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1995. Smith, who played briefly for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League and with the Miami Dolphins in the NFL, has coached at both Duquense University and Youngstown State. He returned to Gateway and is currently the offensive co-ordinator for the high-powered Gator football team, coaching along side his brother, Gateway head coach Terry Smith.

Larry Petrillo
In 1969, Petrillo was hired by the Gateway School District, where he taught for the next 35 years. A member of the WPIAL Swim Steering Committee, Petrillo began his swim coaching career with community swim programs in the Monroeville area. His high school coaching career at Gateway began as an assistant to Frank Muno from 1970 to 1972. Petrillo became the boys head coach in 1973 and held the position until 1977. From 1977 to 1984, he took another direction and officiated PIAA and college swim meets and spent more time with his family. He got back into coaching in 1984, guiding both the Gator boys and girls swim teams for 12 years, until 1986. During Petrillo's tenure as head coach, his teams compiled a record of 263-90-4. His teams won 10 section titles, recorded three second-place team finishes at WPIALs and captured three PIAA state girls team championships. He has coached 20 WPIAL champions, 14 state champs and seven All-Americans. Petrillo closed out his coaching career from 1999 to 2003 as an assistant coach to current Gator head swim coach Herm DeMao.

Jodi Smith
A multi-sport athlete at Gateway, Smith quickly became a standout for the Gators in track and field. By the end of her sophomore year, Smith had broken and set all Gateway High School records in the shot put, discus and javelin and was undefeated in all three events until the WPIAL meets. The WPIAL and PIAA champion in the shot put and discus her senior year, Smith signed on to continue her track and field career at West Virginia University, becoming the first female athlete in Gateway High School history to receive a full athletic scholarship. Smith broke or set every WVU record in the shot put, discus and javelin. A team captain for three years, she was a regional qualifier in the shot put, discus and javelin all four years with the Mountaineers. In 1984, her senior season, Smith was third in the nation for combined distance in all three throwing events. Her WVU records in the discus, shot and javelin stand to this day. After graduation from college, Smith played semi-pro, slow-pitch softball for seven years.

Vic Maccarelli
Maccarelli got his athletic start on the youth baseball and football fields in Pitcairn in the early to mid 1950's. A member of the first football teams at the new Gateway High School, Maccarelli earned a varsity letter at guard and linebacker on the 7-1-1 1958 football team. In the spring of 1959, he became the starting shortstop on the Gators' first baseball team. Maccarelli co-captained the 1960 baseball team to an 8-2 record, leading all hitters with a .529 average. In college, he earned two letters in football at IUP, leading the Indians to the Pennsylvania State College Athletic Association championship game in 1964. Maccarelli found success on the IUP baseball team, earning two letters as a third baseman for the Indians, who reached the 1964 NAIA national championship game. After graduation from college, Maccarelli served as an assistant football coach in football and the head baseball coach at Penn-Trafford High School. He led the Warriors baseball team to a WPIAL section title in 1969. Maccarelli returned to the Gateway School District in 1973 and served as assistant principal and head principal at Gateway Junior High and Gateway Middle School until his 2001 retirement.

John Sattler
A 1967 Gateway graduate, Sattler co-captained the Gator varsity football teams his junior and senior seasons. As an offensive and defensive lineman, Sattler was a big part of Gateway's first undefeated football team, the 9-0, 1965 Gators. Sattler, a three-year starter and section champion for the Gateway wrestling team, was 14-1 as a junior with his only loss being a regional section overtime loss. He added a 16-1 mark as a senior, falling in the state regional finals at Pitt's Fitzgerald Field House to the eventual state champion. In 1967, Sattler received honorable mention recognition from the Amateur Wrestling News. During Sattler's three seasons on the team, from 1964 to 1967, Gateway varsity wrestling compiled a 34-3-1 dual-meet record. The 1965-66 team went undefeated, the only time its been accomplished in the 40 years of Gator wrestling. After graduation from Gateway, Sattler attended the U.S. Naval Academy and joined the wrestling team. The Midshipmen won the Eastern Wrestling Championship Sattler's sophomore and junior seasons, where he individually finished fourth and third, respectively. In Sattler's senior year, Navy finished second at Eastern and he finished second individually. He qualified and wrestled in the NCAA national tournament all three years. Sattler, a Lieutenant General in the United States Marine Corps, has enjoyed a decorated military career. He is currently serving his country in Iraq, where he commands all the forces in the western part of the country.

Taunja Snyder
The Gateway track and field standout enjoyed a strong high school career. As a sophomore, Snyder qualified for states in four events at WPIALs (100 and 200 dashes, 4 x 100 relay and long jump), the only sophomore in school history to accomplish the feat. She won the 100 at WPIALs, the only runner to meet the state qualifying time of 12.59 seconds. At the PIAA meet, she finished ninth in the 200. As a junior, Snyder continued her success, winning MVP honors after winning five events at the Mt. Lebanon Invitational. She finished undefeated in the 200, winning the WPIAL title in the event, as well as qualifying for the PIAA meet in four events. Despite a false start in the 100 at states, Snyder rebounded with a personal best in the high jump and helping the 4 x 100 relay team to another school record. As a senior, Snyder won the WPIAL title again in the 200, added WPIAL gold in the long jump and took silver at states. Snyder earned a track scholarship to West Virginia University and was an ECAC qualifier in five events for both the indoor and outdoor seasons. She added All-ECAC honors three years. Snyder currently works as a school teacher in Prince Georges County, MD. She has also coached a high school girls track team.

1964 boys basketball
The Gators strong regular-season run during the 1964-65 season culminated in a second-straight Section 11-A title. Gateway defeated Washington in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs at Pitt's Fitzgerald Field House and continued on to the WPIAL quarterfinals at the Civic Arena, falling to eventual WPIAL champ Midland. Coach Rege Laughlin's Gators were led by 6-foot-10 1/2 senior All-American Cliff Parsons, who averaged 30 points a game. He scored a school-record 56 points in a 71-59 victory over Duquesne and finished three years of varsity basketball with 1,500 points. The team also consisted of seniors Larry Milhalchik, Bill Kelly, Dick Rivers, Russ Porter, Don King, Bob Lang and Mark Domin, along with juniors Russ McKelvy, Ed Rashid, Walt Prugar, John Ruane and Dale Hughes. Parsons, Milhalchik, Kelly and McKelvy started regularly with the fifth spot up for grabs at different times between Rivers, King, Rashid and Ruane, proving Gateway's plentiful depth. The 1964-65 Gators squad finished 20-4.