WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Dr. Pat Carey,
Joe Feerrar '02 and
Dr. Jason Zalonis '95 were each honored as part of an 11-member class that was inducted into the West Branch Valley Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday, Nov. 18, at the Genetti Hotel & Suites in Williamsport, Pa.
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Carey recently retired from his active practice at UPMC after serving as an orthopedic surgeon and practitioner of sports medicine in North Central Pennsylvania since 1990. He served as Lycoming College athletics' team physician for 31 years, beginning in 1990. He earned the 2020 Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society Team Physician Honorary Member Award and served as a sports medicine consultant for both the Williamsport Crosscutters and the Little League World Series. Before his career as a doctor, Carey was a two-year starting quarterback at Central Bucks West (1971-72), going 22-0 as a starter and earning all-state honors as a senior. He then became a three-year starting quarterback at Temple University (1975-77), leading Owls to two winning seasons and being named the Most Outstanding Back of the Tokyo Bowl against Grambling (1977).
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Carey joins his son in the West Branch Valley Sports Hall of Fame, as Patrick, a quarterback at Loyalsock Township and Bloomsburg University, was a 2018 inductee.
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A two-year starting quarterback with Lycoming College football team in 2000-01, Feerrar left his mark both in the Lycoming College football program and as the starting quarterback on Jersey Shore High School's first district champion. A Second Team All-MAC quarterback in 2000, Feerrar went 15-3 as a starter and he was a two-time MAC champion with the Warriors. He finished his career second in program history with a 140.0 passing efficiency, ninth with 3,797 passing yards and seventh with 35 passing touchdowns. He is the only Warrior to throw five touchdown passes twice in a career. Before that, Feerrar led Jersey Shore to its first District 4 title in 1997, earning Central Susquehanna Conference Offensive Back of the Year and first-team all-conference honors after throwing for 1,540 yards and 15 scores. He was also a second team all-conference pick in basketball at Jersey Shore.
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Feerrar is the co-owner of Bald Birds Brewing with wife, Abby, which has locations in Audobon, Pa., and in his hometown of Jersey Shore.
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Zalonis transferred to Lycoming from Division I Lafayette in 1992 and immediately became an impact player in the secondary for the Warriors. He posted 73 tackles and eight interceptions in career, helping the Warriors to a MAC title and a trip to the NCAA Division III Championship in 1992 when he had 34 tackles, four interceptions and nine passes defended. Prior to that, he was a second-team all-state safety and first-team all-conference quarterback and punter in 1989, leading South Williamsport Area High School to a state runner-up finish and its first district title. He still holds nine school records, including pass completions in a season (88, 1988) and career (225), passing yards in a game (284, 1988), season (1,288, 1988) and career (3,833), most career touchdown passes (34) and the longest punt (79).
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Zalonis is the third member of his family to earn induction into the West Branch Valley Sports Hall of Fame, joining his father, John, a longtime coach at South Williamsport, who was inducted in 1998, and his brother, Brett, an All-American linebacker at Lycoming, that was inducted in 2004.
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Zalonis is a doctor of podiatry with Capital Foot Specialists in Hummelstown, Pa.
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