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Peters Seniors Sign Letters of Intent to Play in College

Five senior athletes have accepted offers to play soccer and football at the collegiate level.

Three members of the Peters Township girls varsity soccer team (2010 state champions), as well as two football players from Peters Township High School have signed letters of intent to continue to play their sport in college.

Members of the soccer team signing to participate at the collegiate level are, Shelli Spamer, who will attend North Carolina State University; Shannon O’Connor, who will attend Long Island State University; and Karen Jackson, who will attend Slippery Rock University.

Also signing letters of intent, Feb. 2, were varsity football team members, Austin Hancock, who will attend Fordham University, and Nevin Hagman, who will attend Bucknell University.

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Spamer, the daughter of Doug and Christi Spamer, has been playing soccer since the age of four, and played on the Olympic Development Team for six years. During that time she played in internationally, which included trips to Italy and Portugal.

Spamer started in every varsity game for the last four years. She played in the WPIAL and PIAA tournaments for four seasons, was a PIAA State Finalist in 2008 and won the State Championship in 2010. She was named Player of the Year by the Post-Gazette in 2010, as well as Athlete of the Week. She is an employee of Burnett Family Chiropractic and Sports Performance.

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O’Connor is the daughter of Kendall and Mari Jean O’Connor and has been playing soccer since age four. She played for the 1992-93 Century United of Pittsburgh F.C. team, and was one of its original members. She also played for the Olympic Development Team for five years. At Peters Township, she played as defender and mid-fielder, and earned a varsity letter in each of her four years. Newspapers have named her Rookie of the Year and a part of the all-star team. She is an honor student, and has earned the Presidential Award. O'Connor works part-time at Burnett Family Chiropractic and she plans to study nursing or pursue a business major in accounting at Long Island University.

Jackson is the daughter of Mark and Kim Jackson, and began playing soccer in Finleyville at the age of four. She has played for Century United Soccer Club, which won seven consecutive PPA State Championships, which went on to win a PA West State Championship. She earned three varsity letters playing high school soccer, as a forward and as a defender. She is a member of the Video Club and has been producer of the PTHS morning announcements for the past two years. At Slippery Rock, she plans to major in Communications, with a concentration on Emerging Technology and Multimedia.

Hagman is the son of Eric and Mary Lou Hagman, and played offensive tackle at the high school.  At 6’4 and 270 pounds, Hagman was twice-selected to the All-Great Southern Conference team in his junior and senior years. He was also a captain as a senior. Hagman had considered several Ivy League schools, and had visited Penn, Brown and Carnegie Mellon, before selecting Bucknell, which had recruited him starting last spring. Hagman is a member of the National Honor Society with a 4.38 GPA, and plans to major in chemical or biomedical engineering.

Hancock is the son of Ed and Amy Hancock, and played quarterback and linebacker at the high school, where he was a starter in each of his four years on the team. At 6’2 and 225 pounds, Hancock also played varsity baseball at PTHS in each of his four years. He was twice-selected to the All-Great Southern Conference Team, and played football in his junior year at the All-American Combine in Texas, which is comprised of the top 200 high school juniors in the nation.

He was selected in the pre-season as a senior by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as a member of the “Fab 22” high school players in Western Pa. In his senior year, Hancock rushed for 532 yards, attained 1,155 passing yards and accounted for nine touchdowns. Hancock considered several Colonial Conference Schools, New Hampshire and Penn State, before accepting the football scholarship from Fordham. He plans to major in finance.

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