JON VALLINA
2021 – ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
Burgettstown High School
Slippery Rock University
- Was inducted into the WPIAL Hall of Fame, Class of 2016
He was the head golf coach at Burgettstown for 28 years, compiling a record of 352-82 (.811 winning percentage), leading the Blue Devils to five WPIAL team golf championships. He coached three WPIAL individual champions and a PIAA champion
He served as director of the Burgettstown Invitational Wresting Tournament for 36 years and established the Burgettstown Area Scholarship Foundation, which has raised more than $240,000 to fund scholarships for high school seniors
President of the Southwest PA Junior Golf Tour from 1990 – 2017. The tour had membership of over 200 junior golfers each summer and hosted 12 tournaments at local courses
He was Burgettstown’s athletic director for 28 years, was an assistant football coach for eight years, and an assistant wrestling coach for 16 years
He was president of the Tri-County Athletic Director’s Association from 1998-2000 and was director of the TRICADA Golf Tournament from 2005 – 2012
Mr. Vallina was president of the WPIAL from 2000-2002, was a member of executive committee, 1993-2013 and chairman of the new AD mentoring program
He was twice named Pennsylvania Athletic Director of the Year (1999 & 2002) and won the NIAAA State Award of Merit in 2000 and inducted into the Pennsylvania State Athletic Director’s Association Hall of Fame (2018) and was president of PSADA from 2000 – 2002
He was a member of the WPIAL Board of Control from 2000 to 2013 and served as Treasurer from 2006 – 2010 and Vice President from 2010 – 2013