Lineman Challenge

The Penn Manor Lineman participates in the annual Roadgrader's Challenge, hosted by Manheim Central. This event is designed for your offensive (including TE) and defensive lineman. The challenge consists of several team and individual events that focus on speed, agility, strength, balance and coordination. Each event is timed, recorded, and given a point value. Team awards are given to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams as well as individual awards for the Bench and Deadlift contests.

Over the past years this event has grown from 8 schools to over 14 schools and from 15 teams to over 30 five man teams. In each year of the event the competitive spirit has been exciting.

Over the past years the proceeds have been given to needy families or organizations within the community.

2019:

This year the Penn Manor High School Team had 2 teams active at the Lineman Challenge.  Penn Manor had a Gold Team, and a Blue Team, participate.  Both teams did well participating in 10 events followed by a tire flip and a tug of war.  Cocalico won the competition.  All proceeds went to Cole’s kids.

Participants: Coach Tercha, Coach Baird, Coach Ewing, P. Suydam, A. Miller, M. Ruiz, J. Morant, P. Gomez, C. Gonzalez, D. Adelman, M. Jessberger, N. Mann, M. Graybill, B. Weaver, M. Lee, Coach Schober, Coach Schuck, Coach Brubaker.

2018:

This year the Penn Manor High School Team had 3 teams active at the Lineman Challenge.  Penn Manor had a Gold Team, Blue Team, and Gray Team participate.  The Blue team placed 6^th consisting of: Adam Becker, Nick Baker, Nick Mann, and Ben Weaver.  The Gold Team placed 8^th consisting of Keaton Eachus, Ryan Mahoney, Joel Stoner, and Aaron Yoder. The White team consisted of Doran Adelman, Matt Ruiz, and Max Jesberger.

2017
On Saturday June 9th, the lineman participated and placed 5th. Participants this year included: Chris Keller, Keaton Eachus, Gage Hilton, Joel Stoner, Paisun Harris, Aaron Yoder, Ryan Mahoney, Adam Becker, and Jacob Hollinger.

2016
This year the team also placed 5th. Highlights of this year’s events included 11 participants: J. Eshleman, K. Groff, D. Mahoney, M. Yoder, B. Wright, J. Santiago, S. Shirk, P. Harris, A. Becker, R. Mahoney, and J. Stoner.

The Gold team placed 2nd in the Bench Press, 3rd in the Hex lift and 5th in the Tug of War. The Navy team placed first in the Obstacle Course, and 7th in the Hex Lift. Getting better every year will prove to be success both on and off the field.

2015
The team placed 5th in their first year of competition. One team competed for the first time for Penn Manor.