Hall of Fame
Tony Winter had a distinguished career in athletics at Shippensburg University. A linebacker on the football team, he served as co-captain of the 1976 Red Raiders’ Pennsylvania Conference championship team.
Shippensburg compiled an 8-2-1 record in 1976, winning the conference’s Western Division title and tying East Stroudsburg 14-14 in the State Game.
Winter set school records for most tackles in a single game with 27 against Clarion in 1976 and set the career record for tackles with 387. He was a three-year starter for the Red Raiders.
Winter won the 1976 Ray Ellis Fighting Heart Award, and he was the Most Valuable Player that same season. He was a first team All-Pennsylvania Conference choice, and he received honorable mention in the balloting for All-American in 1976.
In addition to his football exploits, Winter was an excellent student. He was a second team Academic All-American in 1975 and a first team Academic All-American in 1976. He was Shippensburg’s first recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He used his scholarship to earn an MBA degree at Arizona State where he also was a graduate assistant football coach.
While a student at Shippensburg, Winter was a student Senator, the student representative on the athletic committee, the student representative on the search committee for head football coach during the winter of 1975-76, and he was a member of Kappa Delta Pi (an honorary scholastic fraternity).
After earning his MBA degree at Arizona State, Winter returned to Shippensburg and served as an assistant football coach and strength coach from 1979-82. He was an assistant on Shippensburg’s conference championship and NCAA semi-finalist team in 1981. He then served as Assistant to the Dean/Director of Academic Programs at Shippensburg University.
Winter enrolled in the D.Ed. program at Temple University and is actively involved in the United Way Fundraising campaign, Chairperson for Liftathon Fund Raiser for the Special Olympics and National Strength Coaches Association. He was also the 1985 Pennsylvania state open handball champion.
