Pete Spoerl '78

Pete Spoerl was one of the top all around athletes in Badin High School annals. He majored in the Big Three - football, basketball and baseball - and had success in all three.

As a starting quarterback, he guided football teams to a 31-1 record over four seasons ... 6-0 on the freshman team, 8-0 on the junior varsity as a sophomore, 8-0 starting varsity as a junior and 9-1 as a senior during the 1977 season.

He captained the football and basketball teams as a senior, averaging 13 ppg as a senior cager, and after starting every varsity baseball game as a junior, was the Most Valuable Player on the varsity nine as a senior.

That baseball ability flashed even brighter at Xavier University. The talented shortstop was inducted into the Xavier Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006 after a standout career that included the secondbest lifetime batting average in XU history, .377, capped by a .412 batting mark as a senior.

Pete wasn't done yet, as he went on to star in yet another sport -- fast-pitch softball. He is a four-time ASA All-American (1986, 1990, 1997 and 1998) and played for three United States national teams, earning a silver medal in the Pan Am Games in 1987 and again in 1993.

Pete lives in suburban Cincinnati and is celebrating his 20th anniversary with the Universal Advertising Co.

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