Area Sports Hall of Fame Selects North Hills Athletic Director as Inductee

Dan Cardone, director of athletics and activities for the North Hills School District, has been selected for induction into the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

He will be honored May 5 at the Annual Induction Ceremonial and Dinner at the Four Points by Sheraton Pittsburgh North in Warrendale.

The Institute for International Sport and the Positive Coaching Alliance at Stanford University named Cardone a 2010 Sports Ethics Fellow.

Serving as the district’s athletic director since 1992, Cardone has taken a leadership role in the promotion of sportsmanship at the interscholastic level.

He initiated the first WPIAL Sportsmanship Summit in November 2009, which more than 600 student athletes and athletic administrators attended. He founded the Student Athlete Leadership Academy, which brings together more than 250 athletes from western Pennsylvania for training in leadership and sportsmanship on an annual basis.

In 2009, Cardone was one of five nationwide to be named National Director for National Sportsmanship Day. In 2006, the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association named him one of the top Athletic Administrators in the nation. He has written and presented extensively at the state and national level about the importance of developing character in sport.

He was a social studies teacher and head football coach for two western Pennsylvania high schools. He has dedicated more than 30 years to high school athletics.

North Hills Senior High School is a seven-time winner of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association’s statewide sportsmanship award, and the Institute for International Sport named it an All-American Sportsmanship school in 2006.

The Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame and the Western Chapter were organized in 1963. Other 2012 inductees include B.B. Flenory, Jimmy Flynn, Ray Goss, Bob Kopnisky, Larry Lucchino, Ed Manning, Ed McCloskey, George Mihalik and Vito “Babe” Parilli.

- Submitted by Tina Vojtko, on behalf of the NHSD. Have news you'd like to share with Patch readers? Email information and photos to Editor AmyJo Brown at amyjo.brown@patch.com.

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