West Greene Hall of Fame to add 3 members
West Greene will add three more members to its Pioneer Athletic Hall of Fame tonight prior to the football game against Jefferson-Morgan at Kennedy Field.
Kevin Guthrie, Madison Renner and Arnold Wilson will be inducted during ceremonies beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Kevin Guthrie
Guthrie is a 1967 graduate who was a four-year letterman in basketball, a three-year letterman in football and a one-year letterman in track and field.
Guthrie scored 1,210 points in basketball and was the first player in Greene County history to be a four-time member of the all-county team.
He was also all-county twice in football in 1965-66 and was the Greene County scoring champion in the former season with 90 points.
Guthrie won a WPIAL gold medal in track and field in the high jump and qualified for the PIAA Championships his senior year.
He went on to graduate from West Virginia University with a bachelor’s degree in finance.
Guthrie served in the National Guard from 1971 to 1977 as a member of the 1st Battalion, 201st Field Artillery unit in Kingwood, W.Va.
Arnold Wilson
Wilson is a 1972 graduate who was a four-year letterman in football, a three-year letterman in basketball and track and field and a one-year letterman in baseball.
Wilson was the Greene County football scoring champion in 1972 with 108 points and was named player of the year by the Observer-Reporter and Democrat-Messenger that season when he amassed 3,000 all-purpose yards and was nominated to play in the Pennsylvania Big 33 game.
In track, Wilson was a two-time WPIAL champion in the high jump, winning the gold medal in 1971 and 1972, setting a school record of 6-4. He also won a WPIAL gold medal in the 100-yard dash his senior year with a time of 9.86 seconds, setting another school record. He went on to win a PIAA medal in the event. Wilson was part of West Greene’s 880 relay team that earned a sixth-place medal at the WPIAL meet
Wilson was the overall MVP at the 1972 Mountaineer Relays and helped the Washington-Greene team finish as runner-up.
Wilson was a Little League youth football coach and served as president of the football and wrestling booster clubs.
Madison Renner
Renner is a 2018 graduate who was a four-year member of the softball team and earned one letter in volleyball.
Renner was a key member of one of the greatest runs in West Greene’s softball history as a pitcher and hitter, helping the Pioneers win three consecutive section and WPIAL championships from 2016 to 2018 under head coach Bill Simms. West Greene finished as a PIAA runner-up in 2016 before winning back-to-back state championships in 2017 and 2018.
Renner was named first team all-state three times and was the Pennsylvania Class A Player of the Year in 2018. She also was named all-county four times.
Renner started all 100 games of her career from 2015 to 2018 and totaled 34 pitching wins, 257 strikeouts, 16 shutouts and three no-hitters, including two perfect games. At the plate, Renner had a career batting average of .529 with 163 hits, 30 doubles, 33 home runs and 199 RBI.