Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League

A 1965 graduate of Clairton, Terry Kushner has given over 50 years of his life to changing lives in Western Pennsylvania. Kushner, a Clairton native, starred at center for the Bears football team and received the National Football Foundation (NFF) Pittsburgh Chapter Scholar-Athlete Award in 1964 before moving on to play collegiately at Colgate University. He was a two-year starter with the Raiders and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics. Kushner’s education career began in 1969 as a math teacher and football coach at Moon High School, and later he worked as a teacher, coach, and administrator in the Peters Township, Trinity, and Baldwin school districts before taking the associate high school principal position at Upper St. Clair in 1986. At Upper St. Clair, he was the high school principal, assistant superintendent, and acting superintendent until his retirement in 2009, returning briefly to serve as an interim superintendent for the West Jefferson Hills and Montour school districts. Kushner was the 1980 Washington County Football Coach of the Year at Peters Township, and spent 10 years on the WPIAL Board of the Directors and 11 on the WPIAL football steering committee. He still contributes to some of the WPIAL’s greatest initiatives, serving as a member of the WPIAL Hall of Fame committee and the chairperson of the James Collins Scholarship committee. Kushner, who has two children with his wife Pam, and five grandchildren that live locally, currently works as an adjunct professor at Chatham University, Carlow University, and Waynesburg University, and is the co-chair of the Teacher Leadership Academy.