Hall of Fame
RONALD WASKO
- Sport: Baseball
- Graduation Year: 1987
- Highlights: Two-time first team All-PSAC pitcher … ranks second in SRU history in pitching wins with 20 … ranks 10th at SRU in total innings pitched with 197.1 … Two-time PSAC West Pitcher of the Year.
Ron Wasko is the only pitcher in Slippery Rock baseball history to ever be named as the Pitcher of the Year in the PSAC and he accomplished that feat twice, winning the Western Division's top honor in both 1986 and 1987.
Wasko posted a 2-3 record in his freshman season in 1984 before going 5-1 as a sophomore in 1985 while nearly doubling his total innings pitched. His breakthrough would come the following spring during his junior year when he put together one of the best single-season pitching efforts in program history.
A two-time first team All-PSAC honoree, Wasko was nearly unstoppable in 1986 when he posted a 7-1 record on the mound with a 1.62 ERA, an average that still ranks fourth all-time in SRU baseball history for single-season ERA. He became the first SRU baseball player to ever be named PSAC West Pitcher of the Year following that spring, while also picking up first team All-PSAC and second team All-Region honors.
He followed that up in 1987 with a senior year that saw him post a 6-1 record with a 2.60 ERA in just under 70 innings pitched. His efforts again landed him as the PSAC West Pitcher of the Year and a first team All-PSAC honoree.
In total, Wasko posted a 20-6 overall record during his career with 102 strikeouts and just 65 earned runs allowed in 197.1 innings of work.
A 1987 graduate from Slippery Rock, Wasko currently serves as a senior graphic designer with United Natural Foods, Inc. in Chesterfield, New Hampshire. He and his wife Leslie, a 1985 SRU graduate herself, are the parents of one adult daughter, Meg, who recently earned a master's degree in athletic leadership from Castleton University.
