17 Notable alumni of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania is ranked #2,145 in the world and #540 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 notable alumni from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Al Jacks
American football coach
American football player
Albert Anderson "Jumbo" Jacks was an American professor and college football coach. He played as a quarterback at Penn State University from 1956 to 1958. Jacks spent 19 years as the head football coach at Clarion State College from 1963 to 1981. He very briefly held the same position at Williams College. Jacks is the winningest Clarion football coach by...
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2. Tom Foerster
1928-2000 (aged 72)
politician
Thomas J. Foerster was an American Democratic politician. Foerster held a variety of political positions in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and began his career as part of the political "machine" of David Lawrence.
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3. Keith M. Givens
military leader
Keith M. Givens is a retired United States Air Force Brigadier General who served as the 17th Commander of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), Quantico, Virginia. As the AFOSI Commander, Givens oversaw AFOSI's worldwide network of over 2,000 military and civilian special agents and over 500 unsworn members stationed at major Air Force installations and a variety...
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4. Stephen Bolles
1866-1941 (aged 75)
publisher
editor
politician
Stephen Bolles was an American newspaper editor and Republican politician from Janesville, Wisconsin. He was elected to two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1939 until his death in 1941. Before his election to Congress, he worked as editor of the Janesville Gazette for nearly 20 years; prior to that he worked as...
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5. Stanley Dziedzic
1949-. (aged 77)
amateur wrestler
Stanley Joseph Dziedzic Jr. is an American former welterweight freestyle wrestler.
6. Cheryl Bailey
sports executive
Cheryl Bailey is the former executive director of the National Women's Soccer League. She formerly served as general manager of the United States women's national soccer team from 2007 to 2011.
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7. Gary L. Lancaster
1949-2013 (aged 64)
lawyer
judge
Gary Lee Lancaster was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
8. Lou Trivino
1991-. (aged 35)
baseball player
Louis Albert Trivino is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He was drafted by Oakland in the 11th round of the 2013 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut with them in 2018.
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9. Brandon Fusco
1988-. (aged 38)
American football player
Brandon Fusco is an American former professional football guard. He was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL draft. He played college football at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
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10. Victoria Clarke
1959-. (aged 67)
communications consultant
Victoria "Torie" Clarke is an American communications consultant who has served in several private sector positions and in three Republican presidential administrations, most notably as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld.
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11. Joseph Gallian
1942-. (aged 84)
mathematician
university teacher
Joseph A. Gallian is an American mathematician, the Morse Alumni Distinguished University Professor of Teaching in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
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12. Matt Adams
1988-. (aged 38)
baseball player
Matthew James Adams is an American former professional baseball first baseman. Nicknamed "Big City" for his imposing size and ability to regularly hit long home runs, the St. Louis Cardinals selected Adams in the 23rd round of the 2009 MLB draft from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Washington...
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13. C. Vivian Stringer
1948-. (aged 78)
basketball coach
Charlaine Vivian Stringer is an American former basketball coach. She holds one of the best coaching records in the history of women's basketball. She was the head coach of the Rutgers University women's basketball team from 1995 until her retirement in 2022.
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14. Richard Schweiker
1926-2015 (aged 89)
politician
Richard Schultz Schweiker was an American businessman and politician who served as the 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a U.S. Representative from 1961 to 1969 and a U.S. Senator from 1969 to 1981 from Pennsylvania. In 1976, Schweiker...
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15. David Batra
1972-. (aged 54)
actor
comedian
screenwriter
David Chandra Batra is a Swedish stand-up comedian and TV actor. He was born in Lund to an Indian father and a Swedish mother.
16. Lawrence Reed
1953-. (aged 73)
economist
Lawrence "Larry" W. Reed, also known as Larry Reed, is president emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), where he has served as the Humphreys Family Senior Fellow since May 2019. Before joining FEE, Reed served as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland, Michigan-based free-market think tank. To date, he remains Mackinac's president emeritus.
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17. M. Richard Rose
1933-2021 (aged 88)
university teacher
Merle Richard Rose was an American academic. He was the tenth president of Alfred University from 1974 until 1978, when he left to become the seventh president of the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1979 until 1992.
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