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Bryan Mosgrober

Bryan Mosgrober

by | Feb 17, 2023

Bryan was a standout athlete on the Cross Country and Track teams during his four year career at Bennett HS. Bryan was All-High In Cross Country three times, placing 3rd as a sophomore, winning the title as a junior, and 2nd as a senior, even though he was hampered that season by illness.

As a freshman, Bryan won the freshman league title and set the freshman record for the race. In Bryans’ sophomore year he qualified for the National AAU Cross Country race in Raleigh NC, finishing 27th in his age group in the country. His junior year was Bryan’s best. Bryan twice broke the course record during that season, bettering it by an amazing 30 seconds. Bryan seldom had any runners within 150 yards of him that season, capping it off with a win in the All-High Championship. Bryan finished the WNY Regional meet in 2nd place, at that time, the best finish ever by a Buffalo Public High School runner.

Bryan led the Cross Country team to undefeated Columbia Cup seasons during his junior and senior years, with the team winning the Section A championship his senior year, a feat never before accomplished by a city high school. Bryans’ accomplishments in Track were no less impressive. He won consecutive 2 mile All-High Championships as a junior and senior, going undefeated in the 2 mile those years in City High School competition. Bryan set the Nicholls Track Invitational Meet 2 mile record his junior year. He helped lead the Bennett Track team to four straight undefeated Scalp and Blade championship seasons. The team won the Class BB sectional championship his junior year.

Bryans’ proudest achievement is that during his 8 varsity letter seasons in Cross Country and Track, his Bennett teams won 6 League championships, going undefeated in those championship seasons in City competition. Scholastically, Bryan was a member of the Student Council, National Honor Society, and a Regents Scholarship winner. Bryan attended SUNY at Buffalo, receiving a BS in Physical Education in 1981 . Knee and ankle injuries kept Bryan from continuing his running career at SUNYAB, but he did run in an occasional local race, such as the annual Buffalo Turkey Day race. Bryan now lives in Rural Hall North Carolina, where he is the Safety Manager for Sonoco CorrFlex’s, Rural Hall Plant. Bryan has two sons, Keith 23, and Justin 18.


After 8 years of dialysis, Bryan received a Kidney transplant in 2001 and urges everyone to become an organ donor.

Daniel W. Conley

Daniel W. Conley

by | Feb 17, 2023

Dan attended Bennett H.S. from 1973 – 1977, and was a member of the varsity football and track squads all four years. Dan was a member of the All-High two mile relay team that twice set city records in that event. Those Bennett track squads qualified for three straight Sectional Championship meets and three Intersectional meets, which Dan participated in. In football, Dan served as a co-captain who organized player run practices during a teacher strike, delaying the start of the 1976 season.

After receiving a BS Degree from SUNY Buffalo in 1982, Dan began his teaching career in Physical Education for the Diocese of Buffalo.

Over the past 30 years, Dan has taught, coached and worked for several different school districts. His greatest accomplishments as a coach took place at Turner/ Carroll H.S. Cardinal O’Hara and Seneca Vocational H.S. During his years at Turner/Caroll, Dan coached the Track teams to two titles. At Cardinal O’Hara his squads won one Track and one Cross Country championship. At Seneca, Dan’s track teams won 5 consecutive Scalp & Blade Track championships, with a dozen athletes qualifying for the NYS track championship meet. Dan has high school coaching experience in football and basketball as well. Most recently at Bennett, along with his teaching duties, Dan coached boys and girls cross country teams and swimming. His boys cross country teams have experienced 5 straight winning seasons and consecutive births to Section VI competition. Dan has the unique distinction of never having experienced a loss in Scalp & Blade track competition as a runner for Bennett ( 4 years ) and a coach for Seneca Vocational (5 years ), an enviable achievement.

Dan and his wife of 30 years, Ruthanne, currently live in Derby, NY, and are the proud parents of daughter Carla, who graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and is a third year Law student.