Prolific as a soccer player at Middletown High School (1955), John Horine went on to Frostburg State College, where he started four years, led the team in scoring in three of them, was named All-South in 1957 and 1958, and was inducted into the university’s Hall of Fame in 1981. He started high school girls’ soccer in Frederick County in 1983 and produced many championship soccer, basketball, and baseball teams at both Emmitsburg High School and at MHS.