A 2004 Conestoga Valley graduate, Peter earned 15 varsity letters in soccer (4), football (3), basketball (4), and track & field (4). He was the first 1,000-point scorer for CV boys basketball and is the program’s all-time leading scorer, while also setting records in soccer (career shutouts), football (longest field goal), and track (300m hurdles). As a senior, he was named the Intelligencer Journal Male Athlete of the Year and awarded the A. Landis Brackbill Award as the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s male scholar athlete. He was inducted into CV’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.
After CV, Peter continued his education and soccer career at Muhlenberg College, where he was a three-year starter and two-year captain for the Mules. As a senior, he earned All-American honors, along with all-conference and all-region recognition. Peter was a starter on the 2005 Centennial Conference championship team, ranked as high as 13th in the country for Division III, and on two NCAA tournament qualifying teams, in 2005 and 2007. He was inducted to Muhlenberg’s Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020.
Upon graduation, he immediately got into coaching soccer, assisting at Franklin & Marshall College, CV and Pequea Valley, before taking over as PV’s head boys soccer coach in 2014. In this role he guided the Braves to three section championships in 2018, 2019, and 2021 before stepping down after the 2022 season. During his time as head coach, he served as the secretary, then president of the LL League Boys Soccer Coaches Association.
Currently, Peter is a high school English teacher in the Ephrata Area School District, where he resides with his wife and two children. He’s been a member of the Lancaster County Sports Hall of Fame board since July of 2023.