Cancer Claims Spring Ford's Tom Schadt

Dec. 1, 2014

Thomas Schadt, 67, long-time manager of the Spring Ford team from Pennsylvania, died in November after a long battle with cancer.

Schadt played slow-pitch softball for 47 years. In addition to playing, he was coach, manager, sponsor, and administrator. He was a player-representative for the National Senior Softball Summit for a number of years and was inducted into the Pennsylvania State Softball Hall of Fame in 2012.

In 2013, the Limerick Township softball field where he organized teams, kept records and acted as groundskeeper was renamed “The Thomas K. Schadt Field.”

Schadt attended J.P. McCaskey High School in Lancaster, class of 1964. He graduated from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA in 1968. Tom also earned his Master’s Degree from Millersville University. Tom was a mathematics teacher for the Phoenixville Area School District for 36 years. He retired in 2004.

He was a lifelong member of the Phoenixville Area Education Association, the Pennsylvania State Education Association, and the National Education Association.