Athletics places time capsule in refreshed Bardo Gym

Friday, October 24, 2025

photos by Rob Hinkal, social media specialist

A group gathers in the Bardo Gymnasium lobby. In the center is athletic director Scott Kennell, holding a clear box filled with items.

Student-athletes and coaches gather inside the main entrance of Bardo Gymnasium on Oct. 23 to dedicate a time capsule. Holding the time capsule is Scott E. Kennell, director of athletics.

In 2025, Bardo Gymnasium – dedicated in 1937 as the new gym for Williamsport High School – underwent an interior transformation: a complete replacement of the building’s original gym floor and a series of other updates that include a renovation of its main entrance lobby. The lobby became home on Wednesday to a time capsule to be opened in 2050.

“With these changes, we realized this moment was not just about the renovation of this facility: It was about renewal,” athletic director Scott E. Kennell told those who gathered for a dedication of the capsule. “We decided that now is the perfect time to begin a new tradition that will connect our present time to the future.”

The time capsule was placed by Student-Athlete Advisory Committee President and Vice President Hunter P. Gabloff (men’s soccer), an electronics & computer engineering technology student from Succasunna, New Jersey, and Sierra N. Klinger (women’s soccer), a business administration student from Klingerstown.

Among the contents is a piece of the original gym floor and a letter written by Kennell to those who will open the capsule in 25 years: “Words can’t express how excited we are for you to see a glimpse of our past,” he wrote.

The letter ends with a charge to keep the tradition alive by creating a new time capsule to be opened in 2050.

Kennell and Sierra N. Klinger, a business administration student and soccer player from Klingerstown, look on as Hunter P. Gabloff places the time capsule in its home for the next 25 years. Gabloff is president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee; Klinger is vice president.

A close-up of the time capsule, a clear box with items inside.

From left: Sierra N. Klinger, SAAC vice president, Scott E. Kennell, director of athletics, and Hunter P. Gabloff, SAAC president, pose for a Polaroid photo, taken by Britni E. Mohney, assistant director of athletics and head women's basketball coach. The photo was added to the capsule.