Alums Peyton Jones and Kevin Kerr recently spoke with the popular hockey blog "Pucks and Recreation" about their experience playing together at Penn State after playing together in the Team Comcast program.

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BOYHOOD PLAYMATES, COLLEGE TEAMMATES, FUTURE BUSINESS ALLIES?

Sophomore goaltender Peyton Jones and junior defenseman Kevin Kerr grew up in Pennsylvania’s Delaware Valley playing hockey together, usually on the same team. Now together again at Penn State, they are looking at a minimum of two more overlapping seasons on the ice.

Depending on how far their playing careers and their studies take them, there could be additional partnerships in a variety of fields yet to come. Both are including business as a staple in their respective course loads (Jones as a minor, Kerr as a major).

Pucks and Recreation sat down with both of them to discuss their friendship over the years. Below is a transcript of our conversation. Anything in parentheses has been added in after the interview for clarity.

P&R: So, when was your first time meeting each other?

KK: I cant even remember, we were so young.

PJ: Like, four or five. We played on the Grundy Senators together.

KK: Yeah, we played on the Grundy Senators together, probably mites or atoms or whatever it is. I think we were around four or five years old.

PJ: One of our first years playing hockey.

P&R: Do you guys know how many teams you’ve played together on?

PJ: Grundy, Comcast, Holy Ghost.

KK: Grundy, Comcast, Holy Ghost and here, so four I guess.

(Grundy is a local team in Bristol Pa. Team Comcast is now known as Virtua Hockey, and one of the premier AAA hockey teams in the Mid-Atlantic region. Holy Ghost Prep is a Bensalem-based boys’ school with a big hockey program.)

P&R: Kevin, did you help bring Peyton here?

(both laugh a little)

KK: Well, that’s kind of on the coaches to recruit him. But I definitely put in a good word for him for sure. I know how hard he works off the ice, and how much he was improving on the ice, and he was really standing out. I knew that he could come in here and be great for the team. And obviously it’s been paying off for us.