Leo Trich

Leo Joseph Trich, Jr. (born July 23, 1951) is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Biography Trich is a 1969 graduate of Washington High School.

Prior to elective office, he served as Commissioner of PONY Baseball the Washington, Pennsylvania-based international youth baseball program, where he worked from 1971 to 1986.

Trich was first elected to represent the 47th legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1988.

Since 2004, Trich has also worked as a consultant regarding sports, government relations and land development issues. His clients have included: The Frontier Professional Baseball League, the Washington Wild Things professional baseball team, the Prospect Summer College Baseball League, Goodwill Industries of Southwestern Pennsylvania, United Washington Associates, and the Chuck Tanner Awards Banquet (Rotary Club of Pittsburgh PA).

In 2019, Trich took part in two World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh events, including one he organized and hosted for area high school seniors at Robert Morris University. The project encouraged activism in both school and community, as well as consideration for careers in public service. In 2020, Trich was invited to take part in a Trans-Atlantic Goodwill project, representing Pennsylvania as a former state elected official. The event, sponsored in cooperation with the EU Parliament and a national association of state legislators, was postponed in May 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trich attended, when it was rescheduled and took place in Brussels Belgium and the Netherlands, in August 2021.

Since that time, he was invited back to Europe at the request of and part of, the EU Parliament program designed to better relationships between the US and the EU, regarding state government officials and organizations that understand the importance of trans-Atlantic partnerships and alliances. The follow-up trips took place in 2022, 2023 and most recently in February 2024.

Awards and other honors In 1986, Trich was listed on PONY Baseball's Wall of Fame. Six years later, in 1992, he was chosen to attend Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government Leadership Summer Semester Program. One of just fifty participants selected (one from each state legislature), he represented the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

In 2002, Trich was inducted into the Washington-Greene County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

In 2017, he was honored by the Washington County Historical Society with induction into its own Hall of Fame.