One of Weatherly’s own will be the speaker at the Weatherly Area High School graduation on Friday in the middle school gymnasium. Graduation is at 6 p.m.

Alyson Hoegg was born and raised in Weatherly and is the daughter of Bruce and Sue Hoegg and sister of Matthew Hoegg, all of Weatherly.

Growing up in Weatherly, Hoegg played golf, basketball and softball for the school and won the Schuylkill League All Girls Golf Meet in her senior year. Upon graduating from Weatherly in 2009, she attended Penn State University, where she majored in meteorology with a focus in weather forecasting and communications.

Throughout her college career, she participated in Penn State THON, Campus Weather Service, the Penn State Branch of the American Meteorological Society and National Weather Association and the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Student Council.

After graduating in 2013, she began her career with AccuWeather in State College. Hoegg is now a senior meteorologist, supervisor and commercial forecast services lead within AccuWeather’s Forecasting Department.

Throughout her time with AccuWeather, she has grown as a meteorologist and is now forecasting many of the major weather events that have impacted the nation over the last 12 years including hurricanes, severe weather, major winter storms and wildfires.

Hoegg also works with AccuWeather’s Business to Business customers daily to alert them of any hazardous weather that is going to impact their assets, so they can prepare and keep their employees and businesses safe. She works primarily with customers who receive AccuWeather’s snow warning service including school districts, counties, municipalities and larger departments of transportation.

Hoegg also works with the AccuWeather’s sales staff as new clients come onboard to ensure the clients understand the service, and they are receiving everything they need to help them make critical decisions.

She also has worked with team members from AccuWeather’s office in Wichita, KS to train as a backup to their operations to issue just in time severe weather warnings.

In addition to her role helping businesses, Hoegg serves as the on-site meteorologist for all Penn State Football home games at Beaver Stadium in State College. She works closely with the Penn State Athletics staff to alert them of any hazardous weather that will impact the game as well as the thousands of spectators.

Hoegg is a member of Grace Lutheran Church in State College, where she has served on church council and currently oversees several teams and participates in various ministry events. She serves as the Tech Team Leader at Grace, where she oversees the sound and video teams that livestream services each Sunday and run front of house sound. She also assists with running sound for other events like Christmas caroling, dinners, children’s events, funerals and weddings.

Hoegg also leads Grace’s Helping Hands Team that travels twice a year to Camp Sequanota to help with construction and maintenance projects around camp for a week. The Helping Hands Team has helped members of the congregation with small projects at their houses as well as projects around the church.

As a member of Grace’s Anti-Hunger Team, Hoegg assists with twice monthly food distributions for families in need in Centre County. Through a partnership with the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, food is delivered to the church, sorted and bagged so it can be given out to 150 to 180 families during these distributions.

Hoegg serves on the Lutheran Campus Ministry Parsonage/Property Team where she works with others to make decisions about the parsonage property including any maintenance and building needs.

Outside of her work and volunteer activities, Hoegg enjoys spending time outside playing golf, basketball and softball, hiking, biking and walking in central Pennsylvania. While on these adventures, she enjoys taking photographs of anything that catches her eye.

Hoegg lives in Bellefonte with her dog Chipper, and is the proud aunt of Ellen Whisler and Maci Hoegg.