Peter Buehning, Jr. was a wing and circle runner in handball who graduated from Seton Hall University in 1977. Buehning’s brother, Jim Buehning, later played handball for the US at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics. Another brother, Fritz, was a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. Their father, Peter Buehning, was one of the founders of the US Team Handball Federation, serving as its third President, and later helped found the Pan American Team Handball Federation (PATHF), originally consisting of four nations – Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and the United States.