The 2013 Butler County Sports Hall of Fame class includes an
Olympic Gold Medalist, a state champion golfer and a two-time state champion
baseball coach.
Middletown native Kayla
Harrison, who brought home the United
States’ first-ever gold medal in judo in the
2012 London Summer Olympics, headlines another outstanding group of honorees.
Middletown’s Carling Coffing Nolan, who won the Division I
state girls golf championship in 2002, is also being inducted along with
longtime Fairfield baseball coach Gary Yeatts, who led the Indians to a pair of
state baseball titles in 1986 and 1991.
Joining them will be Bill Bowers, a longtime coach of
multiple sports in the Talawanda school district; Edgewood’s Mary
Hummer-Shively, a state champion diver for the Cougars; Oxford’s George McCabe,
who has won numerous national and international senior tennis titles;
Middletown’s Bill McGuire, who as the Middies’ quarterback in the 1950s
perfected the run and shoot offense of legendary coach Glen “Tiger’ Ellison; Cecil
New, who was a four-sport athlete at Hamilton’s Taft High School; Hamilton’s
Francis Parrish, a longtime swimming coach for Garfield, Taft and Fairfield
high schools as well as for the youth of Butler County; and Ross’ Kimberly Way
Steigerwald, an outstanding track and field athlete who now coaches track and
volleyball at Ross.
The event will be held Sunday, Dec. 1 at the Courtyard by
Marriott in Hamilton.
The event will begin at 4 p.m. with a private social hour for the inductees and
their families. There will be a public social hour beginning at 5 p.m. followed
by dinner at 6 p.m. and the program at 7 p.m.
Tickets for the event are $25 each and can be purchased at
Tom’s Cigar Store on Main Street in Hamilton, or by calling (513) 423-7734 in
the Middletown area.
------------- Skip Weaver covers local high school sports for MiddletownUSA.com and MainStreetMonroe.com.
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