COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame will enshrine 14 new members this fall, including 12 former student-athletes and two coaches.
See biographical sketches of all 14 members.
Former football coach John Cooper and basketball star Scoonie Penn are among the honorees who will be inducted at a banquet Sept. 27 and introduced to the public at halftime of the home football game against Wisconsin the next day.
The 2013 class includes Matt Beaumont (baseball), Hugo Boisvert (men’s hockey), Dan Cheney (men’s lacrosse), John Cooper (football coach), Jim Daniell (football), Ninett Kossowsky (rowing), Melissa Miller (women’s soccer), Saskia Müeller (field hockey), Laura Murray (pistol), Scoonie Penn (men’s basketball), David Pichler (men’s diving), Monica Rincon (women’s tennis), Tommy Rowlands (wrestling) and Jim Sweeney (pistol coach).
The hall of fame was created in 1977 and has inducted 269 men through 2012.
Women were first inducted into the hall in 1993, with 100 inductees enshrined through 2012.
Daniell will be the 109th former football player to be inducted, while Cooper is the fifth former football coach to receive a spot in the hall of fame.
Penn brings the total of former basketball players to 28 and Pichler will be the 19th diver enshrined.
Beaumont will be the 15th former baseball Buckeye to be inducted and Rowlands brings the total number of wrestlers in the elite group to 12.