The Capital Area Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame will induct 11 athletes into the Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 11, at the Red Lion Hotel Harrisburg Hershey, 4751 Lindle Road, Harrisburg. The event will begin at 3 p.m. Longtime area broadcaster Jim Sinkovich will be the master of ceremonies.

The inductees are Ron Collier, Arthur Cover, Ronald Davis, Sharon Etter, Hyleas Fountain, Duquesne "Duke" Freeman-McKamey, Owen Hannah, Ben Olsen and John Wilsbach, along with the late Dolores "Shortie" Bimle and the late Frank Mathers.

The 54th Induction Banquet has been postponed since 2020. Olsen and Etter were voted in a few years ago, but were unable to attend until this year. Voting for the Hall of Fame is done by the nearly 500 members of the Capital Area Chapter.

The dinner is open to public. Reservation information can be found at http://www.cachof.wordpress.com, on the "Capital Area Chapter Sports Hall of Fame" Facebook page, or by calling 717-805-0852.

Collier lettered in three sports at Mansfield University. He then coached baseball at Lower Dauphin High School for 45 years, accumulating 707 wins and 22 division/league championships. Twice he was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies and Washington Senators, and he pitched for the Yankees in the minor leagues.

Cover, a baseball and basketball player, lettered at Susquehanna Township High School and played professional baseball in the Cincinnati Reds minor league system as a pitcher and an outfielder. Cover played for Mechanicsburg and Dauphin in the East-West Shore Twilight baseball leagues.

Davis lettered in football at John Harris High School and Shippensburg University. He had head coach and assistant coach stints for 34 seasons at Steel-High, Central Dauphin, Cedar Cliff and Hershey. He was named Mid-Penn Conference 4-A Coach of the Year in 1996 at Central Dauphin.

Etter played field hockey, basketball and softball at East Pennsboro, winning 10 varsity letters. At East Stroudsburg University, she played field hockey and lacrosse, winning eight varsity letters and being named MVP in field hockey in 1981. Etter coached basketball, field hockey, softball and tennis at East Pennsboro for over 25 years. She won numerous softball championships in district and state play and several Coach of the Year awards, along with several tennis championships in districts and states.

Fountain, a track and field athlete, was an Olympic medalist from Central Dauphin East and the University of Georgia. She won NCAA national titles in the heptathlon, indoor long jump, outdoor long jump, and pentathlon in 2004. She won the Silver medal in the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, setting U.S. Olympic records previously held by Jackie Joyner. Fountain was a coach for two years with the track program at North Carolina A&T. Fountain was voted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.

Freeman-McKamey played basketball at Steel-High from 1995 to 1998, winning the state championship in 1998. He was a four-year letterman at Fordham University and the Atlantic Ten most improved player. Freeman-McKamey was drafted in the NBA's 2002 development league and played internationally for 11 years in the Baltic and South American Leagues. He was a mentor and coach with Advanced Hoops in the Harrisburg area.

Hannah two-sport athlete at Middletown and a member of the 1968 state championship basketball team before attending California University of Pennsylvania. Hannah was a supervisor of officials and referee in several leagues, including the Big 10, Atlantic 10, Patriot and PSAC. He worked numerous tournament games in Divisions I, II and III basketball.

Olsen joined the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. He was a star soccer player at Middletown Area High School, the 1993 Parade Magazine National Player of the Year and the University of Virginia Soccer America Player of the Year. He had 11 seasons and 29 goals with D.C. United, leading the team to the 1999 championship. Olsen played with Nottingham Forest, the US National Team, the US Olympic team and the 2006 World Cup team. He was the coach for D.C. United from 2010 to 2020, winning 113 games and Coach of the Year in 2014. He is currently president of club operations for the women's professional soccer team Washington Spirit.

Wilsbach has been a longtime radio and TV announcer for the Harrisburg Heat soccer team since 1991, broadcasting over 600 games. In 2013, he took ownership of the franchise for three years. He has been the broadcaster of Middletown Blue Raiders football and basketball for over 40 years and the broadcaster of Lebanon Valley College football and basketball since 2005. Wilsbach also covered the Philadelphia Kixx for several seasons and was the fill-in for the Hershey Bears, numerous other teams in central Pennsylvania and the Big 33.

Bimle started and coached Middletown's first girls' softball team in 1974. She was a PIAA official in girls' varsity basketball, field hockey and softball and had a combined 97 years of service, including 11 in field hockey and basketball for NCAA Division III. She was a physical education teacher for 39 years.

Mathers was an ice hockey player in the 1940s and 1950s with NHL Toronto and AHL Pittsburgh and Hershey. Mathers spent 35 years as a player, coach, general manager and president of the Hershey Bears. He won eight Calder Cups - two with Pittsburgh, two as player and coach, one as a coach, and three as general manager of Hershey. He was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy in 1987. Mathers was added to the 1992 Builders Category of the Hockey Hall of Fame and to the AHL Hall of Fame in 2006. He also played professional football in the CFL as a fullback for Winnepeg and Ottawa.