The Middletown Area Alumni Association Hall of Fame Committee recently announced the selections for the 2023 homecoming induction into the Middletown Athletic Hall of Fame. The homecoming banquet will take place on Friday, Oct. 6, at Middletown Area High School beginning with dinner at 6 p.m. Alumni and former athletes are encouraged to attend. The alumni meeting and induction ceremony will take place in the auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Registration is available from the alumni newsletter at http://www.raiderweb.org under For Community and Alumni Association or by emailing eandbbright@comcast.net.

The eight-member committee selected seven new inductees and one team. The honorees are Earl Bright III, Class of 1965; Seymour Cohen, Class of 1937; Terry Eberly, Class of 1961; Bob Heusser, boys' basketball coach; Terry Martin, Class of 1992; Pam Steckroat, Class of 1974; Casper Voithofer, boys' basketball coach; and the 1971 football team.

Bright, a member of the first Middletown wrestling team with a four-year varsity record of 56-14-4, was a PIAA wrestling official and a longtime Middletown off-mat official. He has held several supporting roles over the years in Middletown athletics and the community.

Better known as Stephen Seymour, Cohen was an American javelin pioneering legend and three-time AAU National Champion in 1947, 1948, and 1950. He is the only Middletown graduate to win an Olympic medal, winning the javelin silver medal in the 1948 London games. He also won a silver in the 1951 Pan-Am games.

Eberly, a football and basketball standout, was a quarterback for the 1961 Big 33 team. He is also a W. Glenn Killinger Football Foundation Hall of Fame member at West Chester University. Eberly was a longtime assistant under Dave Yohn and was Middletown's head football coach from 1978 to 1980. He also served as a physical education teacher in the Middletown Area School District for many years.

As boys' basketball coach, Heusser has 301 wins, the most in program history. Heusser's team won the District 3 Championship in 1992 and was runner-up in 1993. His 1986 team went to the Eastern Final. Heusser also chalked up more than 300 wins as Lower Dauphin's girls' coach. He was also a longtime teacher at Middletown Area High School.

A boys' basketball and track and field standout, Martin was point guard on the 1992 District 3 champion boys' basketball team. He also played at Coppin State University and Wilkes University and served as head boys' basketball coach at Middletown. He is a four-time district champion in long jump (1990 and 1992) and triple jump (1991 and 1992), state long jump champion (1992), and three-time runner-up in long jump (1991) and triple jump (1991 and 1992).

Steckroat, a gymnast, was the Tri-County and District All-Around and vault champion. She finished third on uneven bars and fifth on vault in states in 1974. In her two years at the University of Massachusetts, she had the most first places in all-around, bars, and floor. At Michigan State, she was a two-time All-American and the 1978 Big Ten Champion in the uneven bars.

Voithofer coached the 1968 state championship boys' basketball team. After a brief stint as assistant coach at Penn State University, he returned to Middletown in 1973 for six more seasons. He also served as the head coach of varsity baseball for 10 seasons. He is a longtime administrator and still serves the athletic and academic programs through community service.

The 1971 football team had an 11-0 season and was the Capital Area Conference Champion. Outscoring their opponents 473-79, team members scored 43 points per game and beat their opponents by an average margin of 35.82 points. Both marks are records that still stand today.