Pitt-Johnstown Athletics Hall of Fame welcomes 5 inductees, honors Final Four team

Five inductees and one national semifinalist women's basketball team were honored during the 17th Pitt-Johnstown Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony Saturday at the Richland Township campus' Wellness Center.

The Class of 2026 included: Conemaugh Valley High School graduate Beth Kendera-Vaught, women's volleyball; Forest Hills graduate and educator, the late Kevin Smay, baseball; Greater Johnstown graduate and current Trojans assistant coach Marcus Tullis, men's basketball; as well as LuAnn Ketter Mills, women's basketball; and Albert Miles, wrestling.

The 1980-81 women's basketball team that reached the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Final Four was also honored, with a strong turnout of former players and coaches from the Lady Cats program in support.

A crowd of more than 200 attended the banquet.

Former player Sue Brown, who was a senior on the 1980-81 team, read a message from then Pitt-Johnstown women's basketball coach Clyde Horner, who resides in South Carolina.

* Ketter Mills, a freshman on the Final Four team, was inducted in the Class of 2026 after earning All-American honors in the American Women's Sports Federation on teams consistently ranked in the national top-5, including seven weeks at No. 1 during 1982-83 in NCAA Division III.

* Miles won an NCAA Division II wrestling national title at 174 pounds as a senior in 2008 and earned two All-American honors in his career. He posted a 102-33 career record.

* Kendera-Vaught helped establish the Pitt-Johnstown women's volleyball program at the conference, regional and national level from 2010-13. She produced a career record 460 blocks, including 145 during a 21-11 season that included a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship and Atlantic Region Tournament appearance.

* Smay played baseball at Pitt-Johnstown from 1975-79, batting .400 as a senior and helping the Mountain Cats win a combined 36 games during his junior and senior seasons. He played professional baseball for one season before a 35-year career as an educator and coach in the Forest Hills School District. His cousin Ross Carpenter accepted the hall of fame award in Smay's honor.

* Tullis was a four-year starter on Mountain Cats men's basketball teams that combined to win 89 games and reach the Division II regional tournament. He scored 1,570 career points and grabbed 604 career rebounds. Tullis earned West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament MVP honors after scoring 30 points and collecting 10 rebounds in the Mountain Cats' 74-73 overtime win over Alderson-Broaddus in the 2009 title game.