Four former athletes will be inducted into the Wittenberg Athletic Hall of Honor during Homecoming Weekend ceremonies, Sept. 29-30.

Joining 123 other athletes who have been inducted throughout the last 16 years will be Kim Harshbarger ’79, Ron Duncan ’66, Pat Beasley ’73 and Nathan Harter ’08 (posthumously).

Harshbarger is being recognized for her accomplishments with the volleyball and softball teams between 1976 and 1979. Another of Wittenberg’s women’s sports pioneers, Harshbarger was the volleyball team’s Most Improved Player in 1976 and went on to earn team MVP honors as its co-captain in 1978.

She also was a captain and team MVP of the softball team her senior year. Duncan is one of Wittenberg’s finest football tight ends and was a starter on two of the school’s greatest teams in 1963 and 1964.

In his two years as a starter, he caught 64 passes for 1,146 yards and nine touchdowns as the Tigers went 16-0-1 and claimed back-to-back national college division championships from the Associated Press.

He was named second-team All- Ohio Athletic Conference in 1963 and first-team in 1964. Beasley stands with the basketball greats in Wittenberg’s history.

A four-year starter, Beasley never missed a game in his career, appearing in 100 consecutive games between 1969 and 1973 and starring for teams that compiled a four-year record of 73-27, won two Ohio Athletic Conference regular season titles and a conference tournament crown.

Beasley was named to the All-OAC firstteam in 1972 and 1973, and he concluded his career as the school’s sixth-leading scorer with 1,146 points and second-leading rebounder with 958.

Harter, who passed away in 1952, is credited with the introduction of the forward pass to the game of football at Wittenberg.

The only statistics available from the four football seasons Harter played on the team are the most important ones — four straight winning seasons and an overall record of 24-14-1 The inductees will be honored at halftime of the Wittenberg-Allegheny football game, which begins at 1 p.m. on Sept. 29, and they will be formally inducted at a dinner later that evening.

For more on the inductees and to read the spring sports roundup, log on at www5.wittenberg.edu/news/athletics.