MEADVILLE, Pa. -- Six student-athletes and one team have been chosen to proudly join the Allegheny College Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2024, as announced by the Department of Athletics on Thursday.

The six honorees for the Class of 2024 include Abby Bodenlos '08 (softball), Jessica Kankoski Goeller '04 (women's basketball), Kevin Pool '05 (men's cross country/track and field), Eric Sloan '08 (men's soccer), Erin Ham Steehler '09 (women's swimming and diving), and Jim Swanson '92 (men's golf). The 1974-75 men's basketball team will also be inducted with this year's class.

Additionally, Robert Bedrosian '77 (baseball), who was selected for the Hall of Fame Class of 2023 but could not attend last year's ceremony, will be recognized with this year's inductees.

Abby Bodenlos '08 remains one of the most decorated student-athletes in Allegheny softball history. The Pittsburgh native is the only Gator to earn multiple North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Player of the Year awards, having won the conference's top honor in 2007 and 2008. A four-time All-NCAC selection, Bodenlos was a three-time All-Region pick and secured first-team accolades in each of her last two seasons. She was a key player in a lineup that led Allegheny to two NCAC Tournament titles and two NCAA Championship appearances in 2005 and 2007. The program's all-time leader in stolen bases, the speedy Bodenlos swiped 79 bases over her career, including a season-record 31 during her junior season. Her numbers at the plate are equally impressive. Bodenlos, who batted above .400 in her junior and senior seasons, was a career .366 hitter with 15 home runs, 84 RBIs, and 117 runs scored.

Jessica Kankoski Goeller '04 wasn't going to let a season-ending injury as a junior prevent her from cementing her legacy with the Blue and Gold. Despite missing 24 games in 2002-03, she graduated as the fourth all-time leading scorer in Allegheny women's basketball history with 1,150 career points. She led the team in points in each of her three full seasons, highlighted by a sophomore campaign in which she averaged a career-high 17.5 points per game, and her 455 points were the fourth-most in single-season history at the time. As a freshman, she helped the Gators post 20 wins and claim a share of the NCAC regular-season championship. As a senior, she dropped a career-high 31 points in an 80-74 win over Case Western Reserve University, before leading Allegheny to an NCAC Tournament finals appearance. Originally from Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, Goeller was a three-time All-NCAC selection, earned All-Great Lakes Region Second Team honors from D3hoops.com as a sophomore, and was a preseason All-American ahead of her junior year.

Allegheny has had several outstanding distance runners, but Kevin Pool '05 set the standard for which all others are measured. The New Windsor, Pennsylvania, native was the first-ever Gator to win an individual NCAC championship and the conference's Runner of the Year award, a feat he accomplished twice during his junior and senior cross country seasons. He was also the first men's cross country runner to earn All-America accolades, as he placed 10th nationally in 2003 and 17th in 2004. Pool earned All-Mid-East Region honors in each of his seasons on the cross country team, which won the NCAC's team titles in 2002 and 2004. A five-time conference champion on the track, Pool won indoor crowns in the 1,500- and 5,000-meter races as well as the outdoor 1,500-, 5,000-, and 10,000-meter races. After winning three events at the 2005 NCAC Outdoor Championships, Pool was tabbed the league's Distance Runner of the Year. Currently the director of operations for California-based Blistering Pace Race Management, Pool enjoyed a successful running career post-graduation, including an 18th-place finish at the 2013 Boston Marathon.

Eric Sloan '08 was a key figure on the Allegheny men's soccer team during one of the program's most successful stretches in the mid-2000s. Under former head coach Angelo Panzetta, Sloan guided the Gators to four consecutive NCAC championship games. During his freshman season in 2004, Sloan was one of five Gators to convert a penalty kick following a 0-0 double-overtime draw with Denison University to lift the men's soccer team to its first-ever conference title. He also scored penalty kicks to help the Gators surpass Transylvania University and Carnegie Mellon University, as Allegheny marched its way through the NCAA Tournament to the round of 16. The NCAC's 2004 Newcomer of the Year and 2007 Defensive Player of the Year, the dominant center back earned All-NCAC honors in each of his four seasons at Allegheny. He was also named to the conference's 30th Anniversary All-Decade Team. During his senior campaign, Sloan anchored a Gator defense that shut out nine opponents and ranked among the nation's top 30 teams with 0.63 goals allowed per game. For his career, the Pittsburgh native started 78 of 79 games and scored six goals with eight assists for 18 points.

A five-time All-NCAC honoree and three-time All-American, Erin Ham Steehler '09 made her mark as the greatest breaststroke swimmer in the storied history of the Allegheny swimming and diving team. The Franklin, Pennsylvania, native owns both the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke records and was part of two record-setting medley relay teams. Over her four-year career, Steehler qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships three times and swam in nine events. As a sophomore, she placed 14th in the 100-yard breaststroke to secure her first All-America award. Not only did she set both breaststroke records in 2009, she also recorded the second-best 200-yard individual medley time in team history at the national championship meet. Steehler placed fifth in the 100-yard breaststroke finals and set a program record at 1:03.82 in the prelims. In the 200-yard race, she came in fourth with a time of 2:18.21. Following her senior season, Steehler was voted Allegheny's Female Senior Achievement Award winner and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Female Athlete of the Year.

Jim Swanson '92 was a prolific golfer during his four-year career, one of several to don the Blue and Gold amidst the program's heyday in the '80s and '90s. Swanson's standout resume includes four All-NCAC awards, including first-team nods in 1991 and 1992, three All-Region selections, and a pair of All-America laurels. As a junior, he helped Allegheny secure an NCAC title by placing fourth in the conference tournament. It was one of six different tournaments the Gators won that season. Swanson was the individual medalist during Allegheny's victory at the Hiram College Invitational. At the NCAA Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska, he led all Gators by tying for seventh place with a four-round total of 304 (+20), helping the team tie for sixth place on the leaderboard. He also finished seventh in the country as a senior in 1992 in Wooster, Ohio, with a cumulative 295 (+7). He carded the second-best final round in the championship tournament with a 2-under 70, and the Gators climbed four spots in the standings to tie for fifth place. During Swanson's tenure, Allegheny was consistently ranked as the top team in the region and among the national leaders in the entire Division III landscape.

Led by legendary coach and the namesake of Allegheny's Walk of Fame, Norm Sundstrom, the 1974-75 men's basketball team achieved unprecedented success on the hardwood. Sundstrom, in his fifth season as the head men's basketball coach, guided the Gators to their best season ever that winter, culminating in the program's first-ever Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) championship. The Gators ended the regular season with a 10-game win streak, the longest in team history at the time, and their 15 wins were just one shy of the then-record of 16 from 1931-32. Against PAC opponents, Allegheny was near perfect with a 13-1 record, resulting in the first NCAA Tournament bid by any Gator team in school history. All five starters were recognized with All-PAC honors at the end of the season, headlined by first-team honoree Martin Orzechowski '77. Frank Barba '77 was an All-PAC Second Team selection, while Bill Faloon '77, Dave Malone '76, and Robert Del Greco '76 were all honorable mentions. A sign of the tremendous talent on the 1974-75 squad, the Gator lineup featured four future Allegheny Hall of Famers in Orzechowski, Malone, Del Greco, and the program's future head coach, John Reynders '75.

The Allegheny Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2024 will be enshrined with a formal ceremony inside the Schultz Banquet Hall on Friday, September 27.

More information about the Hall of Fame ceremony, including the availability of tickets for the public, will be released at a later date. Please direct any questions to Sean King, Assistant Athletic Director for Game Management, Fan Experience and Marketing and Hall of Fame chair, at sking@allegheny.edu.