The Capital Area Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame has announced its 2024 Hall of Fame induction class. Inductees were voted on by the membership of the Capital Area Chapter. They are as follows.

Jed Donahue, a sportscaster for 35 years, has hosted radio sports talk shows on numerous stations throughout Pennsylvania. He has also broadcast PIAA football and basketball state championships on PCN and high school games on SportsFever television, and he was sports director and anchor on WITF TV33 and the Radio Pennsylvania Network as well as the voice of the inaugural season of the Hershey Impact soccer team. Donahue has covered numerous games of the Eagles, Orioles, Ravens, Phillies, and Nittany Lions.

Andrew Erby, head football coach at Steelton-Highspire High School, has won the state football championship in Class A three of the last four years. Erby has been named the Pennsylvania Eastern Coach of the Year and Mid Penn Capital Division Coach of the Year multiple times. He was a player for the 1999 District 3 championship Roller football team and the 1998 and 2000 state championship basketball teams. He was a standout at Delaware Valley in football from 2000 to 2004, leading the team in tackles and being inducted into the Del Val Hall of Fame.

Franklin "Beau" Gantz, a former coach and player at Middletown High School and Millersville University, was a First Team PSAC and ECAC All-Conference basketball player at Millersville University in 1974. He was also a First Team All-American PSAC baseball player that year. He is the former head basketball coach for the 1991 district champion Harrisburg Cougars. He also coached at Elizabethtown Area High School and with the Harrisburg Horizon semi-professional team. He currently plays for the Simmons-Day All-Star softball team and has won championships in Las Vegas, Florida, and North Dakota.

James "Jim" Kulina, a former baseball and football standout at Lower Dauphin, was a member of the 1973 Big 33 team and was First Team All-State in football. In 1971, he rushed for 1,244 yards and had 12 touchdowns. In 1972, he had 1,406 yards and 17 touchdowns. Kulina was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the fourth round of the Major League Baseball draft and played two seasons of minor league A ball with a .277 average and one home run.

Kirk Smallwood, a longtime basketball coach and athletic director at Harrisburg High, won more than 600 games through his involvement with Harrisburg and Central Dauphin East varsity boys' basketball. Smallwood won two PIAA boys' basketball state championships, nine District 3 championships, two Mid Penn championships, and 19 division championships with the Harrisburg Cougars. He was named the AP Pennsylvania Big School Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2002, and he coached numerous players who earned Division I and Division II college scholarships.

The late Dennis Stewart was a standout basketball player from Steelton-Highspire who helped lead the Rollers to becoming the PIAA state runner-up in 1965. He was a standout at the University of Michigan, where he scored 1,224 points - 38th all-time for Michigan - as a teammate of Rudy Tomjanovich. Stewart was selected in the fourth round of the 1969 NBA draft, 44th overall, by the Phoenix Suns. He played in 1970 for the NBA Baltimore Bullets, the Floridians in Miami in the ABA, and Grand Rapids in the CBA. He also played a season in France with JA Vichy, where he led the league with 33.5 points per game. He finished out his playing career with Cherry Hill, Wilkes-Barre, and Lancaster of the Eastern Basketball Alliance (EBA).

Tim Noll, a meritorious selection, is a Bishop McDevitt graduate who has spent more than 50 years supporting McDevitt, Middletown, Steelton-Highspire, and Seven Sorrows athletics. He is also a founding member of the Blue and Gold Club, where he currently serves as vice president. His skill at badminton has earned him numerous medals from the PA Senior Games.

The late Richard "Dick" Anzolut, a meritorious selection, was CEO of Tournament Sports Inc. and co-founder of the Lady Keystone Open with his late wife, Cynthia. Together, they promoted numerous professional and amateur sporting events, including the LKO and LPGA events, the EBA, the Harrisburg Horizon basketball team, Virginia Slims tennis, and the Keystone Games.

This year's Hall of Fame Induction Banquet will be held on Saturday, June 15, at the Red Lion Hotel Harrisburg Hershey, 4751 Lindle Road, Harrisburg, beginning with a social hour at 3 p.m. The event is open to the public. Reservation information is available at https://cachof.wordpress.com. For more details, call 717-805-0852.