BALTIMORE, MD -- Johns Hopkins University will induct nine new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame in ceremonies scheduled for Saturday, March 28. The nine-member class will be the 24^th inducted since the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame was formed in 1994 and raises the total number of members to 194.  The group will be honored at induction ceremonies scheduled to take place at 6 pm in the Newton White Athletic Center on the Johns Hopkins campus.  Festivities will include a cocktail reception, the induction ceremony and a post-induction reception; the class will also be honored at the Johns Hopkins-Michigan men's lacrosse game at Homewood Field earlier that day.
 
Individuals interested in attending the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremonies can contact Annie Koogle in Blue Jays Unlimited to secure a reservation.  Koogle can be reached by phone (410/516-6132) or email (akoogle1@jhu.edu).  An online reservation form is also available through Blue Jays Unlimited.
 
Below is a look at the nine individuals who comprise the 2020 Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame class of inductees:
 
Harvey Allen • Class of 1983
Swimming
One of the top performers on the Blue Jay swimming team throughout his career, Harvey Allen helped Johns Hopkins to four consecutive top-five team finishes as the NCAA Championships as a standout both individually and as a member of several relays.
A 13-time All-American, Allen ranked seventh in school history in overall All-America finishes when he graduated in 1983.  Among his 13 All-America finishes, six were national runner-up showings, including five in individual events, two others were top-eight placings in individual events and all five of his relay All-America finishes were top seven.
Allen placed second in the 100 breaststroke at the NCAA Championships in each of his final three seasons, was the national runner-up in the 200 breast as a sophomore and senior and was a member of the 400 free relay team that took silver during his junior year.
Allen earned a career-high five All-America finishes as a junior, four as a senior, three as a sophomore and one as a freshman.  Joining a program that had established itself as a national power, Allen helped Johns Hopkins to national runner-up finishes as a freshman and sophomore, a fifth-place finish at the NCAAs as a junior and fourth-place showing as a senior.
In addition to his exploits on the national level, Allen also helped Johns Hopkins to four consecutive Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) titles; the four straight MAC titles were part of a run of 28 consecutive conference titles for the Johns Hopkins men's swimming team.
 
Kerrie Cathcart • Class of 1997
Soccer
The Johns Hopkins women's soccer program was founded in 1992; one year later, the first prized recruit in program history, Kerrie Cathcart, arrived at Homewood.  When she graduated four years later, she had helped establish the program as one that would soon ascend to national prominence.
Cathcart was the first great scorer produced by the Blue Jay women's soccer program.  More than 20 years after her graduation, she still ranks eighth in school history in points (77) and ninth in goals (32).  She remains one of just two players from the program's first 10 years of existence to ranks in the top 20 in school history in either of those categories.  She was also Johns Hopkins' career leader in assists (13) when she graduated.
Cathcart earned All-Centennial Conference honors three times in her career.  She was a second team selection as a freshman in 1993 and a first team pick as a sophomore and senior.  She was the first freshman in program history to earn All-Centennial and became the first Blue Jay to earn First Team All-Centennial a year later.
Joining a program in just its second year of existence, Cathcart spearheaded a meteoric rise that saw the Blue Jays win just two games her freshman year and claim the first of what is now a league-record 14 Centennial Conference titles her senior year.  Johns Hopkins had won just 12 games during her first three seasons combined, but finished the 1996 season with 11-5-1 record, including an 8-1 mark in the Centennial.  That season jump-started the current 24-year run that includes all 14 of those Centennial titles and 18 NCAA Tournament appearances.
 
Eric Fishel • Class of 2008
Wrestling
In a program that dates back to the 1930s, it's difficult to arrive more than 70 years later and established many "firsts."  Yet, that exactly what Eric Fishel did for the Blue Jay wrestling program from 2004-08.
Fishel compiled a record of 95-36 during his career, graduated as Johns Hopkins' career leader in wins and was the first wrestler in school history to win 90 or more matches.  The previous school career record for wins (87) had stood for nearly 20 years before Fishel broke the mark as a senior.
Among Fishel's 95 career wins were 47 of the bonus-point variety (pins, technical falls, major decisions) and his 35 career pins remain the Johns Hopkins standard.  His 47 career bonus-point wins are tied for second in school history and to-date no other Johns Hopkins wrestler on record has reached 30 career pins.
In the single-season record book, Fishel remains one of just two wrestlers in school history to win 24 or more matches three times and was the first and remains the only wrestler to post 10 or more pins in more than one season.
Fishel became the first Johns Hopkins wrestler to win a pair of Centennial Conference titles as he placed first at 184 pounds as a junior and senior.  He remains one of just six Blue Jays to win two or more Centennial titles.
With his two conference titles, Fishel earned a pair of trips to the NCAA Championships and became the first All-American in school history when he placed eighth at the NCAAs as a senior in 2008.
 
Lacey-Leigh Hentz • Class of 2005
Lacrosse
A transformation in the Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse program took place in the late 1990s/early 2000s as the Blue Jays made the jump from Division III to Division I in 1999.  Many of the early Division I honors – and much of the team's success – revolved around the Blue Jay offense.
That all changed in 2002, when Lacey-Leigh Hentz arrived and established herself as one of the top defenders in the nation and helped Johns Hopkins make another transformation, this one from a competitive Division I program to one that made noise at that national level.
Hentz became the Blue Jays' top defender the day she arrived on campus.  She earned First Team All-American Lacrosse Conference honors in each of her four seasons.  JHU competed in the ALC from 2002-14 and Hentz was one of just two Blue Jays to earn First Team All-ALC as a freshman and one of just two to earn First Team All-ALC four times.  In fact, she was the first player in school history – regardless of conference or Division – to earn first team all-conference honors four times.
A Third Team IWLCA All-American and a First Team IWLCA All-Mid-Atlantic selection as a senior, Hentz also earned Johns Hopkins' Catherine P. Cramer Award as the University's top senior female athlete.
Nearly 15 years after graduating, Hentz's name is still prominent throughout the program record book.  She still holds Johns Hopkins' single-season (54) and career (146) records for caused turnovers and she ranks fifth in school Division I history in ground balls (174).
Hentz helped lead Johns Hopkins to a 44-24 record and back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2004 and 2005.  The NCAA Tournament berth in 2004 was the first for Johns Hopkins at the Division I level.
 
Gary Kane, Jr. • Class of 2005
Soccer
Without question one of the great goalies in Johns Hopkins and Centennial Conference history, Gary Kane, Jr. set a standard in net that will be hard to top.
A four-year starter in goal for then head coach Matt Smith, Kane, Jr. set Johns Hopkins career records for lowest goals against average (.574), games played (79), minutes played (6,745), career wins (66) and shutouts (34); 15 years after he graduated and each of those marks is still a school record.
A three-time All-Centennial selection, he earned first team honors as a junior and senior after grabbing honorable mention status as a sophomore.  Kane, Jr. was the Centennial Conference Player of the Year as a senior in 2004 and remains the only goalie in league history to earn Player of the Year honors.
A two-time NSCAA All-Region selection and a First Team NSCAA All-American as a senior, Kane, Jr. led Johns Hopkins to a 69-10-3 record, including a 34-2 mark in the Centennial Conference during his career.  He helped the Blue Jays to a pair of Centennial titles (2002, 2004), two trips to the NCAA Tournament and the Sweet 16 in 2004.
Yes, 2004.  Kane, Jr. turned in one of the great seasons in Division III soccer history as a senior in 2004, when he posted a .248 goals against average (2^nd in the nation), a .909 save percentage and 14 shutouts.  He allowed a total of five goals in more than 1,800 minutes that season and helped the Blue Jays rise to number two in the national rankings (a spot they held for seven straight weeks).
 
Dave Marr • Class of 1996
Lacrosse
Dave Marr stepped into a starting role on the Blue Jays men's lacrosse attack unit as a freshman in 1993.  He joined two players – both sophomores – who would go on to become the two most prolific goal scorers in school history.  You could argue that Marr had as much to do with their success as anyone.
Marr graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1996 as the school's career leader in assists (134), a record he still holds more than 20 years after he concluded his record-setting career. Only once since he graduated has someone come within 10 of his record – only twice since then has a Johns Hopkins player reached 100 assists.
A two-time USILA All-American with third team honors as a senior and honorable mention as a junior, Marr holds two of the top 10 single- season assist totals in school history (39 in 1996, 38 in 1995) and remains one of just three players in school history with 30 or more assists three times; legendary Blue Jay attackmen Joe Cowan and Jack Thomas are the others.
Marr helped lead Johns Hopkins to a four-year record of 41-16 with four trips to the NCAA Tournament and three appearances in the NCAA Semifinals (1993, 1995, 1996).  He served as a team captain as a senior in 1996 and finished his career ranked ninth in school history in points (193).
 
Paul Rabil • Class of 2008
Lacrosse
One of the great men's lacrosse players in school history, Paul Rabil arrived at Johns Hopkins in the fall of 2004 and wasted no time making an impact that has become the measuring stick for all Blue Jay midfielders.
Rabil became one of the most decorated players in school history as he earned All-America honors four times, including first team honors as a sophomore, junior and senior and third team as a freshman.  He is one of just 21 players in school history to earn First Team All-America three times and one of just 19 four-time All-Americans in program history.
The McLaughlin Award recipient as the nation's top midfielder in 2007, Rabil totaled 111 goals and 67 assists for 178 points in his career.  He graduated as JHU's career leader in goals and points by a midfielder and is the only midfielder in school history with more than 100 goals and 60 assists.
Rabil saved his best work for May as he rang up 28 goals and 23 assists for 51 points in 14 career NCAA Tournament games; he is Johns Hopkins' career leader in goals, assists and points in the NCAA Tournament.
In addition to his exploits on the field, Rabil was equally successful in the classroom as he earned Third Team CoSIDA Academic All-America honors as a junior and second team as a senior.  He is one of just two men's lacrosse players in school history to twice earn CoSIDA Academic All-America honors.
With Rabil leading the way, Johns Hopkins posted a 49-15 record, won two NCAA Championships (2005, 2007) and finished as the national runner-up once (2008) from 2005-08.
 
Bobby Van Allen
Men's & Women's Track & Cross Country Coach
One of the most successful coaches in the nation in any sport, Bobby Van Allen has transformed the Blue Jay track and cross country programs into national powers since arriving at Homewood in 1999.
Van Allen's signature work has been with the Blue Jay women's cross country team, which he guided to its sixth NCAA Championship in November; the six NCAA titles, which have all come since 2012, are tied for the second most in Division III history.  In addition to the six NCAA Championships, Van Allen has led the women's cross country team to 12 consecutive Centennial Conference and NCAA Mideast Regional titles and also counts four other top-10 finishes at the NCAAs to his credit.
Van Allen's men's cross country program has also become a national contender with three top-10 NCAA finishes in the last four years, nine consecutive top-four finishes at the NCAA Regional Championships and seven consecutive top-two finishes at the Centennial Championships.  The men won Centennial titles in 2013 and 2019 and regional titles in 2013 and 2016.
The Johns Hopkins track teams have also become the benchmark in the Centennial in recent years as they have combined to win 32 conference championships; the men own 13 crowns (seven indoor, six outdoor), while the women have 19 (10 outdoor, nine indoor).
With the team success under Van Allen's guidance has come the individual accolades as well.  He has coached 35 All-Americans in cross country and 57 in track and three individuals have claimed national championships in track.
For his part, Van Allen has collected more than 30 Coach of the Year honors, including six National Coach of the Year selections in women's cross country.
 
Paul Winterling • Class of 2005
Baseball
One of the great power hitters in school history, Paul Winterling enjoyed a standout four-year career for head coach Bob Babb's baseball team from 2002-05.
Winterling left his mark throughout the Blue Jay record book as he totaled 147 hits, 31 home runs, 41 doubles, 136 RBIs, 132 runs scored and 289 total bases.  He ranked in the top five in school history in five different categories when he graduated as he was second in home runs and total bases and fifth in doubles, RBIs and runs scored.
In addition to his career marks, Winterling became the first player in school history to hit 10 or more home runs in two different seasons and posted an .817 slugging percentage in 2003 that remains one of the top five marks in school history.
The 2003 Centennial Conference Player of the Year, Winterling was a two-time First Team All-Centennial selection and was twice an American Baseball Coaches Association All-Region honoree as well.
Winterling helped lead Johns Hopkins to a four-year record of 141-29 (.829) with three Centennial Conference titles and three trips to the NCAA Tournament.  The 141 wins the Blue Jays amassed during his career rank third in any four-year period in school history and the .829 winning percentage is by far the best in a four-year stretch.
As a junior in 2004, Winterling guided the Blue Jays to a 40-4 record that included a 33-game season-opening winning streak.  Johns Hopkins jumped to number one in the national rankings midway through the season to become the first Division III team in school history in any sport to be ranked number one in the nation.