This is the fifth in a series of articles profiling the 2011 inductees into the Butler Area School District Athletic Hall of Fame.ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Basketball came Jody Imbrie Smith’s way at a young age.It never left her.Now the 1979 Butler graduate has found her way into the Butler Area School District Athletic Hall of Fame. She will be one of nine inductees to be enshrined Sept. 16.“It’s a tremendous honor,” Imbrie Smith said of her induction. “I didn’t even know the high school had a Hall of Fame.”This year marks the second induction class.Also a swimmer at Butler, Imbrie Smith was named the team’s most outstanding swimmer in 1979. But she made her mark in basketball.Imbrie Smith wound up scoring 1,252 points in high school and is still the all-time leading scorer at Grove City College with 2,288 points. She has already been inducted into the Grove City College Athletic Hall of Fame and Butler County Sports Hall of Fame.“We had a hoop outside the house when I was growing up,” Imbrie Smith recalled. “I had an older brother and when he and his friends were out there shooting around, I wanted to be out there with them.“Girls basketball wasn’t as big then as it is now, but I got an early start.”Imbrie Smith said Dutch Angeloni had a team at Butler Catholic that played in a Catholic League “and they needed players. I was in sixth grade and he asked me to play.“I played against kids older than me quite a bit when I was younger. It definitely helped to develop my skills,” she said.Imbrie Smith wound up playing for Rudy Corona’s Butler Junior High team, along with AAU ball. She was well-schooled in the game by the time she reached high school.“Our teams did well. We were always competitive,” she said. “We lost in the WPIAL finals my junior year.”Imbrie Smith played wing most of the time, though she did handle point guard duties when called upon. She said one of her big rivals was Wanda Holloway of Sharon, who she also played with at All-Star games.Holloway went on to play at the University of Georgia and lives in that state today, as does Imbrie Smith.“We reconnected that way and we’re friends now,” Imbrie Smith said.Imbrie Smith and her husband, Mark — himself a standout basketball player at Butler and GCC, as well as a Butler County Sports Hall of Famer — have a daughter, Kylee, a high school junior receiving numerous Division I basketball offers.Auburn, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and Georgia are among the schools showing interest in Kylee Smith, a 2,000-point scorer by the end of her sophomore year.“We’ve always stayed in tune with basketball,” Imbrie Smith said. “We’re good friends with the Bresnahans, so we’ve followed Olivia at Florida State, and we’re good friends with the Baxters, so we follow Caitlin and the high school team.”Imbrie Smith had major college offers in her own right, but turned away from Pitt and West Virginia to head to Grove City.With the Wolverines, she led the nation in scoring in 1983, and paced the team in points, assists and steals for four years and became a GCC record holder in 17 categories.“I was never a city person and those other schools were big,” Imbrie Smith said. “I visited Grove City College and fell in love with the place.”All nine of the 2011 inductees will be honored at a reception at 5 p.m. Sept. 16 in the high school cafeteria. They will be presented on the field prior to the Golden Tornado’s home football game against Canon McMillan that evening.