Hall of Fame athletes are usually Hall of Fame people, too.

That can certainly be said of the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016, which is being inducted into that organization this weekend at the Butler Days Inn.

Hall of Famers use their respective sports to gain their fame and not always just on the local level. Some attain college scholarships and/or professional opportunities as well, not to mention social and business contacts that can last a lifetime.

Hall of Fame people appreciate such good fortune. They give back to their sport — or to athletics in general — later in life.

That’s what this year’s induction class has done.

Former Butler soccer great Meghan Schnur now works as a physical therapist in Colorado. She coaches Under-12 and Under-17 teams there through the Colorado Rush soccer program.

Schnur could have easily gotten on with her own career and left soccer in the rear-view mirror. Anyone who knows her knows such a suggestion is laughable.

Mike Sheehy was an outstanding three-sport athlete at Mars High School who went on to become one of the most prolific sluggers in Eagle County baseball history.

The guy played baseball into his 40s — and says some of his favorite experiences in sports have been coaching his kids’ youth teams.

Steve Prokopchak excelled in basketball, golf and football, received nine varsity letters in college and was captain of two teams during his collegiate years.

He wound up coaching basketball and football at Moniteau.

Darin Cunningham was an outstanding high school pitcher at Knoch, Penn State-Beaver and Penn State University. Like Sheehy, he enjoyed successful years in the Eagle County League.

Cunningham worked for three summers with Christian Sports International as a baseball instructor for youths ages 7 and up.

All of these inductees can recall times in their youth when some unselfish person impacted their own athletic careers. Now they’re doing the same.

Then there’s Paul Uram and Sam Bello. Those two longtime coaches spent the bulk of their lives influencing kids in a positive way while enhancing young lives through athletics.

Uram coached the unbeaten Butler gymnastics team that is being enshrined this weekend. Anyone that man has ever coached — whether a young kid or a pro football player — relishes what he learned from the guy.

Bello died a number of years ago, but the impact of his life has been felt by hundreds of kids through the years of the Butler Area Midget Football League.

Without Bello’s foresight and endless efforts in seeing through Memorial Park projects involving the BAMFL, the league may not have survived way back when.

These folks and their families should enjoy the weekend. They’ve earned it.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle.