BUTLER TWP — Special people enshrined at a special place.

That summarizes the fourth official Charles W. Dunaway Pioneer Hall of Fame induction ceremony Saturday at the BC3 Fieldhouse.

Golfer Michael Cuscino, basketball player Tom McConnell and volleyball standout Megan Smith Nimmo became the 10th, 11th and 12th members inducted into the still-young Hall of Fame. The Hall was dedicated in retired athletic director and coach Dunaway's name in 2015.

Tom Beckett, the first officially hired coach in BC3 history who went on to become longtime athletic director at Yale, came back to accept his 2016 induction in person.

“When I first came here, I had an idea what a head coach was all about,” Beckett said. “But I had never been a head coach.

“I was a 26-year-old hot shot, former minor league fired baseball player.”

Beckett was the first basketball and baseball coach in Pioneer history. He wound up winning Skyline Athletic Conference championships in both sports.

Beckett left BC3 to work in athletics at San Jose State in California before winding up at Yale.

“When Tom came here, we had no facilities at all,” Dunaway said. “We had no basketball gym, no baseball field, no locker rooms ... nothing. He helped build it all.”

Beckett said he “learned lessons for a lifetime” from Dunaway.

“He gave me a world of confidence, a world of trust and friendship,” Beckett said. “He had a strong belief in what we were doing and never wavered.

“Everywhere I've gone since I left — from California to Connecticut — I took Chuck Dunaway's lessons and shared them.”

Beckett was also on hand to present McConnell, a co-captain and point guard on BC3's first basketball conference championship team. He had 10 assists in the Pioneers' 48-46 overtime win over CCAC in the 1979 SAC title game.

“Every possession of that game, Tom McConnell made sure his teammates were set up for a good shot,” Beckett said.

Thec Pioneers were 39-7 in McConnell's two years as a player there. He went on to become a co-captain at Davidson in basketball and has been women's basketball coach at Indiana (Pa.) University for the past six years.

“He's taken IUP to the NCAA (Div. II) Elite 8 the past two years,” Beckett said. “He's one of the best in the business.”

McConnell said among the things he learned at BC3 was to “keep reaching, keep believing and keep hoping.

“BC3 has meant to me what sunshine means to the planet earth.”

Current Pioneer volleyball coach Rob Snyder inducted Smith Nimmo, a Butler graduate “who became one of the two greatest volleyball players in the history of this program.”

Smith Nimmo ranked among the NJCAA's top 10 in aces, hitting efficiency and blocks when she played at BC3 in 2002-03. She led the tean to its first-ever NJCAA national tournament, where the Pioneers placed fifth.

“I remember our van rides to games, all the bags of snacks,” Smith Nimmo said, laughing. “Volleyball was about work ethic and discipline, how to deal with the failures and celebrate the success.

“BC3 has such a strong impact on the students who come through here. I know it did on me.”

Pioneer golf coach Bill Miller inducted Cuscino, who qualified for the national tournament twice. He placed 13th the first time and was an All-American.

The second time was two years later, as he missed a year of competition because of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

“Everything happens for a reason,” Cuscino said. “I was originally going to go to Slippery Rock University to study to be a teacher. My SAT scores weren't high enough. They suggested I enroll at a junior college for a semester, so I wound up playing gfolf at BC3.

“Two weeks before that (auto) accident, I was headed to Youngstown State to try to make the golf team there. I wound up staying at BC3.

“I ended up in the golf management program at California (Pa.) University. It was there that I met my wife. See? Everything happens for a reason,” he added. “There's a plan for all of us and we have to trust it.”

Miller described Cuscino as “the template for all BC3 golfers. He was consistent, cerebral and had class.”

Karns City graduate Mackenzie Craig received her NJCAA All-America plaques in basketball and volleyball. She became the first BC3 athlete to ever achieve All-America status in two sports.

She became the 27th Pioneer athlete to be named an All-American.

Butler graduate Joel Stutz and Craig received commemorative basketballs for breaking records at BC3. Stutz is the men's basketball all-time scoring leader with 1,366 points.

Craig set women's basketball records of 1,277 points and 966 rebounds.

Butler graduate Jace Stutz received a plaque for breaking the school's basketball record of most charges taken in a career. He took 56 charges.