This is the second in a series of articles profiling the 2013 inductees into the Butler Area School District Athletic Hall of FameRICES LANDING — Sports were always kept in perspective by Lisa Zitalone Olson.“I always played for fun,” she said. “That’s all it was. It was a good time. I never would have dreamed it would lead to all of this.”A standout basketball and volleyball player at Butler, Zitalone Olson will be among the six inductees entering the Butler Area School District Athletic Hall of Fame Sept. 20.Following the induction ceremony from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria, the inductees will be honored on the field prior to the Golden Tornado’s football game against North Hills that night.Zitalone Olson was inducted into the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. She is part of the fourth HOF class at her alma mater.“It’s wonderful in that my kids will be around that and they will learn about some of those accomplishments,” Zitalone Olson said.“One of my daughters and I were looking at the Clarion (University) alumni paper the other day and saw that a friend of hers recently broke a rebounding record I had there. I didn’t even know I held any record like that.”A 1978 Butler graduate, she became the first Tornado girls basketball player to score 1,000 points. She ended her prep career with 1,068 and still ranks seventh on Butler’s career scoring list.Butler’s starting center for three years, Zitalone Olson was a strong rebounder. She became the first Butler girl to compete in the Colt Classic and was team MVP her senior year.“I remember being the first girl to do a number of things in sports there,” she said. “Our team drew people into the gym to watch girls basketball, something that didn’t happen much before that.“We played North Catholic in the playoffs at the Civic Arena. That was a thrill for us.“The older girls on our team when I started playing basketball in high school, Ann Koch and Diane Rider, really took me in and showed me the way. They work at the (Butler) hospital now,” Zitalone Olson added,She also played high school basketball with her sister, Saundra Baxter, mother of Butler wrestling all-time wins leader Cole Baxter and Tornado basketball guard Cait Baxter.“Our whole family has always been involved in sports,” Zitalone Olson said. “My grandmother played volleyball in the yard with us into her 80’s.”Zitalone Olson also lettered for four years in volleyball at Butler and was named Co-MVP of that squad.She went on to play two years of basketball and volleyball at Clarion University before transferring and doing likewise at California (Pa.) University. She was inducted into the California University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998.“I was the first one to score 1,000 points in women’s basketball at Cal,” Zitalone Olson said. “That combined with my years at Clarion.“I had a lot of good friends at Cal. That move worked out well for me.”Zitalone Olson was the leading scorer and rebounder on each of her four collegiate teams. She was voted first team all-region Division III her senior year. She lettered four years in volleyball as well.Now a teacher at Jefferson Morgan High School, Zitalone Olson coached varsity girls volleyball there for 14 years. She is coaching the junior high team this year as her youngest daughter, Morgan, is a senior on the Slippery Rock University volleyball team.Zitalone Olson also has twin daughters — Sarah and Lindsay — who recently graduated from Bethany College. Sarah played volleyball there and Lindsay played basketball.“Now they’re pursuing jobs in teaching and coaching,” she said. “I’m so proud. I was able to coach all three of my daughters in high school.“It was so nice watching them play, but it was a lot more stressful doing that than when I was playing myself.”Zitalone Olson’s grandfather, Butler “Doggie” Cavalero is also a member of the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame.