BUTLER TWP — A three-sport star who helped Butler County Community College’s volleyball program win its first two state championships and who has won consecutive governmental elections since, and an out-of-state transfer who helped BC3’s men’s basketball team to a national No. 7 ranking and became an All-American were recently inducted into BC3’s Charles W. Dunaway Pioneer Hall of Fame.

Kimberly (Burford) Geyer, of Mars, a Butler County commissioner; and Kevin Dill, of Campbell, Ohio, president of Creekside Mortgage Co., Boardman, Ohio, were both recognized as Class of 2022 members during an induction ceremony in BC3’s Field House May 7.

Geyer, a Mars Area High School graduate who has won Butler County commissioner elections in 2015 and in 2019, was a co-captain of the Pioneers’ softball, women’s basketball and volleyball teams from 1981 to 1983.

“It is humbling to be recognized in the company of so many other gifted athletes who have been honored in the past,” Geyer said. “This has allowed me to be reflective. We’re looking back many years, and times were certainly different, especially for women’s athletics.”

Dill was a member of Campbell (Ohio) Memorial High School boys basketball and baseball squads that won Ohio High School Athletic Association state championships in March and in June 1993. He attended Youngstown State University, then transferred to BC3, where he played for the college’s men’s basketball team in 1995-1996.

“It’s an extreme honor to have my name with other names at the top,” Dill said. “This is tremendous to me. I worked hard to get there, and it took a lot of other people’s help to get me there. … When I will look back, it will be one of the big moments in my life.”

Geyer was a hitter on BC3 volleyball squads that won two regular-season Skyline Athletic Conference championships, then two SAC postseason championships, and then Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association championships in 1981 and in 1982.

“The first time we won the state championship, that was almost an unheard-of feat,” Geyer said. “We weren’t favored. And the fact that we were able to do it just meant the world to us. We were BC3. We went out east, excelled at every level and ended up winning the entire thing.”

Geyer was also selected to the SAC all-conference volleyball team in her first season.

She was a forward on Pioneers’ women’s basketball squads who averaged 17 points and finished her second season as the SAC’s top rebounder with an average of 11.

Geyer was a catcher on BC3 softball teams who hit six fence-clearing home runs in her first season. She also hit two home runs to help BC3 win a second-round SAC postseason game.

“Now that I am older, I did not realize what a pioneer we really were in women’s sports,” Geyer said. “We were really living up to the Pioneer name. There was no precedent. We were setting the precedent, and we didn’t even realize it.”

She earned an associate degree in liberal arts from BC3. In 2018 she received a BC3 Distinguished Alumni Award. She has served on the BC3 Education Foundation board, and since 2011 as a member of BC3’s board of trustees.

Dill had completed his first year as a walk-on at Youngstown State University, then left. He was playing in a summer basketball league when he met up with a friend, who played at Slippery Rock University and told then-BC3 men’s basketball coach Dick Hartung about Dill.

“Which was probably the biggest thing that ever happened in my life,” Dill said. “Coach Hartung came to a summer game and said, ‘Hey, look, you’re going to come play for me. He didn’t really even give me a choice. And when I walked off the court, I called my dad. I said, ‘Hey dad, you know what? I think I am going to go over and play at BC3 with Coach Hartung.’”

He led the WPCC with averages of 26 points, 7.7 assists and 4.2 steals per game in his only season with the Pioneers, and was named WPCC player of the year.