Three distinguished contributors to Hillsdale College athletics make up the Athletic Hall of Fame class for 2009. The induction ceremonies took place Friday, April 17 on the college’s campus.

Being inducted this year are men’s basketball player Eric Allaire, former Dean of Women CarolAnn Barker, and former tennis player Zoe Smith Bradley.

Allaire is the all-time leading scorer in the 101-year history of Charger men’s basketball. Allaire scored 2,174 points during his career that spanned from the 1985-86 season to 1988-89. His point total is more than 300 more than any other player in the history of the program.

Allaire also is number two on the school’s all-time list for free throws made with 403. He is also the only player in school history to score 575 or more points in two different seasons. He earned First-Team All-GLIAC honors twice, and was named the NAIA District 23 Player of the Year in 1987-88 and 1988-89. In his junior and senior years, Allaire was named honorable mention All-American.

CarolAnn Barker was one of the most beloved administrators at Hillsdale College in the past two decades. She served as the Dean of Women from 1980-2005 and served as a mentor and role model to hundreds of female student-athletes during that time. She also held the titles of director of student affairs and vice president of student affairs. In 2006, not long after her retirement, she was honored with the Charger Award, emblematic of her enthusiastic and long-standing support of Charger athletics. She was just the 10th female to win the award since its inception in 1968.

Barker is a posthumous inductee into the Hall of Fame. She passed away on June 1, 2008.

Zoe Smith Bradley was one of the first female student-athletes to win multiple accolades in the history of Hillsdale College athletics. She was a standout tennis player from 1896-1899. She won a total of six MIAA singles and doubles championships during her career.

After her playing career, Smith earned a PhD from the University of Chicago and became one of the original faculty members of that institution’s School of Education.