SEBRING — Sebring McKinley High School held its 2025 Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Dec. 13.

Inductees included Dakota Wagner, a 2012 graduate who earned 11 varsity letters in football, basketball and baseball. Wagner excelled on the football field, earning Special Mention All-Ohio honors as a senior among numerous accolades, and also scored 697 career points in basketball. He was inducted by his grandfather, Bill Burns.

Also inducted were the 2010 and 2011 Sebring cheer squads, which won back-to-back Division IV state championships in the mount category. Both teams were coached by Nicole Herman Mathias and Lynette Slagle Brownlee.

Members of the 2010 squad were Ciara Barnett, Kayla Davis, Brittany Fotheringham Gable, Erin Green Powell, Elaina Jurica, Courtney Maretich, Chasity Schuller Hubbs, Stevi Smith Heck, Angela Sutton and Amy Trainer Edwards.

The 2011 squad included Gable, Jurica, Davis, Hubbs and Heck, along with Alissa Courtney Johnson, Siara Dalton, Julia Cunningham, Blakelyn Imler Light, Maretich, Kayla Moore-Wilt, Jaclyn Rinehart and Abigail Skelton Jenkins. In addition to their mount titles, both squads also competed in pom and placed among the top three in hip hop.

The Hall of Fame Committee also recognized four individuals for their impact on Sebring McKinley athletics.

The family of Alda Mae Patton Watson, a 1925 graduate, was honored posthumously. Watson was featured in a February 1925 Alliance Review article for scoring 50 of the Trojans’ 51 points in a girls basketball game against Boardman, despite sitting out one quarter due to injury. Family members Beth Fahnert Seavy (’70) and John Fahnert (’67) accepted the recognition.

The committee also honored the late Lloyd “Bud” Cobbs, a member of the class of 1946 who died in May. Saturday’s game against Southington Chalker was dedicated to Cobbs, and the game ball was presented to his daughter Lori Cobbs Gasparik (’84) and granddaughter Madi Gasparik. Cobbs, a 2010 Hall of Fame inductee, spent years researching Hall of Fame history and helping restore the program after its revival in 2005.

In a surprise presentation, the committee recognized Chuck Mercer, a longtime clock and scoreboard operator, and Geoff Jurica, a longtime boys basketball scorekeeper and Hall of Fame selection committee member, for their service to Sebring McKinley athletics and the community.