ITHACA, N.Y. -- Twelve new members, including six All-Americans, have been selected for induction into the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame at the 36th annual ceremonies to be held Saturday, Sept. 21 on the Cornell campus. After this year's class is inducted, the membership in the Hall will stand at 555.

The All-Americans who will be inducted are Sarah Averson '03, women's lacrosse; Ryan McClay '03, men's lacrosse; Taylor McLean '03, women's polo; Doug Murray '03, men's ice hockey; Carl Shields '75, men's track and field; and Clint Wattenberg '03, wrestling.

Also selected to be enshrined in September are Michael Halperin '01, men's tennis; Katy Jay '03, women's track and field; Mike McGrann '88, football; Win Osgood Class of 1893, football, track and field, tennis, wrestling, rowing; Erik Rico '02, baseball; and Nicole Zitarelli '01, softball.

In addition to the formal induction ceremonies on Saturday evening, the honorees will be recognized at halftime of the Cornell-Bucknell Homecoming football game that afternoon.

The Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame was initiated in 1978. It became a reality through the thoughtfulness and generosity of the late Ellis H. Robison '18, whose devotion, advice and financial support to his alma mater started immediately upon graduation from the university.

A brief biography of each of the 12 inductees follows.

Sarah Averson '03, Women's Lacrosse
Averson, a prolific scorer for Cornell in her four-year career, remains tied for second in team history with career goals (138) and tied for second in free position goals (28) 10 years after she left East Hill. The two-time All-American (first-team in 2003, second team in 2002) is tied for fifth in team history with 176 career points and eighth all-time with 90 draw controls. She is 10th in Cornell history with 38 assists. Her 47 goals in the 2003 season remains the second-highest total in team history, and her 61 points that year are sixth in Big Red history. Averson was an integral part of several of the best teams in Cornell women's lacrosse history. She helped the Big Red to the Final Four of the 2002 NCAA Tournament and was part of teams that went 51-15 (20-8 Ivy League) with two NCAA tournament appearances and a pair of ECAC titles. She was the MVP of the ECAC championship game in both 2000 and 2003. Averson was a two-time first-team IWLCA all-region and All-Ivy selection. She was named one of the Cornell Daily Sun's top 25 Senior Athletes at Cornell that year. She was invited to play in the IWLCA senior all-star game. As a senior, Averson was one of four winners of the Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award. Averson became the first Cornell women's lacrosse player to earn an invitation to the U.S. Development camp (2002-03).

Michael Halperin '01, Men's Tennis
The 2000 Ivy League Player of the Year, Halperin earned an automatic bid to the NCAA championship, Cornell's first since 1984. Halperin went a perfect 7-0 at No. 1 against Ivy opponents as a junior. He won the 2000 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Region I tournament for the first time in school history. Halperin was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy pick as a junior after capturing second-team All-Ivy accolades as a sophomore for the Big Red in both singles and doubles. He was named co-captain as a senior in 2001. He finished his career with 61 total victories in his three years, including a 31-23 overall mark at No. 1 singles. He transferred to Cornell after playing his freshman season at Brown, where he played both No. 1 and No. 2 singles.

Katy Jay '03, Women's Track & Field
Jay helped the Big Red women's track and field squad capture back-to-back titles in both the indoor and outdoor Heptagonal championships over her final two seasons. The standout sprinter earned 14 individual (nine) and relay (five) Heps titles over her career, a record by a Cornellian, and was named the Northeast region's top female track athlete in 2002. Jay set the school outdoor records for the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter events with times of 11.84, 23.99 and 53.78 seconds, respectively, and also holds the school's indoor records in the 60 (7.59), 200 (24.02) and 400 (55.27). She was an anchor of record-breaking relays, helping set the 4x100 outdoor relay (46.32) along with both the indoor (3:41.59) and outdoor (3:39.82) 4x400 relays. Jay still has her name atop multiple Cornell records 10 years after graduating. Jay remains the school record holder indoors in the 200 (24.02 seconds) and the 400 (55.27 seconds). She also still holds the Cornell record outdoors in the 400 (53.78 seconds) and is part of the school record-holding 4x200 team (1:37.57). Jay was named the Most Outstanding Performer at both the 2002 Indoor and Outdoor Heps. Jay won the 200-meter Heps title in 2001, 2002 and 2003 and became just the fourth athlete in Ivy League history to win three championships in that event. As a senior, Jay was awarded the Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award.

Ryan McClay '03, Men's Lacrosse
McClay is one of just four Cornell men's lacrosse players to earn All-America honors in each of his four seasons with the Big Red, garnering first-team honors in 2002 and 2003. As a senior, he became just the fifth defenseman in the history of the Ivy League to be named the conference Player of the Year. A three-time first-team All-Ivy selection, he was a unanimous choice twice. McClay was a candidate for the Tewaaraton Trophy as a senior, given to the best lacrosse player in the nation, and he finished the year with 58 ground balls, after scooping a career-high 73 as a junior. He served as one of the Big Red's tri-captains as both a junior and senior. As a senior, McClay shared the Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete.  McClay was a member of the U.S. national team at the 2002 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships in Perth, Australia, where he helped the U.S. earn a gold medal, McClay was named to the All-World team and was further honored as the tournament's most valuable defender. After being selected as an alternate for the 2006 games, McClay again represented the U.S. in 2010 and earned a second gold medal and another selection to the All-World team. Following graduation from Cornell, he was taken fifth overall in the 2003 Major League Lacrosse draft by the New Jersey Pride. He enjoyed an eight-year professional career with both the Pride and the Boston Cannons where he saw action in 91 games and picked up 371 ground balls. He also handed out 10 assists and scored four goals.

Michael McGrann '88, Football
McGrann was a two-time All-Ivy selection at linebacker, earning second-team accolades as a junior and first-team honors as a senior. A three-year starter, he was a co-captain of the 1988 Ivy League championship team as part of a defense that ranked first in the Ivy League and the East and sixth in the nation. McGrann's teams went 20-9-1 overall and 16-5 in Ivy League play. He was named team defensive MVP as a senior and also earned the squad's Defensive Freshman MVP award, the Charles Colucci Award as the senior who made the biggest contribution to the team, and the Coach's Award. For his career, McGrann posted 188 tackles, including 7.0 for a loss and a sack, forced two fumbles, recovered another and broke up two passes.

Taylor McLean '03, Women's Polo
A starter on four consecutive national championship teams, McLean was a three-time All-American. She became the first Cornell player in any sport to earn four national championships. She was named one of the school's top freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior athletes by the Cornell Daily Sun after each of those seasons. She had six goals in the national final as a freshman, eight goals as a sophomore, four goals as a junior and four more during her senior year. In her four seasons, the Big Red went 78-4-5. As a senior, McLean shared the Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award.

Doug Murray '03, Men's Ice Hockey
As a two-time first-team All-American, Murray was a prominent part of the Big Red's re-emergence as a national power. He spearheaded the nation's best defense and best penalty kill units in 2003, when the Big Red racked up a program-record 30 wins en route to its second-straight Ivy League championship, an ECAC Hockey championship and a trip to the Frozen Four. Murray was a three-time All-Ivy League first-team selection, a two-time All-ECAC Hockey first-team pick and was named the ECAC Hockey Defensive Defenseman of the Year in 2003. As a junior in 2002, Murray was named one of 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, which is given annually to the best player in college hockey. As a senior, Murray shared the Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award. He was selected by the Ithaca Journal as its Male Athlete of the Year in 2002, when he was also given the Nicky Bawlf Award as the team's most valuable player. The Big Red defense ranked second in the nation that season, and both its power play and penalty kill were ranked in the top five nationally. Murray was best known for two things — a booming slap shot that helped him accrue 24 goals and 60 assists for 84 points over 127 career games, and a physical presence that was unmatched by any competitor. He was an eighth-round selection by the San Jose Sharks in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, which turned out to be a bargain when he embarked on a lengthy professional career which is still active. After two full seasons in the American Hockey League, Murray made his NHL debut with the Sharks in the 2005-06 season. He played eight seasons with San Jose before being traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2013. He entered the 2012-13 season with 425 career NHL games, which ranks third all-time for former Cornell players behind Joe Nieuwendyk and Kent Manderville.

Winchester Osgood 1893, Football, Track & Field, Tennis, Wrestling, Rowing
At Cornell, "Win" Osgood received a medal as the school's best all-around athlete. He ran the 440 and threw shot put for the track team, was an accomplished gymnast, boxer, wrestler and tennis player who also set a collegiate record of 5:28 for the 2-mile bicycle race. Osgood played halfback for four years for the football team (1888-89 and 1891-92) with the team posting a 28-8 record. He was considered one of the top players in the early years of Cornell football, earning a spot on the first ever all-time Cornell football team put together in the Cornell Daily Sun in 1927. In rowing, Osgood won the single scull championship at Cornell in 1892. He left Cornell in the fall of 1892 to attend the University of Pennsylvania and became the first collegiate wrestler to win an AAU national wrestling championship as a post-grad student in 1895. An elusive runner, William "Pudge" Heffelfinger, a three-time All-American under Walter Camp at Yale and the first-ever professional football player, said of Osgood "It was downright uncanny to watch him run, opponents missed him by inches. His body undulated like a snake's. He was the Red Grange of the Pioneer era." He was inducted into the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1970.

Erik Rico '02, Baseball
The school's first-ever Ivy League Player of the Year in baseball, Rico was a two-time unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection. A team tri-captain as a senior, he set school single-season records for runs scored (46), home runs (11) and total bases (116), while tying season records for triples (eight). A two-time Ivy League Player of the Week, he was named to the ECAC All-Star second team as a senior. A four-year letter winner, he graduated with school records for career batting average (.362), slugging percentage (.599), triples (18) and total bases (303). He earned second-team All-Ivy honors as a sophomore and was a first-team pick in each of his final two seasons. Rico was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 22nd round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft.

Carl Shields '75, Men's Track & Field, Football
Shields was a two-time All-American in track, placing fourth in the hammer throw at the 1974 NCAA outdoor championships and fifth a year later. He won the outdoor Heptagonal championship in 1975 and placed second in 1974 in that event. Shields won the college shot put competition at the 1975 Penn Relays. At the outdoor IC4As, he placed fourth in the shot put and sixth in the hammer in 1975 and was fifth in the hammer in 1974. He placed third in the hammer at the Meet of Champions in 1975, posting the school's second-best all-time throw of 202-0. At the indoor IC4As, Shields was fifth in the shot put as a junior and eighth as a senior. He was the starting offensive tackle on the 1972 varsity football team that went 6-3.

Clint Wattenberg '03, Wrestling
Wattenberg was a two-time All-American who ended his career ranked second all-time at Cornell in wins (113). He placed fifth in the country at 184 pounds as a senior after a sixth-place finish as a junior. In his final season, Wattenberg went 39-5 and was ranked No. 1 nationally for a portion of the year as a team tri-captain. Wattenberg was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler of the 2003 National Duals, where he earned bonus wins in all six of his matches. He pinned top-ranked Jessman Smith of Iowa at the NWCA All-Star meet. He helped his team to a pair of Ivy League titles (2001, 2003) and improved the team's finish at both the EIWAs (4-3-2) and NCAAs (28-18-10) in each of his final three years. In 2002 as a junior, Wattenberg was the recipient of the Peter J. Floros Memorial Award, given annually to Cornell's most valuable wrestler. He recorded a total of 23 falls during his distinguished career, capturing the team's Andy Noel Award for most falls in 2002 and 2003.  Wattenberg was the EIWA champion as a junior, earning New York State Wrestler of the Year honors as well. He was a three-time All-Ivy selection, earning first-team accolades in 2002, second-team honors in 2003 and was an honorable mention pick in 2001. Following his collegiate career, Wattenberg wrestled in the 2004 Olympic Trials, finishing third at 84 kg (195 pounds) (his only loss coming to eventual gold medalist Cael Sanderson) before serving as an assistant coach for the Big Red.

Nicole Zitarelli '01, Softball
A starting pitcher for two Ivy League championship teams (1999 and 2001), Zitarelli was a three-time second-team All-Ivy League selection. The four-year letter winner posted a 68-28 career record with a 1.71 ERA. She finished second in school history in ERA (1.71), wins (68), saves (three), appearances (110), starts (94), complete games (69), shutouts (16), innings pitched (610.0) and strikeouts (334), all behind Cornell Hall of Famer Julie Westbrock. She threw the school's second no-hitter with a five-inning effort against Niagara in 1999. Zitarelli is still ranked in the top 10 all-time in Ivy League history in wins (seventh), complete games (ninth), shutouts (ninth) and ERA (10th).