Sports

BUTLER COUNTY — Sheila Townsend, a Miami University senior and native of Hamilton, is this year's Bill Moeller Scholarship Award winner and will be recognized tonight at the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies at the Manchester Inn in Middletown.

This year's 25th class of inductees consists of Dr. Jan Adams (Middletown High School), Steve Channell (Edgewood), Jack Garretson (Taft), Jean Marks (Talawanda), Dick Martin (Fenwick), Mark Maus (Badin), Bob Nuxhall (Hamilton), Angie Fischer O'Farrell (Ross), Elise Spears (Hamilton), Joe Urso (Hamilton Catholic) and Willie Wineberg (Fairfield).

Townsend graduated from Hamilton High School in 1986 and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force as an air traffic controller. After 10 years of military service she was honorably discharged and returned to Hamilton.

She is the wife of Michael Townsend, a native of southern Georgia, and they have a 14-year-old daughter, Jamyla.

She has worked as an office manager with the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor in Cincinnati for the past six and a half years and is a full-time student at Miami as a Creative Writing major.

The Bill Moeller Scholarship Award is named in honor of the late JournalNews sports columnist and sports editor, whose daily columns and articles appeared in the Hamilton-based newspaper for more than 55 years.

Moeller also was instrumental, along with former Middletown Journal sports editor Jerry Nardiello and former JournalNews associate sports editor Gaylen Duskey in creating the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame dinner will start at 6 p.m., followed at 7 by the induction of the new members.