2025 Hall of Fame Inductees

Mackenzie Craig

Athlete - Volleyball, Women's Basketball

Butler County Community College student-athletes through 2018 had received 26 All-American awards in cross-country, or golf, or men’s or women’s basketball, or softball or volleyball. Mackenzie Craig in 2019 became the first to earn the prestigious postseason honor in two sports.

The National Junior College Athletic Association selected Craig as an All-American in 2018 in volleyball and again in 2019 in women’s basketball after she became the program’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder. The 5-foot-10 forward set program records with 1,277 points and 966 rebounds in 45 games played in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 seasons. Craig had 20 or more points 39 times and 28 or more rebounds 20 times – including 30 in the Pioneers’ victory in the 2019 Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference championship.

A left-handed hitter in her first season and setter in her second, Craig helped to lead BC3’s volleyball team in the 2017 and 2018 seasons to a combined 37-13 record, to back-to-back WPCC titles and to a 2018 NJCAA Division III Region 20 championship. She led the Pioneers with 180 kills in 2017, and with 561 assists and 77 service aces in 2018.

Craig was named to the WPCC All-Conference team and to the Region 20 All-Tournament squad in 2017. She was picked again to the WPCC All-Conference team in 2018, was chosen as the Region 20 tournament’s most valuable player and was selected to the All-Region 20 first team.

She graduated summa cum laude in 2019 from BC3 and in 2021 from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she played basketball for the Crimson Hawks. Craig earned an associate degree from BC3 in criminology and a bachelor’s degree from IUP in the same field. She works as a probation officer. 

Matthew Lobaugh

Athlete - Men's Basketball

Matthew Lobaugh served the United States abroad during warfare, enrolled at Butler County Community College, became a 1,000-point scorer and All-American with the men’s basketball team and led the program to its first winning records in eight seasons. The sergeant in the Army Reserve was deployed for one year to Tikrit, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom and returned to the United States in 2004.

The 6-foot-2 guard-forward sparked the Pioneers to a 17-12 record in his first season and to a 17-13 finish in his second. The 34 victories were more than BC3 had in the previous four seasons combined. Lobaugh led the Pioneers with 546 points and 185 rebounds in 2004-2005 and was selected by the National Junior College Athletic Association as the program’s eighth All-American. He also led the Pioneers with 542 points in 2005-2006 – including 35 in a Feb. 24, 2006, game at Kent State-Tuscarawas to become the second BC3 men’s basketball player to reach 1,000 – and with 133 rebounds.

Lobaugh with 1,088 points ranks fourth on BC3’s men’s basketball career scoring list. In 53 games with the Pioneers, Lobaugh averaged 20.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.6 steals.

He was twice named to the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference All-Conference squad and twice to the NJCAA Division III All-Region 20 first team. He received Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association All-State Honors after each season and was chosen as the college’s Male Athlete of the Year for 2005-2006.

Lobaugh was a general studies student at BC3. He transferred to Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in sport management in 2009 and a master’s degree in park and resource management in 2016. He works as the assistant director of recreational sports at SRU.

Michael Schmidt

Athlete - Men's Basketball, Baseball

Michael Schmidt had the finesse to guide basketballs through a net and the strength to clobber baseballs over a fence as a captain of and as an all-star on Butler County Community College squads. The 6-foot-3 guard on the BC3 men’s basketball team was an all-Skyline Athletic Conference selection after a 1977-1978 season in which he averaged 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Pioneers.

The catcher who batted cleanup on the Pioneers baseball squad was an all-Skyline Athletic Conference pick in his second season. Schmidt in 1977-1978 averaged .385 at the plate and slugged multiple home runs and other extra-base hits for a BC3 team that finished 19-5 and as the SAC champion.

His 566 points in two seasons -- 1976-1977 and 1977-1978 -- were the fourth-most among players in the first 11 years of BC3’s men’s basketball program.

Schmidt also held records of 170 rebounds in a season and 334 in a career, and helped to christen the new BC3 Field House on Jan. 24, 1977, with 12 points and 10 rebounds in the Pioneers’ 79-63 victory against Penn State-Shenango.

He was also selected after his second season with the men’s basketball squad to the Junior College All-District team by the Tri-State Coaches and Writers Association and to Who’s Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges, a recognition of outstanding merit and accomplishment as a student.

Schmidt earned an associate in arts degree from BC3 in 1978 and transferred to what is now La Roche University. He has served as an official with the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association in basketball for 30 years and in softball for three. Schmidt has also attained a fourth-degree black belt in taekwondo.

-- May 2025