Marcus Smith runs onto the basketball court in this file photo.
Penn State Beaver inducted five former athletes into the Athletics Hall of Honor during Athletics Spirit Weekend Feb. 19.
Tony Houghton, who received his degree in Administration of Justice in 2013, was captain of the men’s basketball team from 2009 to 2013. He was named USCAA All American in 2009 and to the PSUAC All Conference team that same year. He was named PSUAC All Conference Honorable mention again in 2012.
In his career, Houghton scored 1,222 points and led his team to great success, winning the PSUAC Conference title in 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2009, the team was the runner up in the USCAA National Tournament.
Off the court, Houghton won the Penn State Beaver Student Life Leadership Award in 2011 and 2013.
Marcus Smith was a dual-sport athlete from 2013 to 2016, playing men’s soccer for three seasons as well as men’s basketball for two. He received a degree in Communications in 2017.
In soccer, Smith was a two- time USCAA All-American and twice earned PSUAC All Conference honors. He was named the 2015 PSUAC Player of the year. In 2015, his team won the PSUAC Championship.
In basketball, he was named to the 2014 USCAA All-American team and earned PSUAC All-Conference recognition. In 2014, his team was the PSUAC runner up.
Smith and Houghton are brothers.
Morgan Kurtz, who graduated in 2016 with a degree in Business, played women’s basketball from 2012 to 2016 and is the second-leading scorer in Penn State Beaver history with 1,705 career points.
Kurtz was a two-time USCAA All-American, a four-time PSUAC All-Conference, as well as a PSUAC All-Academic All-Conference award winner.
Her teams won four PSUAC titles, played in two USCAA Final Four tournaments and won the USCAA National Championship in 2015. Kurtz is one of just two student-athletes to have won four PSUAC championships.
Khalia Adams played women’s basketball from 2012 to 2017 and scored nearly 1,200 points in her career. She was a two-time USCAA All-American, a four-time PSUAC All-Conference, as well as a PSUAC All-Academic All-Conference award winner.
The teams she played on won four PSUAC titles, played in two USCAA Final Four tournaments and won a USCAA National Championship in 2015.
Adams, like Kurtz, is one of two student-athletes to have won four PSUAC Championships. The two were teammates for four years.
After her playing days, Adams stayed with the women’s basketball team for three seasons as an assistant coach, during which the team won a PSUAC and USCAA championships. Adams is the only person to win the PSUAC and a USCAA championships as both a player and coach.
Jeff Butya played baseball for Penn State Beaver in the late 1970s, helping the powerhouse team the Commonwealth Campus Athletic Conference championship in 1978 and 1979.
After his two years at Beaver, Butya went to University Park to finish his business degree. He made a name for himself, making the Penn State football team as a walk-on and playing for Coach Joe Paterno during the 1980 and 1981 seasons.
Ryan Raraigh, who received his degree in Business in 2010, was a four-year starter on Penn State Beaver’s baseball team from 2007-2010.
Raraigh was named USCAA All-American Honorable Mention twice and was named PSUAC All-Conference three times. He received the Penn State Beaver leadership award twice as well.
Raraigh’s team won the PSUAC championship in 2007 and then again in 2010.