Montville High School will induct a current coach, five former athletes and 2003 state championship boys' outdoor track and field team into its fourth Athletic Hall of Fame class on Friday, May 31 at the Mohegan Sun's Uncas Ballroom.

Tim Egan (cross country, track coach), Matt Burdick (Class of 1978, basketball, baseball), Shawn Bennett (1983, cross country, track), Teri Bruce (1984, basketball), Taylor Lewis (2008, baseball, football) and Nikkia Smith (2009, basketball, track) will join the 2003 boys' track team, which won its third straight Class M championship that spring.

Tickets for the ceremony are $55, which includes a sit-down, three-course meal. Tickets are available by contacting main office at (860) 848-9208 weekdays between 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. or by emailing (preferred) MHSHOF@montvilleschools.org. Checks should be made out to the "MHS Athletic Hall of Fame," and the order to deadline is Monday, May 25. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

Following is a capsule look at the Class of 2019:

• Tim Egan took over the boys' and girls' cross country programs in 1994, resurrected the indoor track program in 1996 and was named the boys' outdoor track head coach in 1997. His teams have won 11 Eastern Connecticut Conference titles. He retired from the cross country and indoor track programs in 2015, but is beginning his 22nd season as the boys' outdoor track coach, where he has guided the Indians to three state titles and a 214-108 record. He was named the the state's 2016-17 Outdoor Track Coach of the Year and is a finalist for the association's 2019 national award.

• Matt Burdick was an All-ECC performer in baseball (as a pitcher) and basketball, where he would graduate as the program's career scoring leader (1,306 points). The Indians would share the ECC title during his senior year, and he would go on to enjoy a Hall of Fame career at Saint Anselm College where he averaged 17.1 points and 8.4 rebounds over four seasons. He was named team MVP twice and all-conference three times. He graduated in 1982 as the school's all-time leader in scoring (1,782 points), field goals made (695), field goal percentage (.559), free throws attempted (694, still a record), games played (104) and minutes played (3,509). He was named a Division II All-American in 1982.

• Shawn Bennett is the most decorated male distance runner in school history. He won a pair of ECC titles in 1981 and 1982 and was an ECC all-star all four seasons while winning the 1982 Class M title when the Indians won their only boys' state cross country championship. He finished fifth in the State Open in 1981 and sixth in 1982, the highest finishes to date by a male athlete. On the track, he still holds the outdoor 5,000 record (15:35). He attended Brandeis and was a member of the Judges' 1983 NCAA Division III national championship team.

• Teri Bruce enjoyed a record-setting four-year girls' basketball career, lettering all four seasons while earning ECC all-star recognition three times. She was the first female to amass over 1,000 points (a then school record 1,301), and established career records in rebounds (1,124) and blocks (439). She still holds single-game records for points (45) and blocks (15), and her 1983 team won an ECC title. She graduated from Amherst College.

• Taylor Lewis was one of the best two-sport athletes in school history. He earned three varsity letters in football and was named an ECC all-star three years while rushing over over 1,200 yards in both his junior in senior seasons. In baseball, he was a four-year letter winner, three-time ECC all-star and two-time Class M all-state pick. His teams would win three ECC regular season titles, an ECC tournament title and the 2006 Class M state title. He went on to become a three-year starter at Maine, where he was an All-America East pick in 2010 when he set the school single-season record for triples (13) while batting .369 with 53 runs, 21 stolen bases and 52 RBI. He was chosen as the America East tournament's Outstanding Player in 2011 when the Black Bears reached the NCAA tournament. He spent four seasons in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and is currently an assistant baseball coach at Clark University.

• Nikkia Smith is the youngest member to enter the Hall of Fame. She earned three varsity letters in outdoor track, where she was an ECC all-star and held the school record in the shot put. In basketball, she was an ECC all-star all four seasons as well as a Class M all-state pick and still holds Montville's career scoring record (boys or girls) with 1,397 points. She played four seasons at the University of Hartford where she would be an all-conference pick twice and be named team MVP as a senior. She later served as an assistant coach at Gallaudet University while pursuing her Master of Public Education degree, and currently resides in Virginia and is a therapeutic foster parent for Lutheran Family Services.

• Montville's 2003 boys' outdoor track team won its third straight Class M title in dominating fashion, finishing with 118.5 points (the third highest point total in Class M history. The Indians were led by All-ECC, All-Area and all-state seniors Jerry Sparkman and Johnny Posey. Sparkman won the Class M the high jump and long jump (he was second in the 400), while Posey won the 200 and placed fifth in two other events. Thirteen others scored at the state meet — James Alfred, Cliff Bourne, Justin Cabral, Garrett Chapman, Bryan Clesowich, Dan Dodge, Scott Conn, Brandon Dombrowski, Adam Giguere, Tony Homsey, Matt Liebal, Anson Moody and Josh Posey.