Youngstown, Ohio -- The Youngstown State Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will induct an impressive class of five outstanding former student-athletes and a long-time contributor into the YSU Athletics Hall of Fame in February.

The class of 2025 features Marta Burak (women's tennis), Danielle Curry (women's track and field), Dr. Ray Duffett (contributor), Phil Klein (baseball), Eric Rupe (men's cross country and track and field), and Heidi Schlegel (women's basketball).

The ceremony is set for 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 7, in the DeBartolo Stadium Club in Stambaugh Stadium. Tickets are available by contacting Austin Snodgrass at arsnodgrass@ysu.edu. The inductees will be introduced at halftime of the Youngstown State women's basketball game against Green Bay at Zidian Family Arena at Beeghly Center. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m. The YSU men host Robert Morris at 4:30 p.m. as part of a doubleheader.

Burak, who played from 2011-15, was a four-time first-team all-league honoree and won all but one regular-season and post-season Horizon League match in her four-year career. She had a school record 94 singles wins and guided the Guins to the 2015 and 2014 Horizon League Tournament titles and the 2015 regular-season title. In 40 league matches, she lost just five out of 74 sets played, and three of those were her freshman year. Overall, she had a career mark of 94-31 in singles and has won 78 doubles matches. Burak was the YSU Female Student-Athlete of the Year in 2014-15.

Curry, a throw from 2007-10, set the outdoor track shotput record with a throw of 15.71 meters in 2010 and now ranks second all-time. She ranks eighth all-time in the indoor track weight throw at 17.18 meters, and she was named the Horizon League Indoor Field Newcomer of the Year in 2008. Curry earned the Horizon League Outdoor Field Athletic of the Year in 2009 and was a five-time Horizon League individual champion.

Duffett served as the Youngstown State team doctor from the late 1980's until 2025. He is retiring from his service to the Penguin community, and he has been practicing here in the Mahoning Valley since 1988. Prior to coming to the area, Dr. Duffett worked with MLB and NFL players in Cincinnati, where he honed his skills and later benefitted the YSU Athletic community, including our four National Championship football teams in the 1990s. Dr. Duffett, an accomplished orthopedic surgeon, has been on the forefront of his field, implementing that extensive knowledge toward his local patients at Southwoods Health and to our Penguin student-athletes.

Klein, a pitcher from 2008-11, was named First-Team All-Horizon League as a pitcher his sophomore year in 2009, and he is one of just four pitchers to earn first-team honors since YSU joined the Horizon League in 2002. Klein was also a Second-Team All-Horizon selection in 2011 and named Academic All-Horizon League twice. Klein was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 30th Round of the 2011 MLB Draft, and he went on to make 40 appearances over three seasons in the majors as a member of the Rangers and Phillies.

Rupe, who competed from 2011-15, led the Penguins by placing first at the Horizon League Cross Country Championship with a time of 25:41.24 as a junior. In 2013 he became the first YSU male runner in school history to win a cross country conference championship. He placed first in the Disney World Cross Country Classic with a time of 25:05.46 in 2013 and won the 5,000-meter run at the indoor Horizon League Championships with a time of 14:49.68 as a senior. By winning the 5,000-meter run, Rupe defended his title and became the first repeat champion in the event since Butler's Gary Blackman in 2003-04. As a junior he won the event in a time of 15:09.25. In 2014, Rupe helped the Penguins win the Horizon League Outdoor Championship with first place finishes in the 5,000-meter and 3,000-meter runs.

Schlegel, who played from 2010-15, was a two-time All-Horizon League selection in 2013-14 and 2014-15. She ranks fourth on the all-time scoring list with 1,729 career points, and her 621 points in 2013-14 rank fifth on the single-season scoring chart while her 584 in 2014-15 is eighth. Schlegel's 20.0 ppg average in 2013-14 ranks eighth on the single-season list. Her 14.5 career-scoring average ranks 10th all-time, she ranks eighth all-time with 796 career rebounds and seventh all-time with 25 double-doubles.