After years of resistance, Julie Roseborough finally decided the time was right to allow herself to be nominated for the Huntingdon County Sports Hall of Fame, and her timing couldn't have been more impeccable.

Roseborough, the legendary Bellwood-Antis girls track and field and cross country coach, will be enshrined when the organization gathers tonight for the 12th time at the Huntingdon Country Club. Among the other four honorees will be her father, Allen, a community baseball star in Alexandria in the 1930s, who will be inducted posthumously.

Also taking the dais will be Tussey Mountain football great Frank Pannebaker, former Mount Union football coach and athletic director Dayton Shugarts and Huntingdon's Phil Rohm, best known for coaching traditional football power Phillipsburg, N.J.

"It was just really special. I knew Dad was a great baseball player. I think I was more pleased for him,'' Roseborough said. "It's a great honor to go in with him.''

In 45 years guiding Bellwood in track, cross country and field hockey, Roseborough, a 1960 Juniata Valley High School graduate, has amassed almost 680 wins. She'll become just the ninth female member of the Hall's 116 enshrinees.

"Obviously, I'm very pleased, because it was [done through] a ballot of the people that belong to the Huntingdon County Chapter of the Hall of Fame,'' Roseborough said.

Roseborough's election came through the efforts of Hall member Jerome "Diz'' Leamer, her neighbor growing up.

It took some coaxing, though, for Roseborough to go along with Leamer's idea to nominate her.

"I felt she had the credentials to make an outstanding candidate. I talked to her about it for several years, and, finally, I got her to give in,'' Leamer said. "Julie is just an outstanding person.''

Leamer, though, had bigger plans. His father and Roseborough's had been baseball teammates when the adult community leagues were still a big thing. He took advantage of a Hall rule that lets the five county school districts select an at-large inductee on a rotating basis to bring Allen Roseborough into the 2009 class as well.

Allen Roseborough, who died in 1972, was a dominating force on the diamond, boasting a batting average of well over .300 playing for Alexandria from 1930 through 1941 and hitting .439 one year. He also played a season of semi-pro ball in Florida.

"Diz Leamer did all the research. Our whole family was in awe of how he would go back and go through all the old newspaper accounts to compile statistics,'' Julie Roseborough said.

There are several parent/child combinations already in the Huntingdon Hall, including Ed Sparr and his daughter, Kelley. However, Roseborough said this is the first time a parent and their offspring were inducted in the same class.

"It just is really an honor,'' Roseborough said.