Grove City College inducted the Class of 2025 into its Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. 27, honoring five distinguished athletics alumni.
The honorees are as follows:
Srinivasan Balaji
This 1994 graduate is regarded as “the best tennis player ever to come to Grove City College” by longtime Head Coach Joe Walters.
Balaji helped lead the Grove City men’s tennis team to one of its best four-year runs in program history while personally setting impressive records. Balaji became the first PAC men’s tennis player to earn the conference’s Most Valuable Performer award four times.
He won eight total conference titles, including four crowns at first singles, three first doubles titles and one conference championship at second doubles.
Julie (Clinefelter) Moeller
Before graduating in 1993, Moeller helped lead the college’s women’s cross country and women’s track and field programs to unprecedented heights. Her impressive list of achievements includes receiving the PAC Most Valuable Performer honors at the 1992 conference championships and All-Region recognition at the NCAA Mideast Championships, notching a 22nd-place finish at this event.
She capped her career as a student-athlete by earning the college’s Sportswoman of the Year award for the 1992-93 academic year. The PAC named Moeller to its 60th Anniversary Team in both women’s cross country and women’s track and field in 2014.
Moeller returned to the college in 2005 as a faculty member and has since been promoted to professor of biblical and theological studies.
Tanner Prosser
An all-around performer on the basketball court for Grove City from 1999 to 2004, versatile forward Tanner Prosser earned All-PAC honors in each of his four seasons.
Prosser concluded his career as the program’s all-time leader with 367 assists. He also recorded 1,263 points, which ranked fifth in program history upon graduation. Posser also tallied 801 rebounds, the third highest in Grove City history. He owns the program record with 106 career games started.
As three-time team co-captain, Prosser helped lead Grove City to the 2003 conference title by leading the team in rebounds, assists and steals.
Chris Smith
Smith, a 1972 graduate of the college, excelled as a defensive back and punt returner in four seasons as a member of the football program.
A four-year starter at safety during an era when run-oriented offenses dominated the college football landscape, Smith intercepted a Grove City-record 22 passes during his career.
He led Grove City in interceptions in each of his four seasons.
Smith returned to Grove City College in 1979 as assistant football and assistant track and field coach. During his 36 years in the college’s athletic department, he served as head football coach, athletic director and head men’s and women’s golf coach.
The Grove City football program won its first two PAC titles under his guidance, while the athletic department swept the conference’s men’s and women’s All-Sports Trophies four times during his term as athletic director.
Tim Yoho
Yoho excelled in football, baseball and wrestling in his time at Grove City College.
The 1978 graduate helped the football team to four consecutive winning seasons, the longest such streak for the program since the 1920s. Yoho headlined the Wolverines’ 17-0 win that season over Geneva with an 87-yard fumble return for a touchdown. That remains the longest fumble return in program history upon induction.
In baseball and wrestling he was similarly successful, leading the 1977 baseball team in batting average, home runs, hits, stolen bases and triples. Yoho’s six triples in 1978 set a single-season program record that stood for 45 years, and his 11 career triples ranked first in program history.
After injuries decimated the Grove City wrestling team’s lineup in 1976, Yoho joined the team late in the season and won two of his three matches. Two years later, he qualified for the 1978 NCAA Division III Championships in Wheaton, Ill. after compiling a 6-3-1 regular season record in the 190-pound weight class.
