Four former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga standouts have a new honor to add their list of accomplishments: Hall of Fame member.

Lori Massengill was a two-time All-American tennis player and Beth Alexander Edgar was twice named Southern Conference softball pitcher of the year; Eric Smith led the UTC basketball team in scoring in a breakthrough season, and Mike Hogan twice led the football team in rushing.

The UTC Athletics Hall of Fame’s newest class will be honored at a dinner tonight and at halftime of Saturday’s men’s basketball game at McKenzie Arena. The inductees were chosen by a nine-member panel of UTC officials and former student-athletes.

Smith was the leading scorer, at 16.4 points per game, on the 1981 men’s basketball team, the first in the program’s history to win a SoCon championship and compete in the NCAA Division I tournament. He ranks eighth in career points and ninth in rebounds in the Mocs’ Division I era.

“That was a dream come true,” said Smith, who lives in Murfreesboro and is an accountant for a health care company. “It was a special team; when the season first started, we knew we had something special.”

Edgar was inducted in her first year of eligibility — players become eligible five years after they leave UTC — following perhaps the greatest career in the softball program’s history. She was voted the SoCon’s top pitcher in 2001 and ’02, was named to the conference’s 25th anniversary team and holds numerous school records, including career wins, strikeouts and shutouts.

Edgar, a new mom, lives in Ooltewah with her family and still gives pitching lessons a couple of nights a week.

“I was just caught off guard when I got the call about the hall of fame,” the former East Ridge High School star said. “I’m humbled and honored to even be considered for something like this.

“I think the thing that meant the most to me in my career was, because I’m from Chattanooga, I had the chance to play at UTC and the chance to play in front of the people I cared about.”

Massengill, who starred on the women’s tennis team from 1983 to ’86 and now coaches tennis and volleyball at Ridgeland High School, won three SoCon singles and doubles titles and helped lead the Lady Mocs to three consecutive NCAA Division II national championships.

Hogan was a 1972-75 running back at UTC and was voted the team’s most valuable back his last two years. He ranks eighth on the Mocs’ career rushing list with 1,909 yards and played five seasons in the NFL after being selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the ninth round of the 1976 draft.

Also being honored this weekend are Milly Fariss (Gordon Davenport Award), retired men’s golf coach Reed Sanderlin (Joe Morrison Award) and senior softball player Tara Tembey, this year’s Scrappy Moore Award recipient.