AUGUSTA — Anna Goodale  of Camden,who won Olympic gold in 2008 with the U.S. Women's Eight in Beijing, China and gold in the eight at the 2009 and 2007 World Rowing Championships, is one of the inductees of the Maine Sports Hall of Fame.

 Goodale is an All-American rower at Syracuse University was a five-time national champion. She is now an assistant rowing coach at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.

The public is invited to meet nine people who have brought distinction to the state, including Goodale and two professional stars, at the Maine Sports Hall of Fame 40th Anniversary Awards Banquet at noon Sunday, May 3, at the Augusta Civic Center.

The men and women who have made "A Better Maine Through Sport" — William (Bill) Alfond, Peter Carlisle, Glenn Dumont, Anna Goodale, Roger Levesque, Rob Pendergist, Marcie Lane Schulenberg, Eric Weinrich and Amy Winchester — will be honored at the event, which will be emceed by MSHoF President Dick Whitmore.

Also at the awards ceremony, five outstanding Maine high school student-athletes will be presented $5,000 scholarships to continue their education: Caleb Abbott of Freeport High School; Kevin Barrett of Thornton Academy in Saco; Caleb Gauvin of Mountain Valley High School in Rumford; Lydia Roy of Waterville Senior High School; and Kathryn Taylor of Noble High School in North Berwick.

Retrospectives on two members of the inaugural MSHoF induction class — Jeff Bannister and John Bower — are included in the program.

Bannister, who grew up in South Portland and starred in basketball and track at Cheverus, competed in the decathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The president of Connelly Skis lives in Washington state. Bower, who grew up in Auburn, finished 15th in the Nordic combined event at the 1964 Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria and 13th at the 1968 Olympics at Grenoble, France. He coached the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic Nordic ski teams and became the first director at Utah Olympic Park in 1989.

Tickets to the banquet, which cost $50 per person and $450 for a reserved table of 10, may be purchased through Thursday, April 30. Social hour starts at 11 a.m. and a buffet lunch begins at noon. To purchase tickets, click here or mail checks payable to the Maine Sports Hall of Fame to Kelly Pinney-Michaud, 58 Town Farm Road, Oakland, ME 04963.

Below are biographies of the otherinductees and five scholarship recipients.

Alfond, of Dexter and Waterville, is president of the William and Joan Alfond Foundation, which has contributed millions of dollars to build athletic fields and facilities at numerous universities, colleges and centers in Maine. The 1972 Colby College graduate is director of Dexter Enterprises, Inc. and the Harold Alfond Foundation.

Carlisle, of Saco and South Portland, is managing director of Olympics & Action Sports. The Bates College ('91) and University of Maine School of Law ('94) graduate has been an agent for Olympic medalists Seth Wescott and Michael Phelps and presides over the global agency that has represented the most Olympic medalists and marketable Olympic athletes since 2002.

Dumont, who graduated in 1965 from Winslow High School, is the greatest running back in the storied history of the Black Raiders football program. The All-American at American International College holds the record for most points scored in a football career and is a member of AIC's Hall of Fame. He was on the coaching staff of two Winslow High School state champion teams.

Levesque is one of the Seattle Sounders most honored players. In 2010, he was ranked 19th among the United Soccer League's best 25 players of the previous decade. Levesque was an All-American and Pac-10 Player of the Year at Stanford. At Falmouth High School, the All-State soccer player and two-time Maine Gatorade Player of the Year won two state soccer crowns and three gold balls in basketball.

Pendergist, a 1989 graduate of Ellsworth High School, was state champion in the long jump, high jump, high hurdles and javelin and was the national pentathlon high school champion. At Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland, he was All-American in the decathlon and four-time IC4A pentathlon champion. Pendergist, who competed at the 1992 U.S. Olympic Trials, was inducted into his college hall of fame.

Schulenberg, of Augusta, was an all-state selection in basketball, field hockey and softball at Cony High School. The 1989 graduate starred on two Class A state championship basketball teams and two state championship field hockey teams. Schulenberg was a scholarship player at Boston University and the University of New Hampshire, where she holds the record for three-point shooting percentage.

Weinrich, of Yarmouth and Gardiner, played 17 years in the NHL, where he made three all-star appearances and was named to the 1991 All-Rookie Team. He scored 70 goals and made 318 assists for 388 points in 1,157 games. Weinrich represented the U.S. in the World Cup, Olympics, Canada Cup and at nine World Championships. He skated at the University of Maine and graduated from North Yarmouth Academy.

Winchester, of Orrington, was a five-time state champion in track and field — twice in shot and discus and once in javelin — at Brewer High School. The 1992 graduate also earned All-State honors in basketball and soccer. At Dartmouth College, the four-time All-Ivy League first-team selection won nine heptagonal championships and holds the Big Green's shot put record.

Scholarship recipients:

Abbott has excelled in soccer, alpine skiing and tennis at Freeport High School. He has a grade-point average of 95.85 and plans to major in political science at Stanford, University of California, UCLA, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of California-Davis, Santa Clara or the University of Denver.

Barrett is a talented football and basketball player at Thornton Academy. His grade-point average of 3.94 ranks him in the top 5 percent of his class of 363 students. He plans to attend Dartmouth College, major in engineering or finance and play football for Coach Buddy Teevens.

Gauvin is a star football, basketball and baseball player at Mountain Valley High School. He has a career grade-point average of 96.77 and ranks 10th in his class of 83 students. He plans to major in finance at Suffolk University.

Roy is a decorated soccer, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field athlete at Waterville Senior high School. She has a career grade-point average of 3.92 and is ranked second in a graduating class of 160 students. She plans to major in math and English at Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Harvard, Wellesley or the University of Maine at Farmington.

Taylor plays field hockey, basketball and softball for the Noble High School Knights. Ranked 10th in a class of 202 students, she plans to major in political science at Thomas College.