

Andrew Dean “Andy” Butler was a two-time all-Ohio performer in basketball and baseball at Liberty-Benton High School. Butler led the 1994-95 Liberty-Benton boys basketball team to the Division IV state title. He was named Division IV Player of the Year that season and most valuable player in the state tournament, where he scored 31 points in the championship game. He holds the Liberty-Benton single-season scoring record, with 592 points, and ranks third in career scoring, with 1,434 points. Continuing to play baseball after high school, Butler was a three-year starter at Bowling Green State University. He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins following his junior year at BGSU and played professionally in Elizabethton, Tenn., before a shoulder injury ended his career. Butler, who joins his father, Dean, in the hall of fame, now resides in Columbus and is an assistant vice president for JP Morgan Chase.