Five individuals with University of Delaware connections were inducted into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame as members of the Class of 2003.

The class included alumni Steve Taylor, HNS '78, Roman A. Ciesinski, CHEP '49, and Bruce Reynolds, CHEP '74M.

Also inducted were former Fightin' Blue Hens cross country, track and basketball coach D. Kenneth Steers and WDEL-AM sports broadcaster William Pheiffer, who called many UD football and basketball games.

Taylor, a marketing representative for Harry David Zutz Insurance Inc., was an outstanding pitcher on the UD baseball team and was selected in the first round of the 1977 draft by the New York Yankees.

During the 1977 season, Taylor was nearly unstoppable as he posted a 12-1 record with a 1.59 earned run average and 114 strikeouts to lead the Hens to the East Coast Conference regular season title.

Taylor is a member of the UD Athletics Hall of Fame and the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-American Hall of Fame.

Ciesinski, a retired educator, played football at Delaware and earned letters in 1947 and 1948. He was a physical education teacher at Newark High School, established the school's cross country program in 1959 and led efforts to add the sport to Blue Hen Conference competition in 1960.

As Newark High cross country and track coach, Ciesinski compiled a record of 401-139, and his teams won three state championships and 16 Blue Hen Conference championships.

Reynolds, a member of the Delaware General Assembly, was head coach of the powerhouse William Penn High School football team from 1974 to 2000. His Colonials teams compiled a record of 218-73-3, winning multiple Blue Hen Conference and state championships.

Reynolds was named the Delaware Football Coach of the Year in 1981 and 1985.

Steers coached a number of sports at both UD and Middletown High School. At Delaware, he served as coach of the cross country team from 1946 to 1965, fielding four unbeaten teams and capturing the Middle Atlantic Conference championship in 1962.

He also served as UD track coach from 1946 to 1960 and as basketball coach during the 1945-46 season, when the team went 7-9.

Pheiffer spent many years in sports broadcasting and as sports director at Wilmington radio station WDEL. His voice became familiar to UD fans as he called Blue Hen football and basketball games through the 1980s and 1990s.