DOVER — Several people who made their mark as coaches will be among the 12 inductees into the Delaware Afro-American Sports Hall of Fame this weekend.

The group will hold its 24th annual induction banquet on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Dover’s Modern Maturity Center.

This year’s class includes three people from Kent County, four from Sussex and five from New Castle.

The people being inducted on Saturday, in alphabetical order, are:

• James Alderman coached Cape Henlopen High to its only Division I football state title in 1979. A former college and semi-pro football player, he was also a co-owner and instructor at Alderman’s School of Gymnastics, which helped bring the sport of gymnastics to Downstate Delaware.

• Ron Allen was a multi-sport standout at Milford High, playing on the 1971 Buccaneer basketball team that was the first Downstate boys’ hoop squad to win the state title. He played football at both Wesley College and Delaware before becoming a successful high school coach.

Coaching at Smyrna High, Allen was named the Henlopen Coach of the Year in both football and basketball. He later coached at Dover and Polytech.

• Len Chasanov was a standout basketball player who coached the sport for a total of 25 years at Woodbridge, Seaford and Polytech. He took the Blue Raiders to the state finals in 1987 and was named Henlopen Conference Coach of the Year four times.

Chasanov also coached the Blue Jays to the state title in baseball in 1980.

• Carmen Hardcastle was a successful high school basketball coach in Texas, taking Dallas Lincoln to the state Final Four a total of four times. A former coach at Wesley College, she returned home to coach at Dover High (1998-2003) before going back to Dallas to coach for another 14 seasons.

• Michael C. Harris was a three-sport standout at Woodbridge High in the early 1970s, earning All-State honors in football. A state police officer in Maryland, he coached football for 21 years in Annapolis, Md.

• Charles Hope was a football and wrestling standout at William Penn High who played in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins and Green Bay Packers, before concluding his career with NFL Europe.

• Rod Milstead was a standout offensive lineman at Delaware State who went on to play in the NFL for eight seasons before returning to DSU as head football coach.

• Darin C. Park was an All-State basketball player at Claymont High, who played at Johnson C. Smith University and later volunteered as a coach for people with disabilities through the Philadelphia Developmental Disabilities Corporation Sports Clinic. He was an assistant coach at Sanford on state championship teams in 1985-86.

• Devin Park, who is Darin’s twin brother, was also an All-State basketball player at Claymont. He also played at Johnson C. Smith University before retiring as the all-time winningest basketball coach at St. Gabriel’s Hall in Audubon, Pa.

• Tamara Stoner was a standout sprinter at Delcastle, who finished fourth in the 400 in the New Balance Indoor Nationals in 1990. She went on to have a successful college career at West Virginia.

• Marcus L. Trammell was an All-State football and baseball player at Seaford High in the early 1980s. He was drafted in the ninth round by the California Angels sin 1986 and played in the minor leagues for both the Angels and White Sox.

• Adolphus F. Ward (Dirk) was a multi-sport athlete at P.S. duPont High who swam and ran track at Delaware State. He later coached at several high schools in Delaware as well as coaching basketball at West Chester University.