CHICAGO - The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame is proud to announce its inductees and honorees for the XXXVII Annual Induction Ceremony and Celebration to take place on Saturday, November 15, at the InterContinental Chicago - Magnificent Mile.The NIASHF Class of 2014 inductees include John Andretti, Jean Lenti Ponsetto , Babe Parilli, Scott Pioli, Angelo Pizzo and Frank Zamboni. Richard Parrillo, Sr. will be honored as the 2014 Sportsman of the Year while Lenti Ponsetto will also receive the 2014 Sportswoman of the Year in addition to her inclusion into the hall of fame.Andretti will be the third member of his family inducted into the NIASHF. Joining his uncle, Mario, and his cousin, Michael, as inductees, John has won at every level of auto racing including NASCAR, CART, GTP, IMSA and Rolex Sports Car Series. He was the last NASCAR driver to win a Cup race for Petty Enterprises back in 2008 and has four top 10 finishes at the Indy 500 including a fifth-place result in 1991.Lenti Ponsetto has been the Athletic Director at DePaul University in Chicago since 2002, but she has been affiliated with the school for 39 years. Her first big move at DePaul was to help the Blue Demons enter the BIG EAST Conference which they did in 2005. When the original conference disbanded in 2013, Lenti-Ponsetto got together with six other conference rivals and three new universities to form the new BIG EAST which is currently in existence. Upon overseeing new soccer, softball and indoor track facilities at DePaul, Lenti Ponsetto was also hugely responsible for the approval of the McCormick Place Events Center which will soon be the new home to Blue Demons basketball.Parilli is a former star football player at the University of Kentucky where he was an All-American quarterback under head coach, Bear Bryant. A member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Parilli went on to success in the NFL as well. He was the fourth overall pick in the 1952 NFL Draft, chosen by the Green Bay Packers. After stints in both the NFL and Canadian Football League, Parilli landed in the American Football League and ended up as one of just 20 players to perform in the AFL during its entire 10-year existence between the Boston Patriots and the New York Jets. It was with the Jets that Parilli won a Super Bowl ring as Joe Namath's backup in the Jets' improbable Super Bowl III win over the Colts.Now an assistant general manager for the Atlanta Falcons, Pioli will go down in history as one of the league's most-respected executives after he and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots squad that won three Super Bowls in four years. As Vice President of Player Personnel for the Patriots, Pioli pulled the trigger on deals that brought wide receivers Wes Welker and Randy Moss to New England for the historic 2007 season which saw the Patriots become the league's only 16-0 team in history. Pioli left the Patriots for the Kansas City Chiefs, where he led that organization from worst to first in his first year at the helm, garnering his fifth NFL Executive of the Year Award.A native of Bloomington, Indiana, Pizzo is responsible for two of the greatest sports movies of all-time, Hoosiers and Rudy. Pizzo began his television and film career with Warner Brothers Television in the story development group before moving to Time-Life Films, where he served as Vice President of Feature Film Productions. It was his writing ability though that brought Pizzo two Academy Award nominations as he told the story of a small-town Indiana high school basketball team winning its state title. Hoosiers was later named the greatest sports movie ever by ESPN and USA Today.Zamboni's contributions to the sport of hockey are so well-known that his name is synonymous with the sport. A member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and the U.S. Speed Skating Hall of Fame, Zamboni is responsible for the legendary ice resurfacing machine that transformed a five-man, 90-minute job into a one-man, 15-minute task. The Zamboni Company has sold more than 10,000 units.As CEO and Chairman of United Automobile Insurance Company, Parrillo has been a longtime friend to the NIASHF. A backer and supporter in many of the hall of fame's avenues over the years, Parrillo will receive this year's Sportsman of the Year which is annually given as a thank you to those who have offered their years of support to the organization. Past winners include Jerry Reinsdorf, Jerry Colangelo and the late Jim Corno, Sr.For more information on the NIASHF or its inductees, please call (312) 226-5566 or visit www.niashf.org.The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving honorable values through sport. Founded in 1977 by George Randazzo, the Hall of Fame has 238 inductees. The organization was founded on the values of Family, Friends, Faith, and Community and has been committed to providing support to youth and adults of all backgrounds through its charitable programs, Second Wind and A Level Playing Field. The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame is located in Chicago's famed Little Italy neighborhood, at 1431 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607. For more information on the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, please visit www.niashf.org.