Indiana
High School Athletic Association
9150 North Meridian Street, Box 40650, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240-0650
Phone: 317-846-6601
Fax: 317-575-4244 Website:
www.ihsaa.org
Blake Ress, Commissioner
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MEDIA
ADVISORY January 21, 2003
Contact:
Jason
Wille,
Asst. Sports Information Director
E-Mail:
jwille@ihsaa.org
TWO SCHOOLS OPT TO PLAY UP ONE CLASSIFICATION
Two IHSAA member schools have
indicated their wishes to play up one classification following a survey of its member
schools the IHSAA announced today.
Indianapolis Scecina and Providence high schools were the only two of the 392 members to
declare their intentions to move up one class in one or more sports.
With the announcement of the new enrollment
figures last November that will determine the new four-year classification
assignments which begin next fall, both schools were scheduled to drop by one enrollment
class. Scecina, which would have been a Class A
school, opted to continue to play in Class 2A in football, while Providence, slated
for Class 2A in the new cycle, decided to continue in Class 3A in volleyball. Providence had advanced to the Class 3A volleyball state finals
three of the last four years. Both schools’ other sports will continue in their
natural enrollment classes when assignments for the next four years are
announced.
At its annual meeting on April 30, 2001, the IHSAA Board of Directors approved, effective with
the 2003-04 school year, the ability of schools to play up one or more
classification level (IHSAA Rule 2-3). Schools are allowed to play in a higher
classification in one or more sports while remaining in their natural classification
in others. Schools which opt to play in a higher class must declare at the
beginning of an enrollment classification cycle and stay in those classes for
four years. The Board also approved that day the new four-year classification
cycle for the multiple-class tournaments (Rule 2-4) replacing the two-year
system that had been in place since the beginning of the IHSAA football
tournament series in 1973.
SUPER BOWL
HAS A HEALTHY HOOSIER FLAVOR
Indiana has several connections to Super Bowl XXXVII that
takes place this Sunday in San Diego,
including six former Indiana high school standouts.
Most prominent among them,
and maybe not known by many natives, is Tampa Bay head coach Jon
Gruden. Gruden graduated
from South Bend Clay High
School in
1982 and played football and baseball all four years for the Colonials. He also
played basketball as a freshman. His senior year, Gruden
served as captain and played quarterback under then-first year Clay coach and
current Logansport head coach Elmer
Britton. Gruden’s father, Jim, served as an
assistant football coach at Notre Dame during those years. Tampa Bay also has three players that played high school
football in our state. Starting tight end
Ken Dilger played for Heritage Hills High
School in Spencer County graduating in 1989. A three-sport star in football,
basketball and baseball, he went on to play college football at Illinois followed by several years with the Indianapolis
Colts. He is in his first year with the Bucs.
Third-string tight end Todd Yoder,
who was an all-state running back at New Palestine High
School in Hancock County, graduated in 1995. He went to Vanderbilt and joined
the Buccaneers as a free agent in 2000. After playing on its practice squad
this past year as a free agent, 1997 Warren Central High
School and Indiana University alum Justin
Smith was signed to Tampa Bay’s active roster on Jan. 11. Smith was a member of the
Warriors’ state champion 1600 meter relay team in track in 1996 and 1997 and
was a 1997 state finalist in wrestling. Though he didn’t play high school
football in Indiana, starting fullback Mike Alstott played his college days at
Purdue.
The Oakland Raiders have two
former Indiana high school players in All-Pro free safety Rod Woodson, a 1983 Fort Wayne Snider grad and third-string
quarterback Rick Mirer
a 1989 Goshen High School alum. As prep junior in 1981, Woodson played on the
Panthers football team that finished as Class 3A state runner-up. Additionally,
Woodson was a standout track star winning four state championships in the
hurdle events. He went on to play at Purdue, earning First Team All-America
honors. Mirer quarterbacked Goshen to the 1988 IHSAA football state championship in
Class 4A. He set an overall championship game record with 395 passing yards
that stood until 2001 and also captured the Phil N. Eskew
Mental Attitude Award that day. Other Raiders with Indiana connections are: Tim
Brown, the 1987 Heisman Trophy winner and Brock Williams, both of whom played for
Notre Dame.
TEAM WRESTLING TOURNAMENT DRAW THURSDAY
The pairings for the
eight-team state finals of the Eighth Annual IHSAA Team Wrestling Tournament
Series will be drawn this Thursday (January 23) at the IHSAA office. The draw
will begin at 8
a.m. EST and will be posted
to the IHSAA website on the Wrestling page shortly thereafter.
At its monthly meeting last
August 8, the IHSAA Executive Committee approved several measures that will
affect this year’s tournament format. Those include:
- Condensing sectional sites from 64 to 32
- Wrestlebacks will be utilized for the first time and occur at
the sectional level only to determine third through sixth places in each
weight class; there will be no wrestlebacks at
the regional or semi-state level
- The top two scoring teams at the sectional will
advance their entire teams intact to the team regional, which include
pre-determined pairings
- The individual state finals will contain a
“placement” round during Saturday’s semifinal round to determine medal
match opponents in the evening session.
The entire tournament format
is listed in the 2002-03 Winter Bulletin
on page 170 for individuals and page 180 for the team portion of the tournament.
Seeds for the sectional round will
be determined at seeding meetings to be conducted Monday, Jan. 27 at the host
school of each sectional.
65th
Annual IHSAA Individual Wrestling Tournament Series
Sectional
-- February 1, 2003 (32 sites)
Regional
-- February 8, 2003 (16 sites)
Semi-State
-- February 15, 2003 (Four sites)
State
-- February 21-22, 2003 (Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis)
Eighth
Annual IHSAA Team Wrestling Tournament Series
Tourney
Draw -- January 23, 2003 (8:00 a.m.)
Regional
-- February 5, 2003 (16 sites)
Semi-State
-- February 12, 2003 (Eight sites)
State
-- March 1, 2003 (Center Grove High School, Greenwood)
Coaches Poll of Jan. 15
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Team
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Points
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Last Week
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1. Evansville Mater Dei
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380
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1
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2. Bellmont
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347
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2
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3. Griffith
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339
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3
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4. Portage
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319
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4
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5. Franklin
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270
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6
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6. Lawrence North
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257
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8
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7. Yorktown
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250
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5
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8. Perry Meridian
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244
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9
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9. Mishawaka
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219
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7
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10. Carmel
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190
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10T
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11. Bloomington South
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186
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10T
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12. Columbus North
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174
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13
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13. Warren Central
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149
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10T
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14. Columbia City
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123
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14
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15. Elkhart Memorial
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118
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20T
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16. New Castle
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112
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15
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17. Jennings County
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72
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16
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18. East Central
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66
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17
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19. Fort Wayne Snider
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50
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18
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20. Indianapolis Cathedral
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39
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19
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BOYS AND GIRLS BASKETBALL STATISTICS
For this week’s
compilation of girls and boys basketball scoring and rebounding leaders through
games of Jan. 18, as reported by the member schools, you can go to the IHSAA
website under Girls Statistical
Leaders and Boys Statistical
Leaders.
MILESTONES
Megan Casad of Bloomington South scored 29 points in a Jan. 11
victory over Martinsville to surpass the 1,000 point barrier for her career. As
of that game, Casad had 1,014 career points to her
credit.
Six days after Tippecanoe Valley’s Trey Eaton
set the school’s career scoring record, he set the single game record with 51
points in the Vikings’ 71-66 overtime win over Rochester. He scored 38 points in the second half and six more
in overtime finishing a perfect 19-for-19 from the free throw stripe. His 51
broke Ron Dittman’s previous school record of 50
points set in 1975.
Alexandria sophomore Jodi
Howell scored the 1,000th point of her young career on Dec. 27
in the Tigers’ game against Madison-Grant. Howell becomes the seventh girls player from her school to reach the mark.
Winning 600 games in the high
school basketball coaching profession is a remarkable achievement. To have
rival boys coaches from the same town hit the same mark on the same night is a
remarkable coincidence. Jim Jones of
Terre Haute North and Pat Rady of Terre Haute South both hit the same milestone
on Jan. 11 to become the eighth and ninth Indiana high school coaches to reach the milestone. Jones, in
his 40th year as a head coach, guided his team to victory over
Mooresville, while Rady, in his 39th year,
directed his team to an overtime victory over Bedford North Lawrence. The state
record for coaching victories is 806 by Loogootee’s Jack Butcher who retired from coaching after last season. The only
active coach ahead of Jones and Rady is Muncie
Central’s Bill Harrell with 653.
Western senior Josh Nelson set his school’s career
scoring record Saturday night in the championship game of the Howard County
Tournament – a 74-58 Panthers victory over Northwestern. Nelson tallied 19
points for the game to raise his career total to 1,071 surpassing Rick Pearson
(1972-76) with 1,053 in the process.
Suzanne Pearcy of Plainfield
became the fifth girls player in school history to top
the 1,000 point plateau for her career. Pearcy, a Wright State signee, finished with 15
points in the Quakers’ loss to Mooresville on Jan. 17.
Rick Root, Union City wrestling coach, won his 200th career
match in his team’s Jan. 7 contest against Blue River Valley. His Indians collected a 70-9 victory to move to 17-1
this season.
Peru football coach Mike
Stewart announced his resignation after four years at the helm of the
Tigers.
IHSAA OVERTIME
Harold
Andrews, the youngest of the famous
Andrews trio from Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, passed away
on Jan. 18 in his home in Louisville.
“Uncle Harold” as he was known along with nephews Harley and Arley, helped create one of Indiana’s most famous basketball dynasties in the 1950s under
the leadership of coach Howard Sharpe. Gerstmeyer played in the state finals at Hinkle Fieldhouse in 1953 and 1954 with Andrews on the roster. The
Black Cats finished as state runner-up to South Bend Central in 1953 – his
sophomore season. Andrews went on to finish his basketball career at the University of Louisville (1956-59) and was later inducted into its Hall of Fame as well as the
Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993. His funeral will be held at 11 a.m.on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at Arch L. Heady Funeral Home, 4109 Taylorsville Rd. in Louisville. Burial will be private in Resthaven
Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. on Tuesday. Expressions of sympathy may be made to Southeast Christian
Church General Fund.
North
Newton’s girls basketball team scored its first victory over North
Judson in the last 25 games with a 64-52 victory on Jan. 16.
LOOKING AHEAD
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Thursday, January 23
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Wrestling Team Tourney Series Drawing (8:00 a.m.)
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Saturday, February 1
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Individual Wrestling Sectionals
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Monday, February 3
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Girls Basketball Tourney Series Drawing (Noon)
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Wednesday, February 5
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Team Wrestling Regionals
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Thursday, February 6
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Girls Swimming & Diving Sectionals
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Saturday, February 8
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Girls Swimming & Diving Sectionals
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Saturday, February 8
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Individual Wrestling Regionals
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Tuesday, February 11
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Girls Basketball Sectionals
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Tuesday, February 11
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Girls Diving Regionals
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Wednesday, February 12
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Team Wrestling Semi-States
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Friday, February 14
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Girls Basketball Sectionals
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Friday, February 14
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Girls Swimming & Diving State Finals
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Saturday, February 15
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Girls Basketball Sectionals
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Saturday, February 15
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Individual Wrestling Semi-States
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Saturday, February 15
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Girls Swimming & Diving State Finals
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Monday, February 17
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First Practice: Boys and Girls Track & Field
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Thursday, Februrary 20
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Boys Swimming and Diving Sectionals
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Friday, February 21
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Individual Wrestling State Finals
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Saturday, February 22
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Boys Swimming and Diving Sectionals
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Saturday, February 22
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Girls Basketball Regionals
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Saturday, February 22
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Individual Wrestling State Finals
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