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GIRLS
SOFTBALL TOURNEY SERIES PAIRINGS NEXT WEEK
Pairings for the
19th Annual IHSAA Girls Softball Tournament Series will be conducted
at the IHSAA offices Wednesday, May 14, at
2003 ICGSA GYMNASTICS
COACHES OF THE YEAR ANNOUNCED
District
1: Mike and Maria Bachuchin, Chesterton
District
2: Rosemarie Nix, FW Bishop Dwenger
District
3: Michelle Annee,
District
4: Nancy Kirshman,
Columbus East
District
5: Leisa
Jones,
State: Rosemarie Nix, FW Bishop Dwenger
NATIONAL
FEDERATION ANNOUNCES BASKETBALL RULES CHANGES
State high school
associations will have the option to adopt a “mercy” rule in high school
basketball beginning next season. In its April 13-15 meeting in
School Associations (NFHS)
Basketball Rules Committee voted that a state association may institute a
running clock when a specified point differential is reached at a specified
time in the game.
Since the committee did not
approve the change as a playing rule, each state association will make its own
determination regarding whether to implement a mercy rule, as well as the point
differential and the time in the game such rule would be implemented. Commissioner
To read more on the NFHS
rules changes, log on to 2003-04 NFHS Basketball
Rules Changes.
NFHS
2003-04 WRESTLING RULES CHANGES
In its continuing effort to
ensure healthy weight-control programs in high school wrestling, the National
Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Wrestling Rules Committee
provided state associations another option for determining an individual’s
lowest wrestling weight during a state tournament series.
In its April 13-14 meeting in
Indianapolis, the committee provided those state associations with
weight-management programs involving hydration testing, body-fat testing and a
plan to monitor an average weight loss of 1.5 percent per week the option of
using those programs to determine the lowest weight at which an individual may
wrestle during the state tournament series, instead of the “50 percent rule,”
which requires a wrestler to have at least one-half of his or her weigh-ins
during the season at the minimum weight he or she will wrestle during the state
tournament series.
For more on the wrestling
rules changes which will be implemented next season, go to 2003-04
NFHS Wrestling Rules Changes.
2003-04
SWIMMING RULES CHANGES FROM NFHS
The NFHS Swimming and Diving
Rules Committee made four rules changes during its meeting April 13 and 14 in
Focusing on risk
minimization, the committee added clarification to Rule 8, stating that
swimmers shall step into the water feet-first for the start of any “in-water”
event. This addition is necessary to reinforce the correct way to enter the
pool.
Among other changes, Rule
4-3-1c was revised to delete the requirement of sounding a device “over the
lane” of the lead swimmer when he or she is near the end of a race. The
revisions still require a sounding device but do not specify where it should be
sounded.
The complete NFHS release
regarding swimming rules changes is available on the IHSAA website at 2003-04 NFHS Swimming Rules Changes.
LATEST
STATE POLLS
Baseball: http://www.ihsbca.org/polls.asp
Softball: http://www.icgsa.org/softball/softballpoll.htm
Track: http://www.iatccc.org/poll.html
Tennis: http://www.ihsteca.com/
Golf: http://www.ihsaa.org/b-golf/03Ratings.htm
Dave Gandolph, head baseball coach at Center Grove, picked up his
500th career victory on April 18.
Tim Adams
notched his 100th career win as girls head track coach at
Bill Nimnicht and Rosie Leedy were named winners of the Roy Gardner and Mildred
Ball officiating awards by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association. Virgil Sweet Service Awards were presented to
Paul Curtis, Dean Pantazi,
Vince Welch, George Griffith and
Jack Butcher.
Priscilla Dillow, former Ben Davis athletic director, was selected as
Athletic Director of the Year by the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association.
Andy Strati has accepted the position of head football coach at
After two seasons, Scott Micklo has resigned as girls
head basketball coach at Rensselaer Central.
Athletic director Jeff Brandes
will also be leaving the Bombers at the end of the 2002-03 school year.
Courtney Taylor
of Perry Meridian and Danielle Frazier
of New Palestine were awarded $500 scholarships by the Indiana Officials
Association. The IOA also named Greenfield-Central as recipient of its
Sportsmanship Award.
Brett St. Germain has been named head football coach at Andrean. He steps in
for Wally McCormick, who had earlier
resigned to accept the head football coaching job at
Derrick Morgan
submitted his resignation as girls head soccer coach at
Dave Turner
leaves his boys head basketball coaching slot at
Chris Geesman has retired as head football coach at
Former North Central
(Indpls.) star Jason Gardner, now at
the
Jim Whitaker
departs the boys basketball head coaching position at
Mooresville after eight seasons.
Following four seasons as
girls head basketball coach, Ken McMichel has resigned at Northwest.
Todd Kendrick
has stepped side as head wrestling coach at Franklin Central after seven
seasons in that capacity.
Al Rhodes
has been hired as boys’ head basketball coach at
coached
Fort Wayne Concordia Lutheran
girls head basketball coach Janet Bahr
and her husband, David, the school’s
head baseball coach, have announced their joint resignations, to move to
Barb Carbaugh,
Jonathan Kirkton has been named head football coach at Northridge,
where he was an assistant for six years before opting to take last season
off. He is the son of
NorthWood has named Jay
Olson as its new athletic director, replacing Todd Sheets, who had announced his resignation earlier in the
school year.
Union (Modoc) athletic
director Bill Marshall announced the
cancellation of this year’s baseball schedule due to the school’s inability to
recruit enough players to field a team.
Tom Dilley
has accepted the head football coaching position at Lawrence North, following
four seasons at Indianapolis Bishop Chatard where he
won a pair of Class 3A state championships in 2002 and 2003. Dilley replaces Kevin King, who will join the staff at Warren Central. Vince Lorenzano, who has spent the past two seasons as the
offensive coordinator with the Trojans, will take over the head coaching slot.
Frankton boys head basketball
coach Rex Bauchert
has announced his intent to retire.
Kevin Alsup takes over as athletic director at Marion Lakeview
Christian, replacing Brad Metzger,
who will remain at the school as boys head basketball coach. Alsup will also
assume the duties of girls head basketball coach, in place of Greg Whitton.
Evansville Mater Dei has
selected Joe Herrmann as its new
athletic director, replacing Joe Dippel,
who is stepping down after 14 years to return to full-time teaching.
Sabrina Slone
will depart the girls head basketball coaching position at Eastern (Greentown)
for a job in the business world. She
coached the Comets for three seasons.
Huntington North has accepted an invitation to become a member of the North Central Conference,
replacing Lafayette Jefferson, who announced earlier it would be leaving to
join the Hoosier Crossroads Conference.
Lori Shreiner has been named head volleyball coach at
The latest inductees into the
Indiana Football Hall of Fame include: Cary Cavacini,
Troy Neely,
who coached Westview to Class AA boys
basketball championships in 1999 and 2000, has submitted his resignation to
school officials. He had a seven-season
record of 112—55.
Katie Gearlds, the 2003 Miss Basketball, waved the green flag to
start the second day of practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday,
May 5. She purchased a T-shirt of
two-time IndyCar Series champion Sam Hornish Jr., who drives the No. 4 Pennzoil Panther Dallara/Chevrolet/Firestone, and wore it during the start
of practice. Gearlds wore No. 4 when she played this
year’s 3A state champion, Beech Grove. Justin Cage, the 2003 Mr. Basketball ,
was also on hand for the start of practice. Cage led
Kyle Hobbs
takes over as the new boys’ head basketball coach at
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Wednesday, May 14 |
Softball Tournament Pairings ( |
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Tuesday, May 20 |
Girls Tack Sectionals |
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Thursday, May 22 |
Boys Track Sectionals |
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Thursday, May 22 |
Girls Tennis Sectionals |
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Thursday, May 22 |
Baseball Tournament Pairings ( |
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Friday, May 23 |
Girls Tennis Sectionals |
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Saturday, May 24 |
Girls Tennis Sectionals |
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Monday, May 26 |
Softball Sectionals |
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Monday, May 26 |
IHSAA office closed |
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Tuesday, May 27 |
Softball Sectionals |
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Tuesday, May 27 |
Girls Tennis Regionals |
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Tuesday, May 27 |
Girls Track Regionals |
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Wednesday, May 28 |
Softball Sectionals |
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Wednesday, May 28 |
Girls Tennis Regionals |
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Thursday, May 29 |
Softball Sectionals |
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Thursday, May 29 |
Boys Track Regionals |
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Friday, May 30 |
Softball Sectionals |
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Saturday, May 31 |
Softball Sectionals |
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Saturday, May 31 |
Girls Tennis Semi-States |
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