IHSAA Media Release
January 15, 2002
Contact: Jerry Baker
E-mail: jbaker@ihsaa.org
Phone: 317-846-6601
On
Saturday, Jan. 12, Shanna Zolman
of Wawasee High School became Indiana’s girls high
school basketball career scoring leader with a 50-point performance at Elkhart
Memorial. Zolman’s career total jumped to 2,870
points, surpassing Stephanie White’s (McCarty) career scoring mark of 2,869
during her four years (1991-95) at Seeger.
Zolman now has totaled 631 points in 18 games this season. She scored 824 in
24 contests during the 2000-01 season, 759 in 23 games during the 1999-00
campaign and 656 in 21 games in 1998-99. The all-time single-season scoring
leader is Abby Conklin from Charlestown, who tallied 956 points during the
1992-93 season.
This
season, Zolman is shooting 63% (145/232) from
two-point area, 50% (81/161) in three-point attempts, 94% (98/104) from the
foul line, while averaging 8.8 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 4.7 steals and
committing only 44 turnovers (2.4).
Zolman will continue to add to her record total this evening as seventh-ranked
(Class 4A) Wawasee (16-2) plays at Whitko.
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Those pairings will be posted
on the IHSAA website as soon as possible, listed under Wrestling/2002 Team Tournament Draw. The semi-state pairings, which
are pre-determined, can be accessed by clicking here and are also listed
on page 192 of the 2001-02 IHSAA Winter Bulletin.
The 2002 IHSAA Individual Wrestling
Tournament Series begins with sectional competition on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 64
sites. The team champion at each site is determined on the basis of individual
match competition. The team champions then advance to the team regional round
on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 16 sites. The semi-states are scheduled for Wednesday,
Feb. 6 at eight sites, with the state finals slated for Saturday, Feb. 23 at
Center Grove High School in Greenwood.
The 64th Annual Individual
Tournament, following sectional competition on Jan. 26, will hold its regionals on Saturday, Feb. 2, the semi-states on Saturday,
Feb. 9 and the state finals on Friday, Feb. 15 and Saturday, Feb. 16 at Conseco Fieldhouse in
Indianapolis. Seeds for the sectional round will be determined at the sectional
seeding meetings to be conducted next Monday, Jan. 21, at each sectional host
school.
Loogootee
boys basketball coach, Jack Butcher,
recorded his 800th career victory on Saturday, Jan. 12 with a 50-44
win over Barr-Reeve. Butcher, a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame,
is the winningest coach in Indiana Basketball
history.
Though
regular season records on steals are not kept at the IHSAA Office, what had to
be an effort that would be close to the top of the list, was turned in by Frankfort’s girls basketball squad last
Friday, Jan. 11. The Hot Dogs accounted for 30 team steals in their 68-22 win
over Western Boone. Three Frankfort players recorded seven steals each.
Tom May, coach of the Crown Point
varsity girls basketball team for the past 22 seasons, coached his 500th
game on Saturday, Jan. 12 as the Lady Bulldogs defeated Chesterton, 50-31.
During his tenure, May has led Crown Point to 374-126 record (.748), including
two state championships in 1984 and 1985 and state runner-up finishes in 1983
and 1997. His four state championship game appearances is tied for the best in
state history. His teams also have won 15 sectionals, seven regionals
and six semi-states.
Sylvester Mayes, a junior guard from South
Bend Clay, scored the 1,000th point of his career last Tuesday, Jan.
8 in the Colonials’ game against Concord. Mayes tallied 30 points in the game
and moved into sixth place on the Clay career scoring list. At 1,010 points, he
needs only 59 points to catch (Charlotte Hornets player and Clay graduate) Lee Nailon’s total of 1,069 for fifth place.
Brittany Myers, a sophomore from Madison,
scored 37 points against Greensburg on Saturday, Jan. 12 to break the sophomore
school record. Myers set the previous sophomore mark of 33 points last month.
The overall school record is 42 points scored by Natasya
Johnson in 1999.
Chris Sanders, of North Knox, broke the
school and gymnasium record with a 47-point game in the Warriors’ home victory
over Shoals last Friday, Jan. 11. Jeff Tilly held the
school record of 43 points set in 1988, while Union’s (Dugger)
Brody Boyd owned the gym record of 44 points scored in 1998.
Craig Schoen, of South Central
(Elizabeth), broke his own school record for steals in a game with 14 picks in
a win over Medora on Saturday, Jan. 12. The senior guard’s former mark was 12,
set as a sophomore.
Senior
Avery Sheets became McCutcheon’s
all-time leading scorer last Friday, Jan. 11, with his 26-point performance in
the Mavericks’ 66-47 win over Westfield. With 1,221 points to his credit,
Sheets surpassed the record held by Chad Peckinpaugh
(1992-95).
Danielle Vieira, tossed in 21 points last
Friday, Jan. 11, in leading Cascade to a 48-31 win over Cloverdale and, in the
process, became the school’s career scoring leader with a total of 856 points. The
senior guard moved passed 1991 graduate, Diane Peterson, who finished with 843.
Vieira also tied the school record of five three-point field goals made in a
single game.
Lindsey Weigle of Columbus North set a
Conference Indiana record on Saturday, Jan. 12 as the Bull Dogs took the top
spot in the conference swimming and diving meet. Weigle
finished with 442.40 points in the diving competition, surpassing the record of
422.90 set by Jennifer Sonneborn of Bloomington South
in 1999.
Edinburgh
junior Chris Whitaker, scored a
career-high 43 points and set a school record with 11 three-pointers in the
Lancers’ 72-69 victory over Indian Creek on Friday, Jan. 11. Whitaker’s
three-point outburst equals the most in a single game this season, tying
Kankakee Valley’s Jeff Hamstra, who had 11 in a game
against Kouts on Dec. 8. The 43 points put on the
board by Whitaker also tied for the seventh highest single-game point total of
the 2001-02 season.