Former Carroll High School standout Hayden Jones finished his prep career in outstanding fashion in the state’s postseason showcase. Jones was named 2018 Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association North-South All-Star Series MVP after an impressive three games of baseball over two ...
Leo High School quarterback AJ Restivo plans to lobby for some playing time at linebacker this season. If he can manage to hit the field on defense, we’ll know his skills of persuasion have caught up with his ability to run and throw. “I usually keep the quarterbacks to one side (of the ...
Maggie Peters is a completely normal, typical, ordinary 14-year-old girl. Except... The Bishop Dwenger freshman-to-be loves to laugh, read, wants to write and excels at trying out every sport and then exceeding. She attacks athletics with passion to spend the necessary time getting the ...
One of the most highly regarded high school baseball coaching jobs in the state has opened up with Norwell’s Andy McClain leaving to take over at Indianapolis Lawrence Central. McClain, 49, arrived at Norwell in 2013, leading the team to the 2013 Class 3A state championship. He also coached ...
The Allen County Athletic Conference gained their third new boys basketball coach late last week. Southern Wells announced that junior varsity coach Kyle Penrod would be taking over the program following the exit of Ben Burman. Penrod had been the junior varsity coach for four seasons at ...
When you talk to a new head coach at a school, you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes they know the program and sometimes they are seemingly clueless as to the situation they are about to embark on. New Heritage High School boys basketball coach Adam Gray seems to fit somewhere ...
“I would have given anything to be an Indiana All-Star.” INDIANAPOLIS – The above quote sounds as if it were stated by some old-codger sitting on hardwood bleachers in a gym somewhere amidst the unfolding fields of this state. However, in actuality, it was made recently by a guy who ...
Adam Gray has been named the new head boys basketball coach at Heritage High School following the resignation of Barry Singrey after this past season. Gray was approved as the new head coach at Tuesday night's East Allen County Schools board meeting. Gray is coming off of two seasons as an ...
The topic of sports specialization in high school is a hot one these days, with many of the opinion that diversification is the right way to go for young athletes. Not so for Logan Ryan. In his first two years at Bishop Dwenger, Ryan participated in two sports — football and golf. On ...
The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association and the Indiana High School Athletic Association will team up for showcase events on July 9 and 16 at Ben Davis High School. The showcases are set up for over 200 underclassmen from the 2017-2018 school year. The event will feature two games for each ...
The last four years, Hayden Jones donned his gear and slid behind home plate as catcher for the Carroll High School baseball team. It was a comfortable spot. Jones called pitches, calmed pitchers, threw out would-be base stealers and, when the inning broke, took his turn at bat, rapping out ...
Fort Wayne's Shelby Gruss has received a remarkable honor as a member of the United States Women's World Championship wheelchair basketball team. After being on the team for little more than a year, the Bishop Luers graduate has been named co-captain as the team prepares for next month's 2018 ...
One of the area’s biggest coaching questions in recent memory has been answered and Gary Andrews will be the next boys' basketball coach at North Side High School, News-Sentinel.com has learned. He will become just the fifth coach in the program since arena namesake By Hey took over the ...
Trai Essex brought out his second Super Bowl ring, the one representing the Pittsburgh Steelers' record sixth championship, to wear at his annual football camp. It’s a reminder of what’s possible, even for a kid from Fort Wayne, if the work ethic and desire are strong enough. Essex, who ...
Fort Wayne native Lucas Kroft committed to Ball State University on Friday, ending a quick but whirlwind spring recruiting season that saw him tally up nine Division I offers. "They have a really good program and the relationship I have with coach [James] Whitford is really good," said ...
The most important part of Trai Essex's football camp will be the straight talk for those willing to listen. The camp, open to all Fort Wayne third- through eighth-graders, runs Sunday and Monday evenings at the Harding Junior High School field. The straight talk is 6 p.m. Sunday. That’s ...
Except for maybe winning the state title, it's hard to imagine Carroll's Sydney Jackson could have had a better senior season. She led the Chargers to a No. 4 ranking in the state coaches poll, finished her season with a 25-3 record and established a new school mark with 94 career wins. She ...
This story could start with a recitation of Ashley Miller’s statistics, which are as gaudy as any high school softball player in the area. We’ll get to those. But the best players are most often team-first players, so that’s where we’ll start. Miller, who just completed her ...
When high school basketball practice opens this fall, quite a few things will be different for new Richmond High School coach Shabaz Khaliq. One thing that will not be different? Two of the players on the floor. News-Sentinel.com has learned from the Kroft family that Lucas and Andrew Kroft, ...
North Side High School will induct their fourth class into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame this August. Started in 2015, the North Side High School Athletic Hall of Fame award recognizes and honors outstanding achievements of athletes, coaches and others who have made significant ...