Locals Abound In Underclass Showcase
INDIANAPOLIS – The 12th annual IBCA/IHSAA Top 100 Showcase events have been set for July 23 and July 24 at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis.
Staged by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association with support from the Indiana High School Athletic Association, the Top 100 Showcase events are designed to give exposure to top basketball prospects from across the state to colleges across the state and nation.
The 2014 Girls Showcase will be on Wednesday, July 23. The 2014 Boys Showcase will be on Thursday, July 24. Both events are NCAA certified. Both events begin at 2 p.m. and last until about 8 p.m.
Former Purdue player and current Purdue assistant coach Kelly Komara will be the guest speaker for the Girls Showcase. Komara, the 1998 Indiana Miss Basketball from Lake Central, was a freshman on the Purdue squad that won the 1999 NCAA championship. She was a junior on the Boilers’ 2001 NCAA runner-up team and was selected First-Team All-Big Ten as a senior. She previously was an assistant coach at Valparaiso University, Auburn University, Northwestern University and the University of Albany.
The guest speaker for the Boys’ Showcase has yet to be finalized.
In 2013, coaches from 88 colleges attended the Showcase events. Among them were coaches from NCAA Division I programs such as Ball State, Butler, Dayton, Florida State, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan State and Purdue.
Pete Smith, coach at Guerin Catholic, is the director of the Boys’ Showcase. Kathie Layden, coach at Northwestern, is director of the Girls Showcase. Numerous other IBCA-member coaches will assist the directors in running various stations and coaching the teams for each day.
The list of high school players, which actually totals 123 boys and 130 girls, includes a host of area basketball players from three grade levels.
Among the boys scheduled to appear include Whitko sophomore Nate Walpole and Tippecanoe Valley senior Chainey Zolman.
On the girl’s side, Triton senior Kylie Mason, Whitko sophomore Aly Reiff and Tippecanoe Valley sophomore Anne Secrest will participate.
Other area boys on the list include Josh Anders of Plymouth; Chandler Aspy of Westview; Brady Bechtel of Goshen; Blake Berger of LaVille; Mason Coverstone of Columbia City; Billy Doslak of Penn; Nick Felke of Plymouth; Jordan Geist of Penn; Dimitri Giger of Elkhart Memorial; Brachen Hazen of Columbia City; Jacob Heller of Prairie Heights; Joe Line of Fairfield; Filip Serwatka of Concord; Pete Smith of Northridge; and Peyton Staples of Mishawaka.
Other area girls on the list include Camryn Buhr of Penn; Claire Cromer of Wabash; Lauren Ellenberger of Penn; Jordyn Frantz of NorthWood; Grace Hales of Westview; Mickella Hardy of Culver; Lexy Holland of Rochester; Kaitlyn Marenyi of Penn; Taylor Miller of Northridge; Lexi Minix of Oregon-Davis; Tatum Schultz of Culver; and Hunter Stevens of Plymouth.