Indiana Basketball HOF names 2023 Women’s Silver Anniversary Team & Center Circle Officials

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2023 Women’s Silver Anniversary Team
Amber (Schober) Aryee PLAINFIELD
1998 all-MSC; 1998 Star-News first-team all-West; 1998 Star-News Super Team; 1998 AP
third-team All-State; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star Classic; 1998 Plainfield Female Athlete
of the Year; Plainfield school record for career FG% (.563); second in career rebounds (621);
third in career blocks (89); eighth in career steals (167)…averaged 17.4 points per game as a
senior…continued her academic and athletic career at Valparaiso…2002 second-team all-MidContinent Conference; 2002 CoSIDA first-team Academic all-district; VU fifth in FG%/career
(.505); VU fifth in FTs/career (277); VU sixth in rebounds/career (703); VU seventh in
points/career (1,273); inducted in VU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010…former teacher at MSD
Wayne Township and Carmel.

Abby (Salscheider) Ault BLUFFTON
1998 Indiana All-Star, 1998 team MVP; 1998 first-team all-ACAC; 1998 News-Sentinel
first-team All-Area and Player of the Year; 1998 WPTA-21 Player of the Year; 1998 IHSAA Class
2A Mental Attitude Award; 1998 AP second-team All-State; 1998 ICGSA Academic All-State;
1998 Indiana North-South All-Star Classic…continued her playing career at Michigan State
where she was named to the 1999 Big Ten All-Star Tour (to Germany and Belgium); 2000 team
Most Improved Award; 2000 Big Ten all-academic; 2000 MSU Scholar-Athlete Award; 2001
team captain; 2001 Big Ten all-academic; 2001 MSU/CNC Scholar-Athlete Award.. currently
a physical therapist for Indiana Physical Therapy.

Vnemina (Reese) Cooper FORT WAYNE SOUTH
1998 Indiana All-Star, 1998 Street & Smith’s preseason All-American; 1998 first-team allSAC SAC Player of the Year; 1998 AP third-team All-State; 1998 Nancy Rehm All-Star (Northeast
Indiana vs. Northwest Ohio); 1998 Journal-Gazette Tiffany Gooden Award (most outstanding
SAC player, boy or girl, 21.3 ppg as senior in 4/7/1998 article and IHSAA stats…2000 Big Ten allfreshman team; 2000 Big Ten All-Star Team (Austria, Slovakia and Hungary); 2001 team captain; 2002 team captain while at Michigan State…2002 MSU Best Defensive Player; ninth on MSU
season steals list (143); 11th on MSU career assists list (356); 15th on MSU career steals list
(186)…currently a fourth grade teacher.

Jill (Chapman) Daily BLACKFORD
1998 all-Central Indiana Conference; 1998 all-sectional and sectional MVP; 1998
Muncie Star-Press East Central Indiana Player of the Year; 1998 AP high honorable mention
All-State; 1998 Top 40 Senior Workout; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star Classic…while
playing at Indiana, she was named 1999 Big Ten all-freshman team; 1999 and 2000 honorable
mention all-Big Ten; 2001 and 2002 first-team all-Big Ten; 2002 Big Ten all-tournament team;
2002 Big Ten Tournament champions; fifth in IU career scoring (1,865); fourth in IU career
rebounds (970), second in IU career blocked shots (197), third in IU career FG% (.542)…
drafted No. 21 by Detroit Shock in 2002 WNBA Draft; played briefly with the Shock in 2002;
also played professionally in Hungary and with the Colorado Chill of the NWBL in 2003-
04…currently works as an operations manager for Amazon.

Amy (Lindsay) Fuller * UNION (MODOC)
1998 Randolph County Tournament champion; 1998 all-Mid-Eastern Conference; 1998
all-sectional; 1998 Muncie Star-Press first-team All-Area; 1998 Richmond Palladium-Item first-team All-Area; 1998 AP high honorable mention All-State; 1998 Top 40 Senior Workout; 1998
Indiana North-South All-Star Classic; school record for points and a triple-double of 43 points,
14 rebounds and 11 steals…2000 Vincennes University team MVP… when she completed her
career at Vincennes, she was second in all-time blocked shots (124) and fourth in all-time
rebounding (507)…transferred to Ball State from 2000-2002…Hired as the head coach at Union
(Modoc) for the 2004-2005 season…passed away in a car crash in November of 2004.
Abbe (Brauman) Harvey BROWNSBURG
1998 AP third-team All-State; 1998 all-Olympic Conference; 1998 Star/News all-West;
1998 Star/News Super Team; 1998 Top 40 Senior Workout; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star
Classic; 1998 Brownsburg Female Athlete of the Year…1999 Missouri Valley Conference all-freshman team; won “Jan Conner Most Improved Award” in 1999 while at Indiana State…transferred to IUPUI where she led the team in field goal percentage (.548) in 2001-02;
made 9-10 FGs vs. UMKC on 1/12/2002; named Mid-Continent Conference Academic All-Conference in 2002. Played one season of volleyball at IUPUI (2000-01), the year she did not play basketball because of transfer rules…graduated with a law degree from Indiana in 2014
and was an educator until 2012…currently an elder law attorney for Brauman Moore & Harvey,
2012-present.
Molly Holt Sabol MADISON
1998 Top 40 Senior Workout; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star Classic; Madison career
scoring record (1,480 points) at time of graduation, still #2 on school list, 1998 all-Hoosier Hills
Conference; 1998 all-sectional; 1998 all-regional; 1998 HBCA all-District 3; 1998 HBCA All-Star;
1998 honorable mention Academic All-State… attended and played at Findlay (OH), where she
earned 2000 second-team all-GLIAC; 2001 second-team all-GLIAC; 2002 first-team all-GLIAC; UF
record holder for FT made in a game (16) and FT% in a game (1.000, 16 of 16), UF career record
holder for FT made (450) and FT attempted (553); #2 in UF career FT% (.814); #11all time in UF
career scoring (1,264 points)…currently works for Home Health Care Solutions.
Kara Kessans TELL CITY
1998 IHSAA 3-point contest champion; 1998 first-team all-Big Eight Conference and
Player of the Year; 1998 Evansville Courier & Press first-team all-Southwestern Indiana;1998
HBCA all-District 2; 1998 AP high honorable mention All-State; 1998 ICGSA second-team All-State; 1998 Top 40 Senior Workout; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star Classic; set 15 school
records, including points in a season (488), season scoring average (24.4), best season FT%
(.813); career scoring record at the time of graduation (1,110 points), still #2 on the school’s all-time
list; inducted into Tell City Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009…while at Louisville was named 1999
Seelbach Hilton Holiday Classic all-tournament team, 2000 Great Alaska Shootout all-tournament team; 2001 Torneo Cancun de Basquetbol all-tournament team, and 2002
Women’s Sports Foundation Tournament all-tournament team…currently works for USA
Volleyball as a head physical therapist/athletic trainer.

Kelly Komara LAKE CENTRAL
1998 Miss Basketball, 1998 Indiana All-Star, 1998 USA Today first-team all-USA; 1998
Parade Magazine All-American; 1998 Nike All-American; 1998 WBCA All-American; 1998
Gatorade/Indiana Player of the Year, 1998 Gary Post-Tribune first-team All-Area and Player of
the Year; 1998 The Times of NWI first-team All-Area and Player of the Year;1998 Lake Central
Female Athlete of the Year; 1998 AP first-team All-State; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star
Classic…played at Purdue University where she earned 2000 honorable mention all-Big Ten;
2000 Big Ten all-Academic; 2001 NCAA Tournament runner-up; 2001 Big Ten regular season
champions; 2001 honorable mention all-Big Ten; 2001 NCAA all-Mideast Region and Region’s
Most Outstanding Player; 2001 Big Ten all-Academic… picked No. 34 by Indiana Fever in 2002
WNBA Draft, played in the NWBL along with playing overseas… currently a women’s basketball
assistant coach at Marquette University, 2021-present.
Kelly N. Kuhn LAKE CENTRAL
1998 Indiana All-Star, 1998 AP second-team All-State; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star
Classic, 1998 all-sectional; 1998 all-regional; 1998 all-semistate and MVP; 1998 all-State Finals;
1998 Class 4A Mental Attitude Award; 1998 Gary Post-Tribune first-team All-Area; 1998 The
Times of NWI first-team All-Area…averaged 17.4 points her senior season… first Butler player to
record a triple-double with 20 points, 18 rebounds, and 10 blocked shots… shares school record
for FG%/game, blocked shots per game (10), third and fourth on Butler’s single-season FG% list
(.621 as a freshman, 607 as a junior); ninth on Butler’s single-season list for blocked shots (57 as
junior); 10th on Butler’s single-season list for rebound average (9.4 rpg as a junior); second on
Butler career list for FG% (.586); sixth on Butler career list for rebound average (7.5 rpg); ninth
on Butler’s career list for blocked shots (106)… currently, vice president of corporate
development, Compass Group.
Courtney (Risinger) Lloyd RICHMOND/TERRE HAUTE SOUTH
1998 Indiana All-Star, 1998 first-team all-Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference; 1998
first-team all-Vigo County; 1998 Tribune-Star first-team All-Area; 1998 AP third-team All-State;
1998 HBCA all-District 1; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star Classic; 1998 McMillan Memorial
Award (most outstanding athlete in Vigo County)…2000-2002 MAC Academic Honor Roll while
at Toledo, UT record holder for 3-point accuracy/season (.450 in 2001-02); shares UT record for
3-pointers game (8); fifth on UT list for career 3-pointers (182); fifth on UT list for 3-point
accuracy/career (.379); inducted into UT Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015… currently a vice
president, private banking, Star Financial Bank, 2007-present.

Kristen (Bodine) Lovell MARTINSVILLE
1998 Indiana All-Star, 1998 All-State, 1997 Hall of Fame Classic all-tournament team and
MVP; 1998 all-sectional; 1998 all-regional; 1998 all-semi state; 1998 all-State Finals; 1998 allConference Indiana; 1998 Star/News all-West and co-Player of the Year; 1998 Star/News Super
Team and co-Player of the Year; 1998 AP first-team All-State; 1998 Star/News Suburban
Female Athlete of the Year; 1998 HBCA all-District 1; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star
Classic…played at Butler, then transferred to Indiana after her sophomore season…1999
Horizon League All-Newcomer Team; 2000 Horizon League second-team All-Conference;
member, totaling a career-high 12 assists and named IU team MVP in 2003… currently the math
coordinator at Franklin Central Middle School (Indianapolis).
Mary Jo Noon JEFFERSONVILLE
1998 Indiana All-Star, 1998 AP first-team All-State; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star
Classic; 1998 Nike All-American, 1998 Hoosier Hills Conference champions; 1998 all-HHC; 1998
Clark County Player of the Year; 1998 HBCA all-District 4…played for Purdue and was on the
1999 NCAA Tournament Championship team…earned 2002 and 2003 honorable mention all-Big
Ten averaging 13.1 and 11.0 points per year, respectively… stands 10th on Purdue’s career FG%
list (.502)… picked No. 42 by Los Angeles Sparks in 2003 WNBA Draft and currently works as a
field clinical specialist for Edwards Life Sciences Corp.
Kyle (Black) Rechlicz NORTH CENTRAL
1998 Indiana All-Star; 1998 IBCA honorable mention Academic All-State; 1998 Marion
County Female Athlete of the Year…held school records at the time of graduation for:
Points/Game (36), Steals/Game (11), 3-pointers/Game (5), FGM/Season (165), Points/Season
(447), Steals/Season (77), 3-pointers/Season (40), FGM/Career (547), 2-point%/Career (.534), 3-
Pointers/Career (80), Assists/Career (269), Steals/Career (242), Points/Career (1,423)…attended
and played at University of Wisconsin…Named MVP and all-tournament at the Arizona
Basketball Classic (senior); led Big Ten in 3-point % as junior (.406); season 3-point% (.406), still
#5 on UW season list; career 3-point% (.365), still #5 on UW career list; 78 3s in a season, still #3
on UW season list; 7 3-pointers in a game, school record at time and still #2 on UW game
list…since graduation has been an assistant coach at multiple universities, since 2012 has been
the Head Coach at UW-Milwaukee.
Lisa (Eckhart) Ruble CENTER GROVE
1998 all-MIC; 1998 all-Johnson County; 1998 Star/News second-team all-South; 1998 AP
high honorable mention All-State; 1998 Top 40 Senior Workout; 1998 Indiana North-South AllStar Classic while averaging 13.5 points per game at Center Grove…at the University of Evansville,
she earned 1999 Missouri Valley Conference all-freshman team and 2001 first-team all-MVC;
totaled 1,007 points, and 568 rebounds in three seasons before transferring to Indiana where she
averaged 11.1 points her senior season for the Hoosiers…played 2 seasons overseas before
working from 2005-2007 in tickets sale for the Fever/Pacers…currently is a stay at home
mother.

April Traylor EMINENCE/MARTINSVILLE
1998 AP first-team All-State; 1998 Indiana All-Star…1997 Hall of Fame Classic all-tournament team…1998 all-Conference Indiana; 1998 Reporter-Times first-team All-Area; 1998
Star/News first-team all-West and West co-Player of the Year; 1998 Star/News Super Team co-Player of the Year; 1998 HBCA all-District 1; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star Classic, while averaging 19.5 points per game during her HS career, and 2 State Championships…earned 1999
ACC all-freshman team while at Florida State, while holding FSU school records of sixth on FSU
career FTs made list (356); sixth on FSU career steals list (217); seventh on FSU career assists list
(387); eighth on FSU career scoring list (1,503); eighth on FSU career 3-pointer list (115)… , sole
proprietor of ATP Athletics while having been a physical education teacher and basketball coach for 20 years.
Shana (Sparks) Williams CONNERSVILLE
1998 Indiana All-Star, 1998 all-Olympic Conference; 1998 Palladium-Item first-team AllArea; 1998 AP third-team All-State; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star Classic, while averaging 15.5 points as a senior at Connersville…attended Indiana State University where she led team in
3-point accuracy as a freshman (.360); second on team in FT accuracy as a freshman (.710); was
a regular starter as a junior…injuries cut her sophomore and senior seasons short… currently a
a quality representative for Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Amy Wright NORTHEASTERN
1998 Indiana All-Star, 1998 AP first-team All-State; 1998 Indiana North-South All-Star
Classic; 1998 Parade All-American at Northeastern… still holds eight individual school records,
including points in a game (41), season 613) and career (1,613) as well as assists in a season
(206) and career (466); jersey #50 was retired by the school in 2018…attended the University of
Arkansas, where she earned 2000 SEC Academic Honor Roll, 2001 team captain, and 2002
Women’s Basketball News Service preseason All-American…holds school records for season
assists (205) and career assists (717), and the fewest turnovers in a season by a starting point guard
(2001-02)… inducted into the University of Arkansas Athletic Hall of Honor in 2017… participated in
2002 WNBA pre-draft camp and participated in the 2002 Detroit Shock training camp…been an
assistant coach at multiple colleges and universities and is currently at the University of
Oklahoma.

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