Area Quartet Honored By IBCA
INDIANAPOLIS – Fifteen seniors and fifteen underclass boys basketball players have earned IBCA/Subway First Team All-State honors for 2013-14.
Also, 120 additional players were selected as Honorable Mention IBCA/Subway Senior All-State and 120 additional juniors, sophomores and freshmen were recognized as Honorable Mention IBCA/Subway Underclass All-State in a process organized by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association and presented by Subway Restaurants of Indiana.
The IBCA All-State teams are selected in a process where all IBCA-member head coaches have the opportunity to nominate top players from schools in the traditional regional structure of the non-class tournament format. Representatives from each of those 16 regional areas, plus six at-large representatives (two each from IHSAA Districts 1, 2 and 3), then meet to review those nominations, vote and finalize the selections.
Only one player from the area was voted to an All-State First Team position, which was Penn junior Jordan Geist. A handful of area players were named to the junior and senior Honorable Mention All-State teams, including Tippecanoe Valley senior Tanner Andrews, Triton senior Tanner Shepherd and Warsaw senior Jordan Stookey. Making the junior list was Whitko’s Nate Walpole.
Receiving senior Honorable Mention All-State accolades from the area were Joey Atkins of Bremen; Jordyn Bontrager of Westview; Devonte Campbell of Culver Academy; Terry Davis of South Bend Adams; Trent Elliott of Culver; Tre’veon Johnson of South Bend Washington; Ryan Kupferschmid of Elkhart Christian; Mack Mercer of Plymouth; Kyle Platt of Huntington North; Nate Ritchie of Northridge; Drew Schermerhorn of West Noble; Cory Waycaster of Elkhart Christian; Jon Wilkinson of NorthWood; and Zach Zurcher of NorthWood.
Receiving junior Honorable Mention All-State accolades from the area were Seth Adelsperger of Peru; Josh Anders of Plymouth; Chandler Aspy of Westview; Brady Bechtel of Goshen; Blake Berger of LaVille; Devin Cannady of Mishawaka Marian; Mason Coverstone of Columbia City; Nick Felke of Plymouth; Alex Harmon of Southwood; Cole Hartman of DeKalb; Brachen Hazen of Columbia City; Caleb Landrum of Huntington North; Reontre Lawrence of South Bend Riley; Joe Line of Fairfield; Justin McCoy of Garrett; Elijah Miller of Culver Academy; and Filip Serwatka of Concord.