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Jack Jamison, Wakarusa High School (1969) Jack earned a total of 15 letters in basketball, track, cross-country, and baseball. He was named to the All-Sectional Tournament Team by the Elkhart Truth in 1967 and 1968 and was named Wakarusa’s MVP following both his junior and senior seasons. The 1969 Wakarusa team won the final Elkhart […]

Sam Hoover, Jr., Middlebury High School (1944) Starring at Middlebury in the early 1940s in basketball and baseball, Sam was later offered a professional baseball contract by the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians in 1948. In between, Sam served the U. S. military and pitched for Kobe Base, American League of Japan in 1946. In […]

George Rollin “Rollie” Hoover, Elkhart and Elkhart Central High Schools (Coach) Some call Rollie the “father of wrestling” for Elkhart High School and other area schools because of his influence in reviving the sport in the 1950s and 1960s. All together he coached wrestling and other sports for almost 35 years, including stints at St. […]

Scott Homan, Elkhart Central High School (1978) Scott was a high school All-American in football at Elkhart Central. He was a 9-letter winner in three sports at ECHS (football, wrestling and track). As a senior on coach Tom Kurth’s football team, he was All-Conference, All-State and played in the North-South All-Star game. After high school, […]

Rex Holmes, Northwood High School (1972) In his senior year Rex was selected as a 3-sport MVP … in football (14 TD passes and 8 TDs as quarterback, 12 fumble recoveries as a safety), basketball (12.4 ppg.), and track (6′ 3″ high jump,15.2 sec. high hurdles). For his career he earned 11 varsity letters in […]

Wayne “Jake” Hoffman, Concord High School (1951) A three-sport letter winner, Jake is a member of the Concord Sports Hall of Fame and was selected by Coach McCuen as one of the top 15 players at Concord. In basketball. Jake was on the first Concord team to win a sectional (1951). At one time he […]

Herb Hofer, Fairfield High School (1984) Herb was honored as Fairfield High School’s Top Athlete for 1983-84 after finishing an outstanding high school career in football, wrestling and track, earning 12 letters in those three sports. He won an individual wrestling title at the regional level three consecutive years and qualified for State two years, […]

Bradd P. Eldridge, Concord High School (1980) Bradd is the 5th leading basketball career scorer at Concord High School with 981 points. As a senior he scored 540 points, averaging 23.5 per game. He was CHS’ MVP his junior and senior years as well as All-Conference both years, a unanimous selection in his senior year. […]

Brooke Doriot, Goshen High School (1975) Brooke is remembered as one of Goshen HS’ all-time great athletes and as a pioneer among female athletes. Before girls were allowed to compete in IHSAA sponsored contests, she placed second in the state 100-yard dash as a sophomore after winning district and regional titles in the 50 and […]

Mel Dean, Nappanee High School (1966) Mel once scored 25 points in the second half of a sectional basketball game against Goshen. He lettered in basketball (3), baseball (2) and cross-country (1). In basketball, he led all county scorers as a junior with a 21.5 scoring average, scored 1,118 career points and was named Nappanee […]