Indiana Basketball HOF Names 2023 Women’s Silver Anniversary Team and Center Circle Officials
Eighteen women have been named to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2023 Silver Anniversary Team, based on outstanding accomplishments as a senior basketball player 25 years ago.
The team includes 12 members named to the 1998 Indiana All-Star squad. Six other all-state players are included to recognize the top of Indiana’s high school class of 1998.
1998 Indiana All-Stars include Miss Basketball Kelly Komara, Kyle (Black) Rechlicz, Kristen (Bodine) Lovell, Kelly N. Kuhn, Mary Jo Noon, Vnemina (Reese) Cooper, Courtney (Risinger) Lloyd, Abby (Salscheider) Ault, Amber (Schober) Aryee, Shana (Sparks) Williams, April Traylor and Amy Wright.
The remaining six, named to various all-state teams are Abbe (Brauman) Harvey, Jill (Chapman) Daily, Lisa (Eckhart) Ruble, Molly (Holt) Sabol, Kara Kessans and the late Amy (Lindsay) Fuller.
2023 Women’s Silver Anniversary Team members will be honored at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s Awards Banquet on April 29, 2023.
A midday reception, free and open to the public, will be held at the Hall of Fame museum in New Castle. The evening banquet will take place at the Primo Banquet Hall, which is located on the south side of Indianapolis.
Banquet reservations will be available through the Hall’s website at hoopshall.com or by calling (765) 529-1891 beginning in January. For more information, email kayla@hoopshall.com
The Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame also recognized two officials for their contribution as high school girls’ basketball officials as the 2023 Women’s Center Circle Officials Award winners.
Andy Simpson of Crown Point and Greg Reece of New Castle will be acknowledged for their officiating careers.
Andy Simpson has worked 34 sectionals, 18 regionals, 13 semi-states and 7 state finals. He is a member of the Lake County Officials Association and has been an assigner, basketball chairman, member at large, Past President and Secretary. He also has served on the ISHOLA board since 2014, along with being a lead clinician and rules interpreter for the IHSAA.
Simpson worked the HOF Classic in 2010 and 2017. He was awarded the Outstanding Girls’ Basketball Official of the Year in 2017 and the Outstanding Boys’ Basketball Official in 2020. He currently works as a Golf Director at Sandy Pines Golf Club.
Greg Reece has worked 29 sectionals, 22 regionals, seven semi-states and three state finals (2005, 2010, 2013) in girls’ basketball, along with 22 boys’ sectionals and 12 boys’ regionals and three HOF Classics.
A member of Eastern Indiana Officials Association and IOA, Reece played tennis at New Castle H.S. He retired as a manager in the office of the Auditor of the State of Indiana.
Center Circle Officials Award winners will be honored at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s 21st Women’s Awards Banquet on Saturday, April 29, 2023. The ceremony will take place at the Primo Banquet Hall, which is located on the south side of Indianapolis. Tickets for the event will be available online soon. Call the Hall at (765) 529-1891 or email kayla@hoopshall.com for more information.