High School

Tippecanoe Valley High School senior Amy Baca looks back at her four years as a student athlete for the Vikings. Baca also looks ahead to her next chapter at Goshen College.

Nifong ended his high school basketball and soccer careers with wins. It's definitely not something every senior can say. Nifong played a huge role in both of those games and his four years in high school as a leader for the Dragons.

To ensure sports like football and volleyball happen, Whitmer suggests moving those sports to the spring, while moving socially distanced sports like golf and track to the fall.

"It was great," Shepherd said. "On the athletics side, definitely with the senior boys and the senior girls, just making new friends and then reaching the levels like I did, the state meet, the state finals, it was always fun."

"We’re not just a team, we’re a family," Krugh said. "These girls aren’t just your teammates, they are your sisters. We’re going to go through it with them. We spent so much time with them. Starting in the summer you spend so much time with them."

"I would have never imagined leaving by my senior year I would have never pictured the success that the team had," Himelick said. "Leaving as the winningest senior is awesome, and being a three time sectional champ because it’s never happened at Marian. I will cherish those moments forever. It was just an incredible ride."

"Ultimately, I just wanted to try and play against and with some of the best players in the country," Green said. "Just to challenge myself. My first two years back home, they were challenging but it could get easier. My senior year, I could tell, I would dominate. I just wanted to be challenged every day and going to La Lumiere, it challenged me for sure."

"It’s unreal," Stacker said. "I think about it all the time. This is everything I ever dreamed for, for a long time."

"I love all of the community," Campbell said. "It’s just been really great supporting not just me but everyone else in our entire school. It’s been awesome. I love Jimtown."

"If you go through anything that's very heartbreaking, I would have to say keep your head up and you'll get through it," Fitzgerald said. "It may take awhile. It may not. But eventually you will. Good things come."

"Going into that junior year, I really put on some weight," Durkiewicz said. " I started lifting weights, and I was like, 'I can really do this.' My junior year I believed, my senior year I kept getting offers and it just went from there. I realized that this could possibly change my life."

"I would like people to remember me as someone who was always positive and friend they could always go to if they needed anything," Knight said. "I was someone who always would step out and comfort someone and offer any help.

"I feel great," Moon said. "To tell my kids I was the first one to go, and that I can hold that over my heads like, 'yeah, I went to college.' I feel like I accomplished something."

"The sky is the limit, really," Anderson said. "I am just going to keep pushing, getting stronger and getting faster and we'll see what happens."

"They were so much fun," Gomez said. "They were very fun. I am very sad that they ended so soon but they were so much fun. I have so many memories. It was just really fun because all of the girls got along really well. It was a family."

"I went to Kansas with the mindset of I want to build something special," Jones said. "I understand there’s been a little rough history, but we’ve got all new coaches in. A great head coach, great skill position coaches and I just want to build something. Hopefully we can create a legacy we will be remembered by."

"I have so many great memories from high school," Kirkton said. "It was really fun. I loved being a Redhawk. I hope that people remember me as someone that was a good teammate and was helpful and was a leader that someone looked up to."

"Once I got into it, once I got better at it, I started liking it a lot more," Betzer said. "Honestly, all of my dives have gotten better. I’ve been wanting to try more and more things."

"You just go from one sport into the other and it’s basically non stop continuation of sports," Schrock said. "Sometimes I wish I had a break because it’s just tiring, but I like it."

"That was crazy, that whole night," Patterson said. "The accomplishments that I made up to that point and to be able to do that, it was crazy. I didn’t expect it my first game my freshman year, I would have never thought I would be able to do that."

"I honestly don’t care too much about my results," Calhoun said. "I want to be remembered as someone who went in and wanted to make other people better."

For the second straight year, Bremen star Erin Coffel has been named the Gatorade Softball Player of the Year in Indiana.

"They helped changed my whole character," Ball said. "I learned a lot of things going through Niles so it helped me determine what my life was going to be a good man when I get older."

Heckaman isn’t done on the tennis court. She will take her talents just down the road at Bethel, where she earned a scholarship to play tennis at a school that is the perfect fit for her.

"I would just say having the mental toughness to get through the workout because you can do it," Thompson said. "You can run, three or four or five miles, but it’s all in your head. You can still do it."

"I’ve worked super hard my four years," Haldeman said. "There are times I wanted to give up, during practice, studying for big tests but I wouldn’t be where I was if I gave up. Just keep pushing through and learning to stay focused on your goal in the end."

Ryan Lynch has been named the Gatorade Player of the Year for Baseball in Indiana.

"Every day after practice in my junior year, I would run sprints just to show that I’m hungry for the position," Johnson said. "When I got the position, I kept doing that to let them know I’m doing whatever it takes to keep it."

"I definitely focused on the athletic part doing the best I could there but I knew to get that award, you also had to be a good student too," Davis said. "I poured a lot into my grades over the years ever since middle school."

"At NorthWood we don’t only focus on creating great athletes but the biggest thing is create great people," Miller said. "We believe without having a great personality and good morals, the athletic part isn't going to come. Its really helped me through life."