Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame names its women's induction class for 2023
The Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame announced its women’s induction class for the 2023 class Tuesday. The 21st induction class will be honored at the awards banquet on April 29 with a reception at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in the afternoon and a banquet at Primo Banquet Hall in evening.
Here is a look at the women’s induction class:
Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame: Star-filled group to be inducted in 2023 men's class
Kasia (McClendon) Campbell, Gary West Side (1993)
The 1993 graduate averaged 17.4 points, 8.5 steals and 5.5 assists per game as a senior, helping her team to a 24-1 record. West Side won three sectional titles, two regional titles and three conference titles. She went on to play at Southern Illinois, where she set the league and school record for steals. She was a three-time Missouri Valley Conference defensive player of the year and two-time first-team all-conference. She played one year professionally in Israel. Campbell was inducted into the Southern Illinois Hall of Fame in 2005. She has been a case worker for 20 years and a real estate broker for four.
Bruce Dockery, Evansville Bosse (1969)
Dockery won 502 games as a longtime coach at Evansville Memorial, winning 14 sectional titles, six regional championships. In 2011, his team went 28-1 and won the Class 3A state championship. After he graduated from Bosse, he went to Charleston Southern and the University of Southern Indiana. He was inducted into the Evansville Memorial Hall of Fame in 2020 and honored with the Hoosier Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Excellence Award in 2021.
Katie Douglas, Perry Meridian (1997)
Douglas was a 1997 Indiana All-Star as she averaged 19.3 points and amassed 177 rebounds and 118 steals as a senior. She was named first-team all-state as her team won sectional and regional championships. Douglas went on to Purdue, where she won the NCAA championship in 1999 and earned a spot on the USA Basketball team. She was the Big Ten Conference Player of the Year as a junior and senior, earning Kodak All-American honors. Douglas was the 10th pick of the WNBA draft and played 14 years in the WNBA, earning multiple All-Star game honors. Her number 23 jersey was retired by the Connecticut Sun and is owner of the Orangetheory fitness franchise in Greenwood.
Jennifer (Marlow) Drudge, Rushville (1995)
Drudge was a standout basketball player at Rushville and a 1994 state tennis doubles runner-up. She scored 1,306 points, averaging 20 points per game her senior season. Drudge was named an Indiana All-Star and then played at Butler, where she was named to the All-Newcomer team as a freshman. Her junior and senior seasons, he was named first-team all-conference and all-defensive team as a senior. Drudge coached at Carmel from 2001-04 and was an assistant in 2000-01 and again from 2009-13. She was inducted into the Butler Hall of Fame in 2013 and has taught chemistry at Carmel since 2000 and has been the department chair since 2010.
Ruth (Riley) Hunter, North Miami (1997)
Hunter was named first-team all-state after leading North Miami to a 20-1 record as a senior and setting records for rebounds per game, season and career, blocks in a season and career and points per game in a season and career. She then went to Notre Dame, where she was the three-time Big East Conference defensive player of the year. Notre Dame won the national championship her senior season as Hunter averaged 18.7 points per game and was named National Player of the Year. She was the fifth pick overall of the WNBA draft and was named MVP of the 2003 WNBA Finals. She led the Detroit Shock to the WNBA championship in 2003 and 2006. She was the radio and TV analyst for Notre Dame women’s basketball and has been a TV/radio analyst for the Miami Heat and ACC Network. Hunter was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.
Shelia (McMillen) Keller, Rochester (1995)
Keller averaged 28.2 points as a senior and was named an Indiana All-Star and a Parade All-American. She holds the all-time scoring record at Rochester with 1,696 career points. After her high school career, she went to Notre Dame and was named team captain, MVP and the winner of the Francis Patrick O’Connor Award for the best display of total embodiment and inspiration to the team. She is the varsity assistant at Carmel and holds a black belt in taekwondo.
Diane (Hoereth) Metz, Roncalli
Metz was the 1986 City Athlete of the Year, leading Roncalli to a 22-5 record as she averaged 17 points and 12.5 rebounds and led Roncalli to a semistate championship. She was first-team all-state and was named Roncalli’s athlete of the year as she was also a standout in volleyball. Metz graduated from Roncalli and went on to play volleyball at Texas, IUPUI and Indiana. Since 1991, she has worked for Aldi, Inc., where she is currently the director of administration in Mt. Juliet, Tenn.
Charmonique Stallworth, South Bend Washington (1992)
Stallworth was a senior on the 1992 South Bend Washington team that was the first in school history to win a sectional as she averaged 26.3 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. She was named an Indiana All-Star. Stallworth went on to play at Northern Illinois, where she averaged 23.1 points per game as a senior, ranking second in school history. She is 10th on the career scoring list with 1,415 points. Stallworth was inducted into the South Bend Washington hall of fame in 2001 and into the Northern Illinois athletics hall of fame in 2015. Stallworth has worked at the Warren Township district since 2010 as a special education teacher and department chair at Creston Middle School.
Lisa (Shepherd) Stidham, Richmond (1997)
Stidham was 1997 Miss Basketball and Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior, averaging 29.9 points per game and accumulating 132 rebounds, 80 assists and 87 steals. She holds the career scoring record at Richmond with 2,140 career points. Stidham went on to play at Penn State, where she was named to the All-Big Ten freshman team and was a two-time All-Big Ten honoree. Stidham was an assistant coach at North Central from 2011-2020. She has been activities director in different nursing homes and has been the owner of Dream Maker Basketball since 2008 and co-owner of S&S Elite Sports since 2016. She is currently on the Hamilton Southeastern coaching staff.
Denise McClanahan
a 1981 Perry Meridian graduate, will be honored with the Indiana Fever Silver Medal Award for contributions other than an Indiana high school basketball player or coach. McClanahan has more than 30 years of experience as a high school coach, AAU director and coach and is noted for the creation and leadership of the Lady Mac high school summer league for 32 years and 31 years of the Junior Lady Mac middle school league. These leagues have provided opportunities for Central Indiana players with more than 700 playing recently. As a high school coach, she went 347-292 with six sectional titles and won three Marion County championships at Southport. McClanahan won two Marion County championships as a player at Perry Meridian and played at Central Michigan, Butler and IUPUI.
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