Area Seniors Win IBCA Scholarships

Two East Central seniors and two Oldenburg Academy seniors were among 40 recipients.

INDIANAPOLIS – Forty Indiana high school seniors have been named winners of 2024 scholarship awards from the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association.

The IBCA, a statewide coaches group with about 2,400 members, this year is presenting a grant of $500 to each recipient in the names of Marion Crawley, Junior Mannies, Pat Aikman and Steve and Jeanie Witty.

Among the Marion Crawley Award recipients are Dylan Maxwell (East Central), Adam Stephenson (East Central), Addison Barnes-Pettit (Greensburg), Sadie Wachsmann (Oldenburg Academy), and Ellie Ryan (Oldenburg Academy).

Criteria for the Crawley Scholarship includes achievement in basketball, achievement in academics, participation in extracurricular activities and service to one's school and community. Crawley was a former four-time boys basketball state championship coach -- two with the Washington Hatchets and two with the Lafayette Jeff Bronchos -- who amassed 644 career wins. He later became the first executive director of the IBCA, serving in that role from 1970-74. He then served as the IBCA assistant executive director from 1974 until he passed away in 1982.

 "I would like to congratulate you for being selected as a recipient," IBCA executive director emeritus Steve Witty wrote in informing winners of the various selections. "... Thank you for your contributions to Indiana high school basketball, and best of luck as you move on to the college of your choice."