Bloomington North’s 3200 Meter Relay Three Peats as the Cougars Finish as State Runners Up The Bloomington North Cougars finished second at the IHSAA Boys Track and Field State Finals with 45 points. The meet was held Friday at North Central High School in Indianapolis. Lawrence North scored 47 points and won their 5th state championship and first since 2003. The Wildcats are tied for 7th with Carmel for the most all-time Boys Track and Field State Championships in IHSAA History. Lawrence North won in 1990, 2001, 2002, 2023 and 2025. Bloomington North finished third a year ago which was their best finish in school history, but the Cougars are State Runner Up’s for the first time and are searching for their first state title in Boys Track and Field.
The Cougars won 2 Individual Events as the 3200-meter relay team of Caleb Winders, Caelan D’Onofrio, Jacob Mitchell and Jake Gentry set a new state record of 7:37:01 breaking the old record of set by last year’s Bloomington North 3200 Meter Relay Team. This is the third straight year Bloomington North has won the 3200 Meter Relay as Caleb Winders is now a three-time champion and Caelan D’Onofrio a two-time champion. Winders won his first individual state title taking home the 800 Meters with a time of 1:52:21. Bloomington North has won eight individual state titles and three relay titles in school history. D’Onofrio finished 3rd in the 1600 Meters and 6th in the 800 Meters. Jacob Mitchell finished 4th in the 3200 Meters. Ben Boland finished 8th in both the 110- and 300-Meter Hurdles. James Bosco finished 13th in the 400 Meters. Evan Cheng finished 19th in the Long Jump. Alan Hays finished 20th in the 300 Meter Hurdles. Treah Young finished 20th in the Shot Put and Adis Hamidovic committed a foul in the discus and did not place. The Cougars finished 6th in the 4 X 400 Meter Relay and 27th in the 4X100 Meter Relay.
Bloomington South scored 5 points and tied for 41st. Arthur Banks finished 5th in the Pole Vault. Noah Field finished 10th in the Shot Put. Khaliq Akou finished 10th in the 200 Meters and 30th in the 100 Meters. Gabe Taylor finished 15th in the 200 Meters. The Panthers finished 14th in the 4X100 Meter Relay and 23rd in the 4X 400 Meter Relay. Edgewood’s Luke Waugh finished 26th in the Long Jump.
Indiana University Football Single Game Tickets go on Sale June 10th After an appearance in the 2024 College Football Playoff, the Indiana football program will begin its seven-game home schedule with four straight contests inside Memorial Stadium, including its Big Ten opener versus Illinois. While season tickets and season mini-packages are still on sale, the IU Ticket Office will start single game ticket sales on Tuesday, June 10.
Donor Pre-Sale Opens Tuesday June 10 – 8 a.m. ET- IU Varsity Club members and IU Athletics donors receive first access to the full single-game inventory nearly a month before the general public. To participate, donors must log in to their existing IU Athletics account beginning at 8 a.m. on June 10. You can log-in to your account by clicking here.
Two-Game Bundle for All Fans Also Begins June 10-At the same 8 a.m. launch time on June 10, non-donors can secure a “Build-Your-Own” two-game bundle — pairing one non-conference matchup with any Big Ten home game — starting at $130. Fans can access the two-game bundles by clicking here.
General Public Single-Game On-Sale Begins Tuesday, July 8 – 8 a.m. ET-Remaining individual game tickets will open to the public on July 8 (date subject to change). Fans may purchase online, by phone, or in person at the IU Ticket Office.
Season Tickets & Mini-Plans Still on Sale- For the best value and seat location, fans are encouraged to explore season tickets and four flexible mini-package options currently available through IUHoosiers.com/tickets. For additional information, visit IUHoosiers.com/tickets or fans can contact the IU Ticket Office at 812-855-4006 or visit the ticket office inside the west side entrance to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
Indiana University Volleyball Season Tickets are On Sale Season tickets for the 2025 Indiana Volleyball campaign are officially on sale through the IU ticket office. Volleyball fans can renew their seats from previous years or can purchase season tickets for the first time at Wilkinson Hall. The priority deadline for all fans to purchase a season package is June 20th. After that, the ticket office will see who can upgrade from General Admission to reserved seating. Single match tickets for the 12 games in Bloomington in 2025 are expected to go on sale in late-July. The Hoosiers have loved playing at Wilkinson Hall over the last two seasons. Head coach Steve Aird has led his team to a 21-7 record (.750 winning percentage) on home soil since 2023 – including two wins over Illinois, a big sweep of UCLA and a Monon Spike victory over Purdue.
IU returns a veteran core of talent in 2025 and will surround it with the most-talented freshman class in program history. Lineup mainstays in seniors Candela Alonso-Corcelles and Avry Tatum will lead the offensive charge with high-ranked recruits Jaidyn Jager, Charlotte Vinson and Victoria Gray expected to make an impact. The 2025 campaign begins in Coral Gables against Miami (Fla.) on Friday, August 29th. The home slate begins on Thursday, September 4th against SEMO (7:00 p.m.).
Indiana University Rower Annabel Oertel named First Team All-American Indiana rowing graduate student Annabel Oertel is the program’s third first-team All-American as the CRCA announced its postseason awards on Friday. Oertel is now a two-time All-American, improving upon her 2024 honorable mention honors a year ago. The Berlin, Germany, native joins Meradith Dickensheets (2014, 2015) and Abigail Bogovich (2019) as the only Hoosiers to earn first-team selections. Indiana has produced five All-America awards in the last four seasons. Oertel led Indiana’s Varsity Eight crew to the boat’s best-ever finish at an NCAA Championships, placing ninth nationally. As a team, IU finished No. 14 – the program’s best finish since 2019. Oertel also earned first-team All-Big Ten honors.
Indiana Boys Basketball All-Stars beats the Kentucky All-Stars in Lexington It was a struggle. A good play here. A turnover there. It went like for the Indiana All-Stars for most of Friday’s game against the Kentucky All-Stars at Lexington Catholic High School. The Kentucky All-Stars led by six points as the clock ticked under eight minutes. The Jeffersonville senior guard drilled three consecutive 3-pointers, two on assists from Ben Davis guard Mark Zackery IV and other from Lawrence North’s Azavier Robinson, to help the Indiana All-Stars breathe a little easier on their way to a 98-89 victory. “It’s just really being confident in the work I put in to just knock it down,” Cooper said. IndyStar Mr. Basketball Braylon Mullins also had a big second half, scoring 13 of his game-high 24 points to lead the Indiana All-Stars its 44th victory in the past 51 games in the series. Indiana leads the all-time series, which dates to 1940, by a count of 106-46.
Cooper sparked a much-needed run for Indiana. “He’s won a state championship, so he knows how to win,” Indiana All-Stars coach Marc Urban (Chesterton) said of Cooper. “I thought we made the extra pass on those shots where he was stepping in and shooting wide-open 3s. And he made big-time plays. That’s why he’s an Indiana All-Star and why he’s going to have a really successful career at Wright State.” Indiana had its hands full with Kentucky’s highly touted Malachi Moreno, a 7-1 incoming Kentucky freshman who played AAU basketball with Mullins on Indiana Elite. Moreno, who will not play in the game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Saturday, finished with 22 points, 14 rebounds and four blocked shots and played all but 54 seconds.
“I’m usually seeing him in the same uniform as me,” said Mullins, who will leave for UConn on Monday. “But there’s nothing personal. We were going up the court and chatting and laughing like we were doing in AAU. I’m excited to see what he does at Kentucky, but tonight was fun going against him.” Mullins helped spark the second-half run with a transition 3-pointer, though it seemed like every time Indiana would make a move, Kentucky would have a counter. Vince Dawson, a Morehead State recruit who finished with 21 points on 5-for-7 shooting from the 3-point line, drilled a 3 put Kentucky up eight with 11 minutes left.
When Jeffersonville’s 6-9 Tre Singleton picked up his fourth foul with 10:26 left, it brought back memories of Mr. Basketball Flory Bidunga fouling out on a technical foul in last year’s loss at Kentucky. But Indiana got hot at the right time. “We had a brutal loss on Wednesday night (against the Junior All-Stars),” Mullins said of the 117-114 loss on his home floor at Greenfield-Central. “But that run we had at the end of the game just sparked the bench, the players and coaches. We needed that. We made that run and we weren’t looking back.”Cooper finished with 21 points on 6-for-8 shooting from the 3-point line. Singleton, his teammate on the Jeffersonville Class 4A state champions, went for 14 points and four rebounds, but was limited to 24 minutes because of foul trouble. His bucket with 3 minutes left pushed Indiana’s lead to 86-80 and Kentucky never got any closer.
Ben Davis’ Zackery added 12 points, six assists, five rebounds and five steals. Fishers’ Justin Kirby had nine points and four rebounds, and the Butler-bound Robinson had eight points, five rebounds and two assists. Mullins finished 10-for-18 from the floor and had six rebounds and two assists. “He’s incredibly talented, as a high IQ and he’s a great kid,” Urban said of Mullins. “It’s been fun to get to know him. I know he was frustrated missing those first couple but he just kept sticking with it and that one he hit in transition was big. He made Mr. Basketball plays. He demands so much attention and he opens things up for other people, but he’s still able to be efficient.” Indiana played without Cathedral’s Brady Koehler. The Notre Dame recruit was on the bench but not in uniform. It was the first win in Kentucky since 2022 for Indiana, which lost 94-90 in Owensboro two years ago and 103-82 in Lexington last year. “There’s nowhere else you’d rather do it than Gainbridge Fieldhouse,” Mullins said. “They are going to have a little bit different team without Malachi playing but we’re not going to take anything for granted. We’re going to come out and play like we did tonight and I think we’ll be good tomorrow.”
Alexandria’s Jacklynn Hosier pulling off a Unique Double Jacklynn Hosier is pulling the Deion Sanders-like double this week. Hosier played in the Indiana All-Stars basketball team’s 84-73 loss to the Kentucky at Lexington Catholic High School on Friday night, then drove home with her parents (her father, Mickey, was an Indiana All-Star in 1996), to prepare for Alexandria’s Class 2A softball semistate game on Saturday morning at Kokomo. If Alexandria wins that softball game against Andrean, she is going to try to make it back in time for the Tigers semistate championship Saturday night in Kokomo. That would be after the Indiana All-Stars play the rematch game against Kentucky at 5 p.m. at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. “I’m going to need like a police escort to get back to the game at 7 when we win,” Hosier said. “I have confidence. It’s going to be busy, but it’s fun. I’m just appreciating it and making the most of it.”
Hosier, a Vermont basketball recruit, plays shortstop for the Alexandria softball team, which won the regional for the first time in the program’s history. She made a deal — and put it writing — with softball coach Jared Bourf, the basketball assistant, that she would play softball this season. She did not play last year because of her AAU basketball spring season. “Even though softball is not really my sport, I just want to be there for my team,” Hosier said. “I want to help them in any way that I can. And I want to be here for this team, too, because not many people get this opportunity with the All-Stars, so I’m really grateful for it. I’m just trying to be in both places and give my all with softball and basketball.” It might help her cause of she could use a helicopter to get to Kokomo like Deion Sanders did in 1992 to get from his NFL game with the Atlanta Falcons to a Cincinnati Reds’ playoff baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
On Tuesday, she practiced with the Indiana All-Stars at Marian University, then played with her softball team’s 18-3 win over Lapel in the regional at Lapel. She celebrated with her team, riding the firetruck through town, then returned to Marian around midnight. All she has had to miss so far is about 30 minutes of basketball practice, though she will miss walkthrough on Saturday for the softball game. “My dad just told me to enjoy it,” said Hosier, who played for her dad in high school. “It goes by fast, and you aren’t going to experience anything like it. It’s been super fun. The girls have been so fun to hang around with, even we are just eating or playing cards or whatever. It’s been really fun.” The Indiana All-Stars will be looking to split the series with Kentucky in Saturday’s return game after a frustrating loss on Friday night. Indiana gave up 26 offense rebounds to Kentucky, which was led by 28 points and 11 rebounds from Miss Basketball and LSU recruit ZaKiyah Johnson.
The Indiana All-Stars trailed 73-57 with 5 minutes remaining before rallying with 3-pointers from Monique Mitchell, Addison Baxter and Jaylah Lampley to cut the Kentucky All-Stars’ lead to 73-68 with 3:35 left. Another basket by South Bend Washington’s Mitchell got Indiana within 75-72 with 1:53 to play. But that would be as close as Indiana would get. A three-point play by Louisville recruit Peyton Bradley, who burned the All-Stars for 21 points, sealed the deal. “I definitely think homecourt advantage is a huge thing, especially with Kentucky and Indiana,” said IndyStar Miss Basketball Maya Makalusky of Hamilton Southeastern, who finished with a team-high 18 points. “I think we should have been more prepared for that, knowing they are going to get every call, and the refs are going to be on their side. Our energy, too, whether the calls are going against us or not, is going to be important. And rebounding is a huge thing. They had way too many offensive rebounds.”
Kentucky was 17-for-27 from the free-throw line, while Indiana was 7-for-9. Columbia City’s Baxter added 10 points and six assists, Lawrence Central’s Laila Abdurraqib had 10 points and Mitchell finished with 12 points and five rebounds. The all-time series is now 55-42 in favor of Indiana. Kentucky will be going for its first sweep since 2012. “I think most important (Saturday) is just coming out and having fun and having that energy,” Makalusky said. “Coming into this, we were the underdog. If we get better rebounding, tomorrow will be our game.”