Bloomington South Wins Two Individual Titles and Finishes Third at the IHSAA Girls Track and Field State Finals The Bloomington South Panthers scored 34 points to finish third at the IHSAA Girls Track and Field State Finals Saturday at North Central High School in Indianapolis. Carmel won the State title with 54 points and Hamilton Southeastern finished second with 46 points. The Panthers took home two individual State titles with 3200 Meter Relay Team of Lexi Kollbaum, Mary Asplund, Jasmine Martogolio and Ellie Barada with a State Record Time of 8:51.35 as they become the first ever Monroe County Relay Team to win a Girls Track and Field State Title. Ellie Barada followed up with a State Title in the 800 Meters with a time of 2:07.80. Bloomington South has won six individual State Titles in girls Track and Field and this was the first since Hannah Acton won the Pole Vault in 2012.
Lexi Kollbaum finished fourth in the 1600 Meters Mary Asplund finished 8th in the 800 Meters Aruelia Martogolio finished 10th in the 3200 meters and Jasmine Martogolio finished 12th in the 3200 Meters. Violet Hall finished 15th in the 200 Meters and 27th in the Long Jump Maya Jackson finished 25th in the 400 Meters. The Panthers 4th in the 1600 Meter Relay and 25th in the 400 Meter Relay. Edgewood’s Hannah Crain finished 25th in the 3200 Meters Avery Rayl finished 26th in the 400 Meters Ella LaRoche did not clear a height in the Pole Vault. Bloomington North’s Lucah Feagans finished 24th in the 400 Meters. The Cougars finished 22nd in the 3200 Meter Relay and 26th in the 1600 Meter Relay.
Bloomington South Finishes Sixth in the IHSAA Unified Track and Field Finals The Bloomington South Panthers scored 97 points and finished sixth at the IHSAA Unified Track and Field State Finals Saturday Morning at North Central High School in Indianapolis. This is the highest point total for the Panthers in there three State Finals appearances. The Panthers finished 5th in 2024. Bloomington South broke Bloomington North’s record of 95 points when the Cougars finished sixth in 2023 and 91 points in 2021 when the Cougars finished fifth. This was the 9th time a Monroe County School has participated in the Unified Track and Field State Finals. Elkhart won the State Championship with 123 points, as the Lions win Back-to-Back Unified State Track and Field Titles and the third for an Elkhart School after Elkhart Memorial won it all in 2018. Penn was second with 119 Points Fishers scored 100 points to finish third. Westfield finished fourth with 99 points and Homestead finished fifth with 98 Points.
Bloomington South looking to Continue its Boys Golf Sectional Dominance The Bloomington South Panthers are looking to continue its Boys Golf Sectional Streak when they tee off this morning at 8 AM as the Cascades Golf Course on the Northside of Bloomington Hosted by Bloomington North. The Panthers have won the last 10 Sectional Championships dating back to 2014 with no season held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Bloomington North won in 2013 was the last time that a team other than Bloomington South has won this sectional. Bloomington South has won 19 Sectional Championships; Bloomington North has two and Edgewood won its only sectional title in 2009. Bedford North Lawrence, Brown County, Brownstown Central, Edgewood, Lighthouse Christian Academy, Mitchell, Salem, Seymour, Trinity Lutheran West, Washington and Owen Valley will be chasing the Bloomington Schools. The top three teams will advance to the Regional Thursday Morning at the Country Oaks Golf Course in Washington. The top three individuals who are not on an advancing team will advance to the Regional.
The Indiana Fever dominate the Chicago Sky for their second straight win The Indiana Fever (4-4) defeated the Chicago Sky 79-52, the team’s second consecutive win of the Commissioner’s Cup and second in as many games against the Sky this season. With the victory, the Fever also earned $3,000 for their Commissioner Cup beneficiary, Peace Learning Center. The Fever jumped out to an early lead with Lexie Hall feeding Aliyah Boston for the first points of the game, while eight points from Kelsey Mitchell and six from Aari McDonald helped Indiana close out the first quarter up 21-13. A seven-point second quarter from Hull and six points from Natasha Howard gave Indiana a 13-point lead heading into the halftime break. Indiana continued to pour on offensively coming out of halftime, with four three-pointers from four different players, paired with an additional five points from Mitchell to put the Fever out in front by 29 points, while limiting the Sky to just 11 points in the third quarter.
Assistant Coach Austin Kelly served as the team’s head coach with Stephanie White out for personal reasons. The game marked the first time Kelly has served as a head coach at the WNBA level, making it his first official win as a head coach in the WNBA. Lexie Hull surpassed 500 career points at 7:51 in the second quarter, driving in for a layup followed by a free-throw for the three-point play. Aliyah Boston’s second-quarter block on Rebecca Allen’s shot marked her 112th career block, tying Jessica Davenport for the fifth-most in Indiana Fever history. Aliyah Boston made her fourth rebound of the game at 3:58 in the third quarter, the 750th rebound of her career. The game itself served as the first-ever primetime regular-season game broadcast on network television. It was also the first WNBA game to be played at the United Center, the second-largest arena in the United States. The Indiana Fever remain on the road, traveling to face the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday, June 10 at 7:30 PM broadcast nationally on ESPN3 and locally on MeTV Indianapolis.
Lilly King, U.S. Hoosiers Set for the World Aquatic Championships in Singapore In her final World Aquatics Championships this July in Singapore, Indiana swimming and diving alumna Lilly King will lead a group of four Hoosier athletes representing USA Swimming on the international stage. USA Swimming announced its men’s and women’s World Championships rosters early Sunday Morning following the conclusion of the 2025 Toyota National Championships at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis. The rosters include Hoosier breaststrokers King and Josh Matheny, freestyler Anna Peplowski and open water swimmer Mariah Denigan.
Denigan, Matheny and Peplowski each make their third consecutive national teams after competing in the 2023 World Aquatics Championships and the 2024 Paris Olympics. It is Lilly King’s fifth and final long course World Championships – she is also a three-time Olympian and three-time short course World Championships participant – having announced last Saturday that this season is her last. King won the 50-meter breaststroke and finished second in the 100-meter breaststroke at the Toyota National Championships – her final meet on U.S. soil – to set her individual program for Singapore. Matheny will feature in the 100-meter breaststroke and 200-meter breaststroke at World Championships, having won the latter and finishing second in the 100-meter race. IU totaled five breaststroke medals this week in Indianapolis, as Brian Benzing also earned bronze in the men’s 50-meter event.
Anna Peplowski returns to the women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay this summer after helping Team USA win Olympic silver in Paris. Peplowski tied for fourth in the women’s 200-yard freestyle final, prompting a swim-off with Erin Gemmell. Gemmell won the swim-off, but both athletes placed in the top six needed to make the roster. Peplowski reset her program record in the event from all three chances she had this week, going 1:56.39 in prelims, 1:55.82 in the final and 1:55.70 in the swim-off. Her previous best mark was a 1:56.99. Denigan made the USA Swimming’s open water roster earlier this summer and will compete in the 5K event. In total, eight athletes will represent the United States in Singapore – four swimmers and four divers. Indiana athletics will announce its full list of athletes competing at the World Aquatics Championships at a later date.
Indiana Boys Basketball All-Stars Sweep Kentucky at Gainbridge Fieldhouse It happened quick. A Michael Cooper 3-pointer. A Mark Zackery IV layup. A Braylon Mullins’ 3-pointer off a between-the-legs assist from Zackery. Just like that, the 2025 graduating class put its stamp — more of an exclamation point — on its senior season in the Indiana All-Stars’ annual series against the Kentucky All-Stars. The All-Stars rolled to a 106-92-win Saturday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in front of 5,411 fans to put the wraps on Indiana’s 45th win in the past 52 games against Kentucky since 1999. Mullins, IndyStar Mr. Basketball who will have his graduation party Sunday and then leave for UConn on Monday, led the All-Stars with 20 points, nine rebounds and seven assists to earn MVP honors. “You can’t really say we didn’t play great,” Mullins said. “We all played together and had fun tonight. You can’t do anything better than playing on Gainbridge (Fieldhouse) floor. It certainly helped that Malachi (Moreno) wasn’t on the floor because there was a lot more opening up. But we all played great together.”
Kentucky was playing without Moreno, its Mr. Basketball. The 7-1 star center who went for 22 points, 14 rebounds and four blocked shots in Friday night’s game at Lexington Catholic High School — a hard-fought 98-89 Indiana win — stayed back in Lexington as he gets started with his college career at Kentucky. But regardless of Moreno’s presence, it was just a cleaner, crisper Indiana team on Saturday. A big reason for that, among several factors, was the play of point guard Mark Zackery IV of Ben Davis, who finished with 10 points on 2-for-4 shooting from the 3-point line, along with six assists and five steals. Zackery, a Notre Dame football recruit, seemed to shake the rust off after playing just two games during the season due to surgery on his thumb. “Those first two games were kind of like preseason games for me,” Zackery said of the game vs. the Junior All-Stars on Wednesday and at Kentucky on Friday. “Tonight I felt like I came out and did what I was supposed to do and had a couple boards, had a couple assists, got my 10 points and we got the win, so it was a good night.”
The Indiana All-Stars took command with a 13-0 run at the end of the first half, going into halftime with a 50-32 lead. The game was essentially over at that point, though a couple of Brady Koehler-to-Justin Kirby alley-oops — the second bounced off the floor to a waiting Kirby — certainly sealed the deal. Indiana led by as many as 32 points midway through the second half. “It was definitely fun to end it that way, especially catching all those lobs,” said Kirby, who finished with 11 points and four rebounds. “Playing with some of my favorite guys in my last high school game, I just had a great time playing with them. I wish the best for all of them.” Lawrence North’s Azavier Robinson, a Butler recruit, was named the Wooden-MCL Citizenship award winner. Others in double-figure scoring for the Indiana All-Stars were Jeffersonville’s Tre Singleton (12 points, six rebounds), Cathedral’s Koehler (12 points, seven rebounds, four assists, three steals) and Jeffersonville guard Michael Cooper (10 points).
It was the first sweep of Kentucky since 2022. Crispus Attucks’ Dezmon Briscoe swept the floor as the buzzer sounded to celebrate the feat. Kentucky was led by 18 points from East Tennessee State recruit Maddox Huff. “Give these guys credit because they really worked all week,” Urban said. “We had a great practice Thursday and a really good film session. I felt they were really loose, but they were a fun group and really connected and when it was time to lace them up and go play, they did a really good job. They were a super fun group to be around.” And just like that, as each of Indiana All-Stars departed Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it was off to a new and much different chapter of the lives. Zackery IV reports to Notre Dame on Sunday. Kirby leaves for Miami of Ohio in a week. Mullins to UConn. Koehler to Notre Dame. Robinson is already moved into Butler. After several nights at Marian University, Mullins said he was ready for a good night’s sleep in his own bed. “(This week) was kind of preparation for college,” Mullins said. “I got to room with a couple roommates (Koehler was his roommate and Zackery and Robinson were in the adjoining room), so we got a little taste of that, and we were all able to hang out all week. I enjoyed it. But I do miss my bed.”