Indiana University Football gets verbal commitment from Wide Receiver Charlie Becker
The Indiana Hoosiers received a commitment from Tennessee wide receiver Charlie Becker. The 6’3”, 185-prospect is rated a three-star prospect by 247Sports composite rankings. He is the 10th member of the Hoosiers 2024 high school recruiting class. He chose the Hoosiers over Iowa, Northwestern and Vanderbilt while holding 10 other offers. Becker is from Nashville, Tennessee and played for Father Ryan High School. He is fresh off an official visit to IU and was scheduled to take an official visit to Iowa today.
Becker also runs hurdles in high school as he made the decision to run track to improve his speed for football. “I wanted to get faster for all the football camps,” he said. “But I got into hurdles, and it didn’t turn out too bad.” Becker said in an interview with MainStreet Preps. Becker was also productive on the football field as he made 58 receptions for 694 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2022. Becker also returned kicks. He can use his speed to stretch the field and his frame to go up and grab the ball out of the air. Becker said in the MainStreet Preps article that his recruitment really started gaining steam during his sophomore and junior seasons. “Sophomore and junior year it just blew up, it’s been unreal getting to talk to all these coaches who I never thought I would have any sort of communication with. I had these goals back in middle school. I wanted to go (Division I) and play at a big-time college.” he said.
Indiana University Women’s Basketball announces 2023-24 Big Ten Conference Opponents
The Big Ten Conference announced the 2023-24 single play and two-play conference opponents. League play will feature an 18-game format once again this season. Each team will play five opponents twice, four opponents only at home and four opponents only on the road. Times, dates and TV designations for the matchups will be announced at a later time. Indiana heads into the 2023-24 season with four starters returning from a team that went 28-4 overall, was a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, and won the program’s first-ever outright Big Ten regular season championship. Headlining the list of returnees is graduate student forward Mackenize Holmes who earned First-Team All-America honors after ranking seventh nationally in scoring (22.3) last season. Four other All-Big Ten selections will also be back for the Hoosiers including seniors Sydney Parrish and Chloe Moore-McNeil along with graduate student Sara Scalia and sophomore Yarden Garzon.
Reserved season tickets will be available for the upcoming IU Women’s Basketball season on the east side of the Main Level of Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, Rows 1-30. Adult reserved season tickets are $112, while reserved senior season tickets (65+) and youth season tickets (18-and-under) are $48. IU faculty and staff can purchase reserved season tickets for $80. The remainder of the arena will remain general admission for 2023-24, with seating available on a first-come, first-served basis. Adult general admission season tickets are $96, while general admission youth and senior tickets are $48.
2023-24 Big Ten Conference Opponents
Home & Away – Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Northwestern, Purdue
Home Only – Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Penn State
Away Only – Nebraska, Ohio State, Rutgers, Wisconsin
Indiana University Volleyball players Grae Gosnell and Camryn Haworth to attend Big Ten Volleyball Media Days
The Big Ten Conference will continue to raise the bar as the premier volleyball conference in the country when it plays host to the second annual Big Ten Volleyball Media Days August 1-2, 2023, at Big Ten Network studios in Chicago. Last summer, the Big Ten became the first collegiate conference to host an in-person preseason volleyball media event, providing yet another example of the Big Ten’s commitment to elevating women’s sports. Seven Big Ten Conference volleyball programs (Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State and Purdue) will arrive at the Big Ten Network on Tuesday, Aug. 1 for a series of interview sessions and other creative content opportunities to preview the 2023 volleyball season. The remaining seven Big Ten Conference programs (Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Penn State, Rutgers and Wisconsin) will go through a similar schedule at Big Ten Network on Wednesday, Aug. 2.
Along with their media schedules, student-athletes, and coaches from all 14 Big Ten Conference volleyball programs will gather on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 1, for an exclusive dinner and reception, celebrating the success and future promise of Big Ten volleyball.
The Big Ten Conference had six schools earn berths into last year’s NCAA Tournament and led the nation with five schools receiving top-16 seeds. At least one Big Ten program has advanced to the NCAA national semifinals in 15 of the past 16 seasons, reaching the title match 12 times and winning nine national championships since 2007. Along with all 14 Big Ten Conference head coaches (including new arrivals Erin Virtue of Michigan and Keegan Cook of Minnesota), the complete list of student-athletes from each school who are expected to attend the 2023 Big Ten Volleyball Media Days is listed below, while additional information on media coverage for the event will be forthcoming.
Illinois – Brooke Mosher, Raina Terry, Indiana – Grae Gosnell, Camryn Haworth, Iowa – Delaney McSweeney, Bailey Ortega, Maryland – Sydney Dowler, Sam Csire, Michigan – Hannah Grant, Allison Jacobs, Michigan State – Julia Bishop, Aliyah Moore, Minnesota – Taylor Landfair, Melani Shaffmaster, Nebraska – Merritt Beason, Lexi Rodriguez, Northwestern – Alexa Rousseau, Ellee Stinson, Ohio State – Emily Londot, Rylee Rader, Penn State – Allie Holland, Zoe Weatherington, Purdue – Eva Hudson, Maddie Schermerhorn, Rutgers – Taylor Humphrey, Alissa Kinkela and Wisconsin – Izzy Ashburn, MJ Hammill.
IHSAA Approves and Amends Four Class proposal
During its final meeting of the 2022-23 school year Thursday, the IHSAA Executive Committee approved a rule that changes the way schools are classified in four-class sports. The Executive Committee voted to amend the original rule proposal from the Indiana
Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (IIAAA) that would have changed how schools were classified in four-class sports by using fixed enrollment figures. Instead, by a 13-4-1 count, the Committee opted to maintain a percentage-based system and adjusted it to a 20-25-25-30 ratio.
Beginning with the next reclassification cycle, Class 4A will include the largest 20% of schools, Class 3A will be the next 25%, Class 2A the next 25% and Class A the smallest 30% of schools. Since 1997-98, the rule has required equally distributing schools (25%) among the four classes. “The Board of Directors recognized the concerns brought to us by the IIAAA which were the enrollment gap in Class 4A and the smaller schools that were being moved up to a larger class without a significant enrollment change due to new member schools joining the Association,” said IHSAA Commissioner Paul Neidig. “This change also addresses a desire for schools to be in the
same class in baseball, basketball, softball, and volleyball but it also give us an opportunity to adjust those percentages in the future if necessary.”
The next two-year reclassification cycle begins with the 2024-25 school year with the certified enrollment figures reported to the Indiana Department of Education from the upcoming school year being used. Those will be released next winter. Additionally, classifying the four-class sports will be based on the entire membership total and not only those schools participating in a given sport effectively keeping sectional alignments similar across each sport. The original proposal had been submitted by Neidig on behalf of the IIAAA but had been tabled by the Board of Directors for further study at its May 1 meeting and was brought back for action at
Thursday’s meeting.
Two proposals affecting the Tournament Success Factor (Rule 2-5) that had been tabled in May were also brought back for action.
A proposal from Board member and Barr-Reeve Principal Jeff Doyle was approved after being amended. New language requires that a school’s performance and points accumulated in a two-year span will be looked at annually beginning in 2024-25. Currently, points accumulated in a specific two-year window determine whether a team moves up or stays up one or more classes. Going forward, data from the previous two years will be reviewed and considered annually before making a determination. A proposal from Yorktown Principal Stacey Brewer that called for schools that were playing in a higher class to drop down a class if they accumulated three points or less and those scoring four or more points to remain in that higher class, failed to receive support.
Connor McNeely wins the Indiana State Amateur Golf Tournament at the Indiana University Pfau Course
After three rounds and two weather delays, the 123rd Indiana State Amateur Championship taking place at the Pfau Course at Indiana University has concluded with University of Cincinnati’s and Noblesville Indiana native Connor McNeely pulling his first win. McNeely finished the event with rounds of 67,71, and 73 keeping a focus on his own game and a positive mindset throughout the entire competition. After the conclusion of day two, McNeely mentioned that his biggest focus going into the final round would be “playing his own game and staying in his lane”. This stable mindset was easy to see after an unfortunate double on the back nine today, followed by an immediate and necessary birdie on the next hole. McNeely has dressed himself with accomplishments in the Indiana Junior Golf Program, AJGA and Golfweek tournaments and had some impressive stats his freshman year at Butler University. McNeely’s transfer to the University of Cincinnati begins this August and he is looking to make the lineup and win some big events right at the start.
The runner-up who pushed himself into contention early on in the final round is Western Kentucky University’s Nic Hofman from Lafayette Indiana, who finished with rounds of 69, 72, 72. Hofman’s next move is heading back down to Kentucky for the Southern Amateur Qualifier and will also be competing at our Indiana Open beginning July 11th. He added “You always have to keep learning and getting better. Just being in contention and kind of handling those nerves a bit more, hitting quality shots and being in the moment is what I will take from this.”
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