FLOYDS KNOBS — When Zen Michalski was a 6-foot-4 sophomore still growing into his body, one of Floyd Central’s assistant coaches suggested to then-first-year head coach James Bragg that the Highlanders try to convert the lineman into a tight end.

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NEW ALBANY — On a perfect blue-sky spring afternoon several area high school coaches, and another from college, hit the blacktop — actually the bluetop — on Romeo Langford Court at Kevin Hammersmith Memorial Park on Friday.

Christian Academy's Reilley O'Loughlin had a sensational senior season for the Warriors, totaling 16 goals, 14 assists and 46 points en route to becoming the program’s all-time leader in assists and fifth in scoring.

Jeffersonville senior standout Nan Garcia has been named second-team All-State by the Associated Press. 

Audrey Brumfield followed up a very good junior campaign, in which she posted 15 goals, eight assists and 38 points, with an even bigger senior season for Floyd Central.  

After posting team-highs in goals (13) and points (30) as a sophomore while playing alongside her older sister, Logan, Grace Barber had an even better junior season for New Albany.

Trey Kaufman has joined some elite company.

Ten area players — including three who were named “Supreme” — have earned All-State honors from the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association.

Former New Albany standout Sean East, who recently completed his freshman season at the University of Massachusetts, has announced that he is transferring.

In its 35th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade has named Trey Kaufman of Silver Creek High School as its 2019-20 Gatorade Indiana Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Kaufman is the first Gatorade Indiana Boys Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from Silv…

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One recent graduate, one senior and one junior will vie for the title of News and Tribune Sports Performance Yearly (NTSPY) Girls’ Soccer Player of the Year.

The rest of the state will find out this summer what this part of Southern Indiana has known for quite a while, there is a lot of talent in Clark and Floyd counties.

Henryville’s Logan Owens has been selected as one of 13 senior student-athletes across the state to receive the 2020 C. Eugene Cato Memorial Scholarship, the IHSAA announced Monday.

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Former New Albany standout and current Vincennes University sophomore Ryan Robison has signed to play baseball at Purdue Fort Wayne.

CLARKSVILLE — Daniel McDonald is leaving one tradition-rich program for another.

Three members of unbeaten league champion Silver Creek have been named to the Mid-Southern Conference first team in boys’ basketball.

CLARKSVILLE — Providence has named Daniel McDonald its new football coach. 

It’s official, the games won’t go on after all.

Nic Reed is an All-American again.

Two local girls and one boy were among 71 seniors — 39 boys and 32 girls — from across the state who have been selected first-team Academic All-State by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association.

Silver Creek senior Bailey Cravens recently signed to continue her academic and athletic careers at Lakeland Community College (Ohio). Pictured, left to right, front row: father Paul Cravens, Bailey Cravens, mother Anga Cravens; back row: Silver Creek head coach Nate Gibson, sister Shayla Cr…

New Albany volleyball standout Riley Winslow is joining the Herd. The Thundering Herd that is.

Springs sports will go on — that’s the plan for now, at least. Although, they’ll start a little later than usual.

CLARKSVILLE — As the Providence boys’ basketball team prepared for a “breakdown” at the conclusion of Thursday’s practice, the Pioneers gathered together and raised their hands and arms in unison.

The games will not go on after all, for now.

Jeffersonville’s Nan Garcia was one of 14 seniors selected to the 2020 IndyStar Indiana Girls All-Stars on Thursday.

SELLERSBURG — Branden Northern heard the talk.

SELLERSBURG — Earlier this week Silver Creek coach Brandon Hoffman gushed about the anticipated environment at Saturday’s Washington Regional, which will feature the top three teams in Class 3A.

INDIANAPOLIS — The games will go on, for now at least, but with a limited number of spectators.

NEW ALBANY — Family. Trust. Outwork.

NEW ALBANY — Steve Kerberg believes the pressure is off his Christian Academy team now.

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CLARKSVILLE — For Providence head coach Ryan Miller, his first season on the job has featured flashes of what he hoped his team could be, along with some sights he’d rather forget.

CLARKSVILLE — Senior leadership and a coach with ties to the school proved to be keys in offsetting the instability that has plagued the Providence program in recent years.

This past Saturday night was a big one for four of our local teams.

Romeo Langford will be back home again in Indiana on Tuesday night for the second time in his inaugural NBA season. And, he’ll likely do something he didn’t do the first time around — play.