TWO MORE INDIANA BORN AND BRED ‘BOLTS BOUND FOR UPCOMING 2016-17 NA3HL SEASON

TEAM INDIANA TOP GOALTENDER AND SCORING, GRITTY FORWARD COMING TO TRI-STATE

JR. THUNDERBOLTS NEWEST NAMES IN THEIR LINEUP ARE LUKE FRY AND KYLE GREGORY

EVANSVILLE, IN— Continuing their mission statement of growing and promoting the great game of hockey in the State of Indiana, Indiana’s only elite junior hockey team, the Evansville Jr. ThunderBolts of the NA3HL have taken another step in that direction with their latest two player signings for the upcoming 2016-17 season.

On this date, Jr. ThunderBolts General Manager/Head Coach Mark Cody has announced that Team Indiana standouts, goaltender LUKE FRY and forward KYLE GREGORY have each signed tenders to join the Evansville club for the 2016-17 NA3HL campaign.

FRY, from the Columbus Icemen High School Team enjoyed a magnificent 2015-16 season as his club’s top goalkeeper. In 19-decisions between the pipes, he compiled a sterling record of 19(13-6-0) while carding a miserly, microscopic GAA of 1.91.

GM/Coach Cody has been casting his watchful eyes on FRY for the past two years both as a coach and a scout and files a glowing report on his Jr. ‘Bolts newest net-minder. “I have had my eye on Luke for the last two seasons. I have had the opportunity of coaching him and watching him perform. Most recently, I watched him in action at the Americas Showcase in Pittsburgh. In my mind, he was the best goaltender at the event and he will come to Evansville competing to play a lot of games for our team.”

As for the Jr. ThunderBolts latest new forward GREGORY, the South Stars High School star will arrive on the Evansville hockey scene at Swonder Ice Arena armed with an array of versatile talents certain to inject an exciting dimension into the hometown Jr. team’s offensive attack. In 2015-16, GREGORY averaged a prolific 1.5 points per game, collecting 42-points in 28-games on 19-goals, 23-assists. He also averaged nearly 4-PIM each game, amassing 106-PIM in those same 28-games.

Coach Cody provides a sneak peek preview of what the Tri-State will be treated to when GREGORY takes the ice for his ‘Bolts boys. “Kyle is a unique player who can put up plenty of points and does it with a lot of grit to his game. Kyle will not shy away from the rough part of the game and will score a lot of goals within 10-feet of the net. His energy will be contagious for the rest of the team.”

Today’s signings of goaltender LUKE FRY and forward KYLE GREGORY bring the total to five (5) players presently listed on the Jr. ThunderBolts roster for 2016-17 with four (4) of those Indiana homegrown products. In addition to Michigan-bred JEREMY ROSS, KORY KIFER and ANDREW WARE are Evansville locals.

 University of Southern Indiana senior Johnnie Guy (Palmyra, Indiana) was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year for Men’s Track & Field in an announcement by the league office Thursday.

Guy is earning his fourth straight GLVC Scholar Athlete of the Year award after earning the honor in cross country in 2014, in track & field in 2015, and once again in cross country in 2015.

A three-time first-team Academic All-American, Guy completed his historic career at USI by racking up four All-America awards on the track this spring. He earned first-team All-America honors in the indoor 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters after finishing sixth and third, respectively, in the events at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships in March.

Guy garnered first-team All-America honors in the outdoor 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters after finishing fifth and fourth, respectively, in the events at the NCAA II Outdoor Championships in May.

USI’s first-ever three-time Academic All-American, Guy concluded his career as the Screaming Eagles’ all-time leader with 16 athletic All-America honors. He won a total of 13 GLVC titles, including three cross country championships, five indoor titles, and five outdoor crowns.

The 2013 Midwest Region Cross Country Runner of the Year, Guy was named the 2015 and 2016 Midwest Region Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. He finished his career at USI with 21 All-Midwest Region awards and 14 All-GLVC accolades and was USI’s Male Student-Athlete of the Year in 2013-14 and 2015-16.

Guy, who amassed a 3.65 grade point average in engineering, captured the national championship in the 10,000 meters as a sophomore in 2014 before finishing second in the indoor 5,000 meters as well as the 10,000 meters as a junior in 2015.

The seven-time Academic All-GLVC honoree also is USI’s first-ever four-time GLVC Scholar Athlete of the Year award winner. He is bringing home the third GLVC Scholar Athlete of the Year award for men’s track & field after capturing the fourth such honor for men’s cross country in the fall.

Pair is going to be inducted in November

 

BALDWIN CITY, Kan. – It is with great enthusiasm and excitement that Small College Basketball announces the inaugural Hall of Fame Class of inductees into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame.

The 2016 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held on Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. Fans may purchase tickets/tables to the Hall of Fame Induction through the following link, www.HoFClassic.com, or by calling 812-421-2212.

“It is an absolute thrill to announce the inaugural class for the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame,” said Hall of Fame and SCB Founder John McCarthy.  “This class represents the best of the best in the history of small college basketball, and it is with great pleasure that we announce this class.”

A pair of University of Evansville legends are in the inaugural class as former coaching legend Arad McCutchan and player Jerry Sloan are in the inaugural class.

Sloan was a three-time United Press International Small College All-American each year from 1963-65; he was also a two-time Associated Press Little College All-American as a junior and senior.  He was a member of Evansville’s 1964 and 1965 NCAA Championship Teams and was the NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player in both seasons.

A member of the NCAA Elite Eight 50^th Anniversary Team, he holds the NCAA Championship game rebounding mark with 25.  He scored 1,320 career points, an average of 15.7 per game.  He also averaged 12.4 rebounds per contest.  Sloan went on to play for the Chicago Bulls from 1965-76 where he was a 2-time NBA All-Star.  His #4 jersey was also retired by the Bulls.  He went onto a stellar coaching career where he retired as the winningest coach in the history of the NBA with 1,221 career wins.  He is ahead of Pat Riley, George Karl and Phil Jackson.  In 2009, Sloan was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.

Another member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and joining Sloan in the inaugural SCB class is Arad McCutchan.  The legend was the first small college coach inducted into the HOF.  He led the Purple Aces to five NCAA National Championships, including a perfect 29-0 season in 1964-65.

In his 31 seasons with the Purple Aces, McCutchan won 515 games while making 15 NCAA Tournament appearances and winning 10 regional championships.  The 2-time NCAA College Division Coach of the Year coached the United States Olympic Trial teams in 1960 and 1968.  At the time of his retirement, McCutchan joined John Wooden as the only two coaches in college basketball history to win at least five NCAA Championships.

For more information about Small College Basketball, please visit the website at www.smallcollegebasketball.com.

Players

Dr. Dick Barnett (Tennessee A&I)

Bevo Francis (Rio Grande)

John Ebeling (Florida Southern)

Travis Grant (Kentucky State)

Bob Hopkins (Grambling)

Lucious Jackson (Pan American College)

Phil Jackson (North Dakota)

Earl Monroe (Winston-Salem State)

Willis Reed (Grambling)

John Rinka (Kenyon)

Jerry Sloan (Evansville)

Coaches

Clarence Gaines (Winston-Salem State)

Arad McCutchan (Evansville)

John McLendon (North Carolina College, Hampton, Tennessee A&I, Kentucky State & Cleveland State)

Contributor

Dr. James Naismith

The SCB Hall of Fame committee consists of: Don Landry, former head coach/AD/commissioner, Roy Pickerill, SID Kentucky Wesleyan and NCAA Elite 8 media coordinator, Pat Coleman, owner of D3hoops.com, Doug Palm, NCAA DIII historian, Rick Zvosec, former collegiate head coach, Gary Pine, Azusa Pacific AD, Steve Shepherd, AD and head basketball coach at College of the Ozarks, Gary Stewart, head coach at Stevenson University, Jerry Dunn, head coach at Tuskegee, Matt Simms, executive director of USCAA, Mike Lightfoot, head coach at Bethel (Ind.), Mike Hall, commissioner of Southern States Athletic Conference and former chair of NCAA DII national basketball committee and Bob Guptil, former SID at Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

In terms of criteria for selection into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame, the committee used the following basic guidelines:

• Must have played, coached or contributed at the small college level (four-year, non-NCAA Division I)
• Focus is on accomplishments/contributions specifically at the collegiate level
• Players must be a minimum of five years removed from their final year of their collegiate career.  Coaches must be a minimum of three years removed from their last season of their coaching career.  There is no such timetable for contributors.
• The Inaugural Class will consist of 15 members.  Subsequent classes will consist of 8-12 members.
• Each Class will have a minimum of one inductee from each of three categories: Player, Coach and Contributor.
• All players, coaches and contributors that have not been inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame will continue to be eligible for annual consideration, as long as they meet the above guidelines.  There is no timetable whereby candidates rotate off/out of consideration.

Pair is going to be inducted in November

 

BALDWIN CITY, Kan. – It is with great enthusiasm and excitement that Small College Basketball announces the inaugural Hall of Fame Class of inductees into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame.

The 2016 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held on Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. Fans may purchase tickets/tables to the Hall of Fame Induction through the following link, www.HoFClassic.com, or by calling 812-421-2212.

“It is an absolute thrill to announce the inaugural class for the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame,” said Hall of Fame and SCB Founder John McCarthy.  “This class represents the best of the best in the history of small college basketball, and it is with great pleasure that we announce this class.”

A pair of University of Evansville legends are in the inaugural class as former coaching legend Arad McCutchan and player Jerry Sloan are in the inaugural class.

Sloan was a three-time United Press International Small College All-American each year from 1963-65; he was also a two-time Associated Press Little College All-American as a junior and senior.  He was a member of Evansville’s 1964 and 1965 NCAA Championship Teams and was the NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player in both seasons.

A member of the NCAA Elite Eight 50^th Anniversary Team, he holds the NCAA Championship game rebounding mark with 25.  He scored 1,320 career points, an average of 15.7 per game.  He also averaged 12.4 rebounds per contest.  Sloan went on to play for the Chicago Bulls from 1965-76 where he was a 2-time NBA All-Star.  His #4 jersey was also retired by the Bulls.  He went onto a stellar coaching career where he retired as the winningest coach in the history of the NBA with 1,221 career wins.  He is ahead of Pat Riley, George Karl and Phil Jackson.  In 2009, Sloan was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.

Another member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and joining Sloan in the inaugural SCB class is Arad McCutchan.  The legend was the first small college coach inducted into the HOF.  He led the Purple Aces to five NCAA National Championships, including a perfect 29-0 season in 1964-65.

In his 31 seasons with the Purple Aces, McCutchan won 515 games while making 15 NCAA Tournament appearances and winning 10 regional championships.  The 2-time NCAA College Division Coach of the Year coached the United States Olympic Trial teams in 1960 and 1968.  At the time of his retirement, McCutchan joined John Wooden as the only two coaches in college basketball history to win at least five NCAA Championships.

For more information about Small College Basketball, please visit the website at www.smallcollegebasketball.com.

Players

Dr. Dick Barnett (Tennessee A&I)

Bevo Francis (Rio Grande)

John Ebeling (Florida Southern)

Travis Grant (Kentucky State)

Bob Hopkins (Grambling)

Lucious Jackson (Pan American College)

Phil Jackson (North Dakota)

Earl Monroe (Winston-Salem State)

Willis Reed (Grambling)

John Rinka (Kenyon)

Jerry Sloan (Evansville)

Coaches

Clarence Gaines (Winston-Salem State)

Arad McCutchan (Evansville)

John McLendon (North Carolina College, Hampton, Tennessee A&I, Kentucky State & Cleveland State)

Contributor

Dr. James Naismith

The SCB Hall of Fame committee consists of: Don Landry, former head coach/AD/commissioner, Roy Pickerill, SID Kentucky Wesleyan and NCAA Elite 8 media coordinator, Pat Coleman, owner of D3hoops.com, Doug Palm, NCAA DIII historian, Rick Zvosec, former collegiate head coach, Gary Pine, Azusa Pacific AD, Steve Shepherd, AD and head basketball coach at College of the Ozarks, Gary Stewart, head coach at Stevenson University, Jerry Dunn, head coach at Tuskegee, Matt Simms, executive director of USCAA, Mike Lightfoot, head coach at Bethel (Ind.), Mike Hall, commissioner of Southern States Athletic Conference and former chair of NCAA DII national basketball committee and Bob Guptil, former SID at Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

In terms of criteria for selection into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame, the committee used the following basic guidelines:

• Must have played, coached or contributed at the small college level (four-year, non-NCAA Division I)
• Focus is on accomplishments/contributions specifically at the collegiate level
• Players must be a minimum of five years removed from their final year of their collegiate career.  Coaches must be a minimum of three years removed from their last season of their coaching career.  There is no such timetable for contributors.
• The Inaugural Class will consist of 15 members.  Subsequent classes will consist of 8-12 members.
• Each Class will have a minimum of one inductee from each of three categories: Player, Coach and Contributor.
• All players, coaches and contributors that have not been inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame will continue to be eligible for annual consideration, as long as they meet the above guidelines.  There is no timetable whereby candidates rotate off/out of consideration.