{"id":13988,"date":"2024-03-10T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T13:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=13988"},"modified":"2024-03-10T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T13:22:39","slug":"ibca-announces-academic-all-state-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/ibca-announces-academic-all-state-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"IBCA announces Academic All-State Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seventy-six Indiana high school seniors &#8212; 38 boys and 38 girls &#8212; have been chosen as first-team Academic All-State for 2024 by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association, it was announced Tuesday (March 5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition,&nbsp;218 more boys and&nbsp;204 more girls were recognized as honorable mention Academic All-State for 2024, IBCA executive director Marty Johnson said. In total,&nbsp;498 players received some level of recognition in this year&#8217;s IBCA Academic All-State program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IBCA Academic All-State program is one where academic prowess and athletic prowess both are considered in the selections. Items such as grade-point average, academic class rank and SAT or ACT scores are considered along with athletic performance in areas such as points per game, rebounds per game and assists per game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The quality of these student-athletes shows that success in academics and success in athletics are not separate entities,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;Rather, in many cases, a player&#8217;s success in the classroom directly contributes to his or her success on the floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IBCA-member head coaches from schools across the state may nominate their senior student-athletes who meet criteria that include a 3.50 GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale, a class rank in the upper 25 percent of one&#8217;s class and either&nbsp;an SAT score of 1100 (on the reading and math sections) or an ACT composite score of 24.&nbsp;Once nominations were received, an IBCA committee reviewed the information and determined awards for first team and honorable mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IBCA has selected an Academic All-State team for boys since 1973. The program was expanded to include a girls&#8217; Academic All-State team in 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local players on the list include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Boys:<ul><li>First Team:<ul><li>Micah McClure, Adams Central<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Ashton Federspiel, Norwell<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Honorable Mention:<ul><li>Andrew James, Bellmont<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Jack Scheumann, Bellmont<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evan Pennington, Southern Wells<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Girls:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Honorable Mention:<ul><li>Natalie Otte, Heritage<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lily Norris, Norwell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-six Indiana high school seniors &#8212; 38 boys and 38 girls &#8212; have been chosen as first-team Academic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,41,13,15,51,46,53,26],"class_list":["post-13988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-adamscentral","tag-basketball","tag-bellmont","tag-featured","tag-heritage","tag-norwell","tag-southernwells","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/basketball-generic-1.jpg?fit=1500%2C2100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}