Leal, Parrish Capture Indiana's Top Basketball Awards
Leal, Parrish Capture Indiana's Top Basketball Awards
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Leal, Parrish Capture Indiana's Top Basketball AwardsINDIANAPOLIS — Anthony Leal and Sydney Parrish can add one more award to their expanding trophy rooms — Indiana's No. 1 All-Star jersey.
Leal was a runaway winner for the IndyStar Mr. Basketball Award, receiving 103 of 236 votes. Parrish earned 102 votes to edge Madison Layden for the Miss Basketball Award.
The winners were announced Friday.
Leal becomes the second player from Bloomington South to win the award, joining Jordan Hulls from 2009, and is the third consecutive Mr. Basketball winner to play for Indiana University. Romeo Langford, the 2018 winner, and last year's winner, Trayce Jackson-Davis, also chose the Hoosiers.
The award caps a nearly perfect season for Leal, who led Bloomington South to a 26-0 record and the only unbeaten team left in Indiana when the boys basketball tournament was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He broke the school's scoring record, helped South win its sixth consecutive sectional title and had his team seemingly destined for a state title. Then Thursday, he was selected to the The Associated Press all-state team with the most votes.
Leal beat out Tony Perkins of Lawrence North (37 votes) and Trey Galloway of Culver Academy (33). Johnell Davis of Gary 21st Century had 22 votes and Dre Davis of Lawrence Central had 15.
Parrish, meanwhile, won this most recent showdown with Layden, who had already been named this year's Indiana Gatorade player of the year and last week received the most votes on the girls all-state team.
This time, the 6-foot-2 Oregon recruit finished with 102 votes compared with Layden (83) and Kendall Bostic (22). Layden and Bostic were teammates at Northwestern.
Parrish certainly had a storied career. She was the state Gatorade player of the year in 2019 when she led Hamilton Southeastern to the Class 4A state title.
As a senior, Parrish averaged 24.8 points, 8.0 rebounds, 2.4 steals and topped the 30-point mark eight times as Hamilton Southeastern went 22-3. She was named a McDonald's All-American, selected to play in the Jordan Brand Classic all-star game and had been selected to the Indiana All-Star team. All of the all-star games have been canceled.
Parrish is part of a recruiting class at Oregon that has been ranked as the nation's best.
Indiana Mr. Basketball honorees
1939: George Crowe, Franklin
1940: Ed Schienbein, Southport
1941: John Bass, Greenwood
1942: Bud Brown, Muncie Burris
1943: not awarded (World War II)
1944: not awarded (World War II)
1945: Tom Schwartz, Kokomo
1946: Johnny Wilson, Anderson
1947: Bill Garrett, Shelbyville
1948: Bob Masters, Lafayette Jeff
1949: Dee Monroe, Madison
1950: Pat Klein, Marion
1951: Tom Harrold, Muncie Central
1952: Joe Sexson, Indianapolis Tech
1953: Hallie Bryant, Indianapolis Attucks
1954: Bobby Plump, Milan
1955: Wilson Eison, Gary Roosevelt
1956: Oscar Robertson, Indianapolis Attucks
1957: Joan Coalmon, South Bend Central
1958: Mike McCoy, Fort Wayne South
1959: Jimmy Rayl, Kokomo
1960: Ron Bonham, Muncie Central
1961: Tom VanArsdale, Indianapolis Manual, and Dick VanArsdale, Indianpolis Manual
1962: Larry Humes, Madison
1963: Rick Jones, Muncie Central
1964: Dennis Brady, Lafayette Jeff
1965: Bill Keller, Indianapolis Washington
1966: Rick Mount, Lebanon
1967: Willie Long, Fort Wayne South
1968: Billy Shepherd, Carmel
1969: George McGinnis, Indianapolis Washington
1970: Dave Shepherd, Carmel
1971: Mike Flynn, Jeffersonville
1972: Phil Cox, Connersville
1973: Kent Benson, New Castle
1974: Steve Collier, Southwestern (Hanover), and Roy Taylor, Anderson
1975: Kyle Macy, Peru
1976: Dave Colescott, Marion
1977: Ray Tolbert, Anderson Madison Heights
1978: David Magley, South Bend LaSalle
1979: Steve Bouchie, Washington
1980: Jim Master, Fort Wayne Harding
1981: Dan Palombizio, Michigan City Rogers
1982: Roger Harden, Valparaiso
1983: Steve Alford, New Castle
1984: Delray Brooks, Michigan City Rogers, and Troy Lewis, Anderson,
1985: Jeff Grose, Warsaw
1986: Mark Jewell, Lafayette Jeff
1987: Jay Edwards, Marion, and Lyndon Jones, Marion
