By Tom Reck
She averaged 16.1 points and 12 rebounds her senior year when she was chosen as a member of the Indiana All-Stars, the only player from Sullivan to earn that honor.
She played two years for ISU and is a regular at Sullivan games these days watching her son and daughter play for the Golden Arrows. Her Sullivan teammate Julie (Rotramel) Meeks previously was named to the Silver Anniversary Team.
Vanderkolk earned first-team all-state honors at Jeff and played four years at ISU. She scored 1,434 points and ranks seventh on the school’s career scoring list.
She earned Gateway Conference honors her junior and senior years and gained Academic All-America honors her senior season. She also was invited to take part in the Olympic Sports Festival.
Bobby Turner played football and served as coach for a time at Indiana State before going to the pros. He recently was named running backs coach and assistant coach for the Washington Redskins, reuniting him with Mike Shanahan, the new coach of the Redskins.
Turner was running backs coach for the Denver Broncos for 15 seasons, 14 under Shanahan, and the Broncos were leaders in yards gained in that time.
• Hoosier teams ranked — Indiana teams rank high in the weekly USA Today prep basketball lists.
Last week, Ben Davis was second in the country in the girls poll and first in the Midwest. The Giants are 16-0 and defeated Warren Central last week 61-37 after beating that same team by 12 points earlier in the year.
Floyd Central’s girls were 25th in the country and sixth in the Midwest.
Bloomington South was sixth in the country in the boys poll and third in the Midwest.
Indianapolis North Central was not ranked in that poll but took Marion County honors last week, beating Warren Central 71-52 in the finals and Lawrence North by four in the semis. The Panthers meet Lawrence North again this week.
• Tom-Cattin’ It — Scott Weaver and Shawn Turner put in a full day of officiating Saturday afternoon.
The pair worked together in the Shakamak-Tecumseh girls varsity game before making the trip to Illinois to do both the junior varsity and varsity games between Shakamak and Marshall boys, teaming with Jack Crapo in the varsity contest.
The games in Illinois and several other boys games around Indiana started earlier than usual in order to avoid a conflict with the Colts on television.
• Vincennes University recently defeated Cincinnati State in men’s basketball to record its 1,500th victory. VU became the fourth junior college team to gain that milestone.
Creighton coach Dana Altman won his 400th game last week.
• Taylor Duncan of Marshall, Ill., is a nominee for Old Spice Red Zone player-of-the-year honors in football.
He, of course, was quarterback for the Lions and is the leading scorer for the basketball team that is 11-3 after beating St. Joe-Ogden and Shakamak last weekend.
• Folks from the Wabash Valley recently competed in a 5K race, half-marathon and marathon in Florida. Tad Meyer, who now works in Washington, D.C., was in the half-marathon and marathon, placing 63rd in the marathon field which included world-class runners.
• Edinburgh High School has let Kyle Wheeler go as football coach. He had a 1-39 record in five seasons as the team snapped a 51-game losing streak last fall.
• Former Mr. Basketball Tyler Zeller of Washington continues to have tough luck at North Carolina. He will miss a month or so with a broken foot.
A year ago, he missed 23 games with a wrist injury.
• Texas quarterback Colt McCoy and Rachel Glandorf recently became engaged. McCoy took her to the football stadium to propose and got someone to put a message on the scoreboard screen for the event.
• The New York Times last week had a full-length story about Terre Haute North graduate Steve Weatherford, now punting for the New York Jets, after he missed the first playoff game.
He was in action Sunday and he and special teams coach Mike Westhoff — a former ISU aide — were on camera at one time on the sidelines.
Tom Reck may be contacted by telephone at (812) 232-3231, by e-mail at tm_reck@yahoo.com or by mail at 4284 South 5th Street, Apt. 3, Terre Haute, IN 47802.
