Description: This award goes to the coach and staff who have best elevated their team. 

Breakdown: I was told this offseason by a Center Grove coach not to sleep on them this year, and that they could win it all. I, of course, told him they had no chance of beating either of the Bulldogs. Well, I was wrong, and Center Grove did what very few thought they could this season. The Trojans finished 2nd behind Crown Point at Al Smith, and 3rd at team state behind Crown Point and Brownsburg, so it looked early on that they were still the third-best of the group. Coach Swain kept those guys locked in, and they believed they could do it and found a way to finish the year as the best team in the state. They won the semi-state over Brownsburg and sent ten to state.  Of those ten, eight placed, with all being in the top five. If you look at their roster and the guys they have, you do not see anyone who underperformed when it mattered, and that was the difference. Congratulations to Coach Swain and his staff on winning this year's Hoosiermat Coach of the Year Award.

 

State Qualifiers:

Justus Thrasher-120

Owen Porterfield | 165

State Placers:

Joe Hamilton | 106 | 3rd

Daniel Brow Jr. | 113 | 2nd

Dominic Brown |126 |2nd

Royce Malone |132 |3rd

Peyton Hornsby |144 | 2nd

Marcus Malone | 150 |5th

William Vander Luitgaren | 157 | 4th

Sean Breedlove | 175 | 1st

Season Accolades:

BHHS Invitational | 1st

Johnson County Tournament | 1st

Al Smith | 2nd

IHSWCA Team State | 3rd

Sectional | 1st

Regional | 2nd

Semi-state | 1st

IHSAA State | 1st

 

Runner-up: Branden Lorek and staff | Crown Point

3rd Place: Darrick Snyder and staff | Brownsburg

4th Place: Jim Tonte and staff | Franklin Community