“We know that we have a target on our backs and all these teams are coming for us. Their goal should be to get to state, but that’s our goal too."
“I think I’m going to fit in pretty well,” Carrothers said. “He basically wants to have guards who can switch positions.”
For Jessica Carrothers, the award-winning year and state championship still hasn't set in. She earned another statewide accolade, and her teammate Lilly Stoddard was recognized by ESPN this week.
Here are the players selected to The Times 2021 Girls Basketball All-Area teams.
Jessica Carrothers averaged 23.3 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 4.1 steals per game in Crown Point's state championship season.
Eight Region girls basketball players received Associated Press All-State honors Friday.
The two juniors and sisters Alyna, a junior, and Alyvia Santiago, a senior, insist that all 14 members of the team made key contributions, even those whose participation was limited to practice.
The two juniors and sisters Alyna, a junior, and Alyvia Santiago, a senior, insist that all 14 members of the team made key contributions, even those whose participation was limited to practice.
On Monday, both players were named Indiana Junior All-Stars by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association, becoming the only pair of teammates to receive the nod for the 12-athlete roster.
Crown Point's Jessica Carrothers and Lilly Stoddard continued to garner statewide recognition. Valparaiso's Ben Krikke also added to his collection of Missouri Valley Conference awards.
Times sportswriters James Boyd and Mike Clark discuss the latest Region sports news, including The Times' two APSE awards and Crown Point's third girls basketball state title.
The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association released its all-state selections Tuesday, and the Region was well-represented.
“The one thing that I really wanted to do when I got here was just trying to get our kids to understand what that means to put on our uniform, and how to embrace all the people that came before you."
"Just having it happen this year with the seniors we have, with the team we have, it's just amazing."
There's already one state champ in the Carrothers family. Can Jessica become the second?
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Crown Point will face Brownsburg in the Class 4A girls basketball state championship Saturday night. Get to know the Bulldogs here. Info compi…
A lot has changed since Crown Point last appeared in a girls basketball state championship in 1997, which was the final year of a single-class state tournament.
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Times sportswriters James Boyd and Mike Clark discuss the latest Region sports news, including Crown Point girls basketball advancing to state and the boys basketball sectional pairings.
Indiana Junior All-Star candidate Jessica Carrothers leads No. 2 Crown Point, while Indiana Miss Basketball candidate Ally Becki has Brownsburg on a Cinderella run.
Several of the top players in the Region celebrated Crown Point's semistate win with Jessica Carrothers and Alyna and Alyvia Santiago, who all played AAU together.
"In past years, we would say our defense was OK, but this year I feel like it's the best it's ever been," Crown Point's Alyna Santiago said.
"I knew that as one of the leaders on the team, I had to keep my composure and keep the girls on the team together and just get us started," Carrothers said.
"Just knowing what we're going to get from her every game, it is such a wonderful thing to have as a program."
Chesterton's Nalani Malackowski's defense against Valparaiso's Kiana Oelling was stellar in the sectional semifinal. Crown Point beat Hobart to force a rematch with the Trojans in the championship.
"We want to win the conference again for the third time in a row, so we just had to have that killer mindset."
