Three individuals with significant ties to Indiana high school basketball will be recognized with Virgil Sweet Awards from the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association in 2023, it was announced Wednesday (March 6).
Angelo Di Carlo of WHME-TV and Pulse Radio in South Bend, Craig Lyon of Charlie Hughes Basketball and Rick Semmler of WTHI-TV in Terre Haute are the recipients of this year's awards. One person is honored from each IHSAA district -- Di Carlo in District 1, Lyon in District 2 and Semmler in District 3.
Virgil Sweet Awards are presented to those who have provided meritorious service in the promotion of basketball across Indiana. The award is named in honor of Sweet, a former Valparaiso High School basketball coach and executive director of the IBCA from 1974 through 1984. Sweet passed away on June 7, 2023.
This is the 49th year that the IBCA has presented an award or awards for service to basketball beyond coaching. A single winner was named from 1974 through 1979. Multiple winners have been named from 1980 to the present, although no winners were named in 1991 (no clinic was held that year) or 2021 (when the 2020 winners were honored because of the COVID-19 pandemic).
A list of winners from over the years -- plus a bio of Virgil Sweet -- are beneath the biographies of the 2024 winners.
This year's awards will be presented as part of the 2024 IBCA Clinic on April 25-26 at Mt. Vernon High School in Fortville, Ind. For more information about the IBCA, go to in.nhsbca.org.
Here is more information about each Sweet Award honoree for 2024.
Angelo Di Carlo of WHME-TV and Pulse Radio in South Bend, Craig Lyon of Charlie Hughes Basketball and Rick Semmler of WTHI-TV in Terre Haute are the recipients of this year's awards. One person is honored from each IHSAA district -- Di Carlo in District 1, Lyon in District 2 and Semmler in District 3.
Virgil Sweet Awards are presented to those who have provided meritorious service in the promotion of basketball across Indiana. The award is named in honor of Sweet, a former Valparaiso High School basketball coach and executive director of the IBCA from 1974 through 1984. Sweet passed away on June 7, 2023.
This is the 49th year that the IBCA has presented an award or awards for service to basketball beyond coaching. A single winner was named from 1974 through 1979. Multiple winners have been named from 1980 to the present, although no winners were named in 1991 (no clinic was held that year) or 2021 (when the 2020 winners were honored because of the COVID-19 pandemic).
A list of winners from over the years -- plus a bio of Virgil Sweet -- are beneath the biographies of the 2024 winners.
This year's awards will be presented as part of the 2024 IBCA Clinic on April 25-26 at Mt. Vernon High School in Fortville, Ind. For more information about the IBCA, go to in.nhsbca.org.
Here is more information about each Sweet Award honoree for 2024.
