Boys and Girls Basketball
Northrop won the Indiana State Boys Basketball Championship in 1974 behind the play of Walter Jordan. In the summer of 2007, Northrop hired long-time Indiana High School Basketball coach Al Rhodes to coach the boys basketball squad. Rhodes would resign a year later.
Northrop Lady Bruins won the Indiana State Basketball Championship in 1986. The Lady Bruins ended the season with a 29-0 record. The 29 victories with zero losses was a State record at the time. The win streak continued through the following season where the Lady Bruins eventually lost during the final four at the State Championships. Their 57 victories in a row were another Indiana record. Lori Meinerding was named 1987 Miss Basketball. The Lady Bruins were coached by Dave Riley, who has been inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame for his accomplishments at Northrop.
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“All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
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—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“It is an accepted fact and one that is wholly in accordance with a proper American spirit of democracy, that girls should be educated with a view to earning their own living. A specified and sustained occupation, having in end a definite purpose, is undoubtedly a help to every human being.”
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—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)