NAPPANEE – A basketball state championship and the Patricia L. Roy Mental Attitude award capped off the résumé for our IFN Athlete of the Year Maddy Payne.

NAPPANEE – Our 2019-20 IFN Athlete of the Year, Maddy Payne, huge a monster fall in a volleyball, as laid out in the first of our two-part series on the NorthWood senior.

NAPPANEE – Jake Lone was an All-State selection in two sports, and sits at No. 2 on our athlete countdown.

WARSAW – Harrison Mevis did two things extremely well, earning him a spot at No. 3 on our athletes countdown.

WINONA LAKE – Parker Stewart was a soccer assassin for Lakeland Christian Academy, and shot his way to No. 4 on our IFN athlete countdown.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood sophomore Cybil Stillson isn’t used to being a No. 5, but the golf ace makes the top half of our IFN countdown.

SYRACUSE – Jace Alexander continued to compete as one of the top wrestlers in Northern Indiana in a second straight appearance at the IHSAA State Finals and first appearance on our list, landing at No. 6.

NAPPANEE – At No. 7 on our countdown, Ben Vincent had a direct impact on two of NorthWood’s sectional championship teams this season in tennis and basketball.

WARSAW – Checking in at No. 8 is Warsaw’s Grant Knight, who concluded his high school swim career with a top 10 of his own at the IHSAA State Finals.

AKRON – Sidney Wagner found herself doing more work than expected as the new go-to for the Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball program.

NAPPANEE – IFN begins its countdown of the Top 10 athletes with our boys basketball Player of the Year, Trent Edwards.

NAPPANEE – There wasn’t much doubt in the choice for our IFN Team of the Year. Take a bow state champion NorthWood girls basketball.

WARSAW – Warsaw can finally say they are sectional champions in football, which ends a century of misery and escalates them up the countdown list.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood raised its status among the girls golf elite with a top-six finish at the IHSAA State Finals. The team swings in at No. 3 on our countdown.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood volleyball lands at No. 4 on our countdown after an ultra-successful season chock full of championships.

NAPPANEE – Ending longstanding droughts in NLC and sectional tournaments plus a record run in the regular season lands NorthWood boys tennis at No. 5 in our countdown.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee wrestling lost some all-timers from its roster, but came back just as strong this past season and is our No. 6 team in the countdown.

WARSAW – Warsaw boys swim navigated some choppy waters to look back on a fabulous season and a No. 7 position on our countdown.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood boys basketball became the second hoops team from Nappanee to finish its season with a win, and a spot at No. 8 on our list.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee basketball rallied itself to a remarkable season and a spot at No. 9 on our Top 10 list.

BOURBON – Triton volleyball opens the IFN Top 10 teams with our selection as No. 10.

WARSAW – IFN Sports is set to begin its countdown of the All-IFN Top 10 teams and athletes for the 2019-20 athletic season.

NAPPANEE — Bronson Yoder can pretty much do it all, and the NorthWood grad adds our Ink Free News Athlete of the Year nomination to an impressive and deep athletic résumé.

WARSAW – NorthWood’s Bronson Yoder headlines our All-IFN Top 10 list for 2018-19.

WARSAW – Our All-IFN Top 10 individual lists begin with the first five athletes from the 2018-19 sports seasons.

WARSAW – Wawasee wrestling stands tall as our IFN Team of the Year for the 2018-19 season.

WARSAW – Our All-IFN Top 10 teams offers quite a variety of looks.

WARSAW — Warsaw senior point guard Nolan Groninger has used an improved jump shot to take his game to even higher levels in 2018-19, earning himself a second-straight IFN Player of the Year accolade in the process.

WARSAW – Our countdown to the IFN Team of the Year brings us to a new No. 1, or really, No. 54.

WARSAW – The Ink Free News All-IFN Top 10 individuals comes to a conclusion with our pick for No. 1, a big one indeed.

WARSAW – The team countdown begins for the 2017-18 Ink Free News All-IFN Top 10 list.

WARSAW – Ink Free News begins its All-IFN Top 10s of the year with its first installment of individuals for the 2017-18 season.

AKRON — Already one of the best around, Tippecanoe Valley junior Sophie Bussard is getting better all the time.

WARSAW – Our selections for the 2016-17 All-Ink Free News Top 10 individuals, spots 6-10