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.

INDIANAPOLIS – Brielle Harrison of Warsaw and both Kate Rulli and Maddy Payne of NorthWood were Honorable Mention All-State girls basketball choices from the Associated Press.

INDIANAPOLIS – Maddy Payne of NorthWood was chosen as the District 1 IBCA Player of the Week.

NAPPANEE – Behind the scenes of the Class 3-A girls basketball championship run for NorthWood was a push for another title that means a lot to the Payne family and the NorthWood community.

INDIANAPOLIS – NorthWood put on one more defensive show to lock up its second girls basketball state championship, 37-29, over Salem Saturday night.

INDIANAPOLIS – The ICGSA released its Academic All-State and All-State girls basketball choices for the 2019-20 season.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood is using a unique rallying method to fire itself up for tournament basketball.

NAPPANEE – Sheer consistency and the penchant for playing big in big moments lead NorthWood’s Maddy Payne to earn the Ink Free News Girls Basketball Player of the Year.

WARSAW – NorthWood’s Maddy Payne headlines our selections for the 2019-20 IFN Girls Basketball All-Area selections.

ELKHART – NorthWood earned its first girls basketball regional championship in 15 years after beating Knox, 43-30, Saturday night.

INDIANAPOLIS – NorthWood’s Maddy Payne, Caroline Mullet and Kendal Miller were all chosen All-State by the IHSVCA.

NAPPANEE – Maddy Payne decided Bethel University will be her next stop after signing to continue her academic and volleyball careers.

SYRACUSE – NorthWood took care of business, 3-0, against West Noble to win the Wawasee Volleyball Sectional.

News and notes from the area.

INDIANAPOLIS – NorthWood’s Maddy Payne and Warsaw’s Kaylee Patton are among those chosen to take part in the 17th annual IBCA/IHSAA Underclass Showcase.

MISHAWAKA – The McDonald’s Michiana All-Star Game wasn’t the last stop on the tour for a quartet of girls ballers.

MISHAWAKA – Four area basketball players were chosen to play in the 2019 McDonald’s Michiana All-Star Game.

WARSAW – Our Ink Free News All-Area Girls Basketball selections for First and Second Teams, led by Player of the Year Sophie Bussard of Tippecanoe Valley.

MISHAWAKA – Savannah Feenstra got to test out her future basketball homecourt at Bethel College in the McDonald’s All-Star game Tuesday night.

WARSAW – Our Ink Free News All-Area Girls Basketball selections for First and Second Teams, led by Player of the Year Sophie Bussard of Tippecanoe Valley.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood volleyball team earned a huge conference win over Elkhart Memorial 3-0 Thursday night.