IBCA Announces Academic All-State Teams

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 2:09 PM

By Travis Thayer @eagle993

Individual and team recognition.

INDIANAPOLIS - Eighty-seven Indiana high school seniors (44 boys and 43 girls) have been chosen as First-Team Academic All-State for 2026 by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association.

In addition, 233 more boys and 181 more girls were recognized as honorable mention Academic All-State for 2026. In total, 501 players received some level of recognition in this year's IBCA Academic All-State program.

The IBCA Academic All-State program is one where academic prowess and athletic prowess both are considered in the selections. Items such as grade-point average, academic class rank and SAT or ACT scores are considered along with athletic performance in areas such as points per game, rebounds per game and assists per game.

IBCA-member head coaches from schools across the state may nominate their senior student-athletes who meet criteria that include a 3.50 GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale, a class rank in the upper 25 percent of one's class and either an SAT score of 1100 (on the reading and math sections) or an ACT composite score of 24.

Notable local recipients are listed below.

Boys First Team

Brady Cook, Southwestern (Hanover)
Braxton Lewis, Southwestern (Hanover)

Boys Honorable Mention

Gavin Gillman, Frankin County
Mason Hamlett, South Dearborn
Trenten Luers, Batesville
Logan O’Dell, North Decatur
Elliot Meek, South Dearborn
Ethan Schneider, Batesville
Ethan Smith, Greensburg
Grady Walter, South Dearborn
Carson Wilson, Rising Sun

Girls Honorable Mention

Alahna Beinkemper, Lawrenceburg
Lila French, Franklin County
Mary Harmon, Greensburg
Raegan Minniti, Franklin County
Maddie Ryan, Oldenburg Academy
Olivia Simpson, Southwestern (Hanover)
Addison Singer, Franklin County
Rachel Suttman, Oldenburg Academy
Emma Voss, Milan
Aubrey Werner, South Ripley

The IBCA has selected an individual Academic All-State team for boys since 1973. The program was expanded to include a girls' individual Academic All-State team in 1980.

A new award in 2026 is an IBCA Team Academic Award, for which 128 teams qualified. The IBCA firmly believes that academics are an essential component of developing well-rounded basketball players and that outstanding academic achievement deserves recognition.

Inaugural winners of the IBCA Team Academic Award – 29 boys’ teams and 99 girls’ teams – are teams that demonstrate the same commitment to excellence in academics as they do in athletics. To qualify, each team listed had a cumulative team GPA of 3.50 or better when averaging the first-semester GPAs of all players on its 2026 sectional roster.

Boys Team Academic Award