2025 Boys All Star Coaches Announced

Urban, Hawkins and Speer named coaches for 2025 IndyStar boys' Indiana All-Stars

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                             Contact: Pat McKee, 317-403-1665

March 27, 2025                                                    IBCA Director of Special Projects

  Marc Urban of Chesterton has been named head coach for the 2025 IndyStar boys' Indiana All-Stars, games director Mike Broughton announced Thursday (March 27).

           Urban will be assisted by Chris Hawkins of Indianapolis Crispus Attucks and Jason Speer of Bloomington North.

           Players chosen for the 2025 boys' All-Stars will play three games in June -- one exhibition game against the Indiana Junior All-Stars as well as home-and-home contests against the Kentucky All-Stars. All three games are doubleheaders with the 2025 Indiana girls' All-Stars.

           Urban is 175-56 in nine seasons as head coach of the Chesterton boys, highlighted by a Class 4A state runner-up finish in 2022. His Trojans went 15-9 this past season, and he previously went 80-17 in four seasons as head coach of the Lake Central girls for an overall head coaching record of 255-73 in 13 seasons. His teams have won five sectionals (2013 girls, 2015 girls, 2019 boys, 2022 boys, 2023 boys) plus a boys' regional and boys' semi-state in 2022.

            A 2001 graduate of Lake Central, Urban played high school basketball and football. He matriculated to Indiana State, where he served as a men's basketball manager for Royce Waltman and graduated in 2006. 

            After ISU, Urban returned to Lake Central, working as a boys' basketball assistant coach for six seasons and helping the Indians to Duneland Conference and sectional titles in 2012. He then coached the Lake Central girls for four seasons before taking over the Chesterton boys beginning with the 2016-17 season.

            Urban was voted IBCA girls' District 1 Coach of the Year in 2015 and an IBCA boys' District 1 Coach of the Year in 2020 and 2022. He also was The Times of Northwest Indiana girls' Coach of the Year in 2015, the Gary Post-Tribune girls' Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2016, and The Times boys' Coach of the Year in 2022. 

            He was an assistant coach for the 2020 boys' Junior All-Stars (that ended up not playing because of COVID-19) and head coach of the 2022 boys' Junior All-Stars. He also served as an IBCA district representative from 2019-23.

            He teaches credit-recovery classes at Chesterton.

            Urban and his wife, Traci, have two daughters -- Grace, 12, and Averie, 9.

          Hawkins has guided Crispus Attucks to a 22-6 record entering this season's Class 3A IHSAA State Finals on Saturday where he tries for a second state championship. In nine seasons, including a 3A title in 2017, his Tigers are 174-63 with four sectional trophies (2017, 2018, 2019, 2025), three regional crowns (2017, 2019, 2025) and two semi-state prizes (2017, 2025). 

            A 2001 graduate of Southport, where he played basketball and football, Hawkins earned a bachelor's degree in liberal studies from Indiana University in 2014. He was a boys' basketball assistant coach at Southport for four years, at Indianapolis Shortridge for two years and at Brebeuf Jesuit for two years before becoming the head coach at Crispus Attucks.

            Also athletic director at Crispus Attucks, Hawkins was named Indianapolis City Coach of the Year, 2019, 2023 and 2024 when the Tigers won the City Tournament. His teams also were champions of the Pioneer Athletic Conference in 2017, the Greater Indianapolis Athletic Conference in 2022, 2023 and 2024, and the Capital City Conference in 2025. In addition, Hawkins' 2016-17 team was named all-sports Team of the Year at the 2017 IndyStar Sports Awards.

            Hawkins and his wife, Leigha, are parents to five children -- Lailyn, 13; Eli, 9; Kessler, 8; Kaliea, 8; and Christopher, 7.

           Speer has a 113-75 ledger in eight seasons as the Bloomington North boys' basketball coach, including a 7-17 finish this past season. He is 228-123 in 15 seasons as a boys' coach, including a 115-48 mark in seven seasons at Columbus North. He also coached the Bloomington North girls for two seasons.

            His teams have won three sectionals (2013 at Columbus North as well as 2022 and 2023 at Bloomington North) and two regionals (2022, 2023), and Speer was recognized as Conference Indiana Coach of the Year in 2014, 2021 and 2022. 

            Speer is a 1995 graduate of Bedford North Lawrence, where he averaged 11.2 points and was an all-regional player for a 26-1 team that reached the semi-state final as a senior. He went on to Indiana State, where he earned a bachelor's degree in social studies education in 2000. He later earned a master's degree in athletic administration from Ohio University in 2012.

            After college, Speer began his coaching career as a Bloomington North boys' basketball assistant from 2001-04. He followed with three years as an assistant at Bedford North Lawrence and then one year as an assistant at Columbus North before being named the Bull Dogs' head coach in 2008-09. He coached there seven seasons, then the Bloomington North girls for two seasons before taking over the Bloomington North boys' program starting in 2017-18.

            Speer currently is a teacher and assistant athletic director at Bloomington North.

            He and his wife, Julie, have a son, Rex, a current junior at Bloomington North and player in the Cougars' basketball program.

            The Junior-Senior exhibition game is set for June 4 at Greenfield-Central High School. The first game against Kentucky will be June 6 at Lexington Catholic High School. The final game against Kentucky will be June 7 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. All three dates will be doubleheaders with the IndyStar Indiana boys' All-Stars.

            Rosters for the 2025 Indiana boys' All-Stars and boys' Junior All-Stars will be announced later. The 2025 Indiana girls' All-Stars were announced March 14 and the girls' Junior All-Stars were announced March 9.

            The Indiana Junior All-Stars will play two girl-boy doubleheaders this year -- June 1 against the Kentucky Junior All-Stars at Charlestown High School and June 4 against the Indiana seniors at Greenfield-Central.

            The 2025 IndyStar Indiana All-Star "Futures Games" doubleheader will be on June 2 at Fishers. This event, for girls and boys who are current sophomores or freshmen, will feature two Indiana teams in a North-South format. The girls' Futures Game rosters were announced March 13. The boys' Futures Game rosters will be announced later.

            The Indiana All-Stars program was founded in 1939 when the Indiana boys' All-Stars played the state champion Frankfort Hot Dogs. The series with Kentucky began in 1940, and the girls' portion of the All-Stars was added in 1976. The Junior All-Stars, boys and girls, were added in 1996. The All-Star senior girls have played Kentucky every year since 1976, except 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The All-Star senior boys have played Kentucky in all but three years since 1940 -- 1943 (World War II), 1944 (World War II) and 2020 (COVID-19 pandemic).

            The Indiana Senior boys lead 105-46 in their series with Kentucky. The Indiana Senior boys lead 42-11 in games against the Indiana Junior boys. The Indiana Senior girls lead 55-41 in their series with Kentucky. The Indiana Senior girls lead 41-12 in games against the Indiana Junior girls. The Indiana Junior girls lead 12-1 in their series with Kentucky. In the two years of Futures Games, the South boys are 2-0 while the girls' North and South squads each is 1-1.

            The Indiana portion of the All-Star Games is organized and produced by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association. The Indianapolis Star, with its IndyStar brand, is the title sponsor. Hoosier Shooting Academic is a presenting partner for All-Star Week. Energy Systems Group is a presenting partner of the Saturday doubleheader against Kentucky.

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2025 IndyStar Indiana All-Star key dates

               Sunday, June 1 — Indiana Juniors vs. Kentucky Juniors at Charlestown High School (1 Pirate Place, Charlestown, IN 47111) — girls, 2:00 p.m. EDT; boys, to follow; admission, $10 per person at the door (adults, school-aged students; pre-school children are free).

                Monday, June 2 – Indiana All-Stars “Futures Games” doubleheader at Fishers High School (13000 Promise Rd., Fishers, IN 46038) – girls, 6:00 p.m. EDT, boys, to follow; admission, $10 per person at the door (adults, school-aged students; pre-school children are free).

                Wednesday, June 4 — Junior-Senior All-Star game at Greenfield-Central High School (801 N. Broadway St., Greenfield, IN 46140) — girls, 6:00 EDT p.m.; boys, to follow; admission, $10 per person at the door (adults, school-aged students; pre-school children are free).

                Friday, June 6 — Indiana at Kentucky at Lexington Catholic High School (2250 Clays Mill Rd., Lexington, KY 40503)  — girls, time, TBA; boys, to follow, time TBA. Ticket information, TBA.

                Saturday, June 7 — Indiana vs. Kentucky at Gainbridge Fieldhouse (125 S. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, IN 46204) — Senior girls, 5:00 p.m. EDT; Senior boys, to follow (about 7:30 p.m.). Ticket information, TBA.