2025 ISSA MEDIA RELEASE
For the 29th year, the Indiana Sportswriters & Sportscasters Association is pleased to announce its incoming Hall of Fame Class, set to be inducted at its annual awards banquet to be held on Sunday, April 6 at Valle Vista Country Club in Greenwood.
This year’s Class of 2025 includes the following people who have graced Hoosier newspapers, radio stations, and television airwaves during the past several decades:
Ron Lemasters Lifetime Achievement Award: Pat McKee, The Indianapolis Star _ McKee covered a variety of teams and events for The Star from 1982 through 2008, primarily on the high school sports beat. Following his days of covering sports, he spent 11 years coaching them at a very high level, serving as the girls’ basketball coach at Columbus North, leading the Bull Dogs to the 2015 Class 4A state championship. McKee has remained active both as a writer and with basketball, as he assists the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association’s administration of the Indiana-Kentucky All-Star series, maintaining and adding to the records database for both the game and all of Indiana high school basketball. He was a winner of the IHSAA Distinguished Media Service Award in 2002 and the ISSA Corky Lamm Award in 2005. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008 and the ISSA Hall of Fame in 2009.
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