Shelly Clark, Basketball
(1991-1993)
Shelly was a leader on the first Indian Hills basketball team to make it to the NJCAA National Tournament and he remains one of the school's all-time leading scorers and the leading rebounder. He averaged 16 points, 12 rebounds and 2.4 steals as a freshman and was named first-team all-region and the Warriors' MVP. The next year he boosted his averages to 17.4 points and 13 rebounds and repeated as a first-team all-region choice and, again, was the MVP of a team that advanced to the national tourney. Shelly capped his IHCC career by being named to the all-tournament team at Hutch, where he scored 96 points and grabbed 60 rebounds in four games. He was selected as an honorable mention All-American, only the third basketball player ever to earn that honor. The Chicago, Ill., native is still first in single-season and career rebounds and is in the top-five in nine other season or career categories. After graduating from Indian Hills, Shelly played two seasons at the University of Illinois, where he posted averages of 9.5 points and 6.4 rebounds as a junior and 11.8 points and 8.3 rebounds the next year.
Cory Hightower, Basketball
(1998-2000)
A first-team All-American as a sophomore, Cory got a national championship ring the year before when he was the Most Valuable Player of the national tournament as the Warriors won the school's third consecutive national title. Cory averaged 15.6 points a game during the title-winning year of 1998-99 and scored in double figures in all four games at the national tourney. He increased his scoring average to 22.6 the next season and was named first-team all-region for the second year in a row in addition to the his All-American recognition. Cory's career averages of 17.9 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.0 steals per game make him one of the top all-around performers at IHCC. He is number-six on the all-time scoring list. The Flint, Michigan, native was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the second round of the 2000 NBA draft the spring after he ended his IHCC career and his rights were traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. Cory went on to play professionally for a number of years, both in the U.S. and internationally.
Irving Falu, Baseball
(2001-2003)
Parlaying an outstanding sophomore season at Indian Hills into a spot in the Major League Baseball Draft, Irving embarked on a professional career that is still going, more than 15 years after he left Centerville. Irving came to IHCC from Puerto Rico and batted .246 as a freshman, then put together a solid sophomore season in which he hit .374, slugged seven homers and knocked in 37 runs, leading the Falcons to a JUCO World Series berth. The Kansas City Royals took Falu in the 21st round of that year's draft and his pro career began. He has played in the pros for 16 years, including major league stints with the Royals, Milwaukee Brewers and San Diego Padres. Irving has been with the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs in the Washington Nationals organization the past two seasons and, in total, has played in 1,673 minor league games with 6,265 at-bats. He spent four full seasons with the Royals' farm club in Omaha and was one of the most popular players ever to wear an Omaha uniform. His major league debut came with Kansas City in 2013.
Ramon Vazquez, Baseball
(1994-1995)
Ramon came to Indian Hills in 1994 from his home in Puerto Rico and has continued his involvement in baseball ever since. With the Falcons, in the 1995 season, Ramon batted .367 with five home runs and 37 RBIs and was one of the key players on that year's JUCO World Series team. The Seattle Mariners drafted him in the 27th round after the spring season and Ramon played in the pros for more than 15 years. His MLB debut came in 2001 with the Mariners and he saw action in the big leagues with the Padres, Red Sox, Indians, Rangers and Pirates, compiling a lifetime .254 batting average. After retiring as an active player, Ramon was a minor league instructor, coach and manager. He spent the 2017 season as a major league coach for the Padres, then took on the job of coordinating statistical analysis and advanced scouting data for the World Series champion Boston Red Sox in 2018. After the championship season, Ramon returned to his native Puerto Rico to manage Santurce in the winter league there, where one of his players is fellow Hall of Fame inductee Irving Falu.
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