All sports, ex. YMCA league, JAA, traveling teams. Include the SCHOOL category and the SPORTS for SCHOOL SPORTS. Use TAGs to enter the team name, organization.
1925 Yorktown High School Girls’ Basketball Team Left to right:
Mary Connelly, Evelyn Applegate, June Littlefield, Edna Kilgore, Evelyn Miller, Mary Donovan, Helen V. Donovan Dora May Miller, Winifred Dater, Mary Skinner and Coach Park
Bruce Parkinson lead the Yorktown team to its first ever sectional championship in 1972 and won against New Castle in the regional. As the team captain, he received a gold medal at the Pan-Am Games in basketball in 1975.
Parkinson was a four-year starter for Purdue University and an All-Big Ten point guard. He holds Purdue’s all time record of assists over 40 years after his last game with a career record of 690 assists.
He is the son of Jack Parkinson. Parkinson was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. He was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1976 and the Washington Bullets in 1977. He did not actively play in the NBA.
The Yorktown Baseball Team of 1920 had a very good season with 16 wins and 3 losses at the end of the season. The articles mention: Parkison, as shortstop: Barker, pitcher: McKibbean: Jones, pitcher.
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