Claypool Named to Indiana Basketball of Fame
2/6/2007 12:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 5, 2007
Jennifer Claypool, a Wright State women's basketball player from 1982-86, has recently been named to the Girls Basketball Silver Anniversary Team by the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
A 1982 graduate of Noblesville High School, the former Jennifer Horn was an all-conference selection all four years and started 70 straight games for the Millers. She garnered all-state honors as a senior as she averaged 18.9 points and 14.1 rebounds per game and led Noblesville to its first sectional title.
The school record holder in points, rebounds and field goal percentage, Claypool led the squad in scoring and rebounding all four years and also has the Noblesville mark for points and rebounds in a game as she once tallied 34 points and 30 rebounds in the same contest.
Claypool then became the first Noblesville athlete to be awarded an athletic scholarship in 1982, which was also the first year that the NCAA awarded scholarships to women.
A four-year letterwinner for Wright State from 1982-86, Claypool still appears in the Raider Top Ten in several categories. She is currently second in points (1307) and field goals made (558), fourth in field goal percentage (.504), tied for fifth in free throw percentage (.761), sixth in field goals attempted (1108) and eighth in scoring average (12.3).
Claypool was a Third Team All-American for WSU and also earned all-district honors along with being named team captain and MVP. Named as the university's Female Athlete of the Year in 1985, Claypool was selected to the Wright State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996 and to the Basketball Wall of Fame in 2004.
After graduation from Wright State, Claypool taught at Oak Hills High School in Cincinnati and was in administrative roles at Princeton High School and Batavia High School before becoming the superintendent at Miami Valley Academies in south Dayton earlier this year.
The induction ceremony will take place at the Hall of Fame's Marsh Theater in New Castle, Indiana, on Saturday, April 28, with a reception and banquet set for later that evening at the Primo (South) Banquet Hall in downtown Indianapolis. For more information, contact the Hall of Fame at 765-529-1891.
