Recently, we unveiled our plan to name area programs’ top five players of the 21st century, which sits at 25 seasons in both football and basketball.
Reminder, this is based on high school career performance ONLY. This is by no means a definitive list and, if anything, is encouraging debate on potential omissions to this list.
Through exhaustive research, reaching out to former coaches and players and our own personal opinion, here is the OTH Quarter Century Team for Canterbury Cavaliers girls basketball.
Note: The list is in alphabetical order
Kindell Fincher
Fincher dominant career culminated with 2,151 points, a total that earned her a place among Indiana’s top scorers. In the 2013 Class A state championship game, she dominated the boards—scoring 17 points and grabbing 19 rebounds, a historic mark that remains the highest in any Indiana girls’ title game in decades. She was named the News-Sentinel’s Player of the Year as a senior and was an Indiana All-Star. She finished her career as one of only four female high school players in the state of Indiana to score over 2,000 points and won state titles as a sophomore and junior. After high school, she went on to play collegiate basketball at Xavier and Bethune-Cookman.
Tabitha Gerardot
Gerardot captured three Class A state titles and earned state tournament MVP honors twice. As a senior, she was First Team All-State and runner-up for Indiana Miss Basketball, while setting school records with 1,944 career points and 1,157 career rebounds, including an impressive 17-rebound performance in a state final. She also earned distinctions such as Indiana All-Star and the Patricia L. Roy Mental Attitude Award for her leadership and character.
Megan King
She was an offensive dynamo at Canterbury, topping the scoring charts in Allen County regardless of gender and ranking third statewide with 26.2 points per game. She also ranked among the top in the state for steals and free-throw percentage. Recognized as News-Sentinel Player of the Year and earning multiple all-state accolades by her junior year, she helped guide Canterbury deep into postseason play, including two regional finals and a state semifinal appearance during her time with the program before playing at the College of Charleston. In her career, she scored 2,652 points and is Allen County’s all-time leading scorer for girls basketball; she is second in Allen County scoring history regardless of gender.
Darby Maggard
Maggard was a dominant force at Canterbury, finishing as the 2015 Indiana Miss Basketball runner-up, a McDonald’s All-American nominee, and leading her team to back-to-back Class 2A state championships. As a senior, she shattered school records with a 47-point, 17-assist game, and averaged 28.1 points and 7.7 assists per game. She tallied 2,274 career points, placing her among Indiana’s all-time elite scorers, not to mention at the tops of Canterbury’s history. She went on to play at Belmont and was the conference player of the year in 2019 and became a coach, with her first head job at Huntington University.
Mason VanHouten
VanHouten was a standout guard at Canterbury, where she lettered all four years and scored a stellar 21.4 points per game as a senior and an IBCA All-State honor after a career best 23.4 as a junior. She crossed the 1,000-point career milestone by her junior season and notched a career-high 43-point game as a junior, earning IBCA All-State Underclassmen and Honorable Mention honors early on. Twice named to The News-Sentinel’s Fabulous Five and All-Area Teams, she helped lead Canterbury to state runner-up finishes in back-to-back Class 2A seasons.
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