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 Westview Warriors girls basketball.
Note: The list is in alphabetical order
Jamie Gallmeyer
Over her high school career she accumulated at least 1,315 career points, which was the all-time best when she graduated; she also was the school’s all-time scoring leader in soccer. She led Westview to its first basketball sectional title since 1978 during her run leading the Warriors in 2005 by beating Fairfield before falling to North Judson. As an All-Area senior, Gallmeyer averaged 20.7 points, 4.5 assists and 4.5 steals per contest. During her junior year, Gallmeyer averaged 17.3 points, 4.7 assists and 3.4 steals per contest.
Grace Hales
Hales emerged significantly during her junior season, when KPC named her their Player of the Year. As a junior in 2015, Hales scored 29 points in a Regional final loss, and averaged 16.9 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.6 block per game that season. On January 30, 2016, Hales became the program’s all-time leading scorer when she reached 1,520 points; she finished her Westview career with 1,600 points which remains the program scoring record to this day. Hales led Westview to a 21–6 senior season and a fourth straight sectional crown in 2015–16, with the program’s single-season (513) and single-game (7) records for three pointers. She averaged 10.9 points per game as a freshman.
Ashya Klopfenstein
Graduating in 2019, Klopfenstein’s senior season saw her average roughly 17.0 points and 9.9 rebounds per game, along with two steals and 3.9 blocks, anchoring the Westview post. She joined the 1,000-point club at Westview, was one of the top players in the NECC in scoring, rebounding, and defense, and earned honors like being named among the NECC Top 20 girls players of 2018-19. She was a double double performer as both a junior and a senior and finisher her career with 1,053 points. She went on to play last at Utah State.
Maria McCoy
Starting with an 11.1 ppg freshman year and culminating in a 15.6 points, 9.8 rebounds, 1.9 blocks senior season in 2015–16. She helped the Warriors to four straight NECC titles, earned All-NECC honors as a senior, and sealed the 2016 sectional title with clutch free throws in overtime against Whitko. During her junior season, McCoy averaged 16 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.4 blocks to game to help pace the Warriors as an all-area player in 2014-2015. She shot 56 percent from the field as a junior and made 74 percent of her free throws. In all, McCoy finished her career at Westview with 1,492 points.
Tiffany Fisher
As a sophomore she already showed her scoring and rebounding chops (29 points & 14 boards in a semi-state win), and by her senior year in 2007-08 she was averaging 23.9 points and 11 .4 rebounds per game while leading Westview in blocks at 4.8 per game and ranking among state leaders in multiple defensive and shooting efficiency stats. Her junior year also featured massive rebounding totals and she was often the team’s go-to post. Fisher helped drive Westview into deep postseason runs and was among the best players in the 2A division in Indiana during her time, finishing with 1,510 career points which was a program record at the time. As a junior, she averaged 20 points and 9 rebounds per game.
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