Kelcey Mucker 

Baseball • Boys Basketball • Football
Graduation Year: 1993
Induction Year: 2019
Indiana All-Star (1993)
Hoosier Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Classic MVP (1993)
McDonald's All-American (1993)
Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Silver Anniversary Team (2018)
MCL Cafeteria John Wooden Award (1993)
All-Star Citizenship Award (1993)
LHS 1000 point Club (1483 points)
1st Round Draft Pick of the Minnesota Twins
Played six years for the Minnesota Twins and one year for the Cleveland Indians
Scout of the Year in 2008 and 2012

• EXCELLED IN THREE SPORTS DURING HIS TIME AS A TIGER. NAMED ALL-STATE IN FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, AND BASEBALL HIS SENIOR YEAR.

• RECEIVED THE JOHN CREECH MEMORIAL PLAQUE FOR THE MOST VARSITY LETTERS FOR A SENIOR, ELEVEN.

SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF KELCEY’S STORIED CAREER:

FOOTBALL
• DURING HIS THREE YEARS AT VARSITY QUARTERBACK, MUCKER LED HIS TIGERS TO AN IMPRESSIVE 26 AND EIGHT RECORD.

• NAMED FIRST TEAM ALL-STATE QB AS A SENIOR IN 1992, WITH SOME EYE-POPPING STATISTICS. A 60 PERCENT PASS COMPLETION RATE, 60 CONNECTIONS IN 109 ATTEMPTS FOR 1208 YARDS. AND HE AVERAGED FIVE YARDS PER CARRY ON THE GROUND.

BASKETBALL
• HE IS THE TIGERS CAREER SCORING CHAMPION WITH 1483 POINTS.

• ALSO ONE OF L-BURG’S TOP WINDEX MEN, AS DICK VITALE CALLS GOOD REBOUNDERS, CLEANING THE GLASS, 841 TIMES.

• HIS SENIOR YEAR, THE MUCKER STAT LINE LOOKED LIKE THIS: 24.1 POINTS PER GAME AVERAGE, TEN REBOUNDS PER, AND NEARLY FIVE ASSISTS A GAME, WHILE SHOOTING 48 PERCENT FROM THE FIELD, AND 79 PERCENT FROM THE CHARITY STRIPE.

• NAMED TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL-STATE SECOND TEAM, WAS THE LEADING VOTE GETTER FOR THE SMALL SCHOOL ALL-STATE TEAM.

• HIS JUNIOR YEAR, KELCEY WAS ONE OF THE MAIN COGS FOR COACH JIM PUGH’S 1992 REGIONAL CHAMPIONS, WHO MADE THE SWEET 16 ON THE LAST SECOND BANKER BY GUY BUDDENBERG.

• CHOSEN TO THE 1993 HOOSIER BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION ALL-STAR CLASSIC, WHERE HE WAS NAMED THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER.

• TOOK HOME THE 1993 JOHN WOODEN/MCL CAFETERIA ALL-STAR CITIZENSHIP AWARD.

• AND AS MENTIONED BEFORE NAMED McDONALD’S ALL AMERICAN AS A SENIOR.

BASEBALL
• PITCHED, PLAYED SHORTSTOP AND OUTFIELD FOR COACH TIM BARRETT.

• TEAM’S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER SOPHOMORE, JUNIOR, AND SENIOR YEARS. DEARBORN COUNTY M-V-P JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEARS, EIAC M-V-P ALSO HIS SENIOR YEAR.

• BATTED OVER .400 EACH SEASON. AS A JUNIOR MUCKER HIT AT A .467 CLIP, COLLECTING 23 RIB-EYE STEAKS (RBI), AND SMASHING EIGHT HOME RUNS.

• NAMED TO THE 1993 INDIANA ALL-STAR BASEBALL TEAM.
WITH STATS LIKE THESE IN THREE SPORTS, RECRUITING LETTERS WERE COMING IN FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, WANTING KELCEY TO PLAY SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE. IT FINALLY CAME DOWN TO PURDUE OR INDIANA FOR FOOTBALL.

BECAUSE I-U WAS GOING TO LET HIM PLAY ALL THREE SPORTS, HE SIGNED HIS LETTER OF INTENT FOR THE HOOSIERS. COACH BOB KNIGHT, A BIG BASEBALL FAN, EVEN TOLD KELCEY HE NEEDED TO PLAY BASEBALL FOR I-U COACH BOB MORGAN. COACH KNIGHT HAD AN EYE FOR BASEBALL TALENT, AS WELL AS FOR BASKETBALL.

AHHH, BUT THE COLLEGE LIFE WASN’T IN THE CARDS FOR KELCEY MUCKER. THE MINNESOTA TWINS DRAFTED HIM IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE JUNE ‘93 DRAFT, THE 38TH PICK OVERALL. AFTER SIGNING WITH THE TWINS, HE PLAYED PROFESSIONALLY FOR SIX SEASONS WITH MINNESOTA, AND MOVED INTO THE CLEVELAND INDIANS SYSTEM FOR ONE YEAR, BEFORE HANGING UP HIS GLOVE, BAT, AND CLEATS. TODAY, KELCEY IS STILL WORKING IN BASEBALL. HE HAS BEEN AN AREA SCOUT FOR THE OAKLAND A’S SINCE 2001. NOT AT ALL SURPRISING HE WAS NAMED “SCOUT OF THE YEAR” IN 2008 AND 2012.

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