Kevin Hardy
Kevin Lamont Hardy (born July 24, 1973) is a former professional football player from Evansville, Indiana. A linebacker, Hardy won the Butkus Award as the nation’s top college linebacker at the University of Illinois before being selected second overall in the 1996 NFL Draft. He went on to a nine-year NFL career and earned Pro […]
Lee Hamilton
Lee Herbert Hamilton (April 20, 1931 – February 3, 2026) was an American politician and statesman who grew up in Evansville, Indiana. He represented Indiana’s 9th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years, from 1965 to 1999, and later served as vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission. Evansville and Early Life […]
Bob Hamilton
Robert T. Hamilton (January 10, 1916 – December 6, 1990) was an American professional golfer. He was born, raised, and died in Evansville, Indiana. He attended and graduated from Evansville Reitz High School in 1934. Hamilton won ten professional titles, including one major, the PGA Championship in 1944 at Manito Golf and Country Club in […]
Scott Haffner
Scott Richard Haffner (born February 2, 1966) is an American former professional basketball player. Haffner, a 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m), 180 lb (81+3⁄4 kg) point guard, played two years in the National Basketball Association (NBA), for the Miami Heat during the 1989–90 season and for the Charlotte Hornets during the 1990–91 season. His best year as […]
Bob Griese
Robert Allen “Bob” Griese (born February 3, 1945) is a former professional football quarterback and one of the most accomplished athletes from Evansville, Indiana. A two-time Super Bowl champion with the Miami Dolphins, Griese was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Early Life and Evansville […]
Aaron Gries
Aaron Gries is a former baseball player from Evansville, Indiana, who starred at Reitz Memorial High School and the University of Evansville. Gries was a four-year starting shortstop for the Purple Aces under head coach Jim Brownlee. In 1993, he was named the Academic All-America Player of the Year, earning Academic All-America honors for the […]
Mike Goebel
Mike Goebel is an Evansville, Indiana educator and longtime coach at Mater Dei High School, where he became one of the most successful high school wrestling and football coaches in Indiana history. Goebel graduated from Mater Dei in 1970 and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Indiana in 1974. Coaching Career Goebel […]
Bob Ford
Robert “Bob” Alan Ford (born January 26, 1950) is a former American basketball player and broadcaster from Evansville, Indiana. Ford attended North High School, where he helped lead the Huskies to the 1967 Indiana state basketball championship, the first state title in school history. He graduated in 1968 and was selected to the Indiana All-Star […]
Sal Fasano
Salvatore Frank Fasano (born August 10, 1971) is an American retired Major League Baseball catcher, and currently the Roving Catching Instructor for the Toronto Blue Jays. Fasano played college baseball for the University of Evansville purple aces. Jeff Pearlman of ESPN.com said of Fasano: “When I think of Sal Fasano, however, I think of greatness. […]
Kate Endress
Kate Endress is a former professional basketball player and entrepreneur who grew up in Evansville, Indiana. She played in the WNBA and later became the founder of the technology company DITTO. Evansville and basketball career Endress attended Reitz Memorial High School in Evansville, where she starred in basketball and was named a 2001 Indiana All-Star […]