Hobart's Corral picked to be Indiana All-Star

Updated: March 28, 2011 9:38AM

A torn anterior cruciate ligament ended Amanda Corral's senior season and robbed her of the opportunity to realize most of her high school basketball dreams.

All the goals Hobart's star guard had set for what she had envisioned as a memorable senior year turned into a nightmare for Corral when she was hurt driving to the basket against rival Griffith on Nov. 19.

On Tuesday, though, Corral received a call from Indiana All-Star game director Charlie Hall that really brightened her day and enabled her to reach one of her goals.

Hall called Corral to notify her of her selection to the Indiana Senior All-Star Team.

"He asked me if I wanted to be an honorary member of the Indiana All-Star team," said Corral, who was an Indiana Junior All-Star last year and will play at Northern Illinois.

"It really means a lot to me. Just being selected is a real honor. It's exciting for me to be able to at least be there. I'm not going to be playing. I'll be at practices and stuff the week before and all that, and I'll dress for the games and warm up with the team."

Corral said her surgically repaired knee will be healed and she should be fully recovered and released by June 1, but that she "probably couldn't play," because of the risk of re-injuring the knee.

"Being an Indiana All-Star was one of my goals for my senior season," Corral said. "When I got hurt, I didn't ever think I'd ever reach that goal. I didn't think it was an option. It means all the work that I put in last summer, and a little bit toward the end of last year, (paid off). It really means a lot."

Corral averaged 17.8 points, five assists and four rebounds in four games this season while shooting 47 percent from the floor, 87 percent from the free throw line and 33 percent from three-point range.

As a junior, she averaged 16 points, 4.8 rebounds and three steals in 22 games, while shooting 47 percent from the floor and 66 percent from the line.

"This was good news at a good time, for Amanda," Hobart coach Mike Hamacher said. "She's excited about it and I think it's well-deserved. It's more based on her whole body of work than on what she did this season, which is good. It's a shame she was injured, because she really had gotten a ton better from her junior to senior year. Unfortunately, the region really didn't get to see her at her best."

Boone Grove girls basketball coach Candy Wilson was named as an assistant coach for the team under All-Stars head coach David Miller from Fort Wayne Concordia.

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