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MERCER COUNTY BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME HISTORY
With great players, coaches, officials, sports writers and support staff who have made Mercer County
basketball a great attraction every winter and no means to recognize the great contributions made to boys and
girls high school basketball by them, Gary Bushelli, the former Hightstown High Athletic Director, formed a
committee to establish a Mercer County Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.
"We are hoping to not only recognize and celebrate our past basketball heritage," said Bushelli, "but
to hopefully inspire and motivate our current and future players, coaches and officials."
The entire body of work of each potential inductee is considered, and the Hall of Fame committee works
in conjunction with IAABO Board 193.
The orginal committee included Bushelli, Allentown High girls' coach Linda Weise, Hun School Athletic
Director Bill Quirk, Ewing High boys' coach Shelly Dearden, former Notre Dame girls' coach Anne DeMille and
Bob Pugh, a basketball official and recipient of the Mercer County College Distinguished Professor Award in 2016.
The dedicated members of the committee perform extensive work and research on the nominees.
The first class of inductees entered the Hall of Fame at a dinner held on March 18, 2018 at Mercer Oaks
Country Club.
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