Bishop Luers Basketball Star Wins 2008 Tiffany Gooden Award

Sophomore sensation, Deshaun Thomas, became the first boys basketball player from Bishop Luers High School to be named the Tiffany Gooden Award winner.  The Tiffany Gooden Award is presented annually to the top male or female basketball player in the Summit Athletic Conference as selected by The Journal Gazette sports editers and writers.  Gooden was the first recipient of this award in 1994 when The Journal Gazette created it in her honor after she was named Parade Magazine and Naismith National Player of the Year and Indiana Miss Basketball in that same year.

Thomas averaged 29.5 points and 12.5 rebounds as he led the Knights to the 2008 Class 2A State Championship.  He has netted 1,453 points in his first two seasons at Bishop Luers.  Moreover, Thomas is the only underclassman to be named to The Associated Press boys basketball first team All-State.