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Josh Estelle

Josh Estelle

  • Class
    2000
  • Induction
    2010
  • Sport(s)
    Basketball

Josh Philip Estelle ’00
Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame
November 12, 2010 

Joshua Philip Estelle, pride of New Castle, Indiana, you provide a living example of why the tired sports cliché “never say never” continues to be part of our lexicon. For two decades, fans of Wabash basketball said mighty Pete Metzelaars’ all-time scoring record would never be broken. Those same fans also found it hard to imagine that a slightly built sharp-shooter with a baby face would be the man to topple the scoring record. But your relentless competitiveness — not to mention your penchant for stabbing opposing players in the heart with well-timed three-pointers — helped you become the College’s all-time scoring champion with 2,065 points. There is, perhaps, a little irony that the record-breaking basket came on a layup by Wabash’s most prolific three-point scorer, and there is some symmetry in a 2000 graduate rolling the “Estelle-ometer” over 2000 points at the beginning of the second millennium.

Fittingly, your basketball resume reads like an honor roll — Four straight First Team All-Conference awards in three different leagues; three-time leading scorer at Wabash; Wabash and North Coast Athletic Conference Most Valuable Player; two-time team captain; D3Basketball.com All-American, and GTE-CoSIDA Third Team Academic All-American. You averaged 25 points per game as a senior to rank third in the country, while drilling a record 105 three-pointers and leading the team in steals. You rank first all-time at Wabash in points, three-pointers, and games played, and rank in the top 10 in 15 categories. While your 328 three-pointers and lifetime 86 percent free throw percentage are eye-popping, even better is your team’s win-loss record of 83-26; the 83 wins are the most in any four-year span in Wabash basketball history.

It is appropriate, too, that in 2007 you were inducted in the Montgomery County Basketball Hall of Fame — the county where basketball as Indiana knows it was born. With ice water in your veins, you rained down three-pointers, lit up the scoreboard, and propelled the Little Giants to conference championships and tournament appearances.

Therefore, the National Association of Wabash Men is proud to induct you in the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame. Josh Estelle — Some Little Giant!
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