“She’s sort of a rock star here at Indiana”: Liz Honegger’s work invaluable for Hoosiers

Throughout warmups previous to Indiana ladies’s basketball’s matchup with Bowling Inexperienced, Liz Honegger walked alongside the sideline and over to the Falcons’ bench. There she acquired hellos, hugs and nicely needs from the Bowling Inexperienced workers.

Indiana’s director of basketball operations is carrying Hoosiers crimson now, however her collegiate profession started in Bowling Inexperienced Falcons orange.

Not not like head coach Teri Moren, Honegger’s story began within the hallowed gyms that make up Indiana highschool basketball. Her accolades at Lafayette Jefferson Excessive Faculty embody a primary workforce all-state nod and an Indiana All-Star choice.

Honegger then took her abilities to Bowling Inexperienced, starting a extremely embellished profession below then-Falcons head coach Curt Miller, Moren’s predecessor at Indiana and present head coach of the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks.

Of a doable 128 video games for the Falcons, Honegger began in 127. She completed her Bowling Inexperienced profession as this system’s all-time chief in made 3-point area objectives and blocks, the one time a participant within the historical past of NCAA Division-I ladies’s basketball has held each information at a program.

Honegger’s senior 12 months with Bowling Inexperienced, the 2006-07 season, ended with a 31-4 report and a run to the Candy Sixteen with victories over Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt. It was the primary time any MAC program had appeared within the ladies’s Candy Sixteen.

Honegger was inducted into Bowling Inexperienced’s Athletics Corridor of Fame in 2018.

“She was an incredible school participant at Bowling Inexperienced, one thing that she has an incredible quantity of satisfaction in,” Moren mentioned.

Previous to her time in Bloomington, Honegger labored as an assistant at West Virginia College Institute of Expertise and as a volunteer with the Indiana Excessive Faculty All-Star workforce.

With the present season being her eleventh with Indiana, Honegger’s tenure in Bloomington precedes that of Moren by two years, having been introduced aboard by Miller. Honegger has been invaluable since Moren’s arrival, the latter mentioned, doubling as each an incredible colleague and an incredible buddy.

“Liz is about this program, Liz is about our gamers, Liz is about individuals,” Moren mentioned. “She’s form of a rock star right here at Indiana.”

Primarily a catch-all for Indiana, Moren mentioned Honegger takes care of nearly everybody from gamers, coaches and assist workers. With most of Honegger’s work being out of the general public eye, hers just isn’t a reputation you’ll hear a lot when exterior sources focus on the success the Hoosiers have discovered in recent times.

As such, Indiana’s coaches and gamers are fast to provide her that credit score when the chance arises.

Grace Berger, in her fifth 12 months with the Hoosiers, mentioned Honegger doesn’t get the reward she’s been due for the work she’s carried out. She’s all in regards to the gamers and ensuring they’ve a very good expertise at Indiana, Berger mentioned.

“She means so much to us, whether or not she will get the credit score for it, that she deserves, or not,” Berger mentioned.

It’s possible you’ll not hear Honegger’s identify when Indiana’s latest success comes up, however she’s been there, labored and contributed to it each step of the way in which.