Former Rising Sun Standout Named to 2025 Women's Silver Anniversary Team

The Silver Anniversary Team recognizes players from the graduating class of 25 years earlier.

(New Castle, Ind.) - A former Rising Sun High School basketball star has been named to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2025 women’s Silver Anniversary Team. 

The Silver Anniversary Team recognizes players from the graduating class of 25 years earlier – in this case, honorees are all 2000 high school graduates. The 2025 Silver Anniversary Team includes 11 players who were named to the 2000 Indiana All-Star squad. Seven other All-State caliber players are included to recognize the top of Indiana’s high school class of 2000.

Jessica (Brock) Peelman is among 18 players named to the Silver Anniversary Team. 

Read Peelman's bio, provided by the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, below. 

Peelman averaged 18.5 points, 9.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 4.0 steals in pacing Rising Sun to a 25-3 ledger and Class A state runner-up as a senior. In four seasons, she totaled a school-record 1,719 points (17.5) plus 865 rebounds (8.8), 386 assists (3.9) and 352 steals (3.6) as the Shiners went 87-11 with three sectional titles, three regional crowns, one semi-state trophy and four Ohio River Valley Conference championships for coach Mark Fette. Peelman scored a career-high 37 points against Shawe Memorial on Feb. 8, 2000.

The 5-11 guard-forward was named AP high honorable mention All-State, Louisville Courier-Journal second-team All-State, all-State Finals, to the Hall of Fame Classic all-tournament team, played in the 2000 North/South Indiana All-Star Classic and the 2000 Rising Sun Outstanding Female Athlete as a senior. She also was four-time first-team all-ORVC and conference MVP, four-time all-sectional, three-time all-regional, three-time all-semi-state and four-time team MVP. She earned 14 letters in high school (four basketball, four volleyball, four track, one cross country, one soccer), was two-time All-State in track & field in the high jump and 1999 ICGSA Class A All-State in volleyball.

After high school, Peelman averaged 9.8 points and 5.3 rebounds in one season at Purdue-Fort Wayne for a 19-8 squad. She then transferred to Northern Kentucky University, totaling 508 points (5.6), 422 rebounds (4.6) and 130 assists (1.4) in three seasons with the Norse. Those Nancy Winstel-coached teams went a combined 69-26 while winning one Great Lakes Valley Conference regular-season championship, qualifying for three NCAA Division II national tournaments and finishing as 2003 D-II national runner-up. Peelman is 15th on NKU list for career 3-point accuracy (.375, 78-208) and notched career highs of 20 points and 18 rebounds against Lewis University on Feb. 14, 2004. As a senior, she won the NKU Hustle Award, was a team captain and was selected GLVC all-academic.

Peelman earned a bachelor’s degree in education from NKU in 2004. She was a teacher at Dillsboro Elementary School from 2005-14 and has taught at Ohio County Elementary School since 2014. She coached girls’ basketball at Dillsboro Elementary from 2005-07, at Ohio County Middle School from 2014-22 and has been an assistant coach at Rising Sun since 2022. She also was a varsity volleyball coach at South Dearborn in 2005-06.