Three new honorees were added to the Home of Champions Wall at Big Four Station Park.
Mayor Mike Moore joined Jeffersonville Parks officials to celebrate the achievements of the 2025 Jeffersonville High School Boys’ Basketball Team, along with Coach Sherron Wilkerson and Dr. Gordon Gutmann, recognizing their remarkable contributions to the community and the city’s tradition of excellence.
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’25 State Champions
On March 29, 2025, the Jeffersonville High School Boys’ Basketball team cemented its place in history by becoming just the second boys’ team in JHS history to win a state basketball championship. In a game with six lead changes, seven tied scores, and overtime, JHS ultimately topped No. 1 Fishers 67-66 in the Class 4A state title game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Led by third-year head coach Sherron Wilkerson, the Red Devils brought state championship hardware home to Jeffersonville for the first time in more than 30 years. The only other championship came in 1993, when Wilkerson was a standout player for JHS.
The two championships earned Wilkerson the honor of being just the sixth person in state history to win a state title as both a player and a coach at his alma mater.
The 2024–25 Red Devils began their state championship quest by defeating cross-town rival New Albany 62–47 in the Seymour Sectional, and then claiming the regional title with a 65–40 win over Evansville Harrison.
The next week, Jeff topped Lawrence North 56–49 to capture the semistate crown and earn a trip to Indianapolis.
The Red Devils closed out the season with 18 consecutive wins and a 24–5 record.
The 2025 JHS Boys’ Basketball State Championship team included: Tre Singleton, Shawn Boyd, PJ Douglas, Elijah Checks, Michael Cooper, Te’sean Harper, Gilly Polk, Terrence Nord, Mason Longest, Zion Mitchell, Raijon Laird, Caleb Jones, Za’rhon Calhoun, and Jacob Wilkerson.
Sherron Wilkerson
There’s no place like home. Just ask Sherron Wilkerson. Basketball led the Jeffersonville native around the world, but it took coming home again for him to fulfill what he calls his “destiny”: becoming only the sixth person in Indiana history to win a high school state basketball title as both a player and a coach.
At 6-foot-3 with a 41-inch vertical, Wilkerson was a standout on the Jeffersonville High School basketball team. As a senior, he played an integral role in leading the Red Devils to the school’s first-ever Indiana High School State Basketball Championship in 1993. That same year, he earned a spot on the Indiana All-Star team and was also selected for the McDonald’s All-American team.
After high school, Wilkerson spent three seasons at Indiana University before finishing his college playing career at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. He then spent nearly a decade playing professionally overseas before transitioning into coaching at several colleges and Indiana high schools.
Dr. Gordon Gutmann
Little could Adolf and Freda Gutmann have known the lasting impact the birth of their son, Gordon, would have on the community they had joined just ten days earlier upon arriving in the United States from Germany in 1936. But today, decades later, the name Dr. Gordon Gutmann is synonymous with medical excellence in Jeffersonville—and it will remain that way for generations to come.
Dr. Gutmann graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1961 and began his career serving as a Captain in the United States Army, including a year as a trauma surgeon in Vietnam from 1967–1968, where he served during the Tet Offensive.
Upon returning home, Gutmann joined the staff of Clark Memorial Hospital in 1969, where he remained an active member of the medical staff for nearly 40 years. During his tenure, he served on the hospital’s Board of Trustees and as Clark Memorial Hospital Medical Staff President.
Dr. Gutmann’s dedication to the medical community extended far beyond the walls of Clark Memorial Hospital. Throughout his career—and after his retirement in 2006—he held leadership roles in many state and regional organizations, both among his peers in medicine and in philanthropic groups.
Prior to his death in 2016, Dr. Gutmann was honored with the naming of a street on the Clark Memorial campus in his name. His reputation as a medical professional and leader in the Jeffersonville community remains largely unsurpassed in the region to this day.
