Connersville

April (McDivitt) Schilling was Indiana Miss Basketball, a WBCA All-American, USA Today second-team all-USA, Parade second-team All-American and a finalist for the national Naismith Award in 1999 after averaging 22.4 points, 3.4 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 4.1 steals as a senior while leading Connersville to a 25-2 season and Class 4A semi-state runner-up finish for third-year coach Larry Miller. In four varsity seasons for the Spartans, McDivitt amassed career school records of 1,908 points, 554 assists, 446 steals, 673 total field goals and 271 3-pointers as well as 326 rebounds in 98 games for teams that went 86-12 with two Olympic Conference titles, four sectional trophies, two regional crowns and the 1995 Hall of Fame Classic championship. She tallied 17.8 points, 2.1 rebounds, 6.4 assists, 4.7 steals and was named Hall of Fame Classic MVP for a 19-4 sectional winner as a freshman for coach Lori Robbins. The 5foot-7 guard netted 19.5 points, 2.4 rebounds, 4.9 assists and 4.5 steals as a sophomore for a 20-2 sectional titlist. She provided 17.8 points, 4.0 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 5.0 steals as a junior for a 22-4 regional champ. She scored a school-record 50 points with a school-record eight 3-pointers against Muncie South on Nov. 24, 1998. She also posted season school records, all as a senior, for points (606), assists (170), steals (130), total field goals (203) and 3-pointers (95). McDivitt was selected four-time AP All-State , three-time ICGSA All-State, four-time first-team all-Olympic Conference, four-time Richmond Palladium-Item first-team All-Area, four-time all-sectional, four-time all-regional and two-time all-semi-state. She also was a 1998 Junior All-Star, played in the 1999 WBCA/Nike All-American Game and the 1999 North/South Indiana All-Star Classic. She went to the University of Tennessee, totaling 519 points (5.0), 151 rebounds (1.5), 196 assists (1.9) and 115 steals (1.1) in 104 games over three seasons for Pat Summitcoached teams that went 93-12, won three SEC regular-season championships, the 2000 SEC Tournament title and played in three NCAA Tournaments, including a 2000 national runnerup finish, a 2001 Sweet 16 effort and a 2002 Final Four appearance. McDivitt transferred to UC-Santa Barbara for her final college season, averaging 8.3 points, 3.2 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.8 steals for as the 27-7 Gauchos won the Big West Conference and reached the NCAA Sweet 16 for coach Mark French. McDivitt notched a career-high 20 points against Connecticut in the 2004 NCAA East Regional final and was named 2004 all-East Regional. She also was two-time SEC all-academic, 2004 Big West allacademic and earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UC-Santa Barbara in 2004. After college, McDivitt played in training camp with the WNBA New York Liberty in 2004, WNBA Minnesota Lynx in 2005 and WNBA Washington Mystics in 2006. She worked as a women’s basketball assistant coach at UC-Santa Barbara from 2004-07, then later was a boys’ high school assistant coach at Park Tudor from 2009-12, went 24-4 with Class 4A sectional and regional titles as girls’ varsity coach at Roncalli in 2012-13 and was girls’ head coach at Bella Vista College Prep in Arizona from 2021-23. She now is in her first season as girls’ varsity coach at Oak Park High School in California. She also has been an assistant coach for the WNBA Indiana Fever in 2020, the Nigerian women’s Olympic Team 2021 and the WNBA Dallas Wings in 2023 as well as a scout for in the WNBA. In addition, she worked as a basketball skills trainer for Champions Academy from 2008-13. McDivitt was recently inducted into the Connersville Hall of Fame. She and her husband, Ed Schilling, current men’s head coach at Pepperdine University and recently announced as a 2026 men’s Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, have two daughters – Ava and Callie.