The Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame recognizes three individuals for their contribution as high school basketball officials as the 2025 Women’s Center Circle Officials Award winners. The 2025 Women’s Circle Center Officials Award recipients are the late Joe Gilliland of Indianapolis (Beech Grove), Donnie Whitlow of Scottsburg and Kim Yelich of Griffith. Center Circle Official Award honorees are selected for their contributions as high school basketball officials. All Center Circle Officials Award winners will be honored at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s 23rd Women’s Awards Banquet on Saturday, April 26, 2025. A midday reception, free and open to the public, will be held at the Hall of Fame Museum in New Castle. The evening banquet will take place at the Primo Banquet Hall, which is located on the south side of Indianapolis. Banquet reservations are will soon be available on the Hall of Fame’s website, or by calling (765) 529-1891. For more information, you may also email kayla@hoopshall.com. The late Joe Gilliland of Indianapolis passed away at age 78 on June 23, 2023, after being a licensed basketball official for 46 years and an active member of the Indiana Officials Association as well as the Crossroads Officials Association. During an officiating career from 1972 to 2018, Gilliland worked boys’ basketball and girls’ basketball games at all levels, including nearly 20 years of calling college women’s basketball for the Big Ten Conference, the Mid-American Conference, Conference USA, the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, the Horizon League, the Mid-Continent Conference, the Summit League and the Great Lakes Valley Conference. As a high school official, he called 15 sectionals, 14 regionals, six semi-states and two State Finals (1984 and 1985) in girls’ basketball. He also worked 13 sectionals, eight regionals, three semi-states and the 1988 State Finals in boys’ basketball. In addition, he worked the boys’ Hall of Fame Classic in 1986 and 1990 as well as calling the Indiana-Kentucky girls’ All- Stars in 1983, 1997 and 1998. Gilliland served the IOA as a board member from 1984-87, including a term as president in 1985-86. He spent time as a rules interpreter, basketball clinician and mentored more than two dozen younger officials over the years. He was the owner of the IAS Basketball Officiating Camp for several years, and he received the Interscholastic Athletic Official Association Award for girls’ basketball from the IHSAA in 2014. A 1963 graduate of Beech Grove High School, Gilliland played basketball for the Hornets and was active in student government. After high school, he was the owner of Sheet Metal Models of Indianapolis for more than 30 years. He also was a long-time member of Woodside Methodist Church, Beech Grove Masonic Lodge #694, and the Murat Shriners in Indianapolis.