Andy Denny is a 1968 graduate of Seymour High School and was an outstanding
basketball and baseball player for the Owls.
In basketball, he was a three-year starter for Coach Barney Scott and graduated as
the all-time leading scorer in school history. Andy is still the third leading scorer
in Seymour history with 1347 points. He is number one in points per game for a
career with an average of 19.2 points. He is third in career field goals made with
525 and is fourth in rebounding with 893. Andy averaged 23.6 points per game
his junior season, which is the third highest average in school history. His 567
points that season is the fourth best and his 335 rebounds the seventh best all-
time at Seymour. His 40 point games against Mitchell and Scottsburg are the
fourth highest single game totals in school history. Andy led the Owls to a
sectional championship in 1967 and was voted the team’s Most Valuable Player
three consecutive seasons. According to Coach Scott, he is the only Seymour
player to earn first team all-conference honors three times. Andy was named to
the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Silver Anniversary Team in 1993.
In baseball, Andy was a two-time varsity letter winner and helped the Owls to
South Central Conference championships in 1966 and 1967. In his sophomore
season, he batted .348 as Seymour finished with an 11-7 record. In his junior
year, Andy was the Owls’ leading hitter with a .344 average and helped Seymour
to a 19-9 record with a sectional championship.
Andy earned an athletic scholarship to play basketball at the University of South
Alabama, where he had a great career. He is still the 10 th leading scorer in school
history with 1352 points and his career average of 18 points a game is the fourth
best in South Alabama history. For his career, Andy shot 85.3% from the free
throw line, which is the third best in school history. And as a senior, he shot
91.4% from the line, which was the second best in the nation. He was the first
South Alabama player to be drafted by the NBA when Buffalo selected him in the
1972 draft. Andy was inducted into the South Alabama Athletic Hall of Fame in
1989, received the school’s Distinguished Alumni and Service Award in 2015 and
was honored by the College of Education as a Top 50 Alumni graduate in 2017.

After graduating from college, he was an assistant basketball coach at Samford
University from 1973 to 1975 before going into private business.