The register separated by tie: three rolls, never merged

Compiled from Sports and Halls of Fame only — no name imported

How to read the rolls: A name stands on the roll its strongest documented tie earns, and a name with two ties is noted at its second tie rather than counted twice. Birth, formation and choice are different facts about a life, and the city's claim on an athlete is printed at the strength of the tie that actually holds.

First roll — born here:

• Freddie Fitzsimmons — pitcher, New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, 217–146 in the major leagues; Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame, 1992. His birth itself stands in conflict: most records give Mishawaka, 28 July 1901 (SABR gives 26 July), while the halls-of-fame record prints a rival Tipton County farm birth about 1901 with the family brought to Mishawaka about 1905 — on the second account his tie is a raising, and the conflict is carried, not settled.
• George Gulyanics — born and died in Mishawaka; Chicago Bears halfback and punter, 1947–52, who led the NFL in punting in 1949 at 47.2 yards.
• Achille "Chick" Maggioli — born and died in Mishawaka, Mishawaka High 1941; professional football with Buffalo of the AAFC (1948), Detroit (1949) and Baltimore (1950).
• Devin Cannady — born in Mishawaka, Marian 2015; Princeton; thirteen NBA games for Orlando.
• Sharon Versyp — born in Mishawaka, 3 December 1965, and a Mishawaka High player; Indiana Miss Basketball 1984; as Purdue's head coach, 301 wins.
• Anna Rohrer — born in Mishawaka, 24 February 1997, and a Mishawaka High runner; two Foot Locker national cross country titles, 2012 and 2014.
• Robin Hood — born in Mishawaka, 26 September 1964; LPGA tournament winner, the Planters Pat Bradley International, 11 June 1989.

Second roll — formed here, in the city's schools and college:

• Lou Mihajlovich — Detroit-born, a Mishawaka High product; Indiana University; Los Angeles Dons 1948, Green Bay 1954.
• Tom Ehlers — three-sport Caveman; captain at Kentucky, 1974; Philadelphia Eagles 1975–77, Buffalo 1978.
• LeRoy Johnson — Mishawaka High 1957, 1,556 career points; Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, 2025.
• Chuck Alexander — Mishawaka High 1976; Indiana Football Hall of Fame, 2014.
• Josh Harper — Mishawaka High wrestler, three-time individual state champion by 2008.
• Kevin K. Canfield — Marian 1970; Ball State; Indiana Football Hall of Fame, 2000.
• Gene K. Nicolini Jr. — Marian 1968; Indiana Football Hall of Fame, 2018.
• Kevin M. Motts, John Coppens and John Mauro — Indiana Football Hall of Fame, inducted 23 June 2006; Mauro played on Marian's three championship teams of the 1970s and afterwards on two FBS national championship teams at Alabama.
• Tom George — Marian's quarterback of the championship years; Indiana Football Hall of Fame, 12 June 2026, the register's newest name.
• Demetrius Jackson — Marian 2013, school-record 1,934 points; Notre Dame; drafted by Boston at #45 in 2016.
• Jaden Ivey — born in South Bend and formed at Marian through his junior year, with the school-record 600-point season; Purdue; #5 overall to Detroit, 2022. His birth tie is South Bend's and is boundary-printed as such; his formation is Mishawaka's.
• Zander Horvath — Marian's rushing records; a Purdue walk-on made good; fifteen games for the Chargers, 2022.
• Mary Hums — Marian softball; Marian Hall of Fame 2009 and the ASA Indiana Softball Hall of Fame, 1996.
• Mike Lightfoot, as a player — Bethel 1978; in Bethel's inaugural Hall of Fame class, 1994, as a player. (His longer tie is choice, and stands on the third roll.)
• At line size, Bethel's formed champions: Nick Bohm, NAIA diving titles in 2022 and twice in 2023; Shanna Page, NAIA women's golf medalist, 2008.

Third roll — chose this ground:

• Marvin "Marv" Wood — the Milan coach of 1954 who moved to Mishawaka and made it his last home: coach of the Cavemen, of Bethel and of Saint Mary's women's teams, city councilman, died at Mishawaka 13 October 1999.
• Homer Drew — Bethel's head coach from 1976, eleven seasons at 252–110, who took the Pilots to their first national title game in 1981; National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, 2019.
• Bob Otolski — built Marian football from 1964 into a 76–11–3 power, the ground the Knights' championship generation stood on.
• Mike Lightfoot, as a coach — Marian 1978–87 and Bethel 1987–2017, 794–285 across the two benches: formed here as a Bethel player (second roll) and the register's clearest case of a man who then chose the ground for forty years.
• Ron Hecklinski, at closing strength — Mishawaka High's head coach 2017–2022, 66–49, and Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame 2025 on a career made elsewhere; his Mishawaka chapter is a last bench, printed at that size.

Filed elsewhere, on purpose:The Wagner Steel team's Jack Wiltrout (South Bend Central) and Royal Church (Valparaiso) are other schools' sons who played on a Mishawaka nine; the team's own Tony Catanzarite is named "of Mishawaka" as its pitcher and stands at that line size only. Lindsay Benko is Elkhart's Olympian, boundary-printed in the banked file and not claimed here.

Sources:

1. Sports (banked) — every name, tie and figure on the three rolls, as carried in the team and player entries.
2. Halls of Fame (banked) — the hall inductions and dates, the Fitzsimmons birth conflict, the Wood arrival conflict, and the Penn and Wagner Steel filings.