This year marks the 60^th year of the Portage community having basketball available for youths of the community.  Youth basketball was started in the fall of 1959 and has been available ever since then.  This article will discuss the beginning of youth basketball, the Biddy Basketball years and the start of the organization known as Portage Youth Basketball.

At the end of the 2018-19 schoolyear at PHS, Indians sports teams had only won nine IHSAA team titles.

Bob has agreed to write articles for us, this page is about him, please take a moment to read about him. Bob has put alot of great articles together about Sports History in Portage.

When Michael "Mick" E. Cavanaugh began teaching and coaching at Portage in the late summer of 1968, the cross country team was average at best and had no history of winning championships of any kind...

Organized soccer, defined as a league, began in Portage in the fall of 1967 through the then Town's Parks Department. Parks Commissioner William Wood was the driving force behind the Park Department's decision to offer soccer to the town's youth...

This writing is the memories of someone who was on that first team and whose father was one of the founders of the team and was one of the original Board of Directors.