Fishers guard Cooper Zachary shines at Charlie Hughes Showcase

Cooper Zachary turned Fishers’ 4-0 run through the Charlie Hughes Showcase into a recruiting argument college staffs will have to sort through now. The 5-foot-10 senior point guard showed the kind of command that makes evaluators recheck a roster line and a recruiting board at the same time.

Fishers went through the 2026 IBCA/IHSAA Boys Team Showcase in Memory of Charlie Hughes unbeaten, and Zachary’s best moments came in a setting built for live evaluation. The event drew 208 teams across Carmel and Westfield from June 26-28, putting Zachary in front of a crowded college-coach audience while Fishers beat Crown Point 83-52 and outlasted Homestead 69-66 in overtime. In that environment, Zachary looked less like a guard hanging onto the radar and more like one forcing his way up it.

The recruiting list already showed how much attention he had gathered before the weekend. Zachary held offers from Ball State, Florida Gulf Coast, Holy Cross, Penn and Toledo, with earlier interest from Cal Baptist, Bradley, Cal State Bakersfield, Eastern Illinois, Kent State, Nevada and Oral Roberts. 247Sports lists him as a point guard from Fishers, Indiana, and Indiana Elite AAU, and at 5-foot-10 and 150 pounds, the numbers make clear why his evaluation is tied so tightly to feel, pace and decision-making rather than size.

His résumé gives college staffs even more context. 247Sports lists Zachary as part of a Fishers program that won a Class 4A state title when he was a freshman and finished as the Class 4A runner-up as a sophomore. Fishers’ athletics department said in March that he had been named the Hoosier Crossroads Conference Boys Basketball Athlete of the Year, and MaxPreps listed him at 14.8 points, 5.6 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game across 25 games in the 2025-26 season.

That production fits the way Fishers coach Garrett Winegar has described him, with Zachary starting at point guard in a program that was 75-2 with him in that role as of February. The Charlie Hughes weekend did not change the basics of his profile, but it sharpened them: a smaller guard with proven winning, steady creation and a track record that keeps pushing the discussion from watched prospect to increasingly tough college fit.