With 160 career points, Mason Grove enters the 2019-2020 hoops season as the top active CHS scorer. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)
Fellow senior Scout Smith has 142 points, topping all active girls.
With 139 points and two seasons left to play, junior Chelsea Prescott could chomp her way up the career scoring chart.
Hawthorne Wolfe knocked down 158 points last season, most-ever scored by a Wolf freshman boy across 102 seasons of action.
It’s the best time of the year.
We’re not saying basketball is the best sport of them all, but … yeah, actually we are saying basketball is the best sport of them all.
Facts are facts.
And there’s going to be a lot of basketball going down over the next four to five months.
The Coupeville Middle School boys travel to Shoreline Wednesday to face King’s Junior High in the first games of the season.
Then, six days from now, the CHS girls and boys open practice, with their first games slated for the first week of December.
Toss in the CMS girls, who take the court in February, and there’s hoops action a’plenty.
As basketball unfolds, a little side game I have is keeping track of who scores for the high school teams, and how that affects their standings on the career scoring chart.
Through my research, I’ve tracked 102 seasons of CHS boys action and 45 years of girls play, and, while I’m not 100% there (pre-1960’s is a wasteland for reliable stats), I have a pretty good list.
So, as we head towards a new season, #103 and #46, where do the current players sit in the race for the school’s career scoring records? Glad you asked.
The charts below represent all of the players who COULD return, not necessarily those who WILL return.
In the case of one player, Ja’Kenya Hoskins, a leg injury suffered during a dodge-ball tourney, will keep her sidelined for awhile.
She stays on the list however, as the hope is she makes it back sometime during the season.
With the others, until practice gets fully rolling, we won’t know if anyone suddenly lost their love of hoops and decided to take the winter off.
Hopefully not, but you never know.
So, here’s what’s possible:
GIRLS (224 players on career chart):
Scout Smith – Senior – 142 points – #79
Chelsea Prescott – Junior – 139 points – #81
Avalon Renninger – Senior – 59 points – #118
Hannah Davidson – Senior – 42 points – #136
Tia Wurzrainer – Senior – 18 points – #165
Izzy Wells – Sophomore – 11 points – #178
Mollie Bailey – Junior – 8 points – #184
Ja’Kenya Hoskins – Sophomore – 5 points – #203
Anya Leavell – Sophomore – 4 points – #205
BOYS (391 players on career chart):
Mason Grove – Senior – 160 points – #153
Hawthorne Wolfe – Sophomore – 158 points – #154
Sean Toomey-Stout – Senior – 122 points – #170
Jered Brown – Senior – 100 points – #183
Ulrik Wells – Senior – 78 points – #200
Gavin Knoblich – Senior – 70 points – #212
Jacobi Pilgrim – Senior – 44 points – #253
Koa Davison – Senior – 11 points – #330
Jean Lund-Olsen – Senior – 7 points – #353
Xavier Murdy – Sophomore – 4 points – #368
Daniel Olson – Junior – 3 points – #374
The CHS career scoring marks are safe for now, with Brianne King sitting at 1549 and the duo of Jeff Stone and Mike Bagby tied at 1137.
But, current players can make serious inroads this season.
For Smith and Prescott, the Top 50 is less than 100 points away, with Annette Jameson sitting at #50 with 223 points.
On the boys side, Grove and Wolfe have a little bit further to go, with #100 currently being Terry Roberts and his 277 career points.
Time for everyone to start shootin’.
