Kentridge girls basketball player Alicia Dugan will leave her mark on the high school after breaking a 12-year-old school record.
Dugan set the record for career points after the Chargers’ game against Ballard on Dec. 30 when she scored 14 points.
The senior has scored 928 points during her career, surpassing 2003 graduate Krystal Robinson by 22 points. Dugan scored 133 points in her freshman year, 325 as a sophomore and 333 in her junior year. This year she’s put up 137 points in the first 10 games.
The blonde senior, standing at 5 feet, 9 inches, says she was “pleased” by her accomplishment but didn’t hit the roof over it.
Numbers aren’t important to her, she says, noting that breaking the record was simply another note on her progress as an athlete.
“Furthering my skills as a player, becoming dominant is a bigger accomplishment than breaking a record,” she says.
Dugan made a name for herself by starting every year since her freshman debut on the team. Of course starting on the team wasn’t the easiest thing for her and she had some hesitation at first.
“It was pretty intimidating,” Dugan said. “I did have some teammates who were just a year above me, and they made it pretty hard.”
But the freshman Dugan maintained her focus.
“I kept my composure and mentality, and knew that anything I accomplished was due to my work,” she said.
While playing, Dugan says that her scoring comes from finding the right moments instead of any kind of deep focus on making baskets.
“I’m not really focused on anything, I take the open shots and make the right pass, it’s just like any other game, I treat it as if it’s a new game and if my shots are there, they’re there,” she says.
Dugan has played since second grade with her father and since then basketball has become an integral part of her persona.
“It’s always been a bond between me and my dad,” Dugan says. “He taught me everything I know, it’s always been a part of me.”
As she’s grown, basketball has always been present in her life whether it was the Amateur Athletic Union, various camps and now high school ball. She’s hoping to continue her career with collegiate basketball, considering smaller private schools like Austin College in Texas or George Fox University in Oregon.
“Its something that keeps me busy and out of trouble,” she says. “Each day there’s a new goal to achieve.”
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