<p>Izzy Reed has always focused on winning first. The 68 victories that the Greenwood Christian girls basketball team has racked up in her three-plus years can testify to that.</p><p>But she’s not oblivious to the fact that her efforts in the pursuit of team success have placed her in some pretty rarefied air individually.</p><p>Heading into the Cougars’ Tuesday home game against Class A No. 2 Trinity Lutheran, Reed stands on the precipice of some serious history.</p><p>Her 1,874 career points have her just 70 behind the leading girls scorer in Johnson County history, Indian Creek graduate Kylee Hamilton. Reed is also within shouting distance of the overall county record of 2,059, currently held by GCA alum Kyle Stidom.</p>[sc:text-divider text-divider-title="Story continues below gallery" ]<p>Additionally, Reed is now third on the unofficial list of the state’s all-time rebound leaders with 1,233. At her current pace of around 14 per game, she should have little trouble breaking the widely acknowledged mark of 1,308, set by former Brebeuf, Xavier and WNBA star Ta’Shia Phillips.</p><p>Reed acknowledges that all of those benchmarks are on her mind — with people around her bringing them up regularly, how could they not be? But it’s all forgotten once she gets on the court and the ball is up in the air.</p><p>Out on the hardwood, she’s too caught up in the game to think about any numbers outside of the game score.</p><p>"Some people know how many points they have in the middle of the game," Reed said. "I’m like, ‘Uhhhh…’ — no clue. I just don’t think about that stuff at all. So I might get a little anxious before, but once the game starts, I really struggle to remember or even think about that stuff in the game. I don’t know why."</p><p>The first mark to fall in the coming weeks will likely be Hamilton’s 1,944 points; given Reed’s per-game scoring average of just under 25, she should pass the former Braves star no later than next Monday at Edinburgh.</p><p>Hamilton has acknowledged the seemingly inevitable, and she’s very much cool with it.</p><p>"I am grateful enough to have held it for as long as I have," she told the Daily Journal during the offseason, "but I have always hoped someone else would eventually break it. It just shows how athletics for women has evolved, and how we can break new barriers and achieve new heights."</p><p>Just becoming the highest-scoring girl in county history won’t be quite enough to satisfy Reed, though. Not with 2,000 points so close and Stidom’s overall county standard just beyond that.</p><p>"It’s hard for me to just look at the girls scoring record and be like, ‘Oh, I’m satisfied with that,’ when I know Kyle’s record is right there," Reed said. "It’s not out of reach at all, so I think it’s kind of settling for me to just be like, ‘Yeah, girls scoring record is good.’ Which — it is great, but I know I can get to Kyle’s too."</p><p>With 10 games left on the regular-season schedule, Reed is on pace to eclipse all of those scoring and rebounding targets before sectional play even begins. But she also knows that the greater team success GCA enjoys next month, the more games — and more wiggle room — she’ll have.</p><p>The Cougars, who advanced to the Class A semistate for the first time in school history last year, have a strong chance to get that far again. And that is more important to Reed and her teammates than anything.</p><p>Weems says that there hasn’t been much talk about Reed rewriting the record books.</p><p>"It’s more unspoken," he said. "Her teammates are going to be happy for her when it happens, but at the same time, everyone’s kind of focused in on trying to get ready to find a way to win a regional, win a sectional, and maybe go a step farther than the semistate. That’s what everybody’s focused on."</p><p>Reed has always figured one would take care of the other anyway.</p><p>"I’ve always said I’d rather win a state championship than me break these records," she said, "but every competitive player has individual goals, so of course those would be awesome to reach.</p><p>"But I think it’s most important for me to remember to do what’s best for the team, and I think a lot of those will fall into place if I just do what the team needs."</p>
