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02-07-2013, 06:25 PM
The most prolific scorer in Kentucky high school basketball this season is a 5-foot-8 freshman girl playing in relative anonymity for a tiny school in Letcher County.
Whitney Creech, who has played for Jenkins' varsity since she was a sixth-grader, is averaging 31.4 points and already has 2,000 career points in sight.
"I was expecting great things from Whitney this season, but what she's doing is beyond that," Cavaliers Coach Ashley Addington said.
Creech's offensive ability was on full display against Hazard. She didn't score in the first quarter, but she finished with 52 points as Jenkins rallied from 20 points down to win 72-67.
"She's as smooth a ball player as I've ever seen," Addington said. "It's weird to say, but she plays like a boy."
Creech scored a few dozen points as a sixth-grader. She averaged 10 a game as a seventh-grader, and 21 as a starter last season.
"At first she just wanted to shoot from outside, but we kept encouraging her to drive," Addington said. "She's really developed that part of her game. She's got great moves now."
Creech's attack-the-rim mentality gets her to the free throw line a lot. She's attempted than 200 foul shots this season and has hit 66 percent of them.
Knott County Central Coach Jeff Honeycutt is a believer in Creech's talent: "Whitney is a natural scorer. She can handle the ball with either hand which makes her very hard to guard. I like her in-between game. Most girls don't have a mid-range game. I think she will have a shot at breaking the state's all-time scoring record."
Creech, who already has 1,770 points, is on pace to break the school scoring record (2,300 set by Kristy Sexton in 1991) next season. If Creech keeps up her offensive onslaught the next three years, she would become the fourth player in state history to reach 4,000 points, joining Highlands' Jaime Walz (4,948), McDowell's Geri Grigsby (4,385) and Wayland's King Kelly Coleman (4,337).
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Whitney Creech, who has played for Jenkins' varsity since she was a sixth-grader, is averaging 31.4 points and already has 2,000 career points in sight.
"I was expecting great things from Whitney this season, but what she's doing is beyond that," Cavaliers Coach Ashley Addington said.
Creech's offensive ability was on full display against Hazard. She didn't score in the first quarter, but she finished with 52 points as Jenkins rallied from 20 points down to win 72-67.
"She's as smooth a ball player as I've ever seen," Addington said. "It's weird to say, but she plays like a boy."
Creech scored a few dozen points as a sixth-grader. She averaged 10 a game as a seventh-grader, and 21 as a starter last season.
"At first she just wanted to shoot from outside, but we kept encouraging her to drive," Addington said. "She's really developed that part of her game. She's got great moves now."
Creech's attack-the-rim mentality gets her to the free throw line a lot. She's attempted than 200 foul shots this season and has hit 66 percent of them.
Knott County Central Coach Jeff Honeycutt is a believer in Creech's talent: "Whitney is a natural scorer. She can handle the ball with either hand which makes her very hard to guard. I like her in-between game. Most girls don't have a mid-range game. I think she will have a shot at breaking the state's all-time scoring record."
Creech, who already has 1,770 points, is on pace to break the school scoring record (2,300 set by Kristy Sexton in 1991) next season. If Creech keeps up her offensive onslaught the next three years, she would become the fourth player in state history to reach 4,000 points, joining Highlands' Jaime Walz (4,948), McDowell's Geri Grigsby (4,385) and Wayland's King Kelly Coleman (4,337).
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2013/02/07/25073...rylink=cpy
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02-08-2013, 01:04 AM
If she keeps this up, barring injuries, with the teams Jenkins plays, she'll easily break the scoring record.
02-08-2013, 08:25 AM
Yes, definitelty strength of schedule has a lot to do with offensive production. Yet, give the young lady her due and hopefully she won't have to hear the Jenkins parents and arm chair coach's saying Jenkins would be winning a lot more if Whitney wasn't shooting so much....Whitney great job and continue success.
02-11-2013, 04:11 PM
Great job and congrats to Whitney..... rebounder talk about shooting to much seems these schools that have one kid that shoots all the time seems there teams have loosing records.....Just a thought..... I don't mean anything just thinking out loud.... wonder why that is????
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