Girls Basketball: Harriton High School’s Sophie Grady joins 1,000 point club

Rosemont – What was supposed to be an evening to celebrate with Harriton High School senior Sophie Grady netting her 1,000th career point turned bittersweet when her team dropped a key Central League match-up against Marple Newtown High School. Needing seven points to become just fourth player in the history of the girls basketball program to reach 1,000 career points, Grady helped her squad get off to a quick start by scoring six of her team’s first 11 points.

With 45 seconds remaining in the first quarter, sophomore Christina Brown began to drive the lane before finding Grady behind the arc. As she has done many times throughout her career, Grady pulled up and drained the three-pointer for career points 1,000, 1,001 and 1,002.

“It feels good to score 1,000 career points,” Grady said following her team’s difficult 57-50 overtime loss. “I feel very grateful to be I the position I have been thanks to my coaches and my teammates to get where I am in today.”

Harriton’s first-year coach Kacy McNichol said, “Unfortunately, things did not fall the way we would have hoped, but I have to give Marple credit for going to a box-and-one defense. We have to have more kids step up and score. The kids are playing hard but we just haven’t been able to get the job done. I was hoping to celebrate two things tonight – getting a big Central League win and Sophie Grady scoring her 1,000th career point.”

Harriton teammate Meg Wilcox, who has grown up with Grady since before they could walk, added, “It’s pretty weird considering we have grown up together for so long. We started from like zero basketball to this so to see her become the fourth player in school history is crazy. I am so happy for her.”

Grady and Wilcox have played together at Harriton for three years but they grew up together and have known each other since before they could walk. Prior to Harriton, the pair also played together for two years at St. Margaret’s. Knowing she was seven points away from joining Heather Barrie, Kate Melvin and Sabrina Tabasso as the only players in Harriton girls’ basketball history to reach 1,000 points for their career, Grady certainly felt the nerves until tip-off.

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