At this rate, Turners Falls High School’s Maddy Chmyzinski is going to be averaging 40 points per game during her senior season.

The sophomore guard saw her points-per-game average skyrocket this season as she won the Recorder-area girls’ basketball scoring title after averaging 19.4 points per game.

Chmyzinski raised her average by 10 points from her freshman to sophomore campaigns after she finished 2014-15 with 9.5 points per game. She said that playing the sport year-round has helped her most, although she did have concerns about this season after managing just 1 point in the season-opening loss to traditional Berkshire County power and eventual Western Mass. Division IV semifinalist Lee High School.

“I was a little worried about how the season would go,” she said with a laugh. “But I was just determined to score after that first game.”

And score she did. Chmyzinski played 20 more games this season and never scored fewer than 7 points in a game. She reached double figures in all but two games, helping her finish exactly four more points per game better than Athol High School senior forward Emily Casella, who was the area runner-up (15.4).

While Chmyzinski said she put in a lot of work during the offseason, one thing sticks out most in her mind.

“I got to work with (former Pioneer Valley Regional School star and NBA player) Adam Harrington for a day and he taught me how to correctly shoot from the foul line, and we worked on how to set up for a 3-pointer,” she explained.

Chmyzinski began playing basketball in fifth grade when her friend, Kylie Fleming, urged her to play.

“I didn’t know how to dribble or shoot,” she said.

She said that she soon began playing AAU at her father’s behest and fell in love with the sport. By the time she was in eighth grade she was getting called up to play on the varsity team and she scored 72 points that year, averaging nearly 5 points per game. She doubled that average last season, scoring 189 points in 20 games, and then scored 388 points this season. She said that playing against older girls has only helped her progression, and the progression of her team as a whole, which is still extremely young.

“There was a big difference playing against older girls,” she said. “They are taller, bigger and stronger. But it’s made us become really good. Playing against them has helped us as we’ve gotten older.”

That was never more apparent for the Indians than this year, when they qualified for the postseason for the first time since the 1992-93 season.

“It was really exciting,” she said of qualifying. “The hard work that we put in to get there makes it feel even better. We got off to a 0-2 start this season but we worked really hard.”

Chmyzinski has two more years and plenty of goals she would like to reach. She said she would love to play at least one game at Curry Hicks Cage in Amherst, where the WMass semifinals and finals take place. That very well could happen, since the team still remains young.

“We are basically all sophomores with one junior and eighth graders,” she said.

Personally, she would also love to reach the 1,000-point milestone, something she only needs 351 points to do, which lines her up for next season. If she does get there, she would be the first girl in Turners Falls history to hit that mark. In fact, her 649 points leaves her just over 100 points shy of Michelle Lefebvre’s all-time girls’ mark at the school of 784 points.

So look out area teams, Maddy Chmyzinski averaged nearly 20 points per game this season and she may just be getting started.