Raegan Hickey has already accomplished more in her athletic career than most ever will.
The junior owns the all-time Greenfield High School field hockey scoring record, and helped lead the Green Wave to back-to-back WMass championships. On the basketball court, Hickey has helped lead the Green Wave to four consecutive Western Massachusetts Tourney appearances, three consecutive 19-1 regular-season records, and the team’s first-ever appearance at Curry Hicks Cage this season.
Offensively, Hickey has already gone over the 1,000-career-point mark, and with a big season in her senior year has the chance to become the school’s all-time basketball scorer as well. After scoring 390 points in 23 games this season, Hickey’s average of 17 points per game also led her to be the Recorder-area scoring champion for the 2017-18 season.
When it comes to the accolades, Hickey is as humble as they come, and her unselfishness comes through in the way she plays. While she won the area scoring title handily over her teammates Sam Smith and Katie Haselton, who finished second and third, Hickey also likely would have won the Recorder-area assist championship as well.
“The ability to not just be able to score but do other things as well is a good trait to have,” she said in regards to being multi-faceted. “Although I score a lot, I think I have about half as many assists as I do points. I care about that a lot.”
Hickey had just two games early in the season in which she failed to reach double figures — scoring 9 and 8 points — but she was never held below 10 again. Her season-high of 29 points scored came in the first round of the tournament during a victory over Drury High School
While Hickey finished with 17 points per game, Smith finished second with 15, and Haselton was third at 14.5. Hickey said that having such successful teammates helped her to thrive, and certainly opens up her ability to score. She and Smith, who is also a junior, are also best friends off the court, which helps with their ability to work well on it.
“Sam and me really are best friends,” Hickey said. “We know where each other are at all times on the court.”
As for Haselton, she may have been the biggest difference-maker this season, coming into her own on the offensive end to give the team a third scoring option and a viable outside threat.
“Katie definitely improved a lot,” Hickey said. “She was good last year, but this year her shot was even better. She is going to be playing a lot in the offseason, which is what I did and it really helped me. She is going to keep getting better.”
Hickey said that she played during the offseason with the Mass Frenzy AAU team, which Haselton is doing as well. She is not planning to do that this season as she focuses more on field hockey, but will still take part in out-of-season leagues and camps.
The hope, Hickey said, is that next season will produce a WMass championship.
“We were really hoping to win it this year, of course, but I hope we get it next year,” she said.
And with the Greenfield softball team also in the hunt for a WMass title, who knows?
“It would be pretty awesome getting a title for all three sports,” she said with a laugh.
With Smith and Haselton helping Greenfield to a sweep of the top three scoring spots this winter, it’s no surprise the Green Wave made the deepest postseason run of any Recorder-area girls program.
Behind the trio, there was a pack of several players very close to one another for the No. 4 spot in the area leaders. Pioneer Valley Regional School’s Olivia Rowe took the honors by a narrow margin, as her 11.5 points per game put her fourth. Rowe was a consistent Panther performer, totaling 10 or more points in 14 of the team’s 20 games. She scored a season-high 23 in a 49-47 win over Hopkins Academy on Jan. 30.
Athol High School’s Destiny Wrigley finished fifth in the scoring race, as she averaged 11.4 points per game. Wrigley had 11 games of double-digit scoring and came on particularly strong down the stretch with an increased offensive output over the final 10 games. Her season-high was 25 in a loss to Turners Falls High School on Feb. 1.
Speaking of the Powertown, senior Maddy Chymzinski finished in a sixth-place tie with Mahar Regional School’s Hannah Paul. Both players totaled 11.2 points per game, finishing just outside the top 5.