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Sydney Parrish is focused on one thing in 2020 — helping the Hamilton Southeastern Lady Royals get back to the state championship. “That’s the main goal,” she says. Last season, Parrish led HSE to a 27-1 overall record and the school’s first IHSAA Girls Basketball 4A State Championship, no small feat. Along the way, Parrish averaged 21 points, 6.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.9 steals and 1 block per game. In the state championship game, she put up 30 points and 10 rebounds to clinch the title over Lawrence North High School.
Last year’s performance also earned Parrish the Gatorade Player of the Year Award for girls basketball. While those accomplishments are great, she says, it’s not something she has too much time to focus on right now.
Parrish is certainly doing her part to help the team repeat.
As of mid-January, the 6’2” senior guard is averaging 26.3 points, 2.2 assists, 7.4 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game. Last November, Parrish broke the HSE girls “Winning state, of course, was a huge deal,” basketball scoring record, eclipsing the 1,374 she says. “But we can’t look back at our point mark set by Taya Reimer in 2013. Right season last year, we are focused on this year before the New Year, she passed Zach Gunn and getting there again. We have been taking for HSE’s all-time scoring record. it one game at a time and, hopefully, will be playing all through February and get back to The records, she says, are incredible accomplishments and probably something the state championship.” 6 / FISHERS MAGAZINE / FEBRUARY 2020 / atFishers.com
