Zero to 2,000 points: The 10 Minnesota girls basketball players who did it quickest

A list that hadn't changed much in the previous 15 years was shaken up over the weekend when two ninth-graders jumped to the top of this chart.

By Matt Pederson

For the Minnesota Star Tribune
February 20, 2023 at 12:47PM
Clockwise from top left: Maddyn Greenway, Tori Oehrlein, Janet Karvonen and Tayler Hill. (Star Tribune and Minnesota Basketball Hub/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Freshman girls basketball players Tori Oehrlein of Crosby-Ironton and Maddyn Greenway of Providence Academy became the fastest to reach 2,000 points in state history. Here are the 10 girls who got to 2,000 points in the fewest games, compiled by basketball historian Matt Pederson:

Games: Player, school, year

82: Kierah Kimbrough, Badger-Greenbush-Middle River, 2004

82: Megan Taylor, Roseau, 1995

85: Tayler Hill, Minneapolis South, 2007

86: Janet Karvonen, New York Mills, 1979

87: Madison Mathiowetz, Sleepy Eye St. Mary's, 2021

91: Kiley Borowicz, Roseau, 2016

91: Addi Mack, Minnehaha Academy, 2023

94: Sari Noga, Parkers Prairie, 2008

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