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El Capitan High School senior Keira Heinricy is one of the best 3-point shooters in CIF San Diego Section girls basketball history. (El Capitan High School)<\/p>\nLAKESIDE \u2014 El Capitan High School freshman Alauna Powell gave her basketball teammates and coaches \u201cMost Likely To\u201d T-shirts earlier this season. Assistant coach Mackenzie Curtis, El Cap\u2019s all-time leading scorer, received a shirt reading \u201cMost Likely To Set Records.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senior Keira Heinricy, a four-year starter, was given a T-shirt saying, \u201cMost Likely To Break Records.\u201d<\/p>\n
A dead-eye shooter from deep, Heinricy came into the season with 201 3-pointers, four shy of the school record.<\/p>\n
With 51 treys this season, Heinricy\u2019s career total sits at 252, obliterating the school mark of 205.<\/p>\n
The person who held the record? Mackenzie Curtis, El Cap\u2019s assistant coach and the sister of head coach Dylan Curtis.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeira is setting the record so far out there, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s ever going to be broken,\u201d said Mackenzie Curtis, who played collegiately at New Mexico and Idaho. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about a girl who whenever the gym is open, she\u2019s there. And when it isn\u2019t open, she\u2019s asking you to let her in.\u201d<\/p>\n
El Capitan, blessed with a rich girls basketball history, is 14-5 and ranked 12th in the San Diego Section by MaxPreps.com.<\/p>\n
Heinricy is the primary reason for the Vaqueros\u2019 success. She\u2019s averaging 19.5 points, eighth in the section, 6.8 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.9 steals per game.<\/p>\n
What can\u2019t be measured is her basketball passion.<\/p>\n
Said Dylan Curtis: \u201cShe loves the game more than any kid I\u2019ve ever coached.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heinricy, who has accepted a scholarship offer from NCAA Division II Hawaii Pacific, is young as seniors go.\u00a0 She won\u2019t turn 18 until April. She\u2019s one of three children, bookended by older brother Kaden and younger brother Cooper.<\/p>\n
Their father, Matt Heinricy, is a pastor and basketball junkie. Since the family moved to Santee in 2016, a basketball hoop has been a fixture in the driveway or on the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were always playing basketball,\u201d Matt Heinricy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the time we got home from school \u2019til the sun went down,\u201d said Kaden.<\/p>\n
The siblings and father often played 2-on-2. Kaden and Keira, though, seldom were teammates.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you put them on the same team, they\u2019d argue and fight,\u201d said their father. \u201cThat never went well.\u201d<\/p>\n
El Capitan High School senior Keira Heinricy is one of the best 3-point shooters in CIF San Diego Section girls basketball history. (El Capitan High School)<\/p>\n
Kaden Heinricy played varsity basketball for three seasons, one at Santana and two at Steele Canyon, where he averaged double figures as a junior and senior. When Kaden and Keira played the shooting games P-I-G or H-O-R-S-E or 1-on-1, Kaden didn\u2019t take it easy on his little sister.<\/p>\n
One of Keira\u2019s happiest memories came when she was 14 and rejected one of Kaden\u2019s shots at the rim when they were playing 1-on-1. Their father caught the moment on video and Keira beamed in disbelief after the swatting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so happy just because he was talking so much (smack),\u201d Keira Heinricy said. \u201cI kind of shut him up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keira averaged 13 points as a freshman, 14.5 as a sophomore and 13.6 as a junior. Her scoring has jumped to 19.6 this season. Her 51 3-pointers rank tied for first in the section and 45% shooting from deep ranks second, according to MaxPreps.com.<\/p>\n
Her best shooting percentage on 3-pointers before this season was 34 as a freshman. Dylan Curtis, who began coaching Heinricy on a club team in fifth grade, said her shooting percentage from deep has significantly improved in part because her game is more well-rounded now, particularly her ability to put the floor and attack the basket.<\/p>\n
At 5-foot-8 and 140 pounds, Keira is the first to admit she\u2019s not blessed with insane athletic ability.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I knew that at a very young age,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She compensates for that with keen court awareness and her ability to hit from deep.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think you have to be athletic to shoot or be a good leader,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Said Dylan Curtis: \u201cStarting in high school, I don\u2019t know that she has ever missed a day of working out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Be it shooting, practicing, lifting weights, training, working on her dribbling or going for a run, Keira said Curtis is probably correct.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t like sitting and being still,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Of the thousands of shots she has hoisted across her lifetime, she said, \u201cShooting a basketball kind of fulfills my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dylan Curtis said that as good of a basketball player as Keira is, \u201cShe\u2019s probably a better person than basketball player.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heinricy admits she feels some pressure being a pastor\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I like the pressure, in basketball and in life,\u201d she said. \u201cI think it holds me accountable to be a good person.\u201d<\/p>\n
She has paid it forward in basketball, coaching youths in the Lakeside Stampede recreation program.<\/p>\n
Heinricy plans to major in education at Hawaii Pacific. She wants to become an elementary school teacher.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to give kids a safe space to learn and grow as people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
No. 1 from 3<\/p>\n
The San Diego Section\u2019s girls career Top 10 made 3-point field goals list. At her current pace of 2.7 made 3-pointers per game, El Capitan\u2019s Keira Heinricy is on pace to finish with 279 made 3s.<\/p>\n
Ranking,Name, Number, Years<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Jessica Grant, Mission Hills, 486, 2019-22<\/p>\n 2. Alessandra Aguire, Bishop\u2019s, 436, 2014-17<\/p>\n 3. Katie Kuklok, Poway, 336, 2008-11<\/p>\n 4. Elise Paty, San Diego, 323, 2003-06<\/p>\n 5. Kelly Simers, Santana, 321, 1993-96<\/p>\n 6. Destiny Littleton, Bishop\u2019s, 317, 2014-17<\/p>\n 7. Citalli Gurrola, Mount Miguel, 271, 2017-19<\/p>\n 8. Shyla Laton, Bonita Vista, 267, 2014-18<\/p>\n 9. Keira Heinricy, El Capitan, 252, 2023-present<\/strong><\/p>\n 10. Jamie Legaspi, Westview, 241, 2009-12<\/p>\n 10. Katie Girtin, Westview, 241, 2004-07<\/p>\n Source: CIF Record Book<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKESIDE \u2014 El Capitan High School freshman Alauna Powell gave her basketball teammates and coaches \u201cMost Likely To\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3102,1370,3549,7264,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-511488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-high-school-sports","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115883736071232301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}