At the beginning of her senior season with Longmont girls basketball, a question mark dotted Savannah Pohl’s resume. Would she be able to reach the 1,000-point, 500-rebound achievement that so few high school athletes attain?

In “pure Savannah fashion,” which Pohl described as procrastinating and keeping everyone guessing until the last minute, she reached 1,000 points in the Trojans’ final game of the season — their lone state tournament contest at Standley Lake. The 12 points she netted that day brought her career totals to 1,006 points and 585 rebounds, the latter of which were split fairly evenly between the offensive and defensive glass.

“It was just really exciting because it was kind of a question whether I was going to get there or not, but I was just super grateful that all my hard work kind of paid off and summed up, and ended the season on a good note,” Pohl said.

Her ability to lead her team to the postseason, and the indelible mark she’s left on the Longmont program in her four years inside the school’s halls, earned Pohl the Times-Call player of the year. When asked whether the Trojans would have made the tournament without Pohl, head coach Wade Kingsbury replied, “Absolutely not.”

Pohl’s numbers, while impressive, didn’t tell the full story of her impact on the hardwood. Those moments came through her intense focus on defense and ball-sharing, as she did all she could to elevate the team around her, all while leading the team in scoring, rebounding and steals (3.0 per game).

This year, that meant she had to sit on the bench a lot more than she’d have liked, thanks to a sharp uptick in her foul count.

“I couldn’t even tell you, which is weird,” she laughed when asked how many times she ended games prematurely. “I mean, my first three years, I didn’t foul out that often. This year, all of the sudden, I was like a little foul machine. It was frustrating sitting on the bench, but I was just trying to give it my all. Most of the games I fouled out were close games or super hard games where I was really focusing on my intensity, and it maybe got a little out of hand.”

Next year, as Pohl heads to the state of Washington to further her career at the University of Puget Sound, she hopes that all the lessons she learned while wearing the Trojan blue will help her earn meaningful minutes and maybe — just maybe — a starting role as a freshman.

Kingsbury has no doubt she’ll succeed, no matter where life takes her.

“Savannah leaves an awesome legacy at Longmont High School,” he said. “Outside of being, obviously, a great basketball player, she’s a 4.0-plus student. She’s been a state qualifier for (Future Business Leaders of America). I know she’s a leader for her Young Life Group. She just kind of does it all and does it with humility and a love for life that is contagious.”