Brian Lewis/The Gazette Poolesville High School's Lindsay Poss drives toward the basket during Friday's girls basketball game against Damascus defender Anna Warfield.

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Brian Lewis/The Gazette Poolesville High School’s Lindsay Poss surpassed the 1,000-point milestone this month.
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Brian Lewis/The Gazette Poolesville High School’s Lindsay Poss surpassed the 1,000-point milestone this month.
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Brian Lewis/The Gazette Poolesville High School’s Lindsay Poss drives toward the basket during Friday’s girls basketball game against Damascus defender Anna Warfield.

Brian Lewis/The Gazette Poolesville High School's Lindsay Poss drives toward the basket during Friday's girls basketball game against Damascus defender Anna Warfield.

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Poolesville High School's two-sport star Lindsay Poss has been an integral member of the school's field hockey and girls basketball teams throughout much of her high school tenure.

But the role she has played on each squad has been quite different.

As a member of the Falcons' field hockey varsity program the past three years, Poss helped anchor a defense that was one of the stingiest in Montgomery County, especially this past season, when it allowed just three goals in the regular season and four in a playoff run that ended in the 2A state championship game.

“I've had the privilege of knowing Lindsay since she was a little girl when she came to the recreation camp that I was working at,” said Poolesville field hockey coach Regina Grubb, whose defender added the game-winning assist in the team's 2-1 overtime win against Century in the 2A state semifinals. “I knew then that she was going to be a top female athlete in whatever sports she chose to play. She just had the natural raw talent of an athlete as a young child and it has stuck with her and she has shown it through her four years here at PHS.

Poss was key to the team's defensive success, Grubb said.

“Her stature and aggressiveness, along with developing her stick skills and understanding of the game, helped her to be a force on the field,” Grubb said. “She is a team player and always looked to do what was best for the team.”

While stopping others from scoring is her main objective as a field hockey player, Poss spends a good part of her time on the hardwood trying to score. She surpassed the 1,000-point career point mark in a recent win against Rockville.

In fact, the 5-foot-10 forward has led the Falcons in scoring in all four of her seasons, including a team-best 20 points per game this season following a 49-45 setback Friday to Damascus

“She's got good athletic ability and she has the combination of decent size and quickness and speed,” Poolesville girls basketball coach Fred Swick said. “She's a hard worker; she's dedicated a lot of time to basketball in the offseason. She outworks a lot of people.

That effort to outwork other players also manifests in the stats; Poss leads the team in rebounding as well as scoring, Swick said.

“She's aggressive. She cannot only shoot the 3-point shot, she can also drive to the basket, and being aggressive, she gets to the free throw line,” he said. “A scorer has got to be able to get to the foul line as well as shoot.”

Poss reached the milestone during a stellar senior campaign that includes a school-record 43 points Dec. 21 against Seneca Valley. She has poured in at least 22 points six times this season, including 30 points Jan. 13 against Albert Einstein.

“Lindsay plays hard,” Damascus coach Steve Pisarski said. “She hits 3-pointers, she drives the ball to the basket, she posts up, she runs the floor, and she gets to the foul line. Many players do one, or maybe two of these things. Lindsay is one of the few in the county that do all of them.”

But her foray into the sports started auspiciously.

“Field hockey started because we have an amazing coach that essentially forced me to try out in the nicest way possible,” Poss said. “It was completely worth the experience for just the coaching alone, but field hockey definitely taught me how close a large group of people can become.

And she was not in love with basketball when she was signed up for it.

“Basketball started with my dad signing me up in kindergarten, which I was not happy about because I thought it was a boys sport and I wanted to be girly,” she said. “The interest has grown immensely since then, and I have found something I truly love.”

So much so that she hopes to continue playing basketball in college, with her top choices being Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) and the University of Chicago.

“I'm not prepared to give up basketball, but a really good education will benefit me more in the long run, so I'm trying to cover that first and foremost,” Poss said. “It's my love affair that began at age 5, and has lasted more than a decade to where I am now. I feel at home on the basketball court.”

jpeters@gazette.net