Freehold High School’s Rebecca Cobb, scoring during a game against Marlboro High School, joined her former Colonial teammates, Kim Dana and Camerin Spahn, as a career 1,000-point scorer. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR
Cobb joins 1,000-point club
By TIM MORRIS
Staff Writer
Rebecca Cobb had some good role models to follow. During her sophomore
year on the Freehold High School girls basketball team, Kim Dana and Camerin
Spahn scored their 1,000th career points.
“I grew up watching them playing
with my sister [Sara Cobb],” Cobb said. “I thought to myself, ‘I can do that,
too.’ ”
Last month, the 5-foot-11 center did
just that, joining her former teammates as a career 1,000-point scorer.
“[The 1,000 points] means a lot,”
Cobb said. “I’ve been through a lot from the championship team to rebuilding,
and I’ve played with a lot of different players.”
Spahn (New Jersey Institute of
Technology) and Dana (The College of New Jersey) are both playing college
basketball now and were at the Howell game in Freehold to watch their former
teammate join the 1,000- point club.
The trio shares something else in
addition to the scoring milestone. In 2013, they helped the Colonials capture
the program’s first NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III championship. It’s
something Cobb said she thinks about often.
Following the game, Cobb received a
text from her sister, who is playing college soccer at Utah State University,
telling her “how proud she was of me,” Cobb said. Cobb credited head coach Jenn
Brzucki with helping make her an all-around scorer that makes it possible for
her to score 1,000 points. Early in her career, Cobb noted, Brzucki taught her
the drop step — a move for post play. Now she is able to play outside, put the
ball on the floor and drive to the basket, increasing her scoring options.
Cobb has also played volleyball all
four years at Freehold, and she pointed out that it benefited her on the
basketball court. Volleyball helped with her footwork and made her quicker.
As the Colonials build toward the
future with promising freshmen and sophomores, Cobb is the team’s main option
on offense. She still averages 15 points despite being the focal point of
defenses. As a senior, Cobb is now in the role of leading the younger players.
It’s something for which her sister, Spahn and Dana prepared her well.
“For me, they were something to look
up to. They taught me about leadership,” she said. What Cobb has been impressing on the
young Colonials, she noted, was how important playing defense is. Cobb has been encouraged by what
she’s seen from the young Colonials and believes they have a bright future. Cobb is the eighth Colonial girl to
reach 1,000 career points joining Allison Calandrino, Carla Brantley, Vicki
Roy, Liz Scharpf, Shannon Mayrose, Kim Dana and Camerin Spahn.
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