When Kate Ford arrived at Notre Dame High School, she had no idea that four years later she would have a chance to make Lady Irish history.
Ford stands at 1,547 career points going into Tuesday’s game with Collegedale Academy and is 109 points away from tying the program record set by Alicia Ransom, whose jersey number was retired last Friday.
“I never thought breaking a record like this would be possible,” said Ford, who in middle school was focused primarily on defense. “Scoring was not my game. So when I came here from Cleveland and it became a part of my game, it kind of blew my mind. I didn’t know I had that in me.”
Notre Dame’s Kate Ford is closing in on the career scoring record for the Lady Irish. The senior guard scored 104 points in a four-game span this season. / Staff file photo by Robin RuddToughness is something else that’s in her.
In the nonregion game against Baylor last Friday, she caught an arm to the face, which broke her nose. But she checked back into the game soon after and considers the injury to be “not even a minor setback” as she and the Lady Irish (13-6) look to build toward a lengthy postseason run in Division II-A.