Years from now, when Colorado Springs Christian’s Jordyn Rollins looks back on the past weekend, she might forget a few things. 

She may not recall that she had 31 points Saturday against Banning Lewis’ girls basketball team. She might not remember what exactly happened on the play that took her to the line for the free throw. 

But she’ll always cherish her team and her community’s reaction to her thousandth career point. 

“I go to the free-throw line, this was probably my second or third time at the free-throw line, just hitting these single points and I was making them, I was draining them,” Rollins said. “It was my first free-throw shot. I shoot it, and I hear clapping, I hear cheers. When you make a shot you hear cheers, but this time it was a roar of cheers. I hear my family especially and then I see my teammates jump onto me and I was just an immediate flow of emotions because this is something I’ve worked really hard for.”

Rollins is the Gazette Preps Peak Performer of the Week after the senior eclipsed 1,000 points and led CSCS to a dominant win over the Stallions in the team’s regular-season finale Saturday.

She first realized she could reach 1,000 points at the end of her junior season. She had a couple of low-scoring games to begin her senior season, but Rollins remained steadfast in her belief in herself and her skills.

“I was able to tell myself that basketball is a game of averages. You average these points. Some games you’re going to have 31, like I had and other games you’re going to have six,” she said. “It’s a matter of next-play mentality, being able to get right back at it.”

Rollins averaged more than 17.7 in the regular season, second-most on the team.

With the milestone, she penned another chapter in a career of excellence as a high school athlete. Rollins is a three-time state champion with two basketball titles and one for girls’ soccer.   

She leads the Lions in field-goal percentage (38%), rebounds (188), assists (89), blocks (15) and steals (156) this season. She set the program record for most steals in a career with 483. 

“She plays really, really hard, sprints everywhere. She’s just nonstop, 100%, all out, the whole game. That’s why she gets so many steals,” Lions coach Mark Engesser said. 

Rollins credits her skill at creating turnovers to her top sport, which is soccer. 

“I’m a soccer player when it comes to it. I read eyes, I’m quick and I’m able to just anticipate, break down the offense,” she said. “I take a lot of pride in my speed. I’m smart. Basketball IQ came as I played the sport in the past eight years, but I give so much credit to soccer. Basketball has helped my soccer game, soccer has helped my basketball game.”

Earning steals is one thing, but scoring 1,000 points in a secondary sport is quite another. 

“I’ve coached many 1,000-point scorers on the boys and girls side, she’s the first 1,000-point scorer I’ve had that her primary sport isn’t basketball. So that’s pretty impressive,” Engesser said.  

Crossing the 1,000-point mark, breaking records on defense and being a leader on a team that’s 18-3 all adds up to a bittersweet finale for Rollins who knows her time as a competitive basketball player is coming to an end. 

The daughter of CSCS athletic director and girls’ soccer coach Jason Rollins, she will continue her athletic career playing soccer at Colorado Christian University in the fall. 

This postseason marks her last three weeks to enjoy everything about basketball, from the roar of fans during an exciting game or the squeak of sneakers on the hardwood, to relationships she’s made with her coach and teammates present and past. 

“We’ve gone through a lot this team and I’ve grown with a lot of these girls for the past four years. These girls are family, this whole team is family. The coaches have made this such an amazing environment,” Rollins said. “To have girls on and off the court that treat me as best friends, as a sister, sisters of Christ. They’re truly amazing.”