Farmersville senior Braxtin Turney (11) scored the 1,000th point of his high school career during a Jan. 14 home game against Wills Point. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media
By David Wolman
Before the beginning of the season, Shana Turney ordered a poster board to keep track of every point that her son, Farmersville senior Braxtin Turney, scored.
Braxtin came into this season needing to score 246 points to reach 1,000 for his high school career.
After every game, Shana marked off every point that Braxtin scored.
The points added up rather quickly.
Coming into Farmersville’s game on Jan. 14 against Wills Point, Braxtin was just two points away from becoming the second Farmersville player in as many years to score 1,000 points for their high school career. Farmersville alum Dylan Shankle, a 2024 graduate, achieved the feat last year. Now, Braxtin is part of that elite club.
It didn’t take long for Braxtin to achieve the milestone.
With the Farmers already leading 3-0, senior Kauri Miller inbounded the ball to Braxtin. Braxtin passed the ball to junior Ethan Stone. Stone then passed the ball back to Braxtin, who made a 3-pointer from the right side of the court. Braxtin finished the game with 23 points. More importantly, the Farmers won 67-52.
Moments later, Farmersville head coach Hayze McGuckie called a timeout to allow Braxtin and his teammates to celebrate the accomplishment.
“It feels surreal,” he said. “It’s been something that I’ve been working towards. I had a goal in middle school, and I finally got it. I knew at the beginning of the year that I was close, but I didn’t know when I was going to get it. I didn’t think about what it was going to feel like, and when it finally did, it was like, ‘wow.’”
Braxtin turned his head towards the Farmersville fans and glanced as his parents and also the banner that they had made to honor the accomplishment.
“It is a pretty impressive milestone to reach 1,000 career points,” McGuckie said.
Braxtin has been a prolific scorer going all the way back to middle school, where he averaged more than 20 points. He played basketball at Community High School for his freshman and sophomore seasons before transferring to Farmersville prior to the start of his junior season.
Basketball has always been fun for Braxtin, and he’s put in a lot of hard work along the way. When Braxtin was younger, his parents drew a mini hoop for him to shoot. He put up hundreds of shots every day in the goal in the backyard of his family’s house and also next door at the house of his grandfather, Joe.
“There were some videos, and I looked really excited,” Braxtin said. “In elementary school, I would pretend there were three seconds left on the clock, and I would shoot it. I would shoot for maybe five hours a day, get up about 500 shots. I just did whatever I could to get up shots.”
With that accomplishment out of the way, Braxtin is now focused on team goals. He will look to help lead the Farmers to the playoffs for the first time since 2013. Farmersville entered this week 16-9 on the season but just 1-2 in District 13-4A.
“We’re pretty confident that we can get back into the playoffs, finish district play strong,” he said. “We hear people chirping, but we’ve got to keep going to achieve our goal.”
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