John's Journal: The Five Families Of 2,000-Point Scorers

 

When Mesabi East basketball player Hannah Hannuksela reached the 2,000-point career milestone last week, she joined her brother Hunter in the 2,000 club. They became the first players from the same family to reach 2,000 in the same season, and the fifth family to have more than one member hit 2,000.

The first family to do so was the McDonalds of Chisholm fame. Other schools to have 2,000-point scorers from one family come from Braham, Cambridge-Isanti and Barnum.

Here’s the list, courtesy of Matt Pederson and his Minnesota High School Basketball Records website: http://www.info-link.net/~mattnet/

Chisholm

--Tom McDonald (1982)

--Judy McDonald (1984)

--Joel McDonald (1991)

Braham

--Isaiah Dahlman (2006)

--Noah Dahlman (2007)

--Rebekah Dahlman (2013)

Barnum

--Katrina Newman (2010)

--Brandon Newman (2015)

Cambridge-Isanti/Braham

--Whitney Olson (2012), Cambridge-Isanti

--Chris Olson (2016), Brainerd

Mesabi East

--Hannah Hannuksela (2021)

--Hunter Hannuksela (2021)