The banner for 1,000-point basketball scorers that hangs on the west wall of the Palmerton Area High School gymnasium already has her name on it. All it needs is her career total of 1,353 points to be put next to it.

Jade Farquhar's outstanding career as a member of the Lady Bombers came to an end with the senior being quite a part of a 20-5 season.She entered the season with 900 points, and it didn't take long for her to hit the millennium mark and finish her final year with 453 points and a repeat Times News Girls Basketball Player of the Year."It still hits me in the heart," Farquhar said, when talking about the season. "Scoring my 1,000th point meant a lot. I was anticipating it so much at least three games beforehand, and I tried to not let it bother me, but I knew it was coming. And then it happened and the rest of the season went so fast."Looking back at the season and having time to think back on it, she realized how successful of a season it actually was."We had a great season," she said. "We had some great expectations and we set our sights high. Sometimes I feel like we cut ourselves a little short with how early it ended. We achieved a lot this season, but we wanted to go farther than we did, make it to states and stuff like that, and we didn't do that."Farquhar was the quarterback, as you may call it, and had an outstanding surrounding cast in teammates Madison Mummey, Abby Reimer, Lyndsey Nemeth and Linnaea Leister, a freshman who came on when senior guard Janel Tracey was lost for the season.The Bombers went through the regular season with a loss to Salisbury and two losses to Southern Lehigh. They lost a Colonial League semifinal to Notre Dame of Green Pond and their first District 11 playoff to Salisbury.Farquhar had quite the offensive stats, leading the team in field goals (139), three-point field goals (26) and knocked down 97 of 120 free throws for an 81 percent average. She finished the year averaging 18.12 points per game.Farquhar led the team in rebounds with 141 (38 offensive and 103 defensive), led the team in assists with 117 and steals with 53. She also had 22 blocked shots."I play a lot of basketball," Farquhar said when asked if she felt any pressure with having such a leading role out on the floor. "I played something like 130 games in seven months or so. I get used to the pressure and I really enjoy that. I like seeing how I affect the game and how the game affects me. I know my teammates depend on me. I want to be the person to make that pass or score that basket to help get the win. The pressure helped me grow a lot as a person. And hopefully I can reflect on that for the other girls on the team and help them grow."Early in the season, the Bombers had to start Leister at guard, and Farquhar took her under her wing right away."I want to just give my brain to the younger girls now that my high school career is done," she said. "I want to tell them little things about their footwork and stuff like that. I did a lot of that with Linnaea. She really learned a lot by observing all of the seniors. She bought in to our sportsmanship, the chemistry we played with together, and I think she's going to bring that into her game the next three years, and it will definitely be beneficial."Farquhar points to the games against Northwestern that she'll remember the most from her senior season, even more than the one she scored her 1,000th point in."Every single year the games against Northwestern stand out to me," Farquhar said. "Those games were always competitive. We have a little rivalry going."Every game is a fun game. I remember play-by-play of them all and still watch film. The games I enjoy the most is when every girl is scoring around 15 points. That's so much fun when we're passing the ball around and everyone is scoring because we're all best friends."Rodney Strohl, her head coach the past two years, says Jade is just a true "gym rat" who likes to play ball."Girls like her are once in a lifetime that come around for you to coach," Strohl said. "I wish her all the best at the college level."Right now she's coaching AAU ball, the younger seventh- and eighth-graders from our school. She is just a true young lady. Other kids look up to her, but she doesn't let it get to her. It takes hard work to be where you are at, and I'm glad I was fortunate to coach her."Farquhar will continue her education and basketball career at Millersville University. And she credits another Times News Girls Basketball Player of the Year Celeste Robinson of Jim Thorpe for getting the Marauders to offer her a scholarship.Robinson saw Palmerton play the Lady Olympians in the Lehighton Holiday Classic and called her coach right away.It'll be interesting to follow the career of both next season.