Bruns hits 1,000 points as Blossom

Blooming Prairie senior point guard Bobbie Bruns became the fifth Blooming Prairie girls basketball player to score 1,000 points when she scored her first basket of the season against Kingsland last week.
Bruns came into the game with 999 points and had to wait eight months to have her opportunity to reach the milestone as a senior.
The basket that put her over 1,000 points came on a jump shot where Bruns drove to the basket from the left side of the arc, pulled up from just inside the three-point line and finished.
“It was definitely kind of a weight off my shoulders. Like once I made that, I was like, ‘Okay, now I can just play my game,’” said Bruns.
Family, friends and fans alike filled the stands in preparation for Bruns surpassing the milestone.
However, everyone had to be patient as Bruns scored her first basket just over eight minutes into the game with 9:46 seconds remaining in the first half.
“It was pretty cool. It was something we thought about for a very long time because she was at 999 at the end of the season, so I was like, ‘Oh, we have to wait all summer and all fall.’ But you know, it was a huge monkey off of our back,” said Blooming Prairie head coach John Bruns, who is also Bruns’ father.
Bobbie Bruns also said the full-circle moment for her as a senior reflecting on her career to date as she was able to share her 1,000th point with the player who assisted her on her very first points as an Awesome Blossom varsity athlete: McKenna Hein.
Hein, a senior during the 2017-2018 season, was the one who passed to Bruns to score her first layup as a varsity athlete in eighth grade.
Hein now monitors the sidelines as an assistant coach, watching her former teammate accomplish goals she set five years prior.
In her senior campaign, Bruns has hit the ground running, scoring 30 points in her first game against Kingsland and 17 points in the next game against Triton.
Now sitting at 1,046 points, Bruns has set her sights on a new milestone.
With 23 games remaining in the regular season, Bruns will need 526 more points to break Megan Oswald’s school scoring record that she set as a senior last season.
Bruns will need to average 23 points per game throughout the team’s remaining 23 games to achieve the feat.
Currently, she is on pace to do so as she is averaging 23.5 points through the first two games.