WHS freshman Molly Whittier lit up the scoreboard for girls hockey team this season

For most hockey players, netting 100 points over the course of an entire high school career would be a significant achievement.

Waltham High freshman Molly Whittier has already eclipsed this milestone, doing so on Dec. 20. Remarkably, she has three years of high school hockey remaining after this season concludes.

After receiving the nod to play with the Hawks varsity club in seventh grade, Whittier has been a force to be reckoned with on offense. This winter, she was a key cog in Waltham’s resurgence since the turn of the new year.

“There was definitely hype around Molly’s skill level when she came in as a seventh grader,” second-year head coach Christopher Watson said. “This year, when we put her on the same line with Meredith Guden and Ryanne O’Connor, they built a rapport that really stood out. The team started just to play and not grip the stick too tight.”

Upon Whittier’s return from missing four games due to injury in early January, the Hawks rallied in the second half of the year with six wins in seven games. Whittier seemed to dominate the stat sheet in each game.

“Molly really bought into playing with her line mates and gelled with them, forechecking hard. Obviously, she can outskate anyone when she puts her mind to it. She really picked it up as the season moved on,” Watson said.

WHS revved its engines with a 5-2 win over Wayland-Weston/Newton South on Jan. 28 with Whittier netting two goals. She followed that up with a hat trick in a 6-0 victory over Cambridge Rindge & Latin, two goals in a shutout of Shawsheen/Bedford/Lowell, a goal in a 7-0 triumph over Concord-Carlisle, another score in a romp over Central Catholic, and a pair of tallies in a 3-0 win against Belmont.

Whittier also showed her playoff resilience on Feb. 26, contributing a key assist in a 3-2 overtime squeaker over favorite Hingham in the MIAA Division 1 State Tournament Round of 32. The playoffs and season ended for Whittier and the Hawks on Saturday against a strong Reading team, 3-2, with Whittier adding two assists in that game as well. It’s a safe bet that more records will be set before she graduates.