13 hours Ago By Madeline Warren
CALEDONIA — Halfway through the high school basketball season, the list of players joining the 1,000-point club continues to grow. For Caledonia siblings senior forward Reid Klug and junior guard Aubrie Klug, they just so happened to hit the milestone on the same night, Tuesday, Jan. 21, in their respective games against Chatfield.
The boys team hosted the Gophers while the girls team played on the road in Chatfield. ADVERTISEMENT After the girls game on Jan. 20, head coach Scott Sorenson told Aubrie’s parents she was closing in on 1,000 points and that she could surpass it the next night against Chatfield.
Originally, both parents planned on being at their daughter’s game, until boys head coach Brad King texted them to say they would probably need to send someone to Reid’s game too. So instead, they divided and conquered. Their mom, Sara, went to Reid’s game while their dad, Eric, was in Chatfield at Aubrie’s game.
Other family members turned up at both games to show their support. “It's very special because you always have someone that's there for you,” Aubrie said. “You never know, like, who it's gonna be, but you just know that they're always there to support you.
” Sara was watching Aubrie’s game on her phone while she attended the boys game in person. “My mom and dad were sitting there, and my brother-in-law and his wife, and I'm like, ‘Oh, Aubrey just got it,’” Sara said. “Saw her celebration, and friend of mine next to me kind of hit my arm, and she's like, ‘Sara’, and Reid got a pass up on the three-point line, and he made it.
So it was within seconds, minutes of each other. It was a surreal moment.” “I just made my shot, and then went over to my mom, and she congratulated me, and then said, 'Aubrie just hit hers too.
' So we kind of did at the exact same time," Reid said. At the end of the night, Sara shared a photo of the siblings posed with their game balls on social media. ADVERTISEMENT They like to keep it interesting.
Reid and Aubrie scored their 1,000th point within seconds of each other in two different towns tonight. So awesome❤️🏀 pic.twitter.
com/fckcxbznyz It was a bittersweet moment for Sara and Eric since they couldn’t be in two places at once, but there’s no doubt it was an unforgettable night for the family. “When things like that happen, something that you've seen (your kids) work for, and see that they accomplish something that they've worked for, it's just a really surreal moment for a parent to be like, ‘Wow, they did it. This is crazy.
’” As the two youngest of four siblings, Reid and Aubrie are the last kids left in the house with their older brother, Austin, and older sister, Paige, off at college. Austin plays baseball at Purdue while Paige is on the St. Mary’s University volleyball team.
“I think we like each other pretty much, we get along with each other, usually, and just trusting each other and getting shots up with each other every once in a while,” Reid said. “I’d say we’re pretty close,” Aubrie said. “We talk to each other, like, every night, and with sports, how we both play basketball, like we get shots up together and just do a lot of things together.
” The pair joined their respective varsity teams as freshmen, earning more playing time as sophomores. While King is the Warriors’ boys varsity coach, he is also Sara’s brother and Reid and Aubrie’s uncle. The siblings occasionally go to King’s house to practice and work out.
“When we were growing up, we got in the gym together a lot, with each other,” Reid said. “On Sundays, we did workouts with our older cousins, Brad’s sons, Owen and Noah and Eli, ran workouts for us and tried getting us the best we could be.” ADVERTISEMENT Since he joined varsity, King has seen Reid develop in multiple areas as a player.
“He has matured in a sense of understanding when to pick an opportunity to score the ball, because he's very unique, where he can get to the basket in many different ways,” King said. “He can also shoot it on top. He's a very good passer, so it works well when we're trying to run something, whether he's from the receiving end or whether he's throwing it.
” As for Aubrie’s growth, Sorenson said she’s gotten stronger and absorbs contact better. Most of all, he said she’s improved her game “at all levels” on both sides of the ball. “She can always shoot, but her drive .
.. it's something you got to pay attention to as a defender,” Sorenson said.
“She will take you to the rim and finish. ..
. She posts up well, so we can move her around if mismatches do occur.” In a small, close-knit town like Caledonia, community support means everything to athletes like the Klug siblings.
This is especially true for Reid and Aubrie, coming from a big family where their extended family members often double as teammates. “We're fortunate to be able to get to places to work out almost every day if we want to, and be able to work out with each other, to get shots up and get better,” Reid said. “Just being close to everybody in the community and everybody (supporting) you is good.
” King added: “It's special. I think it helps it happen. It still involves a pile of work from the individual children or kids, but it's definitely a community effort, with all the opportunities that kids are given.
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So we're blessed to have that in our community. ADVERTISEMENT “We're blessed to have older kids that are looking out for the younger kids, that are pushing the younger kids. We're blessed to have adults that are willing to put extra time in outside of the basketball season, put time in to go to different places.
So it's a special environment that they're in. I think they all appreciate (it) which makes me very happy, that they appreciate that some of the success they have comes from the environment they're in, which is our community, which is great.” The Klugs are not the only Caledonia players who’ve joined the 1,000-point club this season.
Senior guard Mason King – who's also Reid and Aubrie’s cousin – and senior guard/forward Josie Foster reached the achievement earlier in the season. “It's a great accomplishment for our kids,” Sorenson said. “It's been a really good year, special year for us because I know that's hard work that these kids put into doing it, and a lot of times it's not when other people are watching.
So to see them achieve a goal like that is special for them, but it's also special for our team. Our team really embraces it and understands and without them, these girls are not getting to those points. So, it's a nice accomplishment to know from a program perspective.
” Last season, both the Caledonia boys and girls basketball teams lost in the Section 1, Class 2A semifinals. With both Warriors’ teams looking to make a deep run again this postseason, the Klug siblings are sure to be significant contributors..
