There’s no mystery to Chloe Siegel’s game.

Opposing players, coaches and everyone else in the gym knows it’s coming, usually sooner than later, yet there she goes again.

With a quick release and Steph Curry range, Deshler’s Siegel makes 3-point baskets in bunches.

The senior sharp-shooter recently set the national record for 3-pointers in a career, surpassing the 560 mark set by Carrie Johnson of Collinsville, Texas, from 2017-2020. Siegel broke the mark on Friday in an 85-22 victory over Brooks and added four more 3-pointers on Saturday for a total of 566 in her career.

“She has a way of getting away from people and of course, we as a team try to set her screens,” said Deshler coach Jana Killen. “She can shoot it quick and you wouldn’t dream of how far her range is. Most people would have to baseball-throw it just to get it there.

“With her, it’s ‘swoosh!’”

Siegel also holds the national and AHSAA record for 3-pointers in a game, setting the mark last season against Oak Mountain with 18, and her 566 career total bests the AHSAA mark of 503 by Covenant Christian’s Anna Claire Noblitt 2009-2014.

She’ll get plenty of chances for adding to the total with a game tonight against Priceville and postseason play to follow for Class 4A second-ranked and defending class champion Deshler.

Siegel made her first 3-pointer for the Tigers as an eighth-grader. She hasn’t stopped since.

Killen coached Siegel and the other six seniors along with junior point guard Raegan Rickard in youth league basketball. The team set a league record with 103 consecutive wins.

There’s natural ability, but hard work is the key.

“She has been working very, very hard since the fourth grade,” Killen said. “She would come in when I opened the gym for varsity in the summer. She has put in hours and hours and days and days to be the shooter she is.

“Everybody puts in the amount of time, but it’s the extra time that makes the difference.”