Jan 7, 2010 11:14:50 AM

For four years, Carolyn Freeman literally has been looking up to her mother at St. Joseph's (Maine), where Linda Johnson Freeman's name is on a banner that lists 1,000-point career scorers in Monks women's basketball.

Now, the younger Freeman has claimed her own place on the banner, notching her 1,000th career point on a jump shot with 23 second left in St. Joseph's game January 3 against Skidmore.

Only one other collegiate mother-daughter duo is known to have scored 1,000 career points each at the same school. The Freemans joined Cedar Crest's Melissa Porzio and daughter Courtney Porzio in that rare achievement.

Freeman's mom was the first woman to place her name on St. Joseph's banner, scoring 1,560 points from 1977 to 1981. That total now ranks fourth among career scorers at the school.

Linda Johnson Freeman, the Monks' career leader in points per game (19.7) and a member of the school's first athletics hall of fame class in 2000, was honored just last fall with induction into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. She twice served as team captain at St. Joseph's, leading those teams to 13-7 and 15-9 records and a league championship in her senior year.

Now, daughter Carolyn has etched her own name throughout the St. Joseph's records book.

The senior elementary education major became the first Monks player in five years and 19th in program history to reach the 1,000-point mark, and also became the 11th player to combine 500 rebounds with 1,000 points.

Especially prolific from the three-point line, Carolyn Freeman ranks third in career three-point baskets and attempts, hitting one-third of her shots from that distance during her career.

The two-time all-Great Northeast Athletic Conference player, who is averaging 11.7 points per game, has 14 scheduled regular-season games to move closer to mom's totals, beginning with tonight's GNAC opener at defending league champion Emmanuel. She would move into the Monks' top 10 in career scoring with 195 more points.