{"id":11565414,"date":"2025-07-22T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/?p=11565414"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:48:55","slug":"dulaneys-heidi-schmidt-is-2025-towson-times-female-co-athlete-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2025\/07\/22\/dulaneys-heidi-schmidt-is-2025-towson-times-female-co-athlete-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Dulaney’s Heidi Schmidt is 2025 Towson Times female Co-Athlete of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dulaney senior Heidi Schmidt played on back-to-back lacrosse state finalists in 2023 and 2024 and although the Lions lost in this year’s regional finals to Towson, she proved her toughness and leadership despite missing five games with a hip flexor injury.<\/p>\n

She overcame the adversity and scored 35 goals with a team-leading 13 assists. She made the All-County first team for the second straight season after piling up 58 goals as a junior and she amassed 154 career goals in her four varsity seasons.<\/p>\n

She was also a four-year varsity guard on the basketball team and was honored as the 2025 Towson Times Female Co-Athlete of the Year. She shares the award with Dulaney junior Kimani Dennis.<\/p>\n

Schmidt injured her hip in a 12-10 victory over Towson on March 21 and didn’t want to come out of the game.<\/p>\n

“I played through it and my coach was a little iffy about it, but I was like, ‘Come on guys it’s Towson, I’ve got to play,'” Schmidt said.<\/p>\n

“She’s tough as nails and she is certainly someone that never wants to be on the sideline and she struggled having to do that, but gosh she was such an amazing teammate coaching the other girls,” Dulaney coach Kristi Korrow said.<\/p>\n

On the field, she was content feeding cutters or beating defenders.<\/p>\n

“I love them both. If I’m scoring, it’s usually off of a 1-v-1 and if I’m setting people up, it’s because I see them in the middle and I lead them and they get there and get a good pass and get a goal,” she said.<\/p>\n

With three freshmen in the starting lineup, she provided veteran leadership and helped lead the team to an 11-5 mark.<\/p>\n

“She is one of those players that when she is on the field she makes everybody around her better,” Korrow said. “She gives\u00a0everybody more confidence and she struggled to do that a little bit from the sideline, but she was such an amazing teammate, like really\u00a0encouraging.”<\/p>\n

One her most memorable games was a 14-13 victory over Catonsvillle in the regional semifinals after the Lions trailed by five goals in the second half.<\/p>\n

“She took charge in that game,” Korrow said of Schmidt’s six-goal performance. “She just kind of put the team on her back. Everybody just kind of got a little nervous, but Heidi just kept her focus and put the team on her back and said, ‘You know, we’re not losing this game.'”<\/p>\n

“That was like one of the most fun games I’ve ever played in high school other than the state games I’ve been to,” she said. “That game was so fun, just like, at one point I really thought like we were going to lose, like it was like the worst feeling ever, but that was when everyone was like, ‘No we are not losing this game. We’ve got to focus, we’ve got to lock in.’ And we did and that was a really, really fun game.”<\/p>\n

Schmidt will continue her lacrosse career next season at Dickinson College.<\/p>\n

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Dulaney\u2019s Heidi Schmidt blocks the shot of Catonsville's Kaitlyn Welsh in the Lions' 42-36 victory over the Comets. (Haldan Kirsch\/Freelance)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her prep basketball career may be over, but she made her senior year a memorable one despite having to shift from shooting guard to point guard at times.<\/p>\n

“I got nervous playing point guard,” she said. “It’s not my favorite to play because I’m not as confident, but I think it helps me out in the long run for sure.”.<\/p>\n

She didn’t get a break on the defensive side of the court.<\/p>\n

“She was our defensive go-to, our defensive spark,” Dulaney coach Courtney Lewis-Orr said. “Some people can’t guard on the open court, but she can, like in a full-court press, just her by herself. You can tell her to face-guard someone and she will do it, lock her girl down and get it done.”<\/p>\n

“It was fun, definitely stressful at times, but it also helped me out with my footwork in lacrosse,” Schmidt said. “It definitely was helpful.”<\/p>\n

Offensively, she had one of her more memorable games on senior night when she scored 15 points.<\/p>\n

“Senior night was really fun,” she said. “We were all really excited because the team we played against wasn’t the best team, but we all had a lot of fun that night.”<\/p>\n

Her versatility on the court impressed her coach.<\/p>\n

“Her speed was definitely a big plus,” Lewis-Orr said. “Her aggressiveness and her leadership on the court, she hustles, she gets rebounds, she makes good strong moves to the basket and good Euro steps to the basket. She does that really well.”<\/p>\n

Schmidt was also a captain on the basketball team that finished 19-7.<\/p>\n

“We knew when [center] Kiri (Faimanifo) transferred we had big shoes to fill along with our point guard not playing this year, like we knew it was going to be a tough year, but I think we all kind of knew since four of us were seniors we really wanted to make it far,” Schmidt said. “We knew we had to step up and really focus and I think we did a good job of that this year.”<\/p>\n