Back in the days of the Wild West, if you fancied yourself a shooter, you better have had some superior reflexes and quick hands if you wanted to survive one of those Main Street duels.

Hiland sophomore guard Kennedy Schlabach is one sharpshooter who no team wants to leave unchecked. Having a working knowledge of where she is on the floor is a must because Schlabach is able to pull up at a moment’s notice and bury three ball after three ball with the cunning accuracy of Doc Holliday.

Only her target is the rim, although she rarely touches it. Most of her shots strike nothing but the bottom of the net, and her accuracy strikes fear into the heart of opponents.

What allows her to fire threes with ease is that quick draw technique from whence she earns the nickname Rapid Fire.

“She’s kind of patterned herself off of Steph Curry in that she wants to get her shot off quickly,” said Hiland coach Dave Schlabach. “When we work out, she tries to take a shot every one second.”

Because she isn’t big, Rapid Fire must get her shot off quickly from downtown.

Her coach and father said that she has worked extremely hard on her shot, which is one of the reasons she has become so deadly.

Schlabach has definitely earned her moniker, hoisting more than 40,000 shots in June and July this summer, to join the Lady Hawks Above and Beyond Club.

Her coach also added that she has something else every good shooter has.

“You’ve got to have the confidence and belief that every shot is going in, and Kennedy has that,” said Dave Schlabach. “That is just a mentality. Whether you make five or miss five in a row, you believe the next one is going in.”

That allowed Schlabach to set the school’s all-time mark in 3-point accuracy last season, which saw her bury 44 percent of her shots from beyond the arc.

That was as a freshman. She knows that she will have to work that much harder now that she is on every opponent’s radar.

“Kennedy always has a ball in her hands, and she is one of those kids who is willing to do whatever it takes to make herself better,” said coach Schlabach. “I think she is a kid who rises to the challenge.”

Having her name out there now after her scintillating freshman campaign, and knowing that teams will be focusing on stopping her won’t stop Rapid Fire from working that much harder on her game, to make sure that when the showdown comes, she is more than ready to pull the trigger.