Flowing Wells senior Abyee Maracigan is one of the Caballeros' leading scorers with 15 points per game.

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Flowing Wells senior Abyee Maracigan never backs away from a challenge.

After tearing her meniscus three games into her junior season, and tearing her ACL twice the year before, Maracigan is once again a fixture in the Caballeros (7-1) starting lineup.

"I just hated watching my team play without me, so I worked as hard as I could," she said.

Maracigan, a guard who has committed to play at Pima College next year, also balances basketball with four classes, including her favorite subject, math.

The aspiring teacher, or "maybe a pharmacist," also works at an ice cream shop every day after school.

The Star talked with Maracigan about her senior season following Flowing Wells' 77-21 victory over Rio Rico on Thursday:

A: I am very confident because we're playing exactly like we want. We're having a lot of fun but playing for our goals. We want to win every tournament, win the (4A Kino Region) by going undefeated and, of course, we want to win state. We only have one loss right now. We want to keep it that way.

A: It's fun to be a leading scorer, but I know it's all due to my teammates. Everyone on our team is a team player. They give me the ball because they believe in me. I think I play well because of them.

A: I always have high expectations for myself. I never want to let myself down, but sometimes I did have my doubts because I had to wear knee braces, do therapy and that stuff. But my teammates really encouraged me when I was down. They got on me to work out. And I knew what I needed to do to finish my senior year with no regrets."

A: We go out to eat a lot. We're a big eating team. We also like to watch other basketball teams play. We go to movies, have team barbecues — because we love to eat."

A: We're very close. A lot of us have been playing together since junior high. The rest of us started playing together in the beginning of high school. I think we're just really close because we have the same goals, the same mind-set. It makes it that much better for us. We're winning and having a good time together."

A: You can't break us. We come in as one big group, but if one of us falls, we're all right there. We can't be broken.