SLIPPERY ROCK — Watching film, a blur of white and red streaks across the screen.

“Well,” says Slippery Rock High girls basketball coach. “There goes Anna.”

Few can match the speed of Anna Kadlubek on the basketball court.

Few can match the Slippery Rock senior's speed, well, anywhere.

Perhaps the only one who can resides within her own home.

“I get my speed from my mother, for sure,” Kadlubek said, chuckling.

Lisa Kadlubek — then Lisa Walsh when she was running the 100- and 200-meter dashes at United High School near Indiana, Pa. — still holds school records in those events.

Her father (Anna's grandfather), Bill Walsh, was also a speedster and a state track and field champion.

“It definitely runs in the family,” Anna said.

Anna has parlayed that uncommon speed into a weapon on the basketball court.

No passing lane is safe. No ball handler secure.

It's part of the reason why Kadlubek, who has been the starting point guard for the Rockets since Day One of her prep career, is on the cusp of one of the biggest individual milestones in high school hoops: 1,000 career points.

She needs 16 to reach that mark.

Kadlubek hasn't missed a game for the Rockets. This season, she is averaging 13.8 points. In her career, she has averaged 11.6 points.

“I think it's a huge accomplishment,” Kadlubek said. “Honestly, though, I don't look for points a lot. That's not one of my main focuses, so knowing I can get to that goal is amazing.”

Especially in the time of COVID-19.

There was no guarantee there would even be a season for Kadlubek and her teammates.

No team goals to chase. No individual ones to conquer.

It has made Kadlubek laser-focused, however.

“We could be shut down tomorrow,” she said. “Any game could be the last, so I treat every game like it could be the last and play as hard as I can. I'm thankful we're still going.”

Kadlubek is very cognizant of her dwindling time in a Slippery Rock uniform.

To her, it seems like it was just yesterday when she was playing in her first varsity scrimmage.

Osborn remembers those days well, too.

She will never forget her first brush with Anna Kadlubek.

“It was one of our first scrimmages her freshman year. We were playing Kennedy Catholic and they were in a 1-3-1 (zone),” Osborn said. “Anna kept passing the ball from one side of the floor to the other with her right hand. She turned the ball over three or four times in a row doing the same thing. I was just thinking, 'Oh my gosh!'”

Osborn can laugh about it now because that Anna Kadlubek — the untamed, reckless, raw player no longer exists.

“Now, that type of stuff is nonexistent,” Osborn said. “She is so polished now. I don't ever have to say anything to her. She's like having another coach on the floor, really.”

Kadlubek will play in college at Indiana (Pa.) University.

She's always tweaking her game, trying to make it a little better — not just for her future at the next level, but for the here and now.

The 7-1 Rockets are hungry to get back to the District 10 championship game — they lost there last season to rival Grove City.

In the regular-season meeting Jan. 28, Slippery Rock rolled past the Eagles in a battle of unbeatens at the time.

“We were definitely ready to play them,” Kadlubek said. “We were super excited. It's always a fun game because they're our rivals and no matter what we're going to have fun with it. It was like, 'Wow, we just did that. Let's keep it going. Let's keep thriving.'”

Kadlubek is also hoping to thrive in her second love: track and field.

Like her mother, she holds a school record in the 200.

Her track and field season was abruptly canceled last spring because of the pandemic.

“We were off for two weeks and I was still training in case we came back, but we didn't,” Kadlubek said. “It just seems like forever.”

What doesn't seem like forever is her high school career, which sent by as fast as that blur across the screen during film session.

“When they say time flies, it really does,” Kadlubek said. “To say I'm a senior, it really hasn't sunk in yet. Sometimes it hits me — 'Oh my gosh, it's my last year.' It's especially hard knowing when I go to college my (Slippery Rock) teammates won't be there with me. So, I'm making the most of this season.”