CRANBERRY TWP — North Catholic junior basketball standout Dacia Lewandowski cares a lot about points.

Not her own. The team’s.

She cares a lot about success, too.

Not her own. The team’s.

“I just want to win games,” the Butler resident said. “I don’t care how many points I score When my team wins, I’m having fun regardless.”

She’s had plenty of fun on the basketball court. Dacia’s sixth-grade team went undefeated. So did her seventh-grade team. During her three seasons at North Catholic, the Trojanettes have won 60 of 69 games, won the WPIAL Class 4A title her freshman year, reached the WPIAL 3A finals last year and are the top-seeded team entering the 3A playoffs this season.

“We asked her to become the leader of our team her sophomore year, since we graduated so many from the previous season,” North girls basketball coach Molly Rottmann said. “Normally, that’s a lot to ask of a sophomore, but we knew Dacia could handle it.

“She’s a talker on the floor. She’s a very outgoing person who knows the game. Dacia is a natural leader.”

Carrying a 4.4 grade point average in the classroom, Dacia is averaging 15.7 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists per game on the court this season. The 5-foot-11 forward averaged 13.1 ppg. her sophomore year.

She has already received 14 Division 1 scholarship offers, Western Carolina, Navy, Akron, Toledo, Marshall and Hofstra among them.

“I haven’t really sorted through those things yet,” Dacia said of the collegiate offers. “I’m focused on helping us get back and hopefully win back the WPIAL championship. That’s our goal right now.”

Point Park University men’s basketball coach Joe Lewandowski, Dacia’s father, has gone through the recruiting process before. Dacia’s sister, Kylee, is a sophomore basketball player at Richmond.

“Kylee learned from (older brother) Justice, Dacia has learned from Kylee,” Lewandowski said. “Our youngest (seventh grader Raina) is playing volleyball this year.

“Dacia is very business-like when it comes to basketball. She works at her game. She’s a student of it.”

And she works at it early.

Lewandowski said it’s common practice for Dacia to get him up at 5 a.m. for a before-school basketball workout.

“We’ll go over to the Cubs hall and she’ll be in there shooting around,” Dacia’s father said. “Drive by there at that time and see the lights on in there? That’s us.”

Basketball games are going on in the driveway of the Lewandowski household as well, regardless of the season.

Dacia said her father likes to guard her during those driveway games.

“He likes to show me he still has it — and he does,” she said, smiling. “Even if it’s snowing, we put on the hats and gloves, go outside and get after it.”

“We’ve been shoveling snow off that driveway and playing for years,” Lewandowski said. “We’ve always been a competitive family.”

While there is plenty to like about Dacia’s game, Rottmann’s favorite is the junior’s attitude toward each game.

“She just wants to win,” the coach said. “Dacia is relentless on the floor, so energetic. The way she plays rubs off on the rest of the team.”

“I take pride in being a leader,” Dacia said. “It’s a role I take seriously.”

She even has the leading role in an Allegheny Health Network commercial currently airing on television.

“Our team trainer submitted my name for that and I was picked to do it,” Dacia said of the commercial. “It took two days to film everything. It was a fun experience.”

But not as fun as winning.

“There is no better feeling than that,” Dacia said. “The more you win, the longer you play.”