Daria Murosko has gotten about as much out of her high school career as any one individual could ever hope to accomplish over a four-year period.
The senior is a key contributor on Century High?s field hockey team as it looks to remain in first place in the Carroll County and Monocacy Valley Athletic League Chesapeake Conference standings. When not helping the Knights on the field, she is busy making a name for herself in a variety of different ways in the classroom.
Entering her senior year, the 17-year-old was first in her class while tackling Advanced Placement courses in calculus, language and composition and biology. Additionally, Murosko, who has two younger brothers, finds time to be senior class secretary, National Honor Society secretary and compete as a member of Century?s indoor track team in the winter.
“Daria is just an all-around perfect package,” Century field hockey coach Gayle Taylor said. “She is a great student, a great athlete and a real role model for the younger players on the team. She is the type of student-athlete you just love to coach.”
Outside field hockey, one of Murosko?s main interests is science, an interest that developed after taking a human anatomy class. Although currently undecided about where she?s going to college, her plan is to one day go to medical school and become a doctor.
“I really love biology and all of my science classes,” said Murosko, who earned a 2,100 score on her SAT and is looking at the University of Maryland. “Plus, I want to help people, and becoming a doctor is a great way to do that.”
Although becoming a doctor is her ultimate goal, Murosko said she has a number of short-term goals she would like to accomplish. At the top of that list is helping guide Century to a county and, hopefully, a Class 2A state championship. However, she knows this won?t be easy to accomplish, especially playing a county schedule against a number of quality teams that are improved from a year ago.
“The competition is definitely tougher this year,” she said. “Teams are definitely holding their own against each other. There are no easy games the rest of the way.”
