Lansdowne High golf coach Mike Martin has been involved in coaching many sports through the years, but it was 2016 Arbutus Times female Athlete of the Year Hannah Goodman who left one of the most indelible impressions on him.
"I've coached a long time and I've had some great athletes over the years and I'd put her right up there as a really awesome athlete that I have coached for so many different reasons," Martin said.
She cemented her legacy as the school's best female golfer when she shared a Baltimore County individual golf championship with Hereford's Alexis Schmeizer last fall.
Goodman also left the Lansdowne diamond as one of the best catchers to ever play at the school.
During her senior softball season, the four-year varsity starter led the 17-4 Vikings in batting average (.545), hits (35), doubles (12) and was tied for first with her younger sister, sophomore Jordyn Goodman, in runs batted in (27) and home runs (3).
Hannah Goodman also belted four triples and scored 19 runs and will play softball at Division II Coker College in South Carolina.
It wasn't just on the golf course and softball diamond where she made her mark.
"What a great person. She is amazing," Martin said. "She was my senior aid this year and she kept me so organized. It was unbelievable. She is so organized and is a great student. I just wish we had 150 more of her."
Martin, who is in charge of the Academy of Finance program at Lansdowne High, gave her a gift before she left the school.
"I gave her a shirt from Coker College and I gave her some golf balls and I said, 'Don't forget to keep golf in mind,'" he said. "If she put her mind to that game, I don't know what it would be for her. She outdrives most of the guys she plays."
Of the 42 matches she played against guys during her four years, she won 39 of them.
"It's fun to watch her come up to the first tee and crush a drive 240 yards down the middle of the fairway," Martin said.
Even though softball is her favorite sport, she focused on golf in the fall.
"She was a great captain for the last couple of years," Martin said. "She played four years and she was very dedicated, always came to practice, always there and worked hard, so she took it very seriously."
Her competitiveness in the sport of softball, which she started playing at age 5 in the Arbutus Girls Athletic Association, was even more intense.
The All-County First Team catcher started her recreation softball career playing for her father, Ken Goodman, and he has also coached her on the Lansdowne High varsity the past two seasons.
"She doesn't take the losses as hard as she used to when she was younger because she's matured, but you can tell they still don't sit well with her," her father said.
Goodman, who started playing travel softball at age 12, always played up an age division and never lacked confidence.
That was never more evident during the 2015 postseason after the Vikings defeated Loch Raven in the Class 2A North Region semifinals and earned a second chance against unbeaten Eastern Tech in the regional finals.
Eastern Tech had beaten the Vikings 16-0 early in the season and had a 43-game winning streak on the line.
Goodman had no fear saying, "We are going to play them hard until the end. They are not going to expect what is coming. It's not the first game, it's playoffs and we are here to win."
She was absolutely right.
Lansdowne defeated host Eastern Tech 5-3 for the regional crown, but the Vikings lost in the state semifinals to Easton.
The bigger the game the better she performed.
In a 3-2 win over Dulaney early in her senior season, she blasted a two-run home run in the fourth inning and picked off the tying run in the seventh inning on a runner trying to retreat to third base.
She also belted a home run in a late-season 9-3 victory over Sparrows Point.
When the Vikings extended their winning streak to nine games to start the season, Goodman's triple led off a two-run fourth inning that broke a scoreless tie in 3-0 victory over Perry Hall.
Defensively, only one base runner attempted and successfully stole a base with her behind the plate and her sister, sophomore pitcher Jordyn Goodman, on the mound.
"Not to many teams run on her," her dad said.
That has continued this summer playing club softball for the Catonsville Chaos 18U squad.
Jordyn Goodman also plays for the Chaos and leads the team with the lowest earned run average.
This summer and next summer will be the last chance Ken Goodman can coach his daughters on the same team and he's savoring every moment.
"I couldn't ask for two better kids," he said.