Biography

Harris is one of the top hurdlers in the nation. She currently is tied with the second-fastest time in the nation in 100m with a 13.18. Over her high school career, she’s won six state gold medals.

Off the track, Harris excels in the classroom. She was the valedictorian of her class.

After graduation, Harris competed at the 2024 New Balance Nationals Outdoor and she finished with the 3rd fastest time in the nation. Additionally, in March of 2024, she took bronze at the New Balance Nationals Indoor.

She will attend Louisiana State University in the fall.

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Records

6x Indoor & Outdoor State Champion

Professional Achievements

2023 Gatorade Louisiana T&F Player of the Year

Personal Honors

Will attend Louisiana State University

Biography

Willis’ scholastic career ended in record-breaking fashion. Early in June, Willis won the Division 1 gold medal in the 800-meter race and broke the national high school record in the process. Her final time was 2:00:03, which also set a new state record that she set when she won the race as a freshman in 2019.

Since 2019, she missed the 2020 season due to COVID-19 shutting down the season and she didn’t run in 2021 as she tried to qualify for the Olympics.

During the Olympic Trials in the 800, the teenager finished 13th. Willis, who will attend Stanford University on an academic and athletic scholarship, was Gatorade’s National Player of the Year in Track & Field during the 2020-21 sports season.

As a freshman, she won two NCAA indoor titles and four All-American honors at Stanford. She was also named USTFCCCA All-Academic.

Records

Two-time 2022 World U20 gold medalist

Holds Wisconsin state records in the 400, 800, and 1,600 (4:41.46)

Professional Achievements

2022 Gatorade National Girls Track and Field Player of the Year

Personal Honors

Attends Stanford University

Biography

Loveys may be one of New Jersey’s best all-time all-around runners. This past year, the Princeton-bound runner broke a 36-year old state record in 3,200-meters with a time of 10-minutes, 10.24 seconds. She closed-out her scholastic career with a second place finish in New Jersey’s Meet of Champions in the 1,600, a title she won as a junior.

In the Fall, Loveys won the Cross Country Meet of Champions with a time of 17 minutes, 54 seconds. She then finished 11^th at the Foot Locker Cross Country national championships, earning All-American honors. In the classroom she owns a 4.22 grade point average.

 

Records

2018 NJ Meet of Champions Winner – XC

Personal Honors

Attends Princeton University

Biography

Wilson closed out her scholastic career with three gold medals at the Class 4A state championships. She won the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes. She set state records in the 100 and 200 at the Arkansas Meet of Champions. For her high school career, Wilson won eleven gold medals.

Wilson, who owns a 3.86 GPA in the classroom, is also a two-time winner of Gatorade’s Arkansas Track and Field Athlete of the Year. She will attend the University of Arkansas on an athletic scholarship.

Wilson competed in 13 events as a freshman. As a sophomore, she was named the SEC Runner of the Week after posting a career best in the 400m race at the Arkansas Qualifier. She was part of the 4-400 relay team that took fourth at the SEC Indoor Championships before the season was ended early due to Covid.

Wilson shined in 2021. She was the bronze medalist at the NCAA Indoor Championships as a member of the 4×400 Relay.

Records

4x All State in Track & Field

Professional Achievements

2x NCAA All American

2x Gatorade Akransas Runner of the Year

Personal Honors

Attends the University of Arkansas

Biography

Jasmyne Graham captured two gold medals this year in the CIF championships. Graham edged defending champion Mecca McGlaston of Dublin HS in the 100 hurdles final. Her time of the 13.17 seconds was the best in the nation this year. She then went-on to claim gold the 300 hurdles. As a junior, Graham claimed the CIF state indoor long jump title.

Graham was named the 2015 California Girls Gatorade Track & Field Athlete of the Year. She will attend USC.

After her first year as a Trojan, Graham transferred to UNLV. She was a NCAA Qualifier for the Rebels in the 2018 Outdoor Championships and in the 2019 Indoor Championships in hurdles.

She earned USTFCCCA Second Team All-America honors in the 100m hurdles at the 2019 Outdoor Championships. She finished her career as the top ranking 100m Hurdles All-Time outdoor performances at UNLV.

Records

3x CIF State Champion

Professional Achievements

2015 California Girls' Gatorade Track & Field Athlete of the Year

Personal Honors

Attended USC & UNLV

Biography

Ariana Washington closed-out her high school career by winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 in California state championship meet.

It was the third time in a row that Washington accomplished that double.  She also captured gold by anchoring Poly’s 400 relay team.  The back-to-back-to-back gold medals left her one shy of  Marion Jones, who did it four straight times while at Thousand Oaks High School.

This year’s gold medal performances 11.22 in the 100 and 22.96 in the 200 were both national best times in America this past year.  Both were not that far behind the national high school records of 11.14 in the 100 in 1992 by Jones and 22.52 in the 2000 by Allyson Felix of Los Angeles Baptist High School in 2003. Felix was the 2003 NHSCA Girls’ Track & Field National Athlete of the Year.  Washington was named MaxPreps.com’s 2013-14 Female Athlete of the Year.

Washington went on to place 7th at the Junior World Championships in 2014.

While at Oregon, Washington’s success continued. She became the first freshman to win two individual events at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2016. She won another National Title and earned All America status ten times.

Internationally, Washington was an Olympic Team member in 2016. She continues to train with her eyes on the next summer Olympic Games.

Records

8x CIF State Champion

Professional Achievements

2016 Olympic Team Member

3x NCAA National Champion

10x NCAA All American

Biography

Haley Crouser holds the United States high school national record in the javelin with a throw of 181-feet, 2-inches.

She set that mark as a junior and continued he outstanding career as a senior by being ranked #1 in the nation throughout the year on her way to a gold medal in the Oregon Class 6A championships – her fourth title in the event.

Crouser, who will attend the University of Oregon, also won the state title in the shot put this past spring.

Crouser spent one season at Oregon. She finished fourth in the 2014 Pac 10 Championships. After her freshman year, she transferred to the University of Texas. As a Longhorn, Crouser was a two- time Big 12 Champion. She was also named to the 2017 USTFCCCA All-America First Team. Haley was also named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team twice.

Records

5x State Champion - 4x Javelin & 1x Shot Put

Professional Achievements

2017 USTFCCCA All-America First Team

2x USTFCCCA All-Academic Team

3x Oregon Gatorade Player of the Year

Biography

The three-time state discus champion set a national high school record in the event at the Texas Relays on March 31. Her throw of 191-6 bettered by nearly 15 feet the personal best she had established just one week earlier and broke the national record of 190-3, which had stood since 2009.

She went on to set the all-class state record in the 5A state meet with a throw of 187-10, and also won her first shot put title with a throw of 50-1¼. She was the state runner-up in the shot put her sophomore and junior seasons.

This year’s discus title was her second in 5A. After transferring from Azle High School, where she won the 4A discus title as a sophomore with a throw of 144-8, Vaughan won as a junior with a then-5A record throw of 161 feet. Deceptively fast despite her 6-foot-2 frame, she also ran on Legacy’s 4×100 relay team. Last summer, Vaughan won the discus at the USATF Outdoor Junior Championships at Eugene, Ore. (165-5) and the Pan-American Junior Championships at Miramar, Fla. (174-3). She was the bronze medalist at the IAAF World Youth Championships at Lille, France (172-6). Her meet-best throw of 176-5¼ didn’t count because it occurred in the preliminaries.

An all-around athlete, Vaughan started playing T-ball at age 3, played basketball until her sophomore year and, despite her track and field accomplishments, will attend Texas A&M University on a volleyball scholarship, though the outside hitter plans to compete in both sports. Vaughan, who holds a 3.7 grade-point average, led her team in kills (579), blocks (70) and aces (51) and was second in digs (367).

At Texas A&M Vaughan continued her success. As a freshman, she was named Girls Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News. She won four Southeastern Conference Championship titles. As a sophomore and junior, she won the Outdoor NCAA Championships in the discus. As a senior, she finished sixth.

In 2016 Vaughan was a member of the United States Olympic Team.

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Community Service

Vaughan volunteers to feed the homeless and also volunteers with special needs students.

Records

3x Discus State Champion

Professional Achievements

2016 Olympic Team Member

2x NCAA Outdoor National Champion

Gatorade's National Track and Field Athlete of the Year

Biography

The nation’s top female pole vaulter capped an enormously successful high school career with the two best state series vaults of her career. In the 3A region meet, she cleared 14-2¾ to set a national record. Tori Anthony of Palo Alto (Calif.) Castilleja High had set the indoor record (14-2) and the outdoor record (14-1) in 2007.

LeLeux had cleared 14-1 indoors this year to rank No. 2 all-time indoors, and she has cleared as high as 14-9 outdoors in practice. LeLeux followed her record region jump by setting the all-class record of 13-9 at the state outdoor meet, her fifth consecutive state title after a second-place finish as a seventh-grader. LeLeux also was a five-time Division 2 indoor state champion, marred only by a second-place finish as an eighth-grader.

As a junior, LeLeux set national junior class and age 17 records when she first cleared 14-0, and also holds the national freshman record (13-2). A four-time National Junior Champion, LeLeux set a National Scholastic Juniors record and captured titles at the Nike Indoor, the National Scholastic Indoor and the New Balance Outdoor meets in 2010 and finished fifth at the 2009 World Youth Championships at Bressanone, Italy. She will attend the University of Georgia.

At Georgia, LeLeux set records pole vaulting. As a true freshman, LeLeux placed second in both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor National Championships. She was twice named for the First Team Indoor and two time Outdoor All American.

She was an alternate on the 2016 Olympic Team.

Records

5x Outdoor and 5x Indoor Louisiana State Champion

Professional Achievements

2x Outdoor All American

2x Indoor All American

2016 Olympic Alternate

Biography

The University of Texas recruit ended her career as one of the top jumpers in Texas high school history. She won her fourth 4A state title in the long jump with a leap of 20 feet, 3 inches, winning the event by nearly 2½ feet with the nation’s longest jump this season. She followed that with another national-best jump, a personal best 42 feet, ¾ inch in the triple jump, her third state title in that event, to extend the status she already held as the national leader and giving her seven gold medals in state competition.

Brannon was the long jump champion in the USA Track and Field National Junior Olympic Outdoor Championships last year, with a leap of 19-10¼, and finished fifth in the triple jump with a leap of 39-6½, and has competed in both events and the 100-meter hurdles in national events. In the International Association of Athletics Federations World Youth Championships, Brannon finished eighth in the long jump and 15th in the triple jump in 2009.

At the University of Texas  Brannon competed in both the Indoor and Outdoor seasons. Over her career she was a nine time All-Big 12 honoree in the long jump and triple jump. In 2013 she was named as an USTFCCCA Second Team All-American.

Records

4x State Champ in the Long Jump

3x State Champ in the Triple Jump

Professional Achievements

9x All-Big 12 honoree in the long jump and triple jump

Personal Honors

Attended the University of Texas

Biography

The 6-foot-1 Young will play basketball at Oklahoma State University, but may be a better track and field athlete. On the same day Finley cracked the national high school record book, Young joined him, tying the 15-year-old high jump record by leaping 6 feet, 4 inches in the Norman North Invitational. Young also cleared 6-0 and 6-2 in the same meet as she broke her own state record. Her 6-4 jump stood as the world’s best this year until it was bettered in a European professional meet May 8.

Last weekend she took her third Class 6A state title with a leap of 5-6. Raised in a household of 10 children by a single mother, Young didn’t play on traveling teams or attend elite camps. But she could dunk a basketball as a junior, and this year she led Del City’s basketball team to a 24-5 record and the 6A state title, averaging 14.7 points, 8.0 rebounds, 3.1 steals and 2.0 blocks per game. She was named Big All-City Player of the Year by The Daily Oklahoman, which also named her to its All-State First Team.

Young did go on to play basketball for the Cowboys her first three years and put herself into the top 10 in six statistical categories all-time at OSU. Midway through her junior year Young went back to the high jump and joined the Track & Field team. At the 2012 Outdoor Championship Young became an All American by placing 5th. She also competed at the 2012 Olympic Trials.

Records

Multiple State Champion in the High Jump and Girls' Basketball

Professional Achievements

2012 NCAA All American

Personal Honors

Attended Oklahoma State University

Biography

Reese finished off a Dandy Dozen – state titles, that is – in the track and field state meet this month. She took home her fourth Class 3A state championships each in the 1,600 and the 3,200, to go with four state cross-country crowns. As a junior Reese turned in times of 4:47.96 in the 1,600 and a state-record 10:16.05 in the 3,200 – both times the second best in the nation. Last fall her winning cross-country time of 17:14 beat her nearest competitor by 1 minute, 14 seconds.

Recognized as Athletes Only Athlete of the Week for the week of April 23, 2007, Reese won the USA Track and Field Junior Olympics national title last year and was selected the Gatorade Georgia Cross Country Runner of the Year this year. In March Reese finished 30th in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland, helping the U.S. squad to finish sixth. Also an outstanding student with a 4.15 grade-point average, as well as an accomplished pianist, Reese will attend Harvard University.

At Harvard Reese was named to the  USTFCCCA All-Region team her junior year. She also placed third at the Penn Relays in the 10,000m run.

Records

12x State Champions (Track & Field and Cross Country)

Professional Achievements

USTFCCCA All-Region

Personal Honors

Attended Harvard University

Biography

Matthew jumped 21 feet, 2 inches – the best high school girls long jump in 2005 and seventh-best all-time – to win the Simplot Games in Idaho last summer. At the Nike Indoor Championships she won the long jump and the 60 meters. After winning the Class 4A state title with a state-record long jump as a sophomore, Matthew won four events – the 100 and 200 meters, the long jump and the 4×100 relay – as a junior, and she posted the second-fastest time during the season (11.56) in the 100.

Also an outstanding student, Matthew holds a 4.3 grade-point average in Niwot’s International Baccalaureate program, and will attend Stanford University.

While a sophomore at Stanford, she was one of two athletes to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the long jump and the 100-meters. As a junior, she again qualified in the 100-meters in the Outdoor Championships.

Records

Multiple time Colorado State Champion

Personal Honors

Attended Stanford University

Biography

Anderson is about to conclude one of the greatest girls’ track and field careers in Illinois high school history. She will try to win the 100, 200, 400 and long jump titles for the second consecutive year, and if she does so, will be a four-time champion in the 100 and 200. She set a state record in the 100 as a junior, and her time of 11.41 was the fastest high school time in the nation and just 27 hundredths of a second off Marion Jones’ national high school record time. Her times in the 200 and 400 were the second fastest in state history, and her winning long jump (19-11) was the longest in the state tournament in 17 years. She will continue her career at the University of Texas.

While at the University of Texas she was a seventeen time All American. She is a three -time Big 12 Champion and won the NCAA Outdoor 100m in her senior year.

After college Anderson was part of the gold medal team at the 2011 World Championships in Daegue for her leg in the 4x100m relay.

Records

Won 13 Individual State Championships

20 time IHSA medalist

Professional Achievements

2011 Gold Medalist at World Championship

2009 NCAA Outdoor Champion

3x Gatorade Girls Illinois Track and Field Athlete of the Year

Personal Honors

Attended the University of Texas

Biography

Owens blazed her way into the Colorado elite, along with national recognition by the National High School Coaches Association.

Owens pulled the first ever four-peat double by winning the “4A” 100 and 200 meters at the Colorado state championships beginning with her freshman year. She also doubled up for a pair of wins at the prestigious Great Southwest Classic Track Meet and  will attend UNLV where she hopes to better her national indoor record for the 60 meters (7.19).

Owens went on to win the Gold in the 100 meters at the World Junior Nationals.

Owens went on to run for a year at LSU before transferring to UNLV. Ultimately, college running was not for her. She opted to turn professional.

Records

Multiple State Champion

Professional Achievements

2004 World Junior Nationals

Personal Honors

Attended UNLV & LSU

Biography

“There are very few athletes that come along in any sport with the talent and drive that Allyson Felix demonstrates on the track,” said NHSCA executive director Bob Ferraro. “The NHSCA is proud to honor Allyson Felix as the National High School Senior Girls Track Athlete of the Year.”

The California state champion in the 100-meter dash the past three years, and the champion in the 200-meters as a junior and senior, Felix has achieved well beyond even her outstanding prep accomplishments. With at time of 22.11 at the Grand Prix banamex in Mexico City this spring, Felix has announced that she is ready to compete with anyone in the world.

Running times that are besting marks set by legendary runners like Marion Jones, it appears only a matter of time before the entire world, track fans or not, will know Allyson Felix as a household name.

And that was very true, Allyson Felix became a household name and one of the greatest women Track and Field stars to ever set foot on the track. Felix has had an astounding career and she’s still going.

Felix is a nine time Olympic medalist and a six time Olympic Gold Medalist. She holds world records and has won an absurd 25 global medals – between Worlds and Olympics.

Biography

“Athletes like Sally Meyerhoff are among the success stories produced in high school athletics today,” NHSCA executive director Bob Ferraro said. “She has worked extremely hard to develop her skills and has become one of the best track athletes not only in the state of Arizona, but the entire nation, and we are proud to be honoring her.”

Meyerhoff excelled in both cross country and the distance track events during her career at Mountain Pointe. She was a two-time Class 5A state cross country champion, leading Mountain Pointe to the state team title last fall, and won back-to-back state crowns in the 800-meter, 1,600-meter, and 3,200-meter runs as well. Also an outstanding student, Meyerhoff earned a scholarship to Duke University. Sports Illustrated magazine also recognized Meyerhoff’s distinguished career with a mention in its “Faces in the Crowd” section this year.

Meyerhoff was a was a 2x All American and won the ACC Cross Country individual title in 2004 while at Duke. She graduated in 2006 and competed in the 2008 Olympic Trials.

Sally was at the height of her post collegiate career, while being considered one of the top ten marathon runners, when she her life was cut short. She was tragically struck while on her bike. Sally passed away at the age of 27.

Records

7x State Champion in Track & Field

Professional Achievements

2004 NCAA All American in Cross Country

2006 NCAA All American in Track & Field

Personal Honors

Attended Duke University

Biography

“Athletes like Monique Henderson are among the success stories produced in high school athletics today,” NHSCA executive director Bob Ferraro said. “She has worked extremely hard to develop her skills and has become one of the best track athletes not only in the state of California, but the entire nation, and we are proud to be honoring her.”

Henderson, who will attend UCLA, is the nation’s top female sprinter. She will be going for her third straight state title in the 400-meter dash and her second straight 200-meter title this year. She set the national high school record in the 400 in the state finals last year – her time of 50.74 seconds marked the second week in a row she had set a national record in the event. She also has run the nation’s fastest 200-meter time this year, 23.16 seconds on April 21.

Henderson also has run the 100-meter dash, a race that is not her specialty, in 11.61 seconds, and will try to set Southern Section records in all three events this week.

While at UCLA, Henderson was a 5x Pac-10 Champion. She also won the 2005 NCAA Outdoor Track Championship in the 400-meter dash and set a record that still stands.

Henderson also won a Gold medal in Athens in the 4×400 meter relay, an honor she would repeat in Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Records

Only four-time 400 meters California State Champion

Professional Achievements

2x Olympic Gold Medalist

NCAA Outdoor Champion at 400-meter dash

Personal Honors

Attended University of California, Los Angeles