The state’s returning Gatorade Runner of the Year, the 5-foot-4 sophomore broke the tape at the MHSAA 5A State Championships this past season, clocking the fastest all-class time of the day in 18:33.20 to finish nearly a minute ahead of her next-closest competitor. Biancamano won eight of nine races last fall, including her state title run, which helped her team take fourth in Class 5A. A three-time MHSAA Cross Country All-State Team selection, she also earned Gatorade State Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year honors in the spring of 2019. In 35 career races as a high school competitor, Biancamano has recorded 22 victories and nine top-three finishes. The state meet 5K record-holder (18:03.50 in 2017), she took silver at the 2017 Junior Olympics at 4K and owns state age-group records at 5K for ages 13 through 15.
Biancamano has maintained a 5.34 GPA on a 4.0 scale in the classroom and ranks No. 1 in her class. She will begin her junior year of high school this fall.
Conversant in American Sign Language (ASL), Biancamano has served as a member of the Long Beach Mayor’s Youth Council as well as her school’s Junior Civitan club, and has volunteered as a mentor on behalf of the Heritage Christian Academy Cross Country Camp. A member of her local Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter, she has also donated her time to coastal clean-up efforts in addition to serving as an instructor/mentor at a youth cross country camp.
