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Gatorade 2021 - 2022: Player of the Year

Girls Cross Country - Mississippi

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GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

Brooklyn Biancamano

Distance Runner
LONG BEACH HS
LONGBEACH, MISSISSIPPI
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-4
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st - 18:03.6

MHSAA Class 5A State XC Championships (individual)

4th

MHSAA Class 5A State XC Championships (team)

5th - 18:03.7

NXR South Regional Championships
“Now a six-time Gatorade winner, Brooklyn has matched the record for Mississippi’s most decorated Gatorade Player of the Year honoree. Only Pass Christian’s Cory McGee (2007-10 in cross country and track), who went on to become a 10-time All-American at the University of Florida, has been a six-time winner in the state. The last person not named Brooklyn Biancamano to win a 5A title in the state did so in 2016. Let’s just say, I’m looking forward to her outdoor track campaign.”
Erik Boal
an editor for DyeStat
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s three-time returning Gatorade Player of the Year in cross country and a two-time Gatorade winner in Track and Field, the 5-foot-4 senior distance talent led the Bearcats to fourth place as a team at the MHSAA Class 5A State XC Championships this past season, breaking the tape to win the individual title with a course-record time of 18:03.60—the fastest all-class clocking of the postseason. A five-time state champion and All-State selection, Biancamano ran the state’s top 5K girls time (18:00.38) by 41.12 seconds in 2021 as the top Mississippi finisher at the Jesse Owens Classic (third overall). The 2021 Clarion Ledger Athlete of the Year for all girls sports, she finished fifth at the NXR South Regional Championships with a time of 18:03.70.

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Academic Achievement

Biancamano has maintained a 5.48 weighted GPA on a 4.0 scale in the classroom, which ranks No. 1 in her class. She has signed a National Letter of Intent to run on scholarship at the University of Arkansas this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Biancamano is a co-leader of Long Beach High’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter and belongs to the school’s community service Rotary International Interact Club. Conversant in American Sign Language (ASL) and a member of the Michael Memorial Baptist Church youth group, she has served as a member of the Long Beach Mayor’s Youth Council and her school’s Junior Civitan club, and she has volunteered as a mentor with the Heritage Christian Academy (Picayune) Cross Country Camp. She has also donated her time on behalf of a baseball program for physically and intellectually challenged youth as well as coastal clean-up efforts and the Quarles Elementary School Field Day.