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Boys Cross Country - Colorado

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BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

Cole Sprout

Distance Runner
VALOR CHRISTIAN HS
HIGHLANDS RANCH, COLORADO
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-9
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st - 15:12.7

Class 5A State Championship

1st - 14:41.38

NXN Southwest Regional

7th

NXN Final

1st

Region 2 Championships
“Cole is just a more complete version of what he’s always been. Hard-working, high-character, selfless and the grittiest athlete I’ve ever coached.”
Greg Coplen
Head Coach - Valor Christian coach
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Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-9, 135-pound senior raced to his third straight Class 5A individual state championship this past season with a course-record time of 15:12.7. The state’s returning Gatorade Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year, Sprout won the Nike Cross Nationals Southwest Regional championships with a time of 14:41.38, and finished seventh nationally at the NXN Final, earning All-American honors. He also broke the tape at the Liberty Bell Invitational and the Region 2 championships, while taking second at the Nike Desert Twilight Festival.

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Academic Achievement

Sprout has maintained a 3.98 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete in cross country and track and field on scholarship at Stanford University this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Sprout has volunteered locally on behalf of the Denver Rescue Mission, and has participated in a service-mission trip to Ethiopia.