The 5-foot-8 senior raced to the Class 6A individual state championship this past season with a time of 16:51.8, leading the Storm to the state title as a team. The state’s returning Gatorade Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year, Max took second at the Nike Cross Nationals Northwest Regional championships and finished 10th at the NXN Final, earning All-American honors. She also won the Oxford Classic, the Warner Pacific Classic and the Northwest Classic.
Max has maintained a 4.05 GPA in the classroom. She will attend Princeton University this fall, where she will compete in cross country and track and field.
A Nordic skiing standout and a talented musician, Max is co-editor of her school’s award-winning newspaper.