The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, the 5-foot-7 junior won her second straight Class AAA state meet this past season with a time of 18:24.88, breaking the tape 34.81 seconds ahead of her next-closest competitor and leading the Mohigans to a first-place finish as a team. Riggs took eighth at the Eastbay South Regional Championships and finished 14th at the Eastbay Cross Country Championships, to earn All-American honors.
Riggs has maintained a weighted 4.13 GPA in the classroom. She will begin her senior year of high school this fall.
Vice president of her class at Morgantown High for three years, Riggs has volunteered locally as part of fundraising campaigns to benefit the WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital, and she has donated her time as a youth swimming coach.
