Gatorade 2019 - 2020: Player of the Year

Girls Track & Field - Nebraska

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GIRLS TRACK & FIELD

Kalynn Meyer

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SUPERIOR HS
SUPERIOR, NEBRASKA
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-3
Press Release

Peak Performance

176-8

Discus

49-5

Shot put

No. 3

Shot put 2019 ranking
“I have been coaching track for 18 years and I have never seen an athlete, male or female, with the ability that Kalynn has. She’s a once-in-a-career kind of kid.”
Matt Swartzendruber
Assistant Coach - Assistant coach of Sandy Creek High
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s two-time returning Gatorade Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year, the 6-foot-3 senior concluded her prep track career as a three-time Lincoln Journal Star Prep Girls Athlete of the Year and a two-time Omaha World Herald Athlete of the Year. Meyer set a state record at the 2019 Outdoor Class C state meet in the discus with a throw of 176 feet, 8 inches, which ranks as the nation’s No. 18 distance in prep history. She also twice broke the Class C state meet record in the shot put, launching it 49-5 to produce the nation’s No. 3 mark in the spring of 2019.

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Academic Achievement

Meyer has maintained an A average in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to compete on an athletic scholarship at the University of Nebraska.

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Exemplary Character

A member of the Superior High student council and its Future Farmers of America chapter, Meyer has volunteered locally as a youth volleyball and basketball coach.