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Gatorade 2015 - 2016: Player of the Year

Boys Track & Field - South Dakota

Gatorade Player of the year

Mason Hericks

SPR
WATERTOWN HS
WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-9
Press Release

Peak Performance

10.76 seconds

100-meter dash

21.75 seconds

200-meter dash
“Mason Hericks is a true sportsman and great competitor. We have competed numerous times against him in the last few years and he is always gracious in victory or defeat.”
Kevin Kroger
Head Coach

Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-9, 135-pound senior sprinter captured two individual championships this spring at the Class AA state meet and also anchored the winning 4x100-meter and 4x200-meter relay quartets to lead the Arrows to a second-place finish as a team. Hericks wo

Academic Achievement

Hericks has maintained a 4.0 GPA in the classroom.

Exemplary Character

An accomplished trumpet player and percussionist, he has volunteered locally on behalf of Habitat for Humanity and his church youth group. He has also donated his time as a summer camp counselor.