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Gatorade 2023 - 2024: Player of the Year

Girls Cross Country - Michigan

Gatorade Player of the year

Rachel Forsyth

Runner
PIONEER HS
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-6
Press Release

Peak Performance

3rd

Foot Locker Cross Country Championships

5th

Nike Cross Nationals Final

1st

Foot Locker Midwest Regional

1st

NXN Midwest regional
“Rachel Forysth’s season puts her in the conversation for National Player of the Year, and she was clearly the class of Michigan. The Wolverine State perennially has a lot of high school talent and 2023 was no different, but no one was in Forysth’s class this past season.”
Rich Gonzalez
Head Coach - PrepCalTrack Coach

Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-6 senior took bronze at the national Foot Locker Cross Country Championships and finished fifth at the Nike Cross Nationals Final this past season, earning All-American honors against both of the country’s elite prep race fields in 2023. Ranked No. 5 nationally in the MileSplit 50, Forsyth was the nation’s only prep girl to finish in the top five at both national title meets. She also won both the Foot Locker Midwest Regional and the NXN Midwest regional, finishing the season with a 12-2 meet record and unbeaten against in-state runners. A two time state champion, Forsyth won the MHSAA LP Division 1 state title, helping the Pioneers to second place as a team, and clocked a personal-best 16:07.50 at regionals.

Academic Achievement

Forsyth has maintained a 3.88 GPA in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to run on scholarship at Michigan State University this fall. 

Exemplary Character

A member of her school’s a capella choir, she has volunteered locally on behalf of Pioneers Action Club and the University of Michigan.