Gatorade 2024 - 2025: Player of the Year

Girls Track & Field - Washington

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GIRLS TRACK & FIELD

Sophia Rodriguez

Distance
MERCER ISLAND HS
MERCER ISLAND, WASHINGTON
SOPHOMORE
Height: 5-FOOT-4
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st, 10:07.83

WIAA Class 3A state meet - 2 mile

1st

WIAA Class 3A state meet - 1600m
“Despite being an underclassman, Sophia Rodriguez continues to set pace in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Her racing tenacity helps place her among the elites in the nation’s stellar sophomore class.”
Rich Gonzalez
Editor - PrepCalTrack.com
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s 2024-25 Gatorade Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year, the 5-foot-4 sophomore distance talent set a state record in the 2-mile run at the WIAA Class 3A state meet this past season and her time of 10:07.83 ranked No. 9 nationally among prep girls competitors this spring. Rodriguez also anchored her school’s state record-setting distance medley quartet at the Oregon Relays, helping the unit clock an 11:39.79, which ranked No. 3 nationally in 2025. She added an individual state championship in the 1600-meter run, leading the Islanders to the team title. Her personal-best 4:44.32 in the event at the NIKE/Jesuit Twilight Relays ranked No. 34 nationally at the time of her selection.

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Academic Achievement

Rodriguez has maintained a 3.60 GPA in the classroom. She will begin her junior year of high school this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Rodriguez has volunteered locally on behalf of the annual Sea-Fair Festival, broadcasting the event’s happenings live on 88.9 FM The Bridge. She also helps run her school’s radio station.