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Gatorade 2017 - 2018: Player of the Year

Girls Cross Country - Missouri

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GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

Tori Findley

Distance Runner
BLUE SPRINGS SOUTH HS
BLUE SPRINGS, MISSOURI
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-6
Press Release

Peak Performance

7th - 17:49.60

NXN Midwest

1st - 18:09.34

MSHSAA 4A State Championship
“Tori’s consistency throughout the season was only magnified by her dominant run through district, sectional and state competition. She turned in an impressive performance at the NXN Midwest Regional, improving from last year’s 14th-place finish to take seventh against one of the deepest fields in the country. Her back-to-back Gatorade selections puts her in a group with two of the state’s all-time greats: Parkway Central’s Emily Sisson and Ste. Genevieve’s Taylor Werner.”
Erik Boal
Editor of DyeStat.com
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s returning Gatorade Runner of the Year, the 5-foot-6 senior took seventh place at the Nike Cross Nationals Midwest Regional championships this past season, earning First Team All-Region honors with a time of 17:49.60. Undefeated against in-state competition in 2017, Findley broke the tape at the MSHSAA Class 4 State XC Championships with a time of 18:09.34, leading the Jaguars to fourth place as a team. The two-time KC Metro Runner of the Year and four-time All-State honoree won eight of nine races on the season, clocked the state’s fastest 5K time by a prep girl and was Missouri’s highest finisher at either the Foot Locker or NXN regional.

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Academic Achievement

Findley has maintained a weighted 4.17 GPA in the classroom. She has signed a National Letter of Intent to run cross country on scholarship at the University of Missouri this fall.

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Exemplary Character

A member of the Student Athlete Leadership Council at her school, Findley has donated her time locally to the St. Robert Bellarmine Youth Group & Confirmation, Harvesters, the YMCA and the Special Olympics. A sales associate for Hallmark Cards, she has also volunteered as a peer tutor, a youth sports coach and on behalf of a 5K fundraiser in honor of a former coach.