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Gatorade 2025 - 2026: Player of the Year

Boys Cross Country - District Of Columbia

Gatorade Player of the year

Anthony Sarro

Runner
GONZAGA COLLEGE HS
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-2
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st

DCSAA

1st

WCAC

7th - 15:02.8

Great American Cross Country Festival

7th - 15:10.0

NXN Southeast Regional
“Anthony Sarro was the District’s top finisher at the Great American Cross Country Festival and at the NXN Southeast Regional, where he earned All-Region recognition. He didn’t lose to a runner from D.C. all last fall and he went sub-15:40 in his final four races of the season.”
Rich Gonzalez
Editor - PrepCalTrack

Athletic Excellence

The 6-foot-2, 168-pound senior won both the DCSAA and WCAC cross country championships this past season, sparking his team to runner-up finishes at both meets. Sarro was the District’s top finisher at the Great American Cross Country Festival, where he clocked a personal-best time of 15:02.8 to take seventh. He was also D.C.’s fastest competitor at the NXN Southeast Regional thanks to a seventh-place finish in 15:10.0, which earned him Second Team All-Region recognition. The All-DMV Runner of the Year, his time at Great American set a new school 5K record.

Academic Achievement

Sarro has maintained a weighted 4.56 GPA in the classroom. He remains undecided on a collegiate destination. 

Exemplary Character

Sarro has volunteered locally supporting the homeless on behalf of the Father McKenna Center. As vice president of his school’s MedStreet Club, he and his peers provide basic medical care to the homeless under the guidance of a physician. He has also donated his time to the Washington Jesuit Academic Science Fair, where he serves as a mentor to underserved youth. He completed a service-mission trip during the summer of 2025 to help a Maryland community battling rural poverty.