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BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

Brandon Martz

Runner
CATALINA FOOTHILLS HS
TUCSON, ARIZONA
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st - 15:39.4

State Championship (Individual)

2nd - 15:10.10

Desert Twilight XC Festival
“Brandon Martz stamped himself as a true big-meet performer this past season. In addition to posting the fastest all-divisions time at the state meet, he recorded a major meet win at California’s Mt. Carmel Invitational and earned second place at the prestigious Desert Twilight Festival.”
Rich Gonzalez
PrepCalTrack editor
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Athletic Excellence

The 6-foot, 142-pound senior raced to the Division II individual state championship this past season, clocking the fastest all-divisions time of 15:39.4 this past season. Unbeaten against in-state competition this fall, Martz also took second at the Desert Twilight XC Festival in a personal-best 15:10.10. He opened his 2022 campaign by crossing state lines to win the Division 1 individual championship at the venerable Mt. Carmel Invitational meet in California.

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Academic Achievement

Martz has maintained a weighted 4.22 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to run on scholarship at Rice University this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Martz has volunteered locally as a dietary aide at a nursing facility and as a lab researcher at the University of Arizona. Despite being diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma, he has prospered in the sport and elsewhere.