Gatorade 2023 - 2024: Player of the Year

Boys Cross Country - New Hampshire

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BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

Byron Grevious

Runner
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY
EXETER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-7
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st

Nike Cross Nationals Northeast Regional Championships

1th

NXN Final

1st

NEPSTA Division 1 state title
“State champ, regional champ and All-American: It’d be hard to ask much more of Byron Grevious in 2023. He also broke the meet record and the Manchester Invitational for good measure and seems destined to make a name for himself on the Left Coast at Stanford next season.”
Rich Gonzalez
PrepCal Track
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, the 5-foot-7, 125-pound senior improved upon his 2022 campaign this past season by winning the Nike Cross Nationals Northeast Regional Championships to earn First Team All-Region honors. Grevious followed up with a Second Team All-American performance by taking 11th at the NXN Final. Ranked No. 10 in the 2023 Dyestat 100, he also won the NEPSTA Division 1 state title, leading the Big Red to the team championship.

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Academic Achievement

Grievous has maintained an A-minus average in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to run on scholarship at Stanford University this fall. 

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Exemplary Character

Grevious has volunteered on behalf of the Special Olympics and a Connecticut-based organization serving at-risk youth. He’s also donated his time to Exeter’s student-run radio station.