Gatorade 2023 - 2024: Player of the Year

Girls Cross Country - Arkansas

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GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

Haley Loewe

Runner
BENTONVILLE HS
BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-6
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st - 17:49.77

Class 6A state meet

1st - 17:03.1

El Caliente Division race
“Haley Loewe rewrote the record books in the El Caliente Division race at the Chile Pepper Festival en route to repeating as Gatorade Player of the Year. She also won her second consecutive Class 6A title, routing the field by a wide margin.”
Rich Gonzalez
Head Coach - PrepCalTrack Coach
excellence star

Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-6 senior won the Class 6A state meet this past season, breaking the tape in 17:49.77 more than 44 seconds ahead of her next-closest competitor and leading the Tigers to a second-place finish as a team. Loewe also won the featured El Caliente Division race at the Chile Pepper XC Festival, clocking the fastest time in history by an Arkansas prep girl at the event (17:03.1). The returning Gatorade State Player of the Year, she raced to the fastest all-class time at the state meet as well. 

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Academic Achievement

Loewe has maintained a 4.02 weighted GPA in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to run on scholarship at the University of Tennessee this fall.

first place ribbon

Exemplary Character

A devoted volunteer with the Rogers Dream Center, which helps underprivileged families with Christmas gifts, Loewe has also donated her time locally on behalf of the Keypoint Church at Fall Fest in addition to packing meals for the Feed My Starving Children program.