A three-time Gatorade Player of the Year in cross country, the 5-foot-8 senior won the Nike Cross Nationals title this past season with a time of 16:40.9, the second-fastest girls 5K performance in history at Oregon’s Glendoveer Golf Course. That followed Riggs’ Group AAA individual state championship, which sparked the Mohigans to a state title as a team. She also broke the tape at the Nike Southeast Regional in North Carolina with a time of 16:02.1, eclipsing the WakeMed course record by 20 seconds and producing the second-fastest 5K clocking by a prep girls in U.S. history. She also triumphed at the Red, White and Blue Classic during her unbeaten campaign.
Riggs maintains a 4.22 unweighted GPA in the classroom. She has signed a National Letter of Intent to run on scholarship at Stanford University this fall.
The Vice President of the student body at her school, Riggs has served as social media coordinator for Mohigan Idol, a Monongalia County talent competition that fundraises for WVU Children’s Hospital. Also a student council representative at Morgantown, she has donated her time as a youth coach for Club Mountaineer Aquatics and as part of the Strawberry 5K fundraiser supporting her high school.
