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Gatorade 2019 - 2020: Player of the Year

Girls Track & Field - Massachusetts

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GIRLS TRACK & FIELD

Makayla Paige

Sprints/middle distance
TEWKSBURY MEMORIAL HS
TEWKSBURY, MASSACHUSETTS
JUNIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-4
Press Release

Peak Performance

1:29.70

600m

No. 1

600m ranking in 2020
“Once again, Makayla had a record-setting season in Massachusetts. To see one of her races against the best girls in the state shows how truly dominant she is. Even spectators who have no idea about track will stop and watch the second one of her races starts.”
Cullen Hagan
Head Coach - Head coach of Billerica High
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s returning Gatorade Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year, the 5-foot-4 junior set a state record in winning the 600-meter run at the Division 3 Indoor state meet. The clocking of 1:29.70 ranked as the nation’s No. 1 mark among prep competitors during the 2020 indoor season and ranks No. 7 all-time. Paige also ranked in the Top 10 nationally this past winter in the 500-meter run and 800-meter run, and she was in the Top 100 in the 300-meter run, the 400-meter run and the 1,000-meter run. A two-time State Track Association Athlete of the Year, she earned New Balance Nationals Outdoor All-American status after finishing third in the 800 in 2019.

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Academic Achievement

Paige has maintained a weighted 4.03 GPA in the classroom. She will begin her senior year of high school this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Paige has volunteered locally as a youth running coach, and she has donated her time to a fundraising campaign to benefit She’s The First, which helps young women from underprivileged communities further their education.