Whenever a shelved runner returns from the depths of injury despair back to international relevance, the message-board pundits of Letsrun.com one of the globe’s foremost distance-running websites bestow their highest adulation by posting:.
For the first time in the award's 16-year existence, it went to someone who did not win one of the major national cross country meets. Simmons,m who was 2nd at NXN behind Aaron Sahlman, also is just the third junior to win the award.
Who is Daniel Simmons? A Latter-day Saint from American Fork, Utah, has been named the 2022-2023 Gatorade National Boys Cross Country Player of the Year.