Sydney Thorvaldson Speaks With LetsRun.com After Being Named 2020-21 Gatorade National Girls Cross Country Player of the Year
April 15, 2021
The 2020 high school cross country season was unlike any in recent memory. Several states did not hold competitions last fall. The Foot Locker Cross Country Championships and Nike Cross Nationals, the two biggest meets of the year, were cancelled. And, for the first time since 2014,
Katelyn Tuohy was not running high school races.
Despite all that, we witnessed some incredible performances. On November 15,
Sydney Thorvaldson of Rawlins, Wyo., ran 16:38 to win the XC Town USA Meet of Champions in Terre Haute by a massive 40 seconds. A week later, at the RunningLane Cross Country Championships, another meet that sprung up to fill the FL/NXN void,