The Gatorade Company has selected Kalynn Meyer of Superior High School as its 2019-20 Gatorade Nebraska Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Meyer is the third Gatorade Nebraska Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year to be chosen from Superior High School.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Meyer as Nebraska’s best high school girls track and field athlete. She is now a finalist for the Gatorade National Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year.
The state’s two-time returning Gatorade Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year and 6-foot-3 senior concluded her prep track career as a three-time Lincoln Journal Star Prep Girls Athlete of the Year and a two-time Omaha World Herald Athlete of the Year. Meyer set a state record at the 2019 Outdoor Class C state meet in the discus with a throw of 176 feet, 8 inches, which ranks as the nation’s No. 18 distance in prep history. She also twice broke the Class C state meet record in the shot put, launching it 49-5 to produce the nation’s No. 3 mark in the spring of 2019.
As member of the Superior High School student council and its Future Farmers of America chapter, Meyer has volunteered locally as a youth volleyball and basketball coach. “I have been coaching track for 18 years and I have never seen an athlete, male or female, with the ability that Kalynn has,” said Matt Swartzendruber, assistant coach of Sandy Creek High. “She’s a once-in-a-career kind of kid.”
Meyer has maintained an A average in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to compete on an athletic scholarship at the University of Nebraska.
Reader Comments(0)