Morgan Smalls Earns North Carolina Gatorade POY Honors

Panther Creek senior Morgan Smalls has earned her second straight North Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year Honors.  Despite the 2020 Outdoor Season being cancelled by the COVID-19 global pandemic, Smalls showed she was in peak form during the indoor season where she was the state leader in the High Jump, Long Jump and Triple Jump as well as the US Leader in the High Jump and Triple Jump while being US#2 in the Long Jump.

"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 Smalls as North Carolina's best high school girls track & field athlete."

Smalls joins an elite group of two time North Carolina two-time Gatorade Player of the Year winners dating back to 1987 with Adriane Sims, LaTasha Pharr, Mackenzie Pierce, Gabby Mayo, Wesley Frazier and Anna Cockrell.

The 2019 Indoor and Outdoor High Jump National Champion with attend the University of Southern California next fall and will go down as one of North Carolina's all-time great Track & Field athletes.  

Smalls should be in the running for Gatorade National Player of the Year Honors as well which should be announced in the next few weeks.

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2020 State by State Winners

2020 -Morgan Smalls,Panther Creek