Sacramento Running News

Amy Weissenbach gets something for the mantel.

Recently, I wrote about Harvard-Westlake School junior Amy Weissenbach’s phenomenal, nation-leading run in the 800 at this spring’s California Interscholastic Federation Track and Field State Championships.

This evening, Gatorade just named her the National Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year. Sweet!

And when you tell your children that they should be more like Amy, be sure to note that besides running like the wind, she “maintains a 4.23 weighted GPA in the classroom.”

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Here’s a quiz: Why won’t we be seeing America’s fastest female student-athlete at this week’s NCAA Championships?

Is she injured? No! Thanks goodness!

Is she ineligible? Getting warmer–but probably not what you think.

It turns out that Amy Weissenbach, who ran a nation-leading 2:02:04 for the 800 meters this past weekend at the State Champs in Clovis, has another year of high school remaining.

Weissenbach, a junior at Harvard-Westlake High School in North Hollywood, broke the existing national high school record of 2:02:90 that had been set by Chanelle Price of Pennsylvania in 2008.

You shouldn’t be surprised that Weissenbach successfully defended her title from last year’s Champs and finished five-seconds ahead of 2nd place finisher Savannah Camacho.

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