2012 High School Boys Athlete
Of The Year: Tyreek Hill
Only once before has the voting for T&FN’s HS Boys AOY been as close as it was this year, with sprinter Tyreek Hill, No. 1 in both the 100 and 200, edging vaulter Shawn Barber by 2 points. That equals the margin from ’78.
Hill, the first sprinter to win since ’05, got 7 No. 1s compared to Barber’s 8, but he fared slightly better in the lower going in forging his tight victory. No. 3 choice Aldrich Bailey got the other 5 nods for 1st. Hill, who missed the national record in the 200 by just 0.01, is now at Garden City CC in Kansas, playing football, but plans to run track come spring.
14 athletes received votes. The top 10:
| 1. Tyreek Hill (Coffee County, Douglas, Ga) |
180 |
| 2. Shawn Barber (Park, Kingwood, Tx) |
178 |
| 3. Aldrich Bailey (Timberview, Arlington, Tx) |
167 |
| 4. Sean Keller (Heritage, Vancouver, Wa) |
132 |
| 5. Jarrion Lawson (Liberty-Eylau, Texarkana, Tx) |
77 |
| 6. Sam Mattis (East Brunswick, NJ) |
69 |
| 7. Eric Futch (Penn Wood, Lansdowne, Pa) |
66 |
| 8. Bernie Montoya (Cibola, Yuma, Az) |
62 |
| 9. Edward Cheserek (Benedict’s, Newark, NJ) |
52 |
| 10. Rudy Winkler (Averill Park, NY) |
44 |
A full story on Hill appears in the just-published December edition of T&FN.
To see the complete list of boys AOYs since 1947, go here.
© Track & Field News 2012
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