Hokie ClubBLACKSBURG – Incoming Virginia Tech track and field freshman Cameron Rose has been named as the Gatorade North Carolina Boys Track & Field Player of the Year.
Rose earns this prestigious award following a senior season that saw him break state records in the 200-meter dash and the 300-meter dash and set several U.S All-Time performances this past indoor season.
Rose opened the year with a North Carolina State record and the U.S. No. 1 mark in the 300 meters with his blazing time of 32.84 at the VA Showcase on Jan. 17. The time also marked the second-fastest indoor 300 mark in U.S. history.
The following weekend at the Clemson high school invitational, Rose broke his second state record and posted a top US All-Time Indoors performance as he clocked a time of 20.94 in the 200 meters at the Clemson High School Invitational. His mark at Clemson broke Trentavis Friday's 20.97 North Carolina Indoor 200 State Record from 2014, gave him the No. 5 time in U.S. high school history and made him only the second North Carolina boy ever go under 21 seconds indoors and the 8th high schooler ever in the country to do so.
Rose is currently ranked as the nation's No. 3 recruit in the class of 2020 by MileSplit.
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport.