Girls Runner of the Year: Aurora Scott
Photo by Brandon Miles
Virginia's greatest cross country runner in the era of MileStat.com will be tackling on Balboa Park for a fourth and final time this weekend in San Diego at the Foot Locker Nationals. Although she will be settling with nothing less than a national title, no matter what the outcome will be this weekend, Aurora Scott will go down as one of the best distance runners ever produced by the state of Virginia.
This fall has been one of her most low key season of cross country season as her homeschooled status and inability to compete in sanctioned high school events or officially unattached in college meets as made Aurora Scott sightings far and few. After winning Foot Locker South as a junior in a course record time and taking home the highest finish ever by a Virginian girl since 1986 at Foot Locker Nationals with a runner-up finish last December in San Diego, Scott's approach has been much different than years past. Last year, s...