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Show Evan Argyle Named Gatorade Utah Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport. The 6-foot-2, 180-pound senior won three events at the Class 5A state meet this spring, leading the Vikings to third place as a team. Argyle won the 800-meter run with a time of 1:54.14, the 1 ,600-me-ter run in 4:20.06 and ran the anchor leg on Pleasant Grove's winning distance medley relay quartet. Argyle, who missed the entire 2009 spring track season with a leg injury, had the top times across all classes in both the 800 and 1 ,600 outdoors. out-doors. Argyle has maintained an unweighted un-weighted 3.84 GPA in the classroom. class-room. An Eagle Scout, he has The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes recog-nizes 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 selecting process is ad-ministered ad-ministered by ESPN RISE and the Gatorade high school sports leadership team, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board r, . """" In its 25th year of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, ath-letes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPN RISE, on June 22, 2010 announced Evan Argyle of Pleasant Grove High School as its 2009-10 Gatorade Ga-torade Utah Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Argyle is the first Gatorade Utah Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year to be chosen from Pleasant Grove High School. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, ex-cellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated demon-strated on and off the track, distinguishes dis-tinguishes Argyle as Utah's best high school boys' track and field athlete. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year award to be announced in June, Argyle joins an elite alumni association of past state award-winners in 12 sports, including in-cluding Ryan Hall (1999-01, Big Bear HS, Calif.), Meb Ke-flezighi Ke-flezighi (1993-94, San Diego HS, Calif.), Derek Jeter (1991-92, (1991-92, Kalamazoo HS, Mich.), Candace Parker (2001-02, Na-perville Na-perville Central HS, 111.), Kevin Garnett (1992-93, Maudlin HS, S.C.), Mark Sanchez (2004-05, Mission Viejo HS, Calif.) and Lolo Jones (1997-98, Roosevelt HS,Ia.). " tKlNGs " - - . r ' r ' " "; , i! I,- i ; ( i . , 1 volunteered locally as a guide for a blind runner at the Special Olympics and learned sign language lan-guage so he could tutor a deaf student. "Evan Argyle, I've seen him run that kid's a stud. He's a man among boys," said Kevin Fletcher, head coach of rival West Jordan High. "Whathedid at state, having to do the 800 and then turning around and doing the distance medley relay, that's something you rarely ask a kid to do. And to win them both, that's impressive." Argyle has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete on an athletic scholarship at Brigham Young University beginning this fall. Evan Argyle of PCI IS won the 2009-10 Gatorade Utah Hoys Truck A Field Athlete of the Year. ... . .... .... J I nolo courtesy ol I nnpiinoos limes |
