“IT WAS INSANE.” Looking back on the history-making campaign that earned her our High School Girls Athlete of the Year honors (see box for the voting below), Juliette Whittaker (Mt. de Sales, Catonsville, Maryland) admits that it shocked even her.
“During the season I definitely was surprised and just really happy about all of my achievements,” says the middle distance star. “But it was after the fact that I realized, ‘Wow! I really did that.’ I think if I had told my freshman-year self that I would achieve these things by my senior year, I probably wouldn’t believe her. I’m still kind of in disbelief.”
Whittaker, who has now moved on to Stanford, made her biggest impact in the 800. Already No. 7 in prep history with her 2:01.15 as a junior, she became the second prep to break the 2:00 barrier with her 1:59.80 in late May, topping a solid pro field in New York City.
Then, at the USATF Junior Championships in Eugene a month later she took down Mary Cain’s national record of 1:59.51 with…
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