Herbert Hoover's Maysen Fletcher has been named the Gatorade Player of the Year for Cross Country in West Virginia.

Maysen Fletcher shook off a couple early season defeats to last year's Player of the Year, Alyssa Sauro, and used them as a learning experience as she avenged those losses at the Chick-Fil-A Invitational and then in a fantastic battle at the State Meet where the two battled within a stride of each other for nearly 3 miles before any separation was generated, and Fletcher held off a late push by Sauro to win by under 2 seconds.

Fletcher opened the season with a stellar 17:22 at the Autumn Classic in St. Marys and clocked a 17:35 at the Chick-Fil-A Invitational in early September. She then clocked a 17:51 at the Great American XC Festival at Cary, NC, home of Nike Southeast, good for 10th place in that race, and also went under 18:00 at the Region IV Championships before taking the State Title in 18:17.

Fletcher continued her excellence into the post-season with a 3rd place finish at the Garmin RunningLane Championships on the lightning fast John Hunt Running Park course, touring the course in 16:59.10, and exceedingly rare sub-17 time for a West Virginia High School runner.

See the complete press release here: https://playeroftheyear.gatorade.com/poy/assets/writable/93269/2025_GXC_MFletcher.pdf