Worden Selected As Gatorade Athlete of the Year

In its 25 years of honoring the Nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company along with ESPN Rise has announced Scottsbluff High School athlete Aubree Worden as its 2009-2010 Gatorade Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.

Worden is the first Gatorade Nebraska Girls Cross Country runner of the year to be chosen from the Scottsbluff High School.

The award recognizes not only the outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the racecourse.

Worden captured her second straight Class B state championship this past season and won the All-Class Gold Medal with a time of 14:45.4, the fastest time ever recorded in the Class B girls state race. The ESPN RISE Southwest Athlete of the Week for Oct. 29,Worden also set a personal record in the three-mile race at the Liberty Bell Invite in Colorado, breaking the tape in 18:34.3.

Worden joins Gatorade Nebraska Girls Cross Country Champions Kelli Budd (2008-09 Marian), and Emily Sisson (2007-08 Millard North) as athletes who have won the cross country award since its inception in 2007