CHICAGO – Agur Dwol of Mullen was named the 2021-22 Gatorade Colorado Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year, the organization announced Thursday, June 30. Dwol is the first Gatorade Colorado Girls Track & Field Player of the Year to be chosen from Mullen.
The senior soared to a state-record 42 feet, 5.5 inches to win the triple jump at the Class 4A state meet this past season, which ranked as the nation’s No. 2 performance among girls prep competitors in 2022. In addition, Dwol leapt 20-1.75 to win the long jump and ran the lead leg on Mullen’s victorious 4×200-meter relay. She also captured the triple jump at June’s Nike Outdoor Nationals with an effort of 42-3.5, placing fifth in the long jump for good measure.
A member of her school’s sports medicine team, Dwol has organized blood-donation drives in her community. She has maintained a B average in the classroom, and has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete on scholarship at the University of Oklahoma this fall.
“Agur is only four-years-old in terms of track experience, so her ceiling is very high,” said Mullen coach Darius Reed. “Our big thing this year was to go out and have fun and not make this seem like a job, and that’s what she has done. The more fun she has, the better she seems to jump.”
Dwol joins recent Gatorade Colorado Girls Track & Field Players of the Year Riley Stewart (2020-21, Cherry Creek High School), Taylor James (2019-20, Niwot High School), and Anna Hall (2018-19 & 2017-18, Valor Christian High School), among the state’s list of former award winners.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Dwol as Colorado’s best high school girls track & field athlete. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Girls Track & Field Player of the Year award to be announced in July, Dwol joins an elite alumni association of state award-winners in 12 sports, including Lolo Jones (1997-98, Roosevelt High School, Iowa), Allyson Felix (2002-03, Los Angeles Baptist High School, Calif.), Robert Griffin III (2006-07, Copperas Cove High School, Texas), Grant Fisher (2014-15 & 2013-14, Grand Blanc High School, Mich.) and Candace Hill (2014-15, Rockdale County High School, Ga.).
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes 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 selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others as sources to help evaluate and determine the state winners in each sport.