In its 35th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company announced Nico Young of Newbury Park High School as its 2019-20 Gatorade California Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Young is the first Gatorade California Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year to be chosen from Newbury Park High School. 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 Young as California’s best high school boys track & field athlete.

In its 35th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company has announced Paige Sommers of Westlake High School as its 2019-20 Gatorade California Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year. 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 Sommers as California’s best high school girls track & field athlete.

Athletic Excellence. Academic Achievement. Exemplary Character. Congratulations to Nico Young of Newbury Park High School on being named the 2019-2020 Gatorade National Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year at a surprise celebration on Thursday, February 20th at Newbury Park High School.

Inclusion, engagement, and fun are at the center of Thousand Oaks High School, Newbury Park High School and Westlake High School’s second year of Unified Sports Leagues. With the success of last year’s Unified Basketball League – students at each school site had the opportunity to vote for three Unified Sports Leagues to participate in this year. By popular demand, students will be taking part in a fall kickball league, winter basketball league, and spring soccer league.