Garrett Heath Looks Back Fondly On His High School Career

Jul 16, 2020

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MileSplit Minnesota caught up with Stanford University and Class of 2004 Winona (MN) High School graduate Garrett Heath recently to talk about his prep and college career, as well as his best professional moments and his future looking ahead. Check out what one of Minnesota's all time best high school runners had to say about the most important moments in his life.

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You won six state titles in high school in track and cross country. Do you remember winning your first state title?

I remember it well. Those are the sort of memories you never forget.

It was my junior year XC season and potentially the most fit I ever was in high school entirely. I had been beaten countless times the previous year in the home stretch of XC races by Tom Schmidt -- the XC and 800m champ in Minnesota my sophomore year -- and was frustrated that I could seemingly do nothing about it; the sectional race even came to us walking side-by-side because I was sick of leading him out and being out kicked, but he k...