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From Not Making Nationals to NXN Runner-Up in One Season | The Yohanes Van Meerten Story
Every few years, a high school runner comes along who forces the entire country to look toward one place.
This fall, that place was Flagstaff, Arizona, and the runner was Yohanes Van Meerten.
Yohanes is a prominent high school distance runner from Flagstaff High School in Arizona, who just finished an outstanding junior season. We’re not kidding when we say outstanding: he was the runner up at Nike Cross Nationals, the highest finish ever for an Arizona athlete at the meet.
He also won the Arizona state championship, setting an overall course record and becoming the first runner in state…
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