Archbishop Wood's (PA) Gary Martin after winning the PIAA Boys AA race.
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We know it has been a strange year with several states having shortened seasons or unable to compete at all but we wanted to find out; for those who were able to run this fall who was able to improve?
One athlete who made major improvements from 2019-2020 is Archbishop Wood's (PA), Gary Martin. The junior had some big accomplishments this season including; a win at the Class AA PIAA State meet and a 24th place finish at the RunningLane National Championships. Martin's time of 14:52.54 at the RunningLane National Championships was a 1:53.16 improvement over his 2019 best 5k performance.
Check out the full most improved athletes lists in the links below.

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* Note for an athlete to be included on these lists they had to be inside the top 5,000 returning athletes in 2020 to be pulled.