* Simeon Birnbaum (center) takes third in the men's 1,500m at Nike Outdoor Nationals. Birnbaum took home National Boys Performer Of The Week honors in the final poll of the season.
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After historic efforts at national championship meets a week ago, we've crowned our final National Boys Performer Of The Week of the 2023 outdoor season.
And our last performer award goes to someone who certainly took his season to a whole new level.
Garnering two wins and two US No. 2 all-time performances across three races contested over five days, Simeon Birnbaum ended his high school season on the highest of notes.
It began at Brooks PR on June 14 where he clocked a winning 8:34.10 for 2 miles, which also ranks as the second-best time ever in U.S. high school history. Then on June 16 at Nike Outdoor Nationals, Birnbaum raced with the pros in the men's 1,500m and registered another US No.2 all-time mark with a 3:37.93 third-place effort.
He would end out the week on June 18 with a marvelously-executed win in a competitive high school boys mile in 4:02.22.
The Oregon commit earned 72-percent of the vote to win in the 13th and final National Boys Performer Of The Week poll of the season. It also made for his second weekly performer award of the season after winning during week three following his efforts at the Arcadia Invitational.
This will be our final National Performer Of The Week recognition of the outdoor season. Our awards will resume during the cross country season.
A special thanks goes to TrackBarn for providing custom National Performer Of The Week backpacks to the winners of the 2023 polls.
NPOTW Outdoor Season Winners:
- Week 1: Donovan Bradley, Humble Summer Creek (TX)
- Week 2: Issam Asinga, Montverde Academy (FL)
- Week 3: Simeon Birnbaum, Rapid City Stevens (SD)
- Week 4: Wyatt Haughton, Shawnee Mission East (KS)
- Week 5: Anthony Collins, Harry S. Truman (PA)
- Week 6: Grant Campbell, Heritage (TN)
- Week 7: Quincy Wilson, Bullis School (MD)
- Week 8: Jermod McCoy, Whitehouse (TX)
- Week 9: Tavon Underwood, Mead (CO)
- Week 10: Jordan Ware, Memphis Central (TN)
- Week 11: Nayyir Newash-Campbell, Plainfield (IN)
- Week 12: Solomon Holden-Betts, Baldwinsville (NY)
- Week 13: Simeon Birnbaum, Rapid City Stevens (SD)
NPOTW Indoor Season Winners:
- Week 1: Killian Fahy, Cuthbertson (NC)
- Week 2: Brody Buffington, Catoctin (MD)
- Week 3: Nicholas Frattina, Mount Olive (NJ)
- Week 4: Tinoda Matsatsa, St. Andrew's Episcopal (MD)
- Week 5: Charles Perry, UMS-Wright (AL)
- Week 6: Nyckoles Harbor, Archbishop Carroll (DC)
- Week 7: Quincy Wilson, Bullis School (MD)
- Week 8: Maxwell Hardin, Auburn (AL)
- Week 9: Xavier Donaldson, Seton Hall Prep (NJ)
- Week 10: Antwan Hughes Jr., Parkland (NC)
- Week 11: Broderick Davis, Scotlandville (LA)
- Week 12: Conor McFadden, Central Bucks West (PA)
- Week 13: Matthew Auble, Warsaw (NY)
- Week 14: Quincy Wilson, Bullis School (MD)
- Week 15: Austen Diggs, LC Express (TX)
If selected as a National Boys Performer of the Week this outdoor season, please send your mailing address to Ashley Tysiac at ashley.tysiac@flosports.tv to receive your custom Athlete Of The Week backpack courtesy of TrackBarn.
