Bayha earns Gatorade Player of Year

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Posted 1/22/25

Pilgrim senior Keaney Bayha ran to a historic season for the cross country team last fall, taking first place at the Class A Championship and then later the Rhode Island Interscholastic League State …

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Bayha earns Gatorade Player of Year

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Pilgrim senior Keaney Bayha ran to a historic season for the cross country team last fall, taking first place at the Class A Championship and then later the Rhode Island Interscholastic League State Championships up at Ponaganset. Bayha’s stellar season earned her Gatorade Rhode Island Girls Cross Country Player of the Year honors last week.
Bayha was the state’s most dominant runner as she took first at states by 18 seconds. She became the first Warwick public school runner to ever win the individual state title and guided the team to a fifth-place finish as a unit. She then finished 15th at the Foot Locker Northeast Regional, taking Third Team All-Region honors, then placed 27th at the NXN Northeast Regional.
She is also active in the school community, serving as class president and holding a GPA of 4.51. She also served as a moderator of roundtable debates at the school committee elections in 2024 and is a student liaison to the secretary of state.
She will be running cross country for Division I University of Rhode Island next fall.
Bayha is the fifth Pilgrim athlete to earn Gatorade Player of the Year honors, following Sarah Lynch for soccer, Alyssa Twomey for softball, and Sean Flynn for track.

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