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Westhampton Beach High School senior Gavin Ehlers was the Long Island cross-country runner of the year. 

He earned two all-state awards and is headed to Wake Forest University in the fall.

Westhampton Beach High School senior Gavin Ehlers was the Long Island cross-country runner of the year.

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Scholar Athlete: Gavin Ehlers

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to meet this week's winner of the News 12 scholar athlete award sponsored by Bethpage Federal Credit Union. He's West Hampton Beach High School Senior Gavin Ehlers now Gavin will head to Wake Forest University in the fall, but until then he's got a few more months to leave the competition. In his wake. Gavin was the long island cross country runner of the year. He's also a versatile track runner who competes in multiple events from the 800 to the five K. He's earned two All State Awards, seven All County Awards. He's the school record holder in the mile and the two mile. So in every local race, Gavin starts pretty much as the guy to beat. I enjoy having the target on my back at, at, you know, the Suffolk county level. Um, and then you go to the state meet and you don't have a target on your back and you get to really be, you get to be the hunter then and that's a lot of fun. And many of his classmates tried to hunt down Gavin in the race to be the Valedictorian, but nobody did it. He finished tops in the class with a 99.7 unweighted average with 15 ap classes. A little stressful once it got towards like halfway through the year and you knew the announcement was coming out soon. We're not totally sure, but it was, it was really nice to get Gavin is also treasurer of the National Honor Society and volunteers with the Rolling Thunder Track Club for kids with special needs and like all of our winners who gets a $1000 scholarship from Bethpage Federal Credit Union, I'm kevin Maher.

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