Elliott Hanson, a senior at Merrill High School (MHS), has been named Athlete of the Week for the week of September 8, 2022. Elliott is a member of the Merrill Bluejays Varsity Cross Country Team, where he has been running on the Team Varsity all four years of high school. He started running cross country at Prairie River Middle School (PRMS) and also started running track at PRMS in the eighth grade. Elliott has also been on the MHS Varsity track team all four years of high school (except the year they didn’t run due to COVID), and runs the 4×800, the mile and 3200 events.
At school, Elliott belongs to the FFA and the Robotics Club. He spent many years in 4-H but is no longer and just finished working at Lincoln Windows for the summer. In his spare time, he enjoys video games, snowmobiling, snowmobile restoration work, rifle deer hunting, small game hunting, taking his hunting dog out into the woods, fishing, and raising chickens. This year, he will also be volunteering at the Haunted Sawmill.
The son of John and Pam Hanson of Merrill, Elliott plans to attend Northcentral Technical College after graduation to study Mechanical Engineering. He hopes to get a job designing parts for a manufacturer in the agricultural industry.