Author: Angie Disalvo

Lucile Chevalier has been breezing through her classes at Rampart. “I don’t think I’m smarter,” said the exchange student from Bordeaux, France. “ …The scientific stuff, it’s easy I think.” But the sophomore has had a harder time doing the conversions in the pool, where the altitude, among several things, has her unhappy with her…

Danielle Wahl is a big fish in a small pond at Colorado Springs School. But her status doesn’t shrink in the Cheyenne Mountain pool. Wahl, a senior at CSS and a four-year member of the Indians’ swim team, won the 200-yard individual medley and 100 breaststroke Thursday to help host Cheyenne Mountain beat Doherty 210-102.…

Danielle Wahl is a big fish in a small pond at Colorado Springs School. But her status doesn’t shrink in the Cheyenne Mountain pool. Wahl, a senior at CSS and a four-year member of the Indians’ swim team, won the 200-yard individual medley and 100 breaststroke Thursday to help host Cheyenne Mountain beat Doherty 210-102.…

Pine Creek coach Ashlynn Smith couldn’t wait to get back to state this season.She just kept hoping her baby could. Smith was due to give birth to her second daughter Nov. 14 — the day after the state tournament. The actual arrival on Nov. 4 worked much better. Two days later, Smith was back on…

Nikki Glass is razor sharp on the volleyball court. Just not always off it. The Gazette’s Co-5A-4A Player of the Year led Pine Creek to a second straight 5A Metro League title and its first state final appearance while not shaving her legs during most of the season. “I have a superstition where (if) you…

The Cheyenne Mountain volleyball team has developed a winning tradition with eight straight trips to the 4A state tournament, three straight state finals appearances and two straight state titles. But winning may not be the Indians’ most important tradition. State trips are all routine for the top-seeded Indians, starting Thursday with a stop at a…

Pine Creek needed a full game to shake off the rust left over from a two-week layoff. But when the Eagles’ trio of big hitters started firing on all cylinders, Pikes Peak No. 1 teams Pine Creek and Doherty put on a supercharged display of volleyball Friday night in front of an electric crowd of…

The motherlode of volleyball matches this season is not exactly what the doctor ordered for Pine Creek coach Ashlynn Smith. Smith, eight months pregnant, is fired up for today’s game at fellow Pikes Peak No. 1 Doherty that will decide the 5A Metro League championship and the host of the district tournament. “It’s just exciting,”…