Tag: jeffco stadium
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Harrison boys’ 4×100 overcomes injury to win 3A relay, Panthers finish third in team standings
LAKEWOOD — Gulong Craft Jr. required assistance from his 4×100 teammates to safely step from atop the podium at Jeffco Stadium. Craft pulled up 20 meters shy of the finish line during the 3A boys’ relay Saturday, hopped on his left leg to the finish line with a strained right hamstring and, after dropping to…
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Sara Christensen leads dominant Thomas MacLaren run, Highlanders finish tied-for second in 2A girls
LAKEWOOD – Sara Christensen became the first double champion in Thomas MacLaren history. Christensen won consecutive 2A girls’ 100 hurdle titles and earned this year’s crown at 14.83 seconds. She then won the 300 hurdles championship at 44.96. Rather than marvel at her success from Saturday’s individual events, Christensen shared her gratitude for those who…
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Peyton’s Caleb Kearse claims consecutive 2A boys’ 400 titles
LAKEWOOD – Whoever displayed the most heart on the final stretch of the 2A boys’ 400 would win the race. That’s according to Peyton’s Caleb Kearse, who won the event. Kearse repeated as the 400 champion Saturday at Jeffco Stadium and finished in 48.86 seconds, the lone runner to complete his lap sub-49. “You have…
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The Classical Academy’s Vivian Jack secures 3A girls’ 800 crown
LAKEWOOD – As Vivian Jack crossed the finish line with a smile plastered across her face, she immediately glanced to her right to scan the crowd at Jeffco Stadium. She trotted toward the fence Friday and found her father, Ryan, who reached over the fence to embrace his daughter. Before her 2-minute, 15.22 second state…
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Vanguard’s Max Miller crushes state record, wins 2A boys’ 3,200 run
LAKEWOOD — Max Miller’s performance was surgical at Jeffco Stadium. Miller operated with precision and the Vanguard junior recognized keeping Dayspring Christian Academy’s Cooper Osmus as his pacer would serve well on his final push Friday. Suffice to say it worked as Miller ran a 9-minute, 17.67-second 3,200 race in the 2A finals and set…
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Lewis-Palmer’s Reese Douglas overcomes sprained throwing elbow, wins 4A girls shot put title
LAKEWOOD — That bandage on Reese Douglas’ throwing arm wasn’t for show. But the medal she won in the 4A shot put sure will be. Douglas sprained her right elbow three weeks ago throwing discus, but remained unfazed Thursday at Jeffco Stadium to win the shot put title with a distance of 40 feet, 10…
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Mesa Ridge’s Josiah Garcia raises the bar ahead of state 4A high jump competition
Josiah Garcia watched the Colorado High School State Track Championships from the stands in 2025. This year, he aspires to view that same crowd from atop the podium in Lakewood. Garcia enters Jeffco Stadium for Thursday’s 4A boys high jump finals as the No. 1 seed with a height of 6 feet, 7¼ inches.…
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Boys Track Peak Performer of the Year: Fountain-Fort Carson hurdler Kyler Lewis displays excellence of execution
Start to finish. Kyler Lewis heard those words and cherished them each time he stepped on the track. And in his final season on Fountain-Fort Carson’s track and field team, that mentality earned him titles in the 110- and 300-meter hurdles. But the senior’s journey to a pair of state hurdle titles began with a…