George Washington's 4x100 anchor takes the baton while Loveland's Stefanie Tuder, appearing hopelessly behind, awaits the pass from Kaylee Packham. Photo by Alan Versaw.
Actually, fireworks might have been kind of boring compared to what was going on down on the track. Friday night in Longmont was a celebration of everything that is great about high school track and field.
It's going to take a while to get through the highlights, so make yourself comfortable.
No highlight of the evening looms larger than the girls' 4x100. At first, the race looked like anything but a contest. Dior Hall to Chyna Ries on the first two legs had George Washington looking like a college team in a high school meet. Meanwhile, Loveland was building a huge gap on the rest of the field--a gap more or less matching the gap GW held on Loveland.
By the third exchange, the outcome seemed set in stone, GW would finish with the best time in the state in several seasons and Loveland wou...
