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It turned out the state 5A meet came down to a battle between two of the biggest teams in the state, Cherry Creek and Arapahoe. While these two high schools fought it out for the state title, it was for Evan Appel the meet he had always wanted.
The Northern Conference teams came to the 4A girls state track meet with something to prove. And they proved it.
Kelby Dias displays the form that makes him a state champion. Photo courtesy of Ken Regan.
This may be the last year for regional qualifying in 4A, but the teams in the 4A region 5 track meet showed that it is important to not look ahead.
For a while, the wind was the main thing that whipped around the track Friday night at the St. Vrain Invite at Everly-Montgomery Field.
Kaitlin Hanenburg takes a commanding lead early in the 3200 en route to a Colorado season-best time of 11:01.21.
Longmont's Elizabeth Stover and Matt Butcher were tabbed as most valuable athletes at Saturday's Boulder County Championships meet, but the big surprises of the day were in how well the smaller schools fared.
Of all the city and county championship meets in Colorado, probably none rival the Boulder County Championships for the level of intensity that the athletes bring to the meet. While the Nike Littleton meet is undeniably the "big" meet in the state this weekend, there will be no shortage of quality track at Longmont High School.
At left, Longmont's versatile Elizabeth Stover.
Last Saturday 13 teams from Colorado and Wyoming gathered to compete in the Foot of The Rockies invitational. Several of these schools were just coming off of spring break, so the number of great marks come out of this storied meet was somewhat lower than tradition has encouraged us to expect.
Colin Anderson is no longer an unknown. At Tuesday's RE-1J meet in