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  • All-state boys cross country teams for the 2017 season

    The 2017 all-state boys cross country teams are presented by CHSAANow.com, ColoradoPreps.com and MaxPreps.

    These teams were created based upon results at the state meet.

    The athletes who won championships at their classification were named runner of the year.

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    Class 2A

    Runner of the year: Benjamin Kelley, Soroco
    Coach of the year: Mark Roberts, Lyons

    First Team
    Name Year School
    Seth Bruxvoort Junior Heritage Christian Academy
    Cody Danley Senior Rocky Ford
    Jaden Evans Junior Telluride
    Benjamin Kelley Senior Soroco
    Isaac Roberts Sophomore Lyons
    Patrick Scoggins Senior Rangley
    Second Team
    Name Year School
    Mason Howard Sophomore Peyton
    Simon Kearns Senior Mancos
    Nick Lovato Senior The Vanguard School
    Max Saliman Junior Shining Mountain Waldorf
    Field Soosloff Senior Lyons
    Micah Zeller Freshman Custer County

    Honorable mention: Isaiah Bowsher, Senior, Heritage Christian Academy; Josiah Bowsher, Senior, Heritage Christian Academy; Keaton Case, Junior, Heritage Christian Academy; Wesley Davies, Junior, Clear Creek; Phillip Hufman, Junior, Dolores; Colton Jonjak-Plahn, Junior, Lyons; Jake McKie, Senior, Mancos; Landon Milbrath, Senior, Lyons; Ethan Reschke, Senior, Sargent; Sam Rodriguez, Senior, Hotchkiss; Andre Stablein, Sophomore, Front Range Christian; Simon Stone, Sophomore, Lyons; Will Swenson, Junior, Colorado Rocky Mountain.

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    Class 3A

    Runner of the year: Mason Norman, Classical Academy
    Coach of the year: Alan Versaw, The Classical Academy

    First Team
    Name Year School
    Levi Chambers Senior Frontier Academy
    Blake Davis Senior Lamar
    David Fine Junior Elizabeth
    Kyle McCabe Senior Holy Family
    Mason Norman Sophomore Classical Academy
    Tyler Scholl Junior SkyView Academy
    Second Team
    Name Year School
    Jaden Davis Sophomore Frontier Academy
    Lucas Jordan Senior D’Evelyn
    Andrew King Senior Platte Valley
    Wyatt Lehr Senior Lamar
    Ryan Moen Senior Classical Academy
    Colton Stice Junior Gunnison

    Honorable mention: Macklin Brockmeyer, Junior, Faith Christian; Ryan Butler, Senior, SkyView Academy; Elijah DeLaCerda, Junior, Alamosa; Jacob Doman, Senior, Liberty Commons; Christian Fagerlin, Senior, Resurrection Christian; James Jessep, Freshman, Stargate High School; Canaan Lamberth, Senior, Classical Academy; William Ledden, Sophomore, Peak to Peak; Campbell McDonough, Senior, Faith Christian; Jimmy Scavuzzo, Senior, SkyView Academy.

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    Class 4A

    Runner of the year: Cole Sprout, Valor Christian
    Coach of the year: Rob Collins, Palmer Ridge

    First Team
    Name Year School
    Cal Banta Junior Air Academy
    Brock Dykema Senior Silver Creek
    James Lee Senior Silver Creek
    Ryan Matson Senior Palmer Ridge
    Drew Seidel Senior Wheat Ridge
    Cole Sprout Sophomore Valor Christian
    Second Team
    Name Year School
    Thomas Chaston Senior Cheyenne Mountain
    Simon Kelati Junior Greeley Central
    Cole Munoz Senior Widefield
    John O’Malley Senior Centaurus
    Dillon Powell Junior Air Academy
    Ares Reading Junior Niwot

    Honorable mention: Noah Bodewes, Junior, Durango; Cooper Brown, Junior, Centaurus; Eliott Cassidy, Senior, Silver Creek; Aidan Fitzgerald, Junior, Durango; Evan Graff, Junior, Montrose; Maxwell Herebic, Senior, Palmer Ridge; Alex Hooten, Senior, Centaurus; Justin McDaniel, Senior, Mead; Kieran Nay, Senior, Palmer Ridge; Torey Puckett, Junior, Centaurus; Dylan Schubert, Sophomore, Thompson Valley; Logan Simington, Senior, Silver Creek; Jonathan Woolf, Senior, Palmer Ridge.

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    Class 5A

    Runner of the year: Charlie Perry, Monarch
    Coach of the year: Jonathan Dalby, Mountain Vista

    First Team
    Name Year School
    Mason Brown Senior Eaglecrest
    Carter Dillon Senior Mountain Vista
    Charlie Perry Senior Monarch
    Harrison Scudamore Freshman Denver East
    Chris Theodore Senior Rock Canyon
    Austin Vancil Junior Dakota Ridge
    Second Team
    Name Year School
    Easton Allred Sophomore Rock Canyon
    Will Dixon Senior Monarch
    Connor McCabe Senior Rampart
    Michael Mooney Senior Broomfield
    Connor Ohlson Sophomore Dakota Ridge
    Shayan Zarrin Senior Mountain Vista

    Honorable mention: Jacob Dewey, Senior, Rampart; Chase Dornbusch, Senior, Lakewood; Caden Foster, Senior, Mountain Vista; Blake Hubert, Senior, Fossil Ridge; Drew Johnson, Senior, Chatfield; Yonatan Kefle, Junior, Denver South; Parker Mackay, Senior, Mountain Vista; Hayden Martinez, Junior, Doherty; Jack O’Sullivan, Sophomore, Mountain Vista; Ethan Rouse, Junior, Mountain Vista; Isaac Russo, Senior, Monarch; Jack Shore, Senior, Fort Collins; Afeworki Zeru, Senior, Rampart.

  • Cross country committee again recommends a new scoring format for 2A state meet

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    (Cannon Casey/CHSAANow.com)

    AURORA — The cross country committee voted on Monday to recommend a proposal where the Class 2A state meet scores four runners in the team race.

    Currently, teams at the 2A meet run six athletes, with three of them counting toward the team points. The proposal would be to run six and score four.

    It is the second-straight year the committee has forwarded this specific proposal. Last year, the recommendation was voted down at a Legislative Council meeting.

    The recommendation will again head to Legislative Council for a vote at its next meeting, set for January.

    “This has been a push from some 2A schools for the last few years,” said CHSAA assistant commissioner Jenn Roberts-Uhlig. “It’s definitely divided among 2A schools on what’s best moving forward.”

    Those behind the proposal plan to communicate with other leagues and Legislative Council members prior to the vote.

    Additionally, the committee voted to recommend a second proposal which would allow a fifth team to qualify from each 2A regional. This would bring 2A up to 20 teams at the state meet, in line with the 20 that currently go in 3A, 4A and 5A.

    “I think pulling the fifth team into 2A makes them more balanced with 3A, 4A and 5A,” Roberts-Uhlig said.

  • Video: November’s Jeffco Preps With Pleuss

    A roundup of Jeffco prep highlights, interviews and schedules with Dennis Pleuss, Jeffco Public Schools’ Communication Specialist. This month’s edition features action from the Jeffco League cross country championships at Clement Park. Chatfield junior Christian Holmes made history at the Class 5A boys tennis state tournament at Gates Tennis Center in Denver. Arvada West softball swept through the Class 5A Jeffco League this fall and qualified for the 5A state tournament. Ralston Valley football improved it all-time record against rival A-West to 8-0 with a last-second touchdown. Dakota Ridge junior running back Jered Garcia had a monster game in a victory against Golden. Evergreen senior Bridger Tenney placed second in at the 4A boys golf state tournament and the Cougars took second in the team race.

  • Photos: 2017 boys and girls state cross country championships

    COLORADO SPRINGS — The 2017 state cross country championships for both boys and girls were competed for at the Norris-Penros Event Center on Saturday.

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  • Final results: 2017 state cross country championships

    COLORADO SPRINGS — Complete results from the 2017 state cross country meets, held at the Norris-Penrose Event Center.

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  • Boys cross country state championships: TCA’s Mason Norman escapes his brother’s shadow

    (Dan Mohrmann/CHSAANow.com)

    COLORADO SPRINGS — Running in the shadow of an older sibling comes with a lot of pressure. There is pressure to live up to the expectations and even surpass them.

    Going into Saturday’s state meet, Mason Norman was had to follow what his brother Tanner had done in the previous two years. It was only fitting that it was Tanner who called to give advice on how to attack the Class 3A boys cross country state race.

    “He called me last night and told me what I should do and what I should need,” Mason said.

    It worked.

    Mason came in with a time of 15:56.7 to win the 3A boys race and help The Classical Academy to a 3A team championship along the way.

    It’s the first team title for the Titans since 2011, but Norman wasn’t initially sure if the boys did what they needed to grab

    “I know that they didn’t have the best races they were hoping for,” he said. “I know they were still working hard and they did what they could.

    It turned out to be enough. Ryan Moen placed 11th and Canaan Lamberth took 14th to help TCA come away with gold.

    Norman is the only runner on the boys side to win both an individual and team title.

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    5A: Perry breaks teammate’s record, Mountain Vista sweeps team titles

    At the start of the boys cross country state race, everyone was living in Isaac Green’s shadow.

    By the end of the race, Charlie Perry was the new standard for Monarch. Perry cruised through the finish line, setting a 5A meet record at 15 minutes, 36.8 seconds. Perry was a part of last year’s state championship team and used that one time of running the course at the Norris-Penrose Event Center to the best of his advantage.

    “I had a little bit of an idea (of the course layout),” Perry said. “All I knew is once you get to the water, you go all out and there’s not that much left. Once I hit the water today I tried to push because you’ll always regret it if someone passes you in the last little bit.”

    He didn’t have to live with that regret. In the event’s first overall race of the day, the only thing he could see ahead of him was the finish line and a first-place medal.

    Mountian Vista came away with the 5A team title as Carter Dillon, Shayan Zarrin, Parker Mackay, Caden Foster and Ethan Rouse all finished in the top 135

    Dillon had the best individual finish for the Golden Eagles, taking fifth overall. Rock Canyon is the 2017 team runner-up, led by Chris Theodore who finished second overall.

    Perry and his Coyote teammates grabbed a top-four finish, but were unable to defend their title.

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    2A boys cross country
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    2A: Lyons takes team title as Soroco’s Ben Kelly fends for himself

    Soroco’s Ben Kelly has always been a lone wolf at state cross country. One of the disadvantages of running at a small school is that it’s not always possible for a full team to make it, even with one standout runner leading the pack.

    “I’ve never had a team at state before,” Kelly said. “We actually had our first team this year and it was fun at regionals, but unfortunately we didn’t have any guys make it to state. So I’m sure there is a (difference in mentality), I’m not acquainted enough running with a team to know what that feels like.”

    He just has to run for himself. And on Saturday, he ran a himself a championship performance. He finished in 16:06.5 to claim the 2A boys championship.

    It has been a tough year for him as he’s battled through a foot injury that forced him to miss half the season.

    To prepare for state, he found other means of endurance training, which his new first-place medal show paid off in the long run.

    “It’s been kind of a weird season,” he said. “I’ve been doing a lot of biking and aqua jogging and not spending as much time running like I usually do.”

    Isaac Roberts led Lyons to its fifth title in six years. Roberts finished eight seconds behind Kelly to take second overall.

    Heritage Christian claimed second place as junior Seth Bruxvoort finished at a team-high fourth place.

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    4A: Valor Christian’s Cole Sprout aims high in championship win

    Cole Sprout isn’t one to set low expectations. Coming into Saturday’s state cross country meet, he only had a few things in mind that he was hoping to accomplish.

    “Coming into the race, my goal was to win and maybe break the course record of 15:33,” he said.

    The 4A mark coming into the event was 15:50.4, set by TCA’s Tanner Norman in 2015. Sprout cleared it by eight seconds as he claimed the win for the 4A boys. Sprout went into the race with a simple plan that would keep him at the head of the pack and give him a chance to break away when he needed to.

    “My goal was to go the first mile with the top guys and feel out that pace,” Sprout said. “I had to save myself for that second mile and that’s where I kicked it up.”

    Sprout’s win gives Valor Christian its state cross country title for either a team or an individual. The team overall finished 10th and it was Palmer Ridge who was eventually awarded the big trophy.

    Ryan Matson finished fifth overall, the highest finisher of the day for the Bears. Kieran Nay, Maxwell Herebic and Jonathan Wolf all finished within four spots of each and in the top 20.

    It is the second consecutive team title for Palmer Ridge and its third overall as a program.

  • Schedule and info for the 2017 state cross country meet

    Meet information for the 2017 state cross country championships:

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    Schedule

    • Unified/Paralympics race: 8:15 a.m.
    • 5A boys: 9:20 a.m.
    • 2A girls: 10 a.m.
    • 5A girls: 10:40 a.m.
    • 2A boys: 11:20 a.m.
    • 4A girls: 12 p.m.
    • 3A boys: 12:40 p.m.
    • 4A boys: 1:20 p.m.
    • 3A girls: 2 p.m.

  • List of qualifiers for the 2017 state cross country meet

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    A complete list of individual qualifiers for Saturday’s state cross country meet.

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  • Photos: Vanguard among big winners at Cross Country region 2

    COLORADO SPRINGS — The Vanguard School won the Class 2A Region 2 girls cross country championship to qualify for next week’s state meet. The boys took third at the event, which also featured regional races in 4A and 5A.

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  • Cross country roundup: State field clearing up after Thursday’s regionals

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    (Dan Mohrmann/CHSAANow.com)

    Palmer Ridge’s Isabella Prosceno has a solid plan when embarking on her races.

    She starts strong, paces herself with the head of the pack and then pulls away for the win. That’s the plan she utilized on Thursday at the Class 4A region 2 cross country meet. She got the desired result.

    “I tend to run as hard as I can in every race,” Prosceno said. “Even though it gets hard on certain things, I just go hard every time.”

    Prosceno took the win for the Bears, but it was Air Academy who grabbed the overall team win for 4A girls. The Bears didn’t come away empty-handed though as the boys team took first.

    It was also a good day for the Vanguard School. The girls team grabbed first place while Nick Lovato won the overall 2A boys race.

    “My hope was that I would run my fastest to get my team to state,” Lovato said. “I decided the best way to do that was to take first.”

    Peyton won the 2A boys team title.

    At the same venue, Mountain Vista swept the 5A team titles.

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    Monarch took three of the top four spots at the 5A Region 3 boys cross country meet to win the region.

    The Coyotes had 40 team points.

    “We wanted our team to win this regional,” Charlie Perry said. “The best way for us to do that is, I have to go out and get one point. So, my mind was on what I’m going to do, because I know the rest of the guys will take care of their job.

    “As you just saw, they came through in the spots they needed to as well.”

    Perry took first with a time of 15:50.

    “I felt pretty good today, so I figured it wouldn’t be too bad to go out on my own for a little bit,” Perry said. “This is a starter for the postseason so it’s a big deal to come out and win.”

    In the girls race, Legacy sophomore Brynn Siles beat out the field with a time of 18:28.

    Fairview won the team title with 64 points.

    The Knights’ Isabella Bowland finished with a time of 19:16, good for a fifth-place finish.

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    2A

    • Region 1: Lyons’ Isaac Roberts took first in the boys race with a time of 17:03. Heritage Christian won the team title. Nederland’s Helen Cross won the girls race with a race of 19:34, helping Nederland to the team title.
    • Region 3: Cody Danley of Rocky Ford won at 17:24. The Meloneers won both girls and boys team titles. Emilee Haefeli (Del Norte) and Camille Ruggles (Center) tied in the girls race at 21:54.

    3A

    • Region 2: Blake Davis (Lamar) won with a time of 17:10.9. The Classical Academy took both team titles. Colorado Springs Christian’s Rachel Ingram turned in a first place time of 20:19.4.
    • Region 3: Holy Family’s Kyle McCabe took first with 16:42. Faith Christian won the boys team race. Peak to Peak’s Quinn McConnell won with 18:05. The Pumas took the top three spots to win the team race.
    • Region 4: Platte Valley’s Andrew King turned in a first-place time of 16:21. Frontier Academy won the team titles at boys and girls. Hannah Ellis’ time of 18:31 gave her the top spot.

    4A

    • Region 1: Wheat Ridge’s Drew Seidel turned in a time of 17:50.18 to win the boys race. Evergreen took the boys team win. Naomi Harding of Battle Mountain paced the Huskies with a time of 19:56.76 to win the team and individual title.
    • Region 3: Valor Christian’s Cole Sprout topped the field at 16:00. Centaurus won the boys team race. In the girls race, Niwot freshman Taylor James took first with 19:16. Valor Christian won the girls team race.
    • Region 4: Silver Creek’s Logan Simington turned in a time of 16:14 to push the Raptors to the team title. Kenadi Krueger of Thompson Valley won the girls race with 18:57. Silver Creek won the girls team race.
    • Region 5: Cole Munoz of Widefield ran to a time of 16:05 to win the boys race. Durango won the boys and girls team races. Durango’s Madeleine Burns won the individual girls race at 19:10.

    5A

    • Region 1: Denver East’s Harrison Scudamore won the boys race at 15:50.2. Dakota Ridge won the boys team race. Stephanie Carrasco of Thornton’s time of 17:58.5 was good for first place. Arvada West took the team race.
    • Region 2: Gateway’s Yonas Mogos took first at boys with 16:13.7. Grandview took the boys race. Isalina Colsman of Regis Jesuit won the girls race with 18:31.9. Cherokee Trail won the team race.
    • Region 4: Broomfield’s Michael Mooney won the boys race at 15:28.2. Poudre won the team race. Katelyn Mitchem’s time of 17:59.1 was enough to earn her and the Eagles wins in the girls race.