The Season D all-state boys swimming teams are presented by CHSAANow.com, ColoradoPreps.com and MaxPreps.

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

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Class 5A

Swimmer of the year: Alex McMahon & Sebastian Wolff, Heritage

Diver of the year: Quinn Henninger, Regis Jesuit

Swim coach of the year: Chris Loftis, Cherry Creek

First Team
Name	Year	School	Event(s)
Gio Aguirre	Junior	Regis Jesuit	100 Free
Henry Batson	Senior	Cherry Creek	200 Medley Relay, 200 Free Relay
Clayton Chaplin	Senior	Highlands Ranch	Diving
Will Dravenstott	Senior	Cherry Creek	200 Medley Relay
Conrad Eck	Junior	Cherry Creek	Diving
Hunter Foehner	Senior	Columbine	400 Free Relay
Eric Hart	Senior	Columbine	400 Free Relay
Fletcher Hayes	Senior	Arapahoe	200 Free, 500 Free
Quinn Henninger	Senior	Regis Jesuit	Diving
Blake Jorgens	Senior	Cherry Creek	200 Free Relay
Cade Martin	Junior	Cherry Creek	200 Medley Relay
Alex McMahon	Senior	Heritage	50 Free, 100 Fly
Chase Mueller	Sophomore	Columbine	100 Back, 400 Free Relay
Henry Mueller	Senior	Columbine	400 Free Relay
Bryce Ortanes	Senior	Cherry Creek	200 Medley Relay, 200 Free Relay
Nikolas Silolahti	Senior	Cherry Creek	200 Free Relay
Sebastian Wolff	Senior	Heritage	200 IM, 100 Breast

 

Second Team
Name	Year	School	Event(s)
Jack Ballard	Junior	Fort Collins	200 Free
Douglas Campbell	Junior	Denver East	Diving
Tristen Davin	Sophomore	Chatfield	100 Free
Collier Dyer	Junior	Arapahoe	Diving
Natal Dyson Modica	Senior	Highlands Ranch	Diving
Garrett Gurley	Sophomore	Heritage	200 Medley Relay
Sawyer Inglis	Senior	Regis Jesuit	500 Free
Caleb Liban	Junior	Cherry Creek	Diving
Mitchell Oliver	Sophomore	Heritage	200 Medley Relay, 100 Breast
Nicholas Sanders	Senior	Valor Christian	Diving
Ryan Tyner	Sophomore	Columbine	200 Free Relay

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Class 4A

Swimmer of the year: Xavier Hill, George Washington

Diver of the year: Jack Ryan, Denver North

Swim coach of the year: Debbie Stewart, Silver Creek

First Team
Name	Year	School	Event(s)
Drew Aparicio	Senior	D’Evelyn	200 Medley Relay
Shea Card	Senior	Glenwood Springs	100 Back
Andrew Carlson	Senior	D’Evelyn	200 Medley Relay, 100 Breast
Ethan Carr	Sophomore	Cheyenne Mountain	200 Free Relay
Aiden Coon	Junior	Discovery Canyon	Diving
Ian Haneke	Senior	Wheat Ridge	100 Fly
Xavier Hill	Junior	George Washington	50 Free, 100 Free
Baylor Lewis	Senior	Greeley West	200 IM
Andrew McGill	Senior	Discovery Canyon	400 Free Relay
Tristan McFarland	Senior	George Washington	500 Free
Davis McKellop	Sophomore	Cheyenne Mountain	200 Free Relay
Adam Pannell	Sophomore	Discovery Canyon	400 Free Relay
Chance Ricca	Senior	Discovery Canyon	200 Free, 400 Free Relay
Jack Ryan	Senior	Denver North	Diving
Ryan Skrzekut	Junior	D’Evelyn	200 Medley Relay
Joe Smack	Junior	Thompson Valley	Diving
Xander Taylor	Freshman	Cheyenne Mountain	200 Free Relay
Taylor Wagner	Sophomore	Discovery Canyon	400 Free Relay
Raglan Ward	Junior	Cheyenne Mountain	200 Free Relay
Nathan Whittenburg	Senior	D’Evelyn	200 Medley Relay

 

Second Team
Name	Year	School	Event(s)
Aeson Akins	Senior	Glenwood Springs	200 Medley Relay
Max Bradbury	Junior	Glenwood Springs	200 Medley Relay
Connor Brauch	Senior	Green Mountain	Diving
Jacob Dowlin	Junior	Silver Creek	Diving
Jake Eccleston	Freshman	Windsor	200 Free Relay
Nicholas Kastner	Freshman	Broomfield	Diving
Charlie Kiddoo	Senior	Glenwood Springs	200 Medley Relay
Tim Lynskey	Junior	Windsor	200 Free Relay
Nathan Russell	Sophomore	Windsor	200 Free Relay
Andrew Scoggin	Senior	Windsor	200 Free Relay
Spencer Sheldon	Sophomore	D’Evelyn	Diving
Kian Smith	Junior	Evergreen	Diving

 

The Season D Class 4A boys swimming state championships took place on Friday. Complete results are below.

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With an impressive 314-point team performance, Silver Creek was crowned the Class 4A boys swim and dive state champions on Friday at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton.

Cheyenne Mountain earned the state runner-up at 307 points and Greeley West placed third.

Silver Creek coach Debbie Stewart said the first place finish was a well-received surprise.

“My comment to the boys earlier in the week was we just wanted to bring home some metal,” Stewart said. “I was hoping for second. First, you can’t top it anymore.”

The Raptors, who finished 5-0 in the 4A Northern Conference, needed a strong effort in the day’s final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay. The boys from south Longmont delivered with a fifth-place finish. Seniors Connor Hassert, Pierce Bigelow, Ian Curd and junior Jake Gutru swam a 3:15.58 relay to secure the state title.

Bigelow was a major part of the Raptors’ success on Friday. He finished fourth in both the 500 freestyle and 200 freestyle on top of with joining the clutch final relay squad.

“The competition this year was just a great setup of some underclassmen so I knew I was going to have to bring my A Game,” Bigelow said.

A state title was perhaps due for Silver Creek after finishing seventh in 2018 and third in 2019. Bigelow said the Raptors didn’t dwell on the cancelled 2020 season but instead chose to use that as motivation.

“I remember thinking at the very beginning of the season about what could have been last year,” Bigelow said. “The whole team just chose to move past that and we had a great undefeated season this year.”

The Raptors’ day began inauspiciously with a sixth-place finish in the 200 medley relay. Hassert soon followed with a ninth-place time in the 200 free before Curd finished seventh in the 50 free and fifth in the 100 fly. Silver Creek didn’t finish inside the top three once, but its consistency delivered the victory.

History was also made earlier in the day when Denver North senior Jack Ryan scored a state record 671.65 points in the one-meter dive. Ryan, who set the now-previous 4A record in 2019 at 581.55, scored over 200 points more than second place finisher Joe Smack of Thompson Valley. Silver Creek placed seventh in the event courtesy of junior Jacob Dowlin.

The only multi-event winner came from George Washington junior Xavier Hill, who won the 50 and 100-yard free.

With this final five, Denver North’s Jack Ryan set a new CHSAA state diving record with a score of 671.65 at the Class 4A state championships today. #copreps pic.twitter.com/lvM1eMQC8K

— CHSAA (@CHSAA) June 25, 2021

THORNTON — Cherry Creek claimed the overall boys swimming team championship as five state records fell in the course of the day.

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Coverage:

: Records fall as Cherry Creek takes 5A boys swimming team title

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Swimming championships

By Ray Chen and Brent Murphy

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Diving championship

By Brent Murphy

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THORNTON — On a day that finally felt normal, the boys swimmers and divers made themselves extraordinary.

After Regis Jesuit’s Quinn Henninger put together the best diving performance in state history, the swimmers decided they weren’t going to be shown up. Cherry Creek started the day off with a state record in the 200-yard medley relay and the momentum kept rolling.

The Bruins finished the day with 530 points to claim the Class 5A boys swimming championship and put together an overall dominant performance at the Veteran Memorial Aquatic Center.

“We thought 2019 was a very dominating team, but this team was more dominating,” coach Chris Loftis said. “Not to mention 2020 that didn’t even take place.”

The two-year gap between state swim meets was tough on all teams, not just the state champions. But Thursday finals felt like a normal day. The stands were packed and the fans were loud.

And they had plenty of reason to be.

Following the diving and medley relay marks falling, the third state record of the day to fall might’ve garnered the biggest reaction throughout the VMAC. Heritage senior Alex McMahon didn’t just set a record in the 50 freestyle, he did it by achieving a major milestone for all Colorado boys swimmers. His 19.82 was the first time that the 20-second mark had been broken in the event.

“It’s always been a goal of mine,” McMahon said. “I used to be a distance swimmer and I switched to sprints maybe a little less than a year ago and since I made that transfer, I knew that I wanted to go for a 19.”

Right on his heels was Cherry Creek’s Bryce Ortanes who was just over 20 seconds at 20.02. But Ortanes wasn’t going home empty-handed. Far from it. He was a big part of the winning medley relay team then anchored the 200 freestyle relay team that also set a state record at one minute, 22.05 seconds.

“I couldn’t ask for anything more,” Ortanes said. “I’m swimming by the people I call my family. It’s been great having four years under (Loftis) and with the brothers behind me. It’s been great.”

This is the 12th state championship for the Cherry Creek boys team. They held off a tough Regis Jesuit team who finished with 400.5 points.

And perhaps the best part for the coaches and the competitors was being able to do it with friends and family in the stands, rooting them on every step of the way.

“Once we knew that this was open to spectators, the meet was different,” Loftis said. “Our guys – and a lot of alumni know – that there is not a more high pressure meet in Colorado than this one. Those fans bring out the best in everyone, but especially our guys today.”

It’s hard to argue that swimmers across the board weren’t at their best. In all, five state records fell from the start of the day to the time that Columbine’s 400 freestyle relay team finished the race in 3:00.37.

It all started early when Regis Jesuit’s Henninger got things rolling with his diving performance in which he finished with 642.8 points, almost 31 points better than Regis alum Kyle Goodwin.

“My goal was just to 11 dives and not miss on one of them,” he said. “Consistency was the biggest goal for me.”

And it paid off for him. His diving display set the tone for a record-setting day that everyone in attendance likely won’t forget anytime soon.

The Season D Class 5A boys swimming state championships took place on Thursday. Complete results are below.

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This season’s boys swimming state meets are June 24-25. Find heat sheets for both the Class 5A and 4A meet below.

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Class 5A

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Class 4A

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Fossil Ridge boys swimming racked up several gold medals en route to scoring 549 points at the Fort Collins city meet.

The following are the playoff formats and sites for Season D sports. State titles are slated to be awarded in girls tennis, boys and girls lacrosse, boys swimming and diving, boys and girls track and field, girls soccer, and baseball. Finally, boys volleyball will crown its first ever CHSAA state champion on June 26.

“We are excited to culminate all 31 CHSAA-sanctioned activities and athletics for the 2020-2021 competitive year with Season D championships,” said CHSAA Commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green.

 

Baseball

Class 1A

Districts Completed – June 12

Seeding Meeting – June 13

Regional Tournaments – June 19

Semifinals/Finals – June 23 – University High School, Greeley

Format: 12 teams to regionals; top two from each district and the remaining two by RPI. District champions will be seeded by RPI 1-5, with the top four serving as regional hosts. The fifth district champion will be seeded fifth. The remaining teams will be seeded by order of RPI, avoiding first-round district matchups.

 

Class 2A

Regular Season Ends – June 12

Seeding Meeting – June 13

Regional Tournaments – June 15

Quarterfinals/Semifinals – June 19 – Runyon Complex, Pueblo

Championship Game – June 26 – Runyon Complex, Pueblo

Format: 24 teams to regionals based on RPI. Single elimination

 

Class 3A

Regular Season Ends – June 12

Seeding Meeting – June 13

Regional Tournaments – June 14

3A Games 1-11 – June 18-19 – Site 1 – Frederick High School/Site 2 – Niwot High School

3A Games 12-15 – June 25-26 – Frederick High School

Format: 24 teams to regionals based on RPI with eight regional winners advancing to double elimination

 

Class 4A

Regular Season Ends – June 12

Seeding Meeting – June 13

Regional Tournaments – June 14

4A Games 1-6 – June 18 – Runyon Baseball Complex, Pueblo

4A Games 7-11 – June 19 – Rawlings Field, CSU-Pueblo

4A Games 12-15 – June 25-26 – Runyon Baseball Complex, Pueblo

Format: 24 teams to regionals based on RPI with eight regional winners advancing to double elimination

 

Class 5A

Regular Season Ends – June 12

Seeding Meeting – June 13

Regional Tournaments – June 14

Games 1-11 – June 18-19 – Site 1 Cherry Creek High School/Site 2 – Eaglecrest High School

Games 12-15 – June 24-25 – Keli MacGregor Field @ Coca-Cola All-Star Park, Lakewood

Format: 24 teams to regionals based on RPI with eight regional winners advancing to double elimination

 

Girls Golf

Regional Tournaments – June 7-11

State Tournament – June 21-22

3A – Elmwood Golf Course, Pueblo

4A – Common Ground Golf Course, Aurora

5A – City Park Golf Course, Denver

Format: 36 holes, stroke play, plus team championship

 

Boys Lacrosse

June 12 – Season completed

June 13 – State pairings/seedings announced

June 15 – 4A/5A First Round Games (higher seed hosts)

June 17 – 4A/5A Quarterfinal Games (higher seed hosts)

June 19 – 4A/5A Semifinal Games – Englewood High School Stadium

June 22 – 4A/5A Championship Games – Englewood High School Stadium

Format: 12-team bracket, single elimination

 

Girls Lacrosse

June 15 – Season Completed

June 17 – 4A/5A First Round Games (higher seed hosts)

June 19 – 4A/5A Quarterfinal Games (higher seed hosts)

June 21 – 4A/5A Semifinal Games – 4A at Shea Stadium, Highlands Ranch, 5A at Echo Park Stadium, Parker

June 23 – 4A/5A Championship Games – Legacy Stadium, Aurora

Format: 12-team bracket, single elimination

 

Girls Soccer

June 12 – Season Completed

June 13 – State pairings/seedings announced

June 15 – 5A First Round Games (higher seed hosts)

June 16 – 3A/4A First Round Games (higher seed hosts)

June 18 – 5A Quarterfinal Games (higher seed hosts)

June 19 – 2A, 3A, 4A Quarterfinal Games (higher seed hosts)

June 23 – Semifinal Games

2A – Home Sites

3A – Stutler Bowl, Aurora

4A – Frederick High School

5A – Englewood High School Stadium

June 26 – Championship Games – Colorado Switchbacks Weidner Field, Colorado Springs

Format: 2A 8-team bracket, single elimination; 3A, 4A, 5A 16-team bracket, single elimination

 

Boys Swimming & Diving

June 19 – Season completed

June 24 – 5A State Meet – Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center, Thornton

June 25 – 4A State Meet – Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center, Thornton

Format: 30 qualifiers (plus ties) per event for timed finals. State qualifiers based on time from the regular season. Maximum of four entries per team for each event.

 

Girls Tennis

June 5 – Regionals Completed

June 11-12 – State Championships

3A – Memorial Park, Colorado Springs

4A – Pueblo City Courts, Pueblo

5A – Gates Tennis Center, Denver

Format: 16-player brackets, single elimination tournament. No third/fourth place match will be played.

 

Boys & Girls Track & Field

June 24, 25, 26 – Jefferson County Stadium, Lakewood

Format: In 1A, nine qualifiers in most events and 12 in the 800 meters, 1600 meters, 3200 meters, 4X800 relay, and 10 in each field event. In 2A, 3A, 4A and 5A, there will be 18 qualifiers in each event. All based on MaxPreps rankings.

State Meet Schedule

 

Boys Volleyball

June 12 – Season Completed

June 19 – Regionals Completed

June 21 – State Bracket announced

June 25-26 – State Championships – Rock Canyon High School, Highlands Ranch

Format: 8 teams advance to state from regionals, single elimination bracket

Legacy boys swimming finished the day with 60 points to win the Five Star triangular swim meet against Horizon and Mountain Range.