The teams of the Centennial League gathered at Legacy Stadium to compete in the league’s fourth track and field qualifier of the season.

Rampart and Regis Jesuit were among schools that claimed gold medals at the Legend Titan Clash track and field meet.

Despite rainfall that moved through the Denver area, track teams were able to get to Jeffco Stadium for the Ralston Valley Invite.

Ralston Valley came away with a clean sweep as both the boys and girls won the Arvada city track and field championships.

ERIE — Track and field teams competed at the Erie Tiger Invite on Saturday with Erie and Niwot taking first place in several events.

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The boys and girls track and field season is underway as teams competed at the B-Town Opener in Broomfield.

It didn’t looked like a normal National Letter of Intent Signing Day on Wednesday.

Conifer’s Zack Gacnik
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The current COVID-19 pandemic didn’t allow for the normal signing celebrations across Jeffco during the first of four signing days coming up for the Class of 2021. However, a number of Jeffco Public Schools student-athletes signed on Nov. 11 to continue their college careers.

Ralston Valley had nine girls sign, highlighted by last year’s Class 5A girls diving state champion Isabel Gregersen. She will dive for Florida State University. Sydney Bevington is taking her basketball talent to Santa Clara University and Jordan West is staying close to home to play softball at Colorado State University.

Columbine’s Korbe Otis
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Columbine’s Korbe Otis, who helped the Rebels to their first state softball title in 2019, officially signed with the University of Louisville.

The University of Colorado added Conifer’s Zack Gacnik to its roster. Gacnik placed third at the 4A boys cross country state championship last month in Colorado Springs.

The next National Letter of Intent Signing Day is Dec. 16 and includes the early football signing period.

Green Mountain High School
Connor Brauch, diving, University of Cincinnati
Isaias Estrada, wrestling, University of North Carolina
KC Ossello, lacrosse, Missouri Western State University

Ralston Valley High School
Makena Geist, softball, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
Jaiden Geist, softball, Metro State University
Madison Hauffman, lacrosse, Notre Dame College (Ohio)
Jordan West, softball, Colorado State University
Brooklyn Seymour, basketball, Western Colorado University
Isabel Gregersen, diving, Florida State University
Megan Jackson, lacrosse, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Sydney Bevington, basketball, Santa Clara University
Sydney Metzler, swimming, University of Wyoming

Golden High School
Ben Kirschner, lacrosse, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Marla Goodspeed, softball, Oregon Tech
Sydney Benson, volleyball, Mercer
Maci Jones, soccer, Bentley University
Hank Ohlen, lacrosse, Belmont Abbey
Jadyn Goodrich, soccer, University of Denver

Conifer High School
Zack Gacnik, cross country, University of Colorado
Addie Hollander, lacrosse, Franklin & Marshall

Columbine High School
Korbe Otis, softball, University of Louisville

Evergreen High School
Margo Miller, lacrosse, Cornell University
Lauren Spence, lacrosse, Loyola University-Maryland
Madeline Mancini, lacrosse, Notre Dame College
Jared Stiller, lacrosse, Williams College
Thomas Schreffler, baseball, Mesa Community College (AZ)
George Hogan, baseball, Dordt University

Lakewood High School
Lila Maddux, swimming, Niagara University (NY)

Chatfield High School
Izzy DiNapoli, softball, University of Northern Colorado

Wheat Ridge High School
Wes Miller, baseball, Regis University

Arvada West High School
Alexis Kilgroe, water polo, Salem International University

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Valor Christian senior Cole Sprout has been named Colorado’s boys track and field athlete of the year by Gatorade.

This is the third consecutive year Sprout has won the boys track award — he becomes the first three-time winner in the sport. Last fall, Sprout became a three-time Gatorade winner in cross country.

Only one three other athletes in Colorado have ever won the Gatorade award three times in their sport. Sprout is the most decorated athlete in Colorado in terms of the Gatorade player of the year program, which started in 1985-86.

Sprout is the 13th athlete from Valor Christian to win a Gatorade player of the year award.

Though Sprout’s senior track season was canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic, he finished third in the 1500-meter run at the Reykjavik International Games in 3:54.23. That time was the nation’s top high school performance during the 2020 indoor season.

In April, Gatorade announced that it would continue to honor spring sport athletes despite the cancellation of the season nationwide.

Sprout was a three-time state champion in cross country, and won the 1,600 and 3,200 meter races at the 2019 state track and field championships. He holds the state record in the 3,200 with a time of 9:01.53.

Sprout, who has a 3.98 GPA, will run at Stanford starting this fall.

Jeffco Stadium and North Area Athletic Complex turned on its lights last week to recognize the Colorado High Schools Activities Association’s state track meet and honor the Class of 2020 and student-athletes across the state.

Jeffco Stadium would have hosted all-classifications of the state track meet May 21-23. NAAC’s soccer and football fields would have hosted girls soccer, along with boys and girls lacrosse games this spring.