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

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

In order to be considered for athlete of the year, they must first have made the all-state team by winning an event.

Athletes of the year were selected based upon their performance at the state meet. Coaches of the year were selected based upon the team champions.

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Class 5A

Athlete of the year: Ky Oday, Cherry Creek

Coach of the year: John Reyes, Grandview

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Class 4A

Athlete of the year: Zane Bergen, Niwot

Coach of the year: Maurice Henriques, Niwot

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Class 3A

Athlete of the year: Joshua Medina, Alamosa

Coach of the year: Mark Roggy & Eileen Phillips, Resurrection Christian

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Class 2A

Athlete of the year: Anthony Martinez, Lake County

Coach of the year: Lucas Lubbers, Yuma

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Class 1A

Athlete of the year: Jacob Jefferson, Arickaree/Woodlin

Coach of the year: Joe Packard, Heritage Christian

The Season D all-state girls track and field teams are presented by CHSAANow.com, ColoradoPreps.com and MaxPreps.

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

In order to be considered for athlete of the year, they must first have made the all-state team by winning an event.

Athletes of the year were selected based upon their performance at the state meet. Coaches of the year were selected based upon the team champions.

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Class 5A

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Athlete of the year: Riley Stewart, Cherry Creek

Coach of the year: Brian Kula, Valor Christian

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Class 4A

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Athlete of the year: Lucca Fulkerson, Niwot

Coach of the year: Maurice Henriques, Niwot

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Class 3A

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Athlete of the year: Peyton Garrison, Coal Ridge

Coach of the year: Ben Kirk, Coal Ridge

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Class 2A

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Athlete of the year: Eboselulu Omofoma, Dayspring Christian

Coach of the year: Kirby Henderson, Cedaredge

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Class 1A

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Athlete of the year: Alivia Weathers, Lone Star

Coach of the year: Joe Packard, Heritage Christian

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CHICAGO — Mountain Vista’s Harrison Witt is no stranger to making history this year, and now he is making a little more.

On Thursday, the recently graduated Golden Eagle became the first Gatorade Colorado boys track & field player of the year to be chosen from Mountain Vista.

“For Harrison, the team always comes first and his individual goals come second,” Mountain Vista coach Jonathan Dalby said. “His ability to relate, connect, and inspire everyone else around him is remarkable.”

The 6-2, 155-pound senior set a state record of 4:04.36 in his title-winning 1600-meter run at the Class 5A state meet this past season. The clocking ranked as the nation’s fourth-best performance among 2021 prep competitors. It also broke his own record of 4:05.18 set earlier in the season.

Witt also broke the tape in the 800 at the state meet with a meet-record time of 1:48.75. His personal-best clocking of 1:48.50 in the 800 this season eclipsed another state record and ranked No. 2 nationally.

President of his class, Witt has participated in service mission trips to Guatemala and Cuba and has volunteered locally on behalf of the Make-a-Wish Foundation as well as the Forever Home Foundation, which helps elderly community members stay in their homes.

Witt has maintained a weighted 4.34 GPA in the classroom. He will attend Princeton University this fall, where he will compete in track and field.

He joins recent Gatorade Colorado boys track & field players of the year Cole Sprout (2019-20, 2018-19, & 2017-18, Valor Christian), and Isaac Green (2016-17, Monarch), among the state’s list of former award winners.

The Season D all-state boys lacrosse teams honor the best players in the sport as judged by the leagues and coaches.

They are created by the Colorado High School Boys Lacrosse Coaches Association.

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Class 5A

Player of the year: Trey Digby, Valor Christian; Dillon Pless, Mountain Vista

Coach of the year: Matt Kelley, Fairview

Honorable mention:

• Jack Colwell, Junior, Mountain Range, Attack
• Brandon Hane, Senior, Mullen, Attack
• Gunnar Fellows, Junior, Valor Christian, Attack
• Andrew Merrell, Senior, Lewis-Palmer, Midfield
• Duke Benson, Junior, Kent Denver, Midfield
• Evan Gibbs, Junior, Cherokee Trail, Midfield
• Fletcher Sullivan, Junior, Regis Jesuit, Midfield
• Jackson Cutter, Junior, ThunderRidge, Midfield
• Kevin Pickford, Junior, Denver East, Midfield
• Tyler Olson, Sophomore, Mountain Vista, Midfield
• Eliot Rutherford, Sophomore, Colorado Academy, Defense
• Logan Murray, Senior, Lewis-Palmer, Defense
• Reed Roughton, Junior, ThunderRidge, Defense
• Ty Scheckenbach, Sophomore, Arapahoe, Defense
• Dax Smestad, Senior, Smoky Hill, Goalie
• Ian Thompson, Sophomore, Arapahoe, Goalie
• Jackson Marshall, Senior, Mountain Vista, F/O Midfield
• Nate Morris, Senior, ThunderRidge, LSM
• Connor Wiederrich, Sophomore, Mountain Range, Def. Midfield

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Class 4A

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Player of the year: Griffin Meyer, Cheyenne Mountain

Coach of the year: Andrew Trietley, Ponderosa

Honorable mention:

• Colby Erdossy, Senior, Cheyenne Mountain, Attack
• Grayden Easton, Senior, Evergreen, Attack
• Nolan Williamson, Senior, Windsor, Attack
• Grant Webster, Senior, Littleton, Attack
• Joe Yoder, Junior, Northfield, Attack
• Mackay Pattison, Senior, Vail Mountain, Attack
• Nick Schreiber, Senior, Littleton, Attack
• Rhasan Brown, Junior, Northfield, Midfield
• Connor Dries, Senior, Evergreen, Midfield
• Danny Joy, Junior, Bear Creek, Midfield
• Carter Cassin, Senior, Evergreen, Midfield
• Kellen Adams, Junior, Steamboat Springs, Midfield
• Jeff Lowe, Senior, Glenwood Springs, Defense
• Joe Elliott, Junior, Ponderosa, Defense
• Ben Gladstone, Freshman, Northfield, Defense
• Blake Skramstad, Senior, Lutheran, Defense
• Trenton Koser, Senior, Thomas Jefferson, Defense
• Tyler Morrison, Senior, Eagle Valley, Defense
• Sam Gottesfeld, Junior, Northfield, Goalie
• Peter Zimmer, Senior, Glenwood Springs, Goalie
• Evan Shanks, Junior Jefferson Academy, F/O Midfield
• Zachary Zabel, Sophomore, Thomas Jefferson, F/O Midfield
• Nicholas Kazenske, Senior, Denver North, Def. Midfield

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

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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

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Cherry Creek’s Riley Stewart will look back at her junior year in high school as a memorable one for a number of reasons, some typical for an athlete of her ability and others unusual.

Now, she has one more reason – similar to another lofty accolade she recently garnered – to look back fondly on the 2020-21 school year.

On Friday, Gatorade announced that Stewart had been selected as the latest Gatorade Colorado track and field girls player of the year. The Bruins junior was also named Gatorade Colorado girls cross country player of the year for the second consecutive year in April.

“This season, Riley was undefeated in the state of Colorado and finished in the top five of each national-level competition she  entered,” Cherry Creek distance coach Ethan Dusto said in a press release. “I’ve coached athletes for the past 17 years of my life, and I can say that I have had very few as talented as Riley, and none who have had the combination of talent, hard work, humility and teamwork that she exhibits.”

As a junior in Season D, Stewart broke the Colorado state record in the 1,600, setting the new standard at 4 minutes, 44.13 seconds at the Stutler Twilight in June. The previous record of 4:44.31 was set by Air Academy’s Katie Rainsberger and stood for five years.

At the Season D track and field state championships, Stewart set a Class 5A state meet record in the 1,600 with a time of 4:45.96. She also won the 800 (2:09.60), placed first in the 3,200 (10:31.45) and anchored the Bruins’ winning 3,200 relay team to a time of 9:05.73.

The list of recent Gatorade Colorado girls track and field players of the year includes Niwot’s Taylor James, Valor Christian’s Anna Hall and Denver East’s Arria Minor. Stewart’s Cherry Creek teammate Parker Wolfe was named this year’s Gatorade Colorado boys cross country player of the year back in April.

Stewart, who maintains a 3.7 GPA, is a member of her school’s student-athlete leadership council and has volunteered locally on behalf of park clean-up initiatives.

Stewart is now the second Cherry Creek athlete to claim this distinction. Bruins alumnus Jordyn Colter was chosen by Gatorade as Colorado’s top girls track and field athlete in 2015.

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ORLANDO – Dave Logan’s father coached him in both little league football and basketball, and that relationship ended up being the primary reason Logan grew up to become a coach himself.

Even at an early age, both of Logan’s parents ingrained in him that should he one day have an opportunity to work with kids that he must take advantage of the chance to guide younger generations and help them grow through sport. Logan took those words to heart and has spent decades doing exactly that.

On Thursday night at the 102^nd annual National Federation of State High School Associations Summer Meeting, Logan was inducted into the NFHS Hall of Fame for the wide-ranging impact he has made over his wide-ranging career in the world of sports.

“The idea of working with kids was ingrained in me when I was very young,” Logan said. “Even when my dad was coaching me, he talked about how, ‘You’re going to grow up and eventually, if you get the opportunity, you give back.’”

Logan was a three-sport standout – football, basketball and baseball – throughout his high school years at Wheat Ridge from 1969-72, and insists he never had a favorite despite his future professional career in football. His favorite sport, Logan says, was whatever he was playing a given time.

One of only three multi-sport players to be drafted by all three major sports organizations, Logan went on to be a two-sport star at the University of Colorado and then played nine years as a wide receiver in the NFL. He played eight of those years with the Cleveland Browns before playing his final season with the Denver Broncos, where he would eventually become the organization’s on-air radio voice on KOA 850 AM/94.1 FM.

Logan has been “the voice of the Broncos” for three decades and in 2019 signed an agreement to continue for another 10 years.

Since he returned to the high school coaching rankings, Logan has won nine state titles and 290 games over 28 years split between four schools, including Arvada West, Chatfield, Mullen and Cherry Creek. Most recently, he guided the Cherry Creek Bruins to an undefeated season and a second straight Class 5A state championship in the fall.

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During his NFHS Hall of Fame acceptance speech, Logan reminisced on the many lessons he learned from his own high school coaches and teachers. Now going into his 29^th year coaching high school football, he remarked that he remains focused on imparting those same lessons and principles to the young student-athletes he now coaches.

“I think the life lessons you can learn as an athlete and a high school kid, many of those you carry with you and they shape in a lot of ways who you are and who you became,” Logan said. “They shape how you conduct yourself and what’s important to you, and what’s not important. I loved every single sport. I couldn’t wait when the season ended, the next day I was at whatever the next season was. I was able to carry what I learned from my high school experience into playing both basketball and football in college.

“But I think what we need to be able to recognize, and too often we don’t do this, is the importance and the impact that high school coaches, teachers and administrators – those who deal with our youth – have on young people. And even though it might not seem like it every single day, and I know I leave practice some days thinking, ‘I’m not sure they hear a word I said today,’ they do.

“They do.”

Logan entered the NFHS Hall of Fame 2021 class with a pair of other renowned Colorado athletes in former Colorado Rockies player Matt Holliday and former Denver Nuggets player Alex English.

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