The Season D all-state boys volleyball team is presented by CHSAANow.com, ColoradoPreps.com and MaxPreps.

This team was created following a lengthy process which included nominations from leagues and then a vote of coaches.

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Player of the year: Jayden Pascua, Douglas County

Coach of the year: Jason Fitzgerald, Douglas County

Honorable mention:

• Elijah Armstrong, RS/S/MB, Mountain View, Junior
• Christian Banuelos, DSST: College View,
• Keenan Daly, OPP/OH, Coronado, Senior
• Kade Ericson, L, Rock Canyon, Sophomore
• Christopher Furst, Faith Christian, Junior
• Arneet Garcha, OH/L, Stargate School, Senior
• Edmund Gonzalez, DSST: College View
• Javier Gonzalez, OH/DS, Regis Groff, Senior
• Hector Guerrero, S/RS/OH, Westminster, Sophomore
• Aidan Hartman, MB/RS, Stargate School, Junior
• Gionny Her, OH, Westminster, Junior
• Jake Johnson, Fort Lupton, Senior
• Carson Kneisl, OH, Bear Creek, Sophomore
• Gunnar Kukkonen, MB/OH, Stargate School, Senior
• Caleb McIrvin, OH, Colorado Springs Christian, Senior
• Josh Miller, S, Bear Creek, Senior
• Jacob Mullane, L/DS, Bear Creek, Junior
• CJ Mullens, L, Douglas County, Junior
• Patrick Nettles, MH, Cheyenne Mountain, Junior
• Kalen Nilsen, S, Cheyenne Mountain, Sophomore
• Gabriel Ocasio, S, Stargate School, Junior
• Christopher Perez, OH/DS/S, Regis Groff, Senior
• Jayse Shaw, S/OH, Addenbrooke Classical Academy, Junior
• Tucker Shearn, Valor Christian, Sophomore
• Cade Shivley, DSST: Byers, Sophomore
• Jayden Stack, Fort Lupton, Senior
• Ben Steiner, MB, Colorado Springs Christian, Senior
• Ryan Taylor, L/OH/OPP, Grandview, Senior
• Paxton Wright, OH, Legend, Freshman

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COLORADO SPRINGS — On Tuesday, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced the 613-member Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team. Colorado is sending 34 athletes to the games as members of Team USA, which is the third largest state delegation behind California (126 athletes) and Florida (51 athletes). Competition is set to begin in Japan on Wednesday, July 21, with the Opening Ceremony scheduled for Friday, July 23.

Listed below are the 26 athletes on Team USA that attended Colorado high schools.

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

In the final coaches poll of Season D, Douglas County finished in the No. 1 spot.

The rankings, voted upon by coaches and select media members, are the official polls of the Association.

Complete rankings for all classes are below.

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CHSAANow.com Boys Volleyball Poll

Voted upon by coaches around the state. Coaches looking to vote should email bcochi@chsaa.org.

A complete schedule for the Class 5A regional volleyball tournaments in the Season D.

All games will be played June 18-19.

These games determine who advances to the state bracket. Each region qualifies one team to the Final 8. The top seed in each region is hosting, and is responsible for site selection.

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Region 1

2021 CHSAA State Boys Volleyball Regionals (Colorado)

WHEAT RIDGE — Eight new members of Jeffco Public Schools’ Athletic Hall of Fame were inducted on Wednesday at The Vista at Applewood.

Due to COVID, the Class of 2020 and 2021 were both honored since a ceremony wasn’t held last year. The exclusive group of now 116 members began with the charter group back in 1986.

Here are this newest members of the Jeffco Athletics Hall of Fame.

Class of 2020

Jeffco Athletics inducted its Hall of Fame Class of 2020 on Wednesday at The Vista at Applewood. From left to right … Griff Wirth, Lisa LaGuardia, Dave Rulli and Scott Smith were inducted. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Public Schools)

Dave Rulli

Rulli worked for Jeffco Public Schools for 33 years. His final 15 years he worked in the athletic department primary at Jeffco Stadium. He finished his career as the Manager of Stadium Operations overseeing the four central athletic stadiums. Rulli was instrumental in bring all-classifications of track and field of the now 3-day state meet held at Jeffco Stadium.

Scott Smith

Smith is a Golden High School graduate who went on to play basketball at Western State University in the mid-1970s. He returned to Jeffco where he was a boys basketball coach at Alameda International High School from 1979-2007. Smith was the head boys basketball coach for the Pirates from 1991-2006. He still remains the head boys and girls tennis coach for Alameda.

Lisa LaGuardia

LaGuardia was one of the top girls basketball players in Jeffco in the early 1980s. She was First-Team All-State Colorado for three seasons while playing at Wheat Ridge High School where she scored over 1,000 points for the Farmers. She went on to play college hoops at the University of Nebraska. She returned to Jeffco in the early 1990s where she taught and coached basketball at Alameda and Golden high schools. LaGuardia is currently a teacher at Campbellsport High School in Wisconsin.

Griff Wirth

Wirth is a Wheat Ridge High School graduate who was a football, basketball and baseball standout for the Farmers in the early 1980s. He was the Gold Helmet award winner as Colorado’s most outstanding student-football player his senior year. Wirth was a teacher and coach in Jeffco before turning to Wheat Ridge High School as its principal in 2007. The Farmers had great athletic success during Wirth’s 10-year run at Wheat Ridge. The Farmers won 10 state titles and 24 league titles. He was honored as the CHSAA School Administrator of the Year in 2016 before his retirement.

Class of 2021

From left to right … Blayne Van Dyke, Coni Sanders (daughter of Dave Sanders), Kami Keiter and Steve Greivel stand together as the Jeffco Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2021 on Wednesday at The Vista at Applewood. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)

Steve Greivel

Greivel was a fixture at Bear Creek High School for more than 50 years. He began his teaching and coaching at Bear Creek in 1967. He would retire from teaching in 1998, but would continue coaching until 2020. Greivel was the Jeffco boys track and field Coach of the Year in 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996 and 1999. While track was his main coaching focus, he also was an assistant coach for wrestling, cross country and football, along with the head golf coach for a time at Bear Creek.

Kami Keiter

Keiter was one of the best softball players ever to come out of Jeffco. The hard-throwing lefty pitched Arvada West High School to back-to-back Class 5A state titles in 1999 and 2000. She also played basketball and was on the track team during her time at Arvada West. Keiter went on to play softball at the University of Oklahoma from 2002 to 2005. She helped the Sooners to three consecutive trips to the College World Series and finished her career as one of the top pitchers in OU history.

Dave Sanders

Sanders taught and coached basketball and softball at Columbine High School for nearly 25 years. He died during the tragic shooting at Columbine on April 20, 1999 while saving students’ lives. The memory and spirit of Dave Sanders lives on more than 20 years after his death in the classrooms and athletic fields in Jeffco every day.

Blayne Van Dyke

Van Dyke has become a fixture during Friday Night Lights at Jeffco Stadium for more than 40 years. He has been a member of the chain crew primarily at Jeffco Stadium since the 1980s. Van Dyke was inducted into the Colorado Football Officials Association Hall of Fame in 2013 to recognize his longtime service to high school athletics.