Denver Broncos Flag Football Coach of the Week: Denver South’s Tori Elmore
Denver South’s flag football team is off to a remarkable start in the Colorado High School Activities Association’s inaugural flag football season.
Denver South’s flag football team is off to a remarkable start in the Colorado High School Activities Association’s inaugural flag football season.
A year ago, at the Colorado High School Activities Association’s 2023 Gymnastics State Championships, Frankie MacAskill performed as one of the best gymnasts in the state. Now, she’s chasing something even greater.
This season the Colorado High School Activities Association has added a 2A classification for boys golf and will be holding a 2A Boys Golf State Championship for the first time. This new championship opens up new opportunities for programs all across the state, like Monte Vista and Vail Mountain.
For the past six seasons, Regis Jesuit, Colorado Academy and Cherry Creek have made the Colorado High School Activities Association’s Field Hockey State Championship Game their domain. St. Mary’s Academy could be the team to change that.
The Classical Academy, led by coach Frank Haist is off to a perfect 4-0 start in the programs inaugural season.
Cheyenne Wells is in the midst of a remarkable multi-year run under head coach Myles Smith. The Tigers climbed all the way to the state championship game a season ago, and two years before that, brought home the school’s first-ever football state championship.
Just two weeks into the Colorado High School Activities Association’s inaugural flag football season, Chatfield has already begun to standout as one of the state’s top programs, thanks to head coach Alexis Rosholt and the experience the team gained while competing in the flag football pilot program.
Back in December, Mancos won the Colorado High School Activities Association’s 8-Man Football State Championship. That victory marked the school’s first-ever football state championship, its first state championship of any kind in a quarter-century, and just its second state championship of any kind, period. What comes next?
This year, the Colorado High School Activities Association has added a new sport to its fall roster, with flag football joining the fray. This addition provides new athletic opportunities for so many girls across the state of Colorado and nowhere is that more evident than at Mountain View High School.
Lex Gutierrez and his group of trailblazing girls at Northglenn High School won CHSAA’s first ever sanctioned girls flag football game. After a promising start to the season, the growth and promise that Gutierrez has seen come out of flag football, is something he can hope to inspire on as large a scale as possible.