The CHSAANow.com girls basketball polls saw three new No. 1 teams crowned this week, including Highlands Ranch, who takes over the No. 1 spot in Class 5A.
The 2015 all-state volleyball teams are led by players of the year Shannon Webb of Cherokee Trail, Bethany Cullity of Cheyenne Mountain, Caiden Rexius of Eaton, Tara Traphagan of Yuma, and Antonya Schaffer of Otis.
The No. 1-ranked teams in this week’s CHSAANow.com basketball polls held steady, but a flurry of new teams were added.
With competition starting off fast and furious in Week 1, it was inevitable that some changes would indeed occur to the girls basketball rankings.
Overland, Longmont, Colorado Springs Christian, Sanford and Fleming lead the preseason 2015-16 boys basketball rankings.
Three teams which finished second last season now open this season as No. 1 in their respective classification.
The 2015 all-state softball teams are led by Hunter Huser of Mountain Range, Alexandria Kilponen of Valor Christian and Annie Oakley of Strasburg.
No. 8-seeded Ponderosa beat No. 25 Pueblo West in the first round of the Class 4A boys soccer playoffs.
The regional brackets for softball were released on Sunday, and Strasburg, Wheat Ridge, and Ralston Valley head the fields in each classification.
Arapahoe made a stop at the goal-line on the final play of the game to hold off an upset bid from Gateway and win 28-24.