The Alumni Volume I Edition II December 2007

Travel costs spark change

Due to travel costs and budget tightening, Boulder High School will move from the Centennial Conference to the Front Range Conference, and school Athletic Director Brent Graham says he is excited for the move. The Alumni/Staff

Boulder and Fairview will participate in the Front Range Conference in 2008

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2007 CHSAA FootballChampionships Special

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By Matthew GreenThe Alumni

AURORA – Starting in the 2008-2009 school year, there will be a face lift throughout the state concerning confer-ence realignment and reclassi-fi cation for a number of high schools. Population growth and the current status of the economy prompted some schools to reassess their costs in travel and overall expenses and the need for realignment is clearly evident. Most notably, for long-time Centennial Conference-ten-ured schools Boulder High School and Fairview High School whose schools are about 50 miles away from their conference opponents. Both schools recently re-quested realignment and were granted acceptance in the Front Range Conference. Since a number of high pro-fi le high schools face budget problems throughout the met-

Volleyball1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A

- State Championships Wrap-up

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Students of the MonthMountain Range

- Christian Caruso

- Emily HatridgePage 9

Rivalry5A State VolleyballGrandview Wolves vs.Eaglecrest Raptors

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Football1A, 2A- State ChampionshipsWrap-up

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Coach of the MonthSmoky Hill High School Boys Soccer Coach

- Danny Winsor

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Soccer4A, 5A

- State ChampionshipsWrap-up

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CHSAATaunting Defi ned - By Tom RobinsonCHSAA AssistantCommissioner

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By Renee TorresThe Alumni

4A CHSAA State Gymnastics Championships: (Nov. 2-3) Thornton High School

Mountain Range takes 4A

Anna Simmons claimed her second class 4A all-around title. The Alumni/Torres

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Simmons sweeps individual events for all-around

ro area, the savings in travel costs makes good economic sense, according to Colorado High School Activities and Athletics (CHSAA) Assistant Commissioner Bert Borg-mann. “There are so many competitive conferences now, and it just takes too much time and money to get across Denver for some schools.” He

adds, “I think the Centennial Conference understood Boul-der and Fairview’s concerns and I think both conferences will benefi t from the change.” Boulder Athletic Director Brent Graham says that the change was needed for eco-nomic reasons, “We requested the Front Range Conference because of proximity. Travel-

ing time has increased, and it is diffi cult for our fans to help support our teams across town. Our administration is sad to leave the connections that we have made with those associated with the Centennial Conference over the years, but we are excited for the change.” Fairview Athletic Director


fi rst in all events—all-around (38.675), balance beam (9.675 tie-breaker), fl oor exercise (9.700), uneven parallel bars (9.050), and vault (9.700). “I am really excited that this year I won every event. I worked really hard this last week…I visualized all of my routines and it showed today,”

said Simmons. Sisson, who took fi rst in fl oor exercise last year, fi n-ished second to Simmons in all-around (37.875), balance beam (9.675 tie-breaker), and vault (9.300). “This year the competition seemed to be a lot tougher so I had to work harder, but I just

THORNTON – Led by sophomore Anna Simmons, the Mountain Range Mus-tangs claimed the class 4A state title at Thornton High School Nov. 3, with Simmons sweeping all individual events and taking her second all-around title. Last year Simmons earned her fi rst all-around title as a freshman. She swept all events except for fl oor exer-cise (9.425), second only to Pueblo Central’s Tera Sisson (9.550). This year, Simmons fi nished

Game of the Month

4A State Soccer Championship

Mullen Mustangsvs.Broomfi eld EaglesBy Alexa CastillejaThe AlumniENGLEWOOD – A dicey controversy over a referee’s call which ultimately led to a game winner made the 4A state championship game between Mullen and Broom-fi eld exciting in overtime last month. After defeating their rivals in semifi nals, the No. 1 seed Broomfi eld Eagles defeated the No. 23 seed Mullen Mus-tangs 1-0 in overtime in the class 4A state championship game. On Nov. 3, Broomfi eld defeated No. 4 Liberty (the


Coach of the Month Danny Winsor

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build new schools and make other improvements to school facilities. In six school districts, how-ever, voters knew approval of a local tax increase would leverage even more money available through a state grant program. Five of the six proposals were approved.• Centennial School District (Costilla County) approved a $7 million bond to build a new K-12 school building and will receive a state grant of $5 million.• Edison School District (El Paso County) approved a $450,000 bond to build a new elementary school classroom, kitchen and cafeteria addition. The district will receive a $2 million state grant contribu-tion.• Miami/Yoder School Dis-trict (El Paso County) ap-proved a $2 million bond, which included $666,666 project to build phase one of a new junior/senior high school. The district will receive a $2 million state grant contribu-tion. • Buffalo School District (Lo-gan County) approved a $2.2 million bond to build phase one of a new elementary school and will receive a $3.5 million state grant.• Moffat County School Dis-trict voters approved a $29.5 million bond, which included $1.2 million for roof replace-ments. The roof replacement project will receive grant sup-port of $96,500.• In Mapleton School District (Adams County) voters reject-ed a $70 million bond propos-al, which included a $191,000 bond to replace fi re alarms. Had it been approved, a state grant of $275,000 would also have been available. In all, there were 33 ballot proposals statewide that were decided this week. Twenty-three of those questions were approved with voters saying yes to $138 million in re-quests.Mark Stevens and Tanya Price (CDE)

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Colorado Department of Education footnotes...The Colorado Department of Education today announced the publication of a new Data Dictionary, available in elec-tronic form only through the department’s site on the Web. The department of Informa-tion Management Systems has collected, organized and de-fi ned all data elements associ-ated with K-12 education. The result is a comprehen-sive information catalog of data defi nitions, relationships, collection groupings, valida-tion rules, aggregations and generated reports. The primary audience for the tool is district adminis-trators, data analysts and re-searchers. The address is https://cde-apps.cde.state.co.us/Data-Dictionary/. The dictionary is also linked from the main CDE Web page at www.cde.state.co.us. The goal of the project is to provide better, consistent information to education stakeholders and to help iden-tify duplication where it exists across CDE data collections. The project is funded by House Bill 07-1320 and a Federal Longitudinal Data Systems grant. The dictionary has been in testing mode since Oct. 1 for department staff and the Edu-cation Data Advisory Com-mittee (EDAC). Based on this feedback, the application has been updated and approved for external use. The department plans to continually enhance and im-prove the application based on feedback from external stake-holders. Feedback can be provided directly via the dictionary Web page. If you have questions or comments about the informa-tion provided, please e-mail the implementation team at [email protected]...

…The Colorado Depart-ment of Education each year recognizes a principal from a Title I school who demon-

strates outstanding commit-ment and excellence in school leadership. In addition to statewide recognition as a distinguished principal, the award recipient receives $5,000 in honor of the achievement. Nominations are due to the Colorado Department of Edu-cation by close of business on Friday, Dec. 14. Applica-tions are available at www.cde.state.co.us/FedPrograms/awards/index.asp. Title I, which is part of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), supports school and district programs to improve the learning of students perform-ing below grade-level. Title I funds are allocated based on the number of children from low-income families in each district. Title I provides approxi-mately 150,000 students in 608 schools with $116 mil-lion in additional funding to assist Colorado’s struggling students. To determine if a school receives Title I funding, visit the NCLB Federal Programs page on the CDE Web site at http://www.cde.state.co.us/FedPrograms/Reports/index.asp. Colorado standards for iden-tifying Distinguished Title I Principals incorporate what research reveals about excel-lent leaders and performance-based standards for Colorado principals. These sources recognize the importance of documenting a high level of academic growth for all students, as well as leadership in the school and community. Therefore, the standards focus on evidence of the indi-vidual’s ability to:• Provide leadership that exemplifi es respect, account-ability and vision with regard to the right of every student to achieve maximum academic growth.• Support effective, appropri-ate and innovative instruction, assessment and curriculum. Encourage student, staff, par-

ents and community involve-ment during school hours and beyond. • Establish an educational environment where students and teachers can focus on learning.• Demonstrate quality man-agement skill with regard to facility, budget and environ-ment. For further information, contact Kathryn Smukler at 303-866-6842 or [email protected]...

…Colorado Commissioner of Education Dwight Jones announced that six school districts are being removed from the state’s list of districts on “academic watch” due to signifi cant growth in student achievement. The list of upgraded dis-tricts includes Greeley-Evans School District 6, the larg-est district ever placed on academic watch in the state. Greeley-Evans School Dis-trict 6 serves 18,000 students; the other fi ve districts with changes to their accreditation status serve less than 7,000 students combined.The six districts are:• Branson School District (Las Animas County)• Dolores County School Dis-trict RE-2J (Dove Creek)• Florence School District Re-2 (Fremont County)• Greeley-Evans School Dis-trict 6 (Weld County)• Lake County R-1 School District (Leadville)• Weld County School District 8 (Fort Lupton) “What we have seen from all these districts is a tremen-dous amount of hard work and focus from leadership, teachers, principals, students and the community at large,” said Commissioner Jones. “We have full confi dence that these six districts are embark-ing on a new era of sustained improvement.” Commissioner Jones point-ed out that only districts with a “clear pattern of improve-ment” are being removed from watch status.

In fact, nine other districts remain on watch and the ac-creditation status in one dis-trict (Aguilar School District Re-6) is being downgraded from watch to probation. In all, three districts are on pro-bation. Miami-Yoder School Dis-trict, which had been on pro-bation, was upgraded today to academic watch, also based on the positive trend in stu-dent achievement. During a mid-September visit to Greeley-Evans School District 6, Commissioner Jones praised the district’s reform effort and lauded the district’s strategic plan as a good model for other districts around the state. State law (C.R.S. 22-11-104) provides for a corrective action cycle under the accred-itation process for districts that fail to meet a variety of indicators including student achievement, dropout rates, graduation rates, attendance rates and other measures of district performance. In September, Commission-er Jones launched Forward Thinking, the department’s new plan to increase the graduation rate and close the achievement gap in all Colo-rado schools. One of the goals in that plan is to revise the process under which schools and districts are labeled via the accredita-tion process. “It’s one thing to say ‘uni-versal profi ciency’ and it’s another to make it happen,” said Deputy Commissioner Ken Turner. “At the heart of Forward Thing is the idea that no single entity can reach that goal alone. The state depart-ment of education will form a strong alliance with local school districts to improve the pace of progress toward that goal and it’s that notion of teamwork that will guide the accreditation process as we move forward.”…

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By Tom RobinsonCHSAASportsmanship ends when taunting begins in any ath-letic activity. With this in mind, The Colorado High School Activities Associa-tion (CHSAA) has decided to take more affi rmative steps to address this type of negative jeering by encouraging young athletes to cheer for their team and not against their oppo-nent. Taunting takes on many names and is seen in many settings in our society. It may also be referred to as bullying, harassing, and intimidating an opponent. As it relates to the sports environment, taunt-ing is used to psychologically take a player out of his/her game. The CHSAA’s tolerance of some spectator-to-player and spectator-to-team taunting has unfortunately been seen as promotion of this kind of behavior. After careful con-

sideration, we are ready to ad-dress this issue more head-on. Through a series of com-mittee meetings, CHSAA’s Sportsmanship Committee created the maxim, “Cheer for your team and not against your opponent.” This guide-line enables school adminis-trators to identify when their fan base is taunting or not. We believe negative sport-ing behavior should fi rst be addressed by coaches, confer-ence offi cials, players, and parents. The conduct of an event must follow certain guide-lines. The CHSAA developed the following guidelines to keep taunting out of the education-based interscholastic contests and activities of its members:• National Anthem- when the National Anthem is played or the Pledge of Allegiance is re-cited, students, fans, coaches and players should remove their hats, stand at attention and face the fl ag.

• Cheerleaders/Fans/Spec-tators- we encourage only positive cheers, and that only cheerleaders use megaphones.• All patrons must wear shirts and shoes. Face painting is allowed.• Cheer and tumbling routines must not be in front the oppo-nent’s student body. Routines that spill onto the area of the opposing team are prohibited.• Cheer squads may perform under the basket area outside the free vertical lane lines.• Banners may be used, but must be sanctioned by the game management, principal, and/or athletic director before the contest. Note: Some facili-ties, including venues used for CHSAA playoffs, may not allow any banners, especially paper banners. • The words and graphics on banners must be positive: i.e. “beat”, “outscore”, “conquer”, etc; Negative banners: i.e. “kill”, “scalp”, etc, will be confi scated and may result in no future use of banners.

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Top 25 Colorado High SchoolsGrandview remains strong on at No. 1, while Colorado Springs Christian propels all the way to No. 7 with a strong fi nish at the CHSAA state volleyball championships. No. 17 Wheat Ridge and No. 25 Simla fall-out of the list

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1 1Winning the 5A state volleyball championship and a runner-up fi nish in state soccer, the Wolves continue to hold on strong at No. 1

Rank Last Month School Comments

The boys soccer team played well as a No. 23 seed and almost beat Broomfi eld in the class 4A title game, and football made semifi nals

With a composite ACT score of 23.6 and almost a clean sweep at the boys state tennis championships the Bruins will continue to make a push for No. 1 for the rest of the yearGymnastics edged rival Green Mountain for the team title in class 5A, football avenged a regular season loss to Columbine in quarterfi nals, and softball fi nihsed as runner-up’s at state

Gymnast Hannah Bower looked terrifi c at state winning all-around honors

The Knights have one of the highest composite ACT scores in the state at 24.5, and boys golf played fantastic taking home a team title

20 consecutive winning matches in the state volleyball tournament and 4 consecutive state championships...enough said

If you were at Pirate Field in Englewood, CO Nov. 7 to watch the class 4A state championship, what a great exhibition of soccer on both sides, regardless of any controversyThe Falcons looked good going into the state volleyball championships at the Coliseum but it just wasn’t meant to be

A tough loss to Bear Creek in quarterfi nals dropped the Rebels but don’t expect the fall to last much longer

Coach Davies and her class 4A state softball champion Mustangs are riding high after their 2-0 win over Pueblo Central

We’re sure the team below doesn’t like to see their rival move ahead of them in the rankings

Yes, the Tigers beat Holy Family in the class 3A state softball championship game but the other Tigers have been more consistent in other arenas, thus farWinning the class 5A state championship in softball, being the school’s fi rst in team competition, gets the monkey off the Lightning’s back

The Sun Devils didn’t fair too well in fi eld hockey where they have domi-nated in recent history, but a team title in golf sure is nice

The Trojans have a composite ACT score of 20.0, volleyball made semifi nals, and football made the state playoffs this year...So far so good The Rams looked dominate in their 46-14 win over Limon in the class 1A state football championhip game

The Eagles take home their second school title in football, winning their fi rst since 1986 when the school was in class A-8

Sportsmanship, Sportsmanship, Sportsmanship. Athletic Director Bob Gorman has his troops moving in the right direction

Head boys soccer coach Danny Winsor takes home yet another state championship and next year he will look for another The Cyclones football team fi nished the regular season at 8-2 and then stormed into Broomfi eld and beat the Eagles 21-14 in semifi nals and earning a ticket to state championship game

Back-to-back state volleyball championships have the Farmers and coach Neve ready for the trifecta Three state volleyball championships in fi ve years keeps the Lions steady in the rankings

Another class A-8 football title sure looks good in the trophy case

Consistency helps keep the Eagles in the Top 25

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AKRON - All the Akron Rams wanted to do is get revenge, and that they did. With the 46-14 victory at home over the Limon Badgers in the class 1A state foot-ball championship the Rams claimed their second consecu-tive title after defeating Lyons last year 27-0. Akron junior running back/safety Joe McKay said, “This is what we worked for all year. Our offense started coming along over the last few weeks and it just snow-balled from there.

“We had some holes to fi ll this year but everyone stepped-up. We wanted to make up for the loss we had to Limon a couple of years ago,” added McKay. McKay was not the only Ram to effectively run the football against the Badgers. Junior running back Dalton Jefferson had a spectacular day scoring three rushing touchdowns, “It all starts at practice, we do what we do in practice and it shows in the game,” said Jefferson, “We were pretty determined to beat

this team considering how they beat us my freshman year when we lost in a complete blowout. We wanted to return the favor.” Akron head coach Brian Christianson said that this is probably one of his fastest teams, “Speed and quickness wise, this is probably one of the fastest defenses we ever had.” The Rams won their fourth state title since 2001, going 4-2 in state title games during that time.

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Platte Valley rebounds after a tough loss last year to Faith Christian 41-7 in the class 2A state title game. The Alumni

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KERSEY - After defeat-ing Platte Canyon 21-7 in the class 2A state football championship game at home, Platte Valley senior quarter-back Parker Gutterson said he attributed all of his success to his offensive line. “This was a total team effort. The guys in front of me make it all

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happen.” With the help of senior line-backer Erik Hessler the Bron-cos were able to shut down the Platte Canyon offensive attack and preserve victory. “I am so proud of my team-mates. We deserved to win today,” said Hessler, “After last year’s loss I knew we could come back and win this

thing. After all of the hard work we’ve put in, this is defi nitely worth it.” The Platte Canyon Huskies fi nished the season with a 10-3 record with the loss and the Platte Valley Broncos fi n-ished with a mark of 11-2. The Broncos redeemed themselves after a 41-7 loss last year in the 2A title game.

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The Alumni School of the Month: Mountain Range

Beautiful facilities shouldn’t overshadow Mountain Range’s success inside the classroom

Mountain Range opened it’s doors in 2006. The Alumni/Staff

a new school, “This was an amazing opportunity, but at the same time, it was a diffi -cult decision.” Enger, served as principal at Northglenn High School prior to accepting the same position at Mountain Range, and thought her career would remain at Northglenn, “After deciding to take the princi-pal’s position at Northglenn, I thought that was the long-term plan for me. We had a strong-knit staff there. But very rarely do people have the opportunity to open a high school.” With a degree in mathemat-ics from Regis University, Enger soon after attained her Masters of Education in Administration and Supervi-sion from the University of Phoenix. While at Northglenn High School, Enger worked beside Bob Gorman, who would be-come Mountain Ranges ath-letic director. After accept-ing her position at Mountain Range, Enger invited Gor-man to join her as part of the school’s administration, “We started as Dean’s of Students at Northglenn,” says Enger, “…starting from the ground up at a new school is no easy feat, you need people that philosophically align with you and have the same passion as

you. Bob knew District 12 and he wanted to be here.” Bob Gorman, who is origi-nally from Chicago, started at the school in 2006 and says he wants to see his kids involved in all activities, “When you come to a lot of our events you will see a large number of students supporting our drama department as well as our sporting events. Because we are a young school we need to get our young student-athletes into active-leadership roles.” Starting next year, Moun-tain Range will be moving to classifi cation 5A in the Front Range Conference and Gorman says the school will be ready for the move. “The best resource we have is our staff,” he says, “These are committed professionals that want to be here. Of course we have a beautiful building, you couldn’t have asked for anything better, but our big-gest asset is our staff and the things they make happen in-side of the building.” Gorman cannot stress enough the importance of sportsmanship, “We want to produce a well-rounded student-athlete,” he says, “Sportsmanship will teach our athletes life-long lessons that will carry on to the playing fi eld, and I guarantee you will see all of our athletes shaking

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MRHS Athletic Director Bob Gorman The Alumni/Staff

hands with our opponents af-ter a game no matter what the outcome is.” Moreover, Mountain Range is the only school in District 12 to have AP classes at the sophomore level and the high school has also distributed identifi cation badges to their students that are worn at all times on a lanyard. “We are the fi rst school to pilot the badges and we are hopeful that the rest of the district can implement them next year,” says Enger. The badges are designed to improve security and safety for the students while on school grounds, so the staff and the student body can be easily identifi ed and account-ed for at all times. Enger sums up the fi rst two years of the school’s existence as successful but the school still needs to carve out its own identity, “The expectations are high in District 12, and we want to make our mark, but we don’t want to make it at the expense of any of the other schools. If we are go-ing to make our own identity it is about how involved our students are and how involved their parents are. Regardless, no matter where you go in the district you are going to get a great education, Mountain Range is no exception.”

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As you drive north along the I-25 corridor just past 120th Avenue you can’t help but be drawn to a high school that is surrounded by top notch facilities. But when you talk to the school’s administration it’s what’s going on inside these newly built facilities that re-ally counts. “Yes we have a beautiful building, but it’s not about the building it’s about the climate and the spirit that’s created inside. That’s what we need to thrive on and that’s where we need to continue to build,” says Mountain Range Princi-pal Julie Enger. Mountain Range High School opened its doors in 2006, as part of Adams 12 Five Star Schools within clas-sifi cation 4A in the Skyline Conference. Principal Enger, who ac-cepted the challenge to govern the staff at Mountain Range in 2005, says it is always an administrator’s dream to open

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For Mountain Range sophomore Christian Caruso, being pro-active in the community is not only a priority for him, but a priority for other students at Mountain Range, “I like helping people,” he says, “I want to be more active outside of the school, and help build a tradition of community service for our school through our student government.” As Student Government Sophomore Class President, Caruso believes he can help build a strong foundation for a school that is not even two years old. “We are still a very young school with a young student body and I need to make a strong effort to help lead my classmates to the next level.” Not only is Caruso taking care of business inside of the classroom main-taining a 4.0 GPA, but he is also taking care of business on the soccer fi eld, as one of the top goal scorers this past season in conference play and in all of class 4A. “Playing soccer allows me to be myself and I am so grateful to play in a stadium like we have. I never pictured myself coming to a high school like this. I think the atmosphere here at the school defi nitely helps my game,” says Caruso. Moreover, Caruso credits his dad with playing a big part in the success that he has had in soccer and in the classroom. “My dad inspires me to do the best I can in life,” says Caruso. Inspiration for Caruso comes from not just his dad, but his whole family, “I try to follow them and live up to their expectations,” he says. Caruso plans to attend either the University of Northern Colorado or Denver University after he graduates in a couple of years and he says he wants to teach, “I want to be a teacher. I went to see the soccer program at DU this summer and I really liked the environment down there.” Graduating from high school will be on the top of Caruso’s things-to-do list, but until then, he says he wants to continue to play soccer and keep working hard in the classroom so he can earn a college scholarship so he can play soccer at the next level.

Name: Christian CarusoSchool: MRHSGrade: SophomoreGPA: 4.0Activities: Soccer, Student Government (Sophomore Class President)College Interests: Universtiy of Northern Colorado, Denver University

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As a sophomore, Mountain Range Student Body President Emily Hat-ridge scored a 28 on her ACT’s. Now a junior, Hatridge is already making plans for college. “I am hoping to go to Colorado College and study art history. I love art, and ironically I don’t call myself an artist, but I love history so I fi gured I would work the two together,” says Hatridge. A continuing theme from the administration to the students at Moun-tain Range is the importance of becoming passionate about the school, “The biggest step for our school is getting people wanting to get involved, especially, in the community and spirit wise. Being a new school we don’t have a lot of tradition or school pride. This is a fantastic school with wonderful technology and I want to help establish traditions here,” says Hatridge. Hatridge explains that she has always been motivated in school and she understands what it takes to be successful. “Ever since I was in second grade I always had good grades and education has always been my focus. I realized at a very young age that everything you do affects your future and I take that to heart and I make sure that my grades are as good as they can be.” After taking her fi rst AP class last year in U.S. History, Hatridge is cur-rently taking two more AP classes and plans to graduate early. Hatridge says it was not one person, but a network of family and educa-tors who have inspired and motivated her to set her goals high, “I haven’t had one single person that’s directed me to where I have been. There have been a lot of teachers that have pointed me in certain directions and my family of course, but I think it has been a bunch of individual people that have affected me in different ways.” For at least another year, Hatridge plans on leading her school and focusing on community service as National Honors Society President, “In National Honors Society I can work on fundraisers which is really nice because you know that everything you do is for somebody else.”

Name: Emily HatridgeSchool: MRHSGrade: JuniorGPA: 4.08Activities: Student Body President, Key Club, National Honors Society President, French Club, AP U.S History, and AP LanguageCollege Interests: Colorado College

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Bear Creek takes home the class 5A state gymnastics championship after placing second last year. The Alumni/Torres

Bear Creek captures 5A team title

THORNTON – Hannah Bower performs likes she’s been there before—that’s be-cause she has, as a three-time state champion. Loveland junior Hannah Bower claimed her third con-secutive all-around title Nov. 3 at Thornton High School after yet another impressive performance. “It is an amazing feeling to go out there and have fun,” said Bower, “I just want to thank my family and friends for helping me to continue to work hard and keep a strong mentality.” Bower claimed individual top honors for balance beam (9.675), and vault (9.800). She also had a second place fi nish in uneven parallel bars (9.750) and a third place fi n-ish in fl oor exercise (9.700). She also fi nished with a total score of (38.950) in her all-around performance that helped propel her to the indi-vidual state title. “Mentally I like to tell my-self that this meet is no differ-ent than any other and to just go out there and perform like

I normally do,” said Bower. With her senior year still ahead of her, the junior gym-nast is looking forward to club gymnastics before she tries for a fourth title. “I might compete in club just to have fun,” she said, “but in any case I will start lifting and training for track season,” said Bower. Moreover, Michele Tharp of Ft. Collins fi nished fi rst in fl oor exercise (9.775) and un-even parallel bars (9.800). After placing second last year behind conference rival Green Mountain, the Bear Creek Bears put together a strong performance to take the class 5A state team champion-ship. “We have been working for this literally for four years, we’ve got eight seniors on our team and it’s actually an amazing feeling to put it all together and have all of their hard work go for something like this,” said Bear Creek coach Michelle Chalkey. Bear Creek edged Green Mountain with a team score of (184.000). Green Moun-tain scored (182.400), and Broomfi eld fi nished third at (181.100) completing team competition Nov. 2. “Our team took each event one at a time. We regrouped after each event and we looked at them as four little

meets. Not to say that we didn’t have any struggles, but I think we handled the pres-sure the best we could,” said Chalkey. During the meet, Bear Creek scored better than any other team in all four events of team competition; uneven parallel bars (45.400), balance beam (45.800), fl oor exercise (46.725) and vault (46.075). “By the time we get here, we have practiced enough and done enough repetitions of our routines that it is just a matter of us coming out and performing and we did throughout team competi-tion,” said Chalkey. Even though Bear Creek will be losing eight seniors at the end of the year coach Chalkey is not worried about regrouping for next year, “We do have a very deep team and the expectations may be a little different but I know we can put it together again,” fi n-ished Chalkey. Bear Creek individual gym-nast Aditi Kulkarni fi nished fi fth in all-around (38.375), fourth in fl oor exercise (9.650), and sixth in uneven parallel bars (9.600), while fellow teammates Nicole Erpelding fi nished third in balance beam (9.575) and Ka-tilyn Olsen fi nished in sixth in fl oor exercise (9.625).


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defending state champions) 2-1 in double-overtime af-ter sophomore Garrett Seitz scored the game winner to help put Broomfi eld in the state championship. A week later, Broomfi eld needed another goal in over-time to beat Mullen, but not after some controversy. After two halves of score-less play sophomore forward Cole Chapleski scored in the 4th minute of overtime to give Broomfi eld the title. “That was the closet game I have ever been in. The pass came in and I was lucky enough to put my head on it and then I saw it go far post. It was just the best moment of my life,” said Chapleski. But what set up the goal is what infuriated Mullen. In the 84th minute, play was stopped due to a Mullen injury. Play continued after of-fi cials gave Broomfi eld an indirect kick. Here is where the contro-versy lay: Mullen claimed that Broomfi eld should have been given at least a throw-in not an indirect kick. Broomfi eld then scored on the ensuing play when Broomfi eld senior Gabe

Whitney sent in a pass that Chapleski headed. “In a situation where the referee blows the whistle and my man’s down on injury then he gives him a set piece over there and they score its ‘explicative-explicative.’ As a referee it’s your job, it is a cardinal sin not to infl uence the outcome of the game. That’s the way I look at that result,” said Mullen head coach Jay McClain. While coach McClain was upset with the offi ciating throughout the night, he gave credit to his team’s opponents and their coach. “Jim (David-son) does a great job, he has a great program, their kids worked their tails off and I’m happy for him,” said McClain.

Broomfi eld’s Whitney understood Mullen’s frustration.

“We had the ball and normally with an injury you call it as a drop kick, but for some reason the referee didn’t give us the advantage play and he gave us a free kick instead. It’s kind of an iffy call, but hey it happens,” explained Whitney.

Broomfi eld claimed their fourth title since 1999.

Broomfi eld sophomore Cole Chapleski heads in the game winner against Mullen Nov. 7 at Englewood High School. The win was Broomfi eld’s fourth since 1999. The Alumni/Maid

4A CHSAA State Soccer Championship: (Nov. 7) Pirate Field, Englewood High School

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ENGLEWOOD – Smoky Hill’s dominance in class 5A soccer continues regardless of who is on the fi eld. No. 10 Smoky Hill defeated No. 1 Grandview 3-1 in the 5A state championship game at Pirate Field in Englewood to claim back-to-back state titles on Nov. 7. Is the school’s success a testament to the players, to the coaches or is it a little of both? Unanimously, every player you talk to attributes the suc-cess of the program to the motto of family instilled by Smoky Hill head coach Dan-ny Winsor. “Miguel (Rosales) is one of the best I ever played with, but it’s not about one player it’s about the whole team, that’s what we play for,” said Smoky Hill senior defender Wes Post. “It’s all about working from the ground up. As varsity players it’s our responsibility to show the younger players how to improve. We have to be role

models and in doing so they step up to our level.” Rosales was the goal keeper for Smoky Hill last year, help-ing make two state titles pos-sible. This year Smoky Hill came in with nine seniors led by defenders Alex Bowar, junior Kyle Venter and Post. “I love playing beside Kyle because we have such a great friendship… Alex too because he is a great defender. We all have been playing together since we were little kids so it is awesome winning here again,” said Post. Smoky Hill opened up the scoring in the fi fth minute with a goal by senior forward Tommy Hrachovina. Smoky Hill head coach Danny Winsor said, “Getting the goal early changes the pace of play and slows ev-erything down a little bit and when you do that it helps to keep possession.” Grandview tied the score 1-1 in the 18th minute when Zach Portillos-Grant found the back of the net. Smoky Hill struck back with a goal in the 22nd min-ute to jump ahead 2-1 when sophomore forward Stephen Solano-Cargill scored the eventual game winner.

“We stayed composed and like we have been saying all year long when you play great teams they are going to score a goal or two…realisti-cally we just know how to respond,” said Winsor. Hrachovina headed in an-other goal in the 41st minute when junior defender Kyle Venter sent in a pass from the near side 40 yards out putting Smoky Hill up for good 3-1. “We absolutely played our hearts out,” said coach Win-sor. Grandview head coach Bri-an Wood agreed that defen-sively Smoky Hill did what they had to do to shut-down their offense, “My hats off to Smoky Hill. They made great adjustments, they found our weaknesses of winning the ball in the air and they ex-ploited that.” Next year Grandview will lose 11 seniors from this team who started as the No. 1 seed going into the tournament. “Our JV went undefeated this year so we have a strong group coming from that team,” said Wood, who ex-plains that with 28 juniors in the program, their team is poised to rebuild. “We will be back next year,” concluded Wood.


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Danny Winsor (second from left) with his staff after his boys soccer team won state Nov. 7. Courtesy/Winsor

By Ryan BricelandThe AlumniDanny Winsor is enjoying life way too much. Winsor has led the Smoky Hill boys soccer team to three state championships in four years, after taking over the varsity coaching position in 2004. A former Smoky Hill stu-dent and standout soccer play-er, he was familiar with the success of the program, but he never expected to be the man in charge. “This is the last place I thought I would end up,” says Winsor. “I actually majored in business in college.” Winsor says he fi rst real-ized how much he enjoyed working with kids when he worked at an after school pro-gram during his senior year of undergraduate studies at the

University of Northern Colo-rado. When he realized his heart wasn’t in the business in-dustry, Winsor went back to school at Colorado Univer-sity. Soon after earning a master’s degree in counsel-ing psychology, Smoky Hill Principal Jeannine Brown gave him a job at his former school. Five years into his coach-ing tenure, Winsor is focused on taking the program further than it’s ever been before. “Some of the kids joke about this program being a dynasty. I love when older guys come back and watch games from the sidelines. It promotes the sense of fam-ily that I tried to instill in the players,” says Winsor. Winsor took over the pro-gram in 2004, after just one year as the junior varsity coach. It was not an easy transition replacing two-time state championship coach

Tom Freeman, especially since Winsor implemented an entirely new style of play. Teaching the kids a more traditional, ball control, de-fensive oriented game plan didn’t produce immediate re-sults. Losing 11 seniors from the year before didn’t help matters either. When the No. 10 seeded Smoky Hill squad prevailed over No. 1 seed and confer-ence rival Grandview that year for the state champion-ship, all the hard work paid off. The 2004 playoff run was preceded by more post-season triumphs. “The biggest thing I preach to the players is to play for something greater than just wins and losses. Wins will come if you learn to compete for the right reasons. We don’t want to peak too early. Conference titles and regu-lar season awards are a plus, but we prepare ourselves for state,” says Winsor.

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Winsor has been fortunate to coach kids with a lot of tal-ent. The Rosales brothers, all three of them, have all won state championships for Smoky Hill. Jose is the oldest and led the team to a state championship in 1999. Miguel won in 2004 and 2006. He now plays at Cin-cinnati. Tony is the last of the bunch, he won this year and is currently exploring his op-tions to play at the next level. Winsor estimates that in the last four years about 13 of his players have moved on to play collegiate soccer. Five players are currently playing at the Division I level.

Winsor says, “I don’t want the kids to be good high school players, I want them to be great college players.” Next year, the Smoky Hill Buffaloes will defend their state championship behind the leg of Stephen Solano-Cargill. As a sophomore, Solano-Cargill tied for the league lead with 16 goals scored. Buffs players will stay busy this summer training four days a week. Winsor will be leading the off-season work-outs that focus on strength and agility training. He said that last year over 40 kids showed up every day. According to Winsor, it’s this dedication to practice that a good program can become a dynasty.

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Senior Ryland Snow helped lead his Broomfi eld Eagles to a 12-1 record this season. The Alumni/Staff

It took Ryland about fi ve minutes to begin to open up and talk about his career at Broomfi eld, but once he start-ed responding to questions about his teammates a simple interview became as easy as playing football. “A lot of the players on my team I grew up with. Most of us have played football together since we were little kids, and we would always talk about win-ning state our senior season. Every week and every game we would talk about it but un-fortunately it didn’t work out that way,” says Ryland. On November 23, Broom-fi eld lost at home to Pueblo West in semifi nals 21-14, one game shy from playing in the class 4A state championship game at INVESCO Field on Dec. 1, ending a dream that Ryland and some of his team-mates had since well before ever strapping on a Broom-fi eld Eagle helmet. After the game, the crush-ing defeat could be read from Ryland’s defeated demeanor fi fty yards away from the

press box with his hands bur-ied in his hair. “Going into the game we knew it was going to be tough because both teams love to run the football. It seemed like nothing was going to go our way,” says Ryland, “…and when the scoreboard read double zero it was like wow, it is over.” Ryland says that there are still so many positive lessons that he can take from the loss, “Going 12-1 I couldn’t have asked for anything more ex-cept for a state championship. Also, exceeding some of my personal goals and being able to play at home to have the opportunity to go to state was one of the greatest mo-ments I will ever have in high school.” But to understand the athlete, you have to under-stand where he comes from. Ryland’s mother Lisa White says that football came easily for her son, “its one sport that came very natural for him. He played basketball and he played baseball, but football was perfect for him.” Ryland recalls playing

football as a kid and falling in love with the sport, “I can remember playing tackle foot-ball since I was seven and it is just one of those games that you can beat people up and its okay.” Even in high school, his love for football grew once he got playing time as a sopho-more, “When I fi rst got in my fi rst game, I was nervous because I was still a little kid, but as soon as I started play-ing I felt comfortable and all of the seniors and upper class-men started treating me with respect.” Ryland continues to ac-knowledge the importance of team from when he was little until his very last game in high school. “We have a lot of character and we perform great as a team,” he says, “Throughout the season, our coaches said we may not be as talented as some teams, but we had chemistry and that is what made us so good.” Since his career at Broom-fi eld is over, Ryland says that he wants to continue to play football in college, “If I had the opportunity I would like

to play football in Wyoming but if a school shows interest I would look into it.” Ryland says he would like to study architectural engi-neering, “Ultimately my main goal is to play college football but I have always had an in-terest in architecture.” Ryland ends his football career at Broomfi eld with 3,305 total rushing yards in 509 attempts and he scored 42 touchdowns. Even though he came one game away from playing in a state championship game, Ry-land says he will move on and remember all the other great times he had at Broomfi eld. “My teammates gave me so many great moments and they made all of this possible and no one can ever take that away from me.” The Broomfi eld Eagles fi nished their season with a 12-1 record, undefeated in regular season play (10-0), and entered the class 4A state championship bracket as the No. 2 seed.


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It’s like a broken record, every running back has the same answer, and if you ask Broomfi eld senior running back Ryland Snow why he had been so successful run-ning the football through-out his high school career he’ll tell you the same, “It’s simple, I probably ran behind if not the best, at least one of the best offensive lines in the state. Even though my name is always in the paper, it wouldn’t be if it were not for the other players on my team.” This is an answer that most great running backs give be-fore accepting praise, at least the running backs who under-stand the concept of team and Ryland defi nitely plays foot-ball team fi rst.

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A swimming pool isn’t a like-ly place to become interested in gymnastics. But for Loveland High School junior Hannah Bower, seeing another girl practic-ing gymnastics at a local pool when she was eight years old, triggered her interest. The petite 5-foot, 3-inch-tall, 115 pound athlete ex-plains, “I started doing it then. She got me started.” That fateful day along with her dedication and hard work has lead Bower to break the Colorado record by becoming the fi rst gymnast to win three consecutive class 5A state all-around titles. Along with winning her third all-around title, Bower also fi nished fi rst in vault, fi rst in beam, second in un-even parallel bars, and third in fl oor exercise, giving her a 38.950 overall score. For Bower, breaking this

record was a defi ning moment in her life.“It’s cool,” she says, “Be-cause it has not been done at a big school.” To Bower, that’s a “good feeling.” “I’ve worked hard to achieve this goal,” she goes on—and from the training schedule on her calendar and the list of injuries as long as your arm, her hard work is clear. Bower’s team fi nished tenth in state this season but Bower explained how her team’s timing was off this year, “Our team had a lot of potential,” she says, “we just couldn’t get it together in time. But the girls are amazing.” Loveland High School head gymnastic coach Wendy Thompson, has mentally prepared both Bower and her teammates for competition. Bower described the attitude that Thompson has taught her, saying, “Things don’t come easy and you have to wait for them.” Bower embraces this state of mind as she prepares for next year’s gymnastics season and the possibility of setting another record of being the

fi rst in class 5A of taking all-around for four consecutive years. “It would be amazing to be the fi rst,” Bower ex-plains. Bower also gives credit to her club coach for his role in her success in gymnastics. “The person who has made me the gymnast I am today was my club coach, Rich Vil-lareal,” Bower insists. Bower listed off all of her injuries as a gymnast as non-chalantly as if it were a shop-ping list, “…torn hamstrings, a popped sternum and ribs, back injuries, and broken toes.” But her passion for the sport has driven her to keep going. Yet, she knows her physical limits. When Bower was ten years old, she started training to become a future Olympic hopeful. The intense and often brutal regimen proved to be too hard on Bower’s body. But her realistic drive to achievement at the high school level is what has set her apart from her competi-tion. Following in her sister’s ac-ademic footsteps has pushed her too. “My older sister was a really good student and so

I feel like I have to live up to that,” she explains with a smirk. Bower exhibits her competi-tive drive in the classroom as well. Bower maintains a 4.0 GPA, and between managing her time for extracurricular activities, practice, and train-ing Bower has found the mid-dle ground in being successful at whatever she does. Somehow, Bower fi nds time between breaking records and excelling academically to rep-resent her class as Vice Presi-dent. She is also involved in Spanish Honors Society, Fellowship Christian Athletes, and she coaches young gym-nasts at Premier Gymnastics in Loveland. Bower especially enjoys coaching girls when they start to learn back hand springs. She says, “That’s a really fun stage.” When the juggling act of her gymnastics season has ended, she does it all over again when track starts up in spring. Bower has qualifi ed for state in the medley, 4x1, 4x2, and the 4x4. This coming season, Bower also expects to com-pete in sprints. With her distinction in the

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classroom, the gym and the fi eld, Bower has many pos-sibilities that await for her future. She says she is not sure yet if she wants to continue with gymnastics in college because there are only a few colleges that compete in gymnastics and they give so few scholar-ships. Bower’s favorite subject in school is science, particularly anatomy, or anything related to the medical fi eld. “I know I want to go into the medical fi eld,” Bower explains, “but I think I want to be a dentist. I don’t know for sure.” Bower’s competitive spirit and drive to work hard will undoubtedly carry over into whatever line of work she chooses. For now, the gymnast can focus on excelling both aca-demically and athletically, and perhaps she will set yet another Bower record in Col-orado history.

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DENVER – Hoehne head coach Kathy Neve was very emotional and fought back tears after her team’s 25-14, 16-25, 25-22, 19-25, and 15-13 victory in the class 2A state championship game over the No. 1 seed Simla Cubs at the Denver Coliseum on Nov. 10. “Sue (Snyder) and I said it at regional’s that this would be the championship match,” said coach Neve. That’s exactly the way the tournament played out. Neither team played each other in pool play for the fi rst two days of the tournament, Hoehne beat Rangely, Day-spring Christian, Sangre de Cristo, and Burlington to get to the title match while Simla defeated Mancos, Resurrec-tion Christian, Burlington and Sangre de Cristo. Simla was undefeated at 30-0 and had yet to lose a match before playing in the state championship game. “These kids have had their sights set on winning a state championship for a very long time,” said Simla head coach Sue Snyder. “Since these kids were little they dreamed of winning that gold ball. I have had them since they were in kindergarten so I think that the initiative and the motiva-tion came on its own, it just

didn’t happen.” Simla’s championship game appearance was the school’s fi rst in over a decade, since they defeated Fowler to win the class 2A state champion-ship in 1996. “We wanted it as bad as Hoehne,” said Snyder, “The Farmers are a very good team, they are well coached, we have a lot of respect for each other…a few more balls our way would have been nicer to have, but it just didn’t happen. It sure would have been nice to win,” added Snyder. The win gave Hoehne back-to-back state championships, and their tie-breaker win was the only one to be played between all fi ve state champi-onship matches played at the Denver Coliseum. Neve added, “Last year’s team was awesome, but this year’s team had everything. We had players that left mid-season, and consequently, we had players fi ll in and play tremendous roles for us. My team thrives on adversity, it seems that the harder they can have it the better they like it.” Hoehne came into the state tournament as the No. 3 seed and fi nished the season with a record of 31-1. “You have to mention them all, they just kept playing and playing and playing. That was a tremen-dous team effort,” fi nished Neve. Hoehne defeated Swink last year 25-21, 25-18, and 25-17 to win the class 2A title.

Hoehne defeated Swink last year for the class 2A state title. The Alumni/Maid

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Fleming avenges loss

Fleming seniors (from left) Michelle King and Amy Einsphar accept their school’s fi rst championship trophy for vol-leyball from CHSAA Assistant Commissioner Tara McIntire. The Alumni/Maid

DENVER – After a tough championship game loss last year to Kit Carson in a tie-breaker match, the Fleming Wildcats rebounded and de-feated Flagler 25-13, 25-16, and 25-10 to take the class 1A state championship. Fleming came into the state tournament as the No. 1 seed.During pool play, Fleming took down Vail Christian, Flagler (who they beat in a tie-breaker), and McClave. The Wildcats then went on to defeat Caliche in semi-fi nals and Flagler again 3-0 in three consecutive sets in the title game. “Losing last year made us more passionate to win it this year. The experience we gained with our younger players last year helped us out this year because they had a lot more to bring to the table,” said Fleming senior

Amy Einsphar. “Playing them yesterday helped us because we knew that we could beat them and we knew how to adjust,” she added. Fleming fi nished the season with an undefeated record of 31-0, and captured their school’s fi rst title in volleyball. “We set our sights on this since last year and the girls wanted it so bad. For a magical night it just came all together for us,” said Fleming head coach Derek Herbert. Flagler, which has won four of eight state championship games it has played since 1990, entered pool play as the No. 5 seed. “Pam (Fagerlund) and Flagler are amazing, every year they are in it and they are one of the teams to beat. We barely beat them yesterday in pool play so for us to get them today is fabulous,” said Herbert. After the match, Flagler head coach Pam Fagerlund was emotional about the loss but gave all the credit to Fleming, “They had

everything going for them.” She also noted that fi nishing as runner-up last year and playing for an undefeated season this year was a motivational factor for Fleming’s success. Fagerlund summed up the game by saying, “We played phenomenally well like we did all season. For the girls to get us out of pool play and into brackets and eventually in the state championship game was good. We don’t have very much depth, we only have nine girls, and not a lot of experience. But we will walk away from this as winners.” Much the same can be said for Fleming, according to coach Herbert. “We have been working hard for so many years,” he said, “…we were so young last year we almost had all sophomores, and now we’ve worked through that experience. I think mentally we are tougher, quicker, better passers and hitters than we were last year,” fi nished Herbert.


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(From left) Mary Beth Allen and Bethany Beck were the only seniors on the CSCS roster this year. The Alumni/Maid

DENVER – With only two seniors on their roster, the Colorado Springs Christian (CSCS) Lions earned yet an-other state title. With their 22-25, 25-21, 25-11, and 25-23 win over Clas-sical Academy at the Denver Coliseum Nov. 10, CSCS tal-lied their fourth consecutive state title in class 3A. What is even more impres-sive about the Lions win was the fact that it was also the fi rst for head coach Mike Broekhuis. “This is my fi rst. I caught the tail end of this thing and obviously these kids have been trained very well and they have had a tradition that

they wanted to follow. Pretty gutsy group of ladies to pull this out with a young group like they are,” he said. Colorado Springs Christian started their run in 2004 tak-ing down Valley, then Eaton in 2005, and Valley again last year in the class 3A state championship. CSCS senior Mary Beth Al-len said, “Being here for the fourth year in a row it is still so amazing. It was different having a whole new coach-ing staff but we still pulled through.” CSCS defeated Classical in a tie-breaker a day earlier 25-20, 13-25, 25-22, 20-25, and 15-6 in pool play, Classical head coach Lori Alejo said, “This is the fi fth time that we played CSCS this season and we split with them the previ-ous four. We are really disap-pointed that we didn’t win be-cause we know it could have gone either way, but to go from dead last in our league to

this is very impressive.” CSCS defeated Classical, Faith Christian, and Lamar in pool play, then went on to defeat Roosevelt in semifi nals to set up their championship game match with Classical. “We had a rough season because we had a lot of young girls but they stepped it up here at state. This coliseum is so loud it was fun,” added CSCS senior Bethany Beck, “…it was worth all the hard work this season.” Since 2004, CSCS has won 20 consecutive matches in the state tournament, including fi ve this year. “Something we’ve worked on all year long is not getting too high and not getting too low,” said coach Broekhuis, “If we stay calm and play our game, things will just go our way. Our school is very, very good to us…we are going to celebrate this one for a while.”


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DENVER – Mountain View reclaims the championship title that has eluded them for two consecutive years. After defeating Cheyenne Mountain 25-21, 25-20, 23-25, and 25-14, Mountain View regained the class 4A state volleyball title after fi nishing as runner-up’s the previous two years and head coach Lindsey Stinson couldn’t be happier. “The last two years have been a disappointment, so to be able and put it all together and play a great tournament and end it against a great team is an indescribable feeling,” said Stinson. The Mountain View Moun-tain Lions had previously lost

to Sterling and then Battle Mountain in the last two state title games and entered this year’s tournament as the No. 5 seed. Going into the title game, the Mountain Lions defeated Montrose, No. 1 seed Ber-thoud, who headed into state undefeated, and Longmont in pool play. Mountain View went on to beat Regis in semifi nals to get into the state fi nal. “This team never ceases to amaze me. They fi ght and the push so hard, this is one group who has worked their butts off and deserves it. They have put in years of hard work, they love this game, and they love each other,” added Stinson. Over the past fi ve seasons, Mountain View has competed in every class 4A state title game and has compiled a 3-2 record during this time frame. Mountain View senior Hay-ley Mommer said, “We stuck together the whole way. I

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am so happy I just want to scream.” Mountain View junior Ken-dra Roark also understands the importance of this win. “This is the best feeling in the world there is nothing better,” she said, “It’s these thirteen girls that made it happen along with our coaches, our fans, and our parents. This is what it’s all about right here.” The Cheyenne Mountain Indians came into the tourna-ment as the No. 2 seed defeat-ing Cherokee Trail, Battle Mountain and Regis in pool play and then Longmont in semifi nals. Cheyenne Mountain head coach David Barkley said, “Mountain View served well, hit well and stayed ag-gressive. Give them credit they are the best team in the state…we have most of our kids coming back and I’m excited about that. Every year we’ve moved up one notch maybe next years fi rst.”

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respect each other and it is always going to make for a really great match.” Grandview senior Lauren VanOrden said her team deserved to win especially against one of their confer-ence rivals. “It feels good to know that we are in one of the strongest conferences and that we didn’t win this by fl uke,” she said, “Especially, that we can take a team that no one talked about the last couple of years and go out and win like we did says a lot about this team.”

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Grandview sophomore Erica Denney huges a teammate after her Grandview Wolves completed an undefeated season by winning the class 5A state volleyball championship. The Alumni/Maid

DENVER – Since 1994, a Centennial Confer-ence team has played in all but one state title match. Why would this year be any different? Perennial Centennial Conference power, the Grandview Wolves have played in each of the last four state title matches winning two state championships (in 2004 and 2005). The Eaglecrest Raptors, who are also a Cen-tennial Conference powerhouse, sent the Wolves packing last year when they beat them in a tie-breaker game in the state championship match. How ironic that two Centennial Conference teams would play again for this year’s 5A title in an inter-conference rivalry match of the state’s two top teams. Before the championship match, Eaglecrest head coach Tanya Bond said, “This shows the strength of our volleyball. That three out of the four teams to make it to semifi nals were from the Centennial Conference. We battle night af-ter night after night and it always ends up being whoever’s on top of their game.” The other Centennial Conference team to make it to semifi nals was Cherry Creek who lost

to Eaglecrest 25-20, 23-25, 19-25, 25-11, and 15-11. Grandview entered the tour-nament undefeated at 26-0 as the No. 1 seed, and Eaglec-rest, the No. 3 seed.Grandview took game one 32-30. Bond said that during game the outcome could have eas-ily gone either way, “I think that’s when it really shows when your hearts out there,” said Bond. It was evident very early that Grandview’s defense would be too tough for Ea-glecrest to adjust to. During

game one that game was tied or changed leads twenty-one times, and the Wolves defense continued to hold off the Rap-tors offensive attack. “I think this year Grandview was such a great defensive team and especially a great ball control team. They con-trolled the ball today, and we just could not stop their hit-ting,” added Bond. Eaglecrest took game two 25-20, but Grandview proved to be too much for the Raptors taking the last two games 25-16 and 25-21, thus, winning the class 5A state champion-

ship for the third time in four years. “This group is just an awe-some group of kids, I couldn’t have asked for anything more,” said Coach Patty Chil-dress, “we didn’t dream that we would make it this far, we lost so many talented athletes and I really didn’t know what to expect from this season.” Grandview senior Brianna Gradishar could barely put words together after their win. “This feels so surreal right now,” she said just after the game, “We took it day by day, ball by ball and match by

match. We were waiting for this moment.” Eaglecrest beat Highlands Ranch, Columbine and Lewis-Palmer in pool play before taking down Cherry Creek in semifi nals to make it to the title game. Bond said, “Grandview was on top of their game all season. I would love to play Grandview every season in the championship game be-cause it is such a great rivalry, it’s a healthy rivalry…our schools are right down the street from each other, and the girls know each other and


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(continued from fi rst page) went out there and tried my best and it proved to be good enough,” said Simmons. As for next year, Simmons says she may not compete unless she has accepted a scholarship for college. “I am not sure if I will come back, if I have a guaranteed scholar-ship I will compete next year for sure, but until then I don’t know yet.” In team competition Moun-tain Range fi nished fi rst with a team score of (174.600), followed by Pueblo Cen-tral (173.700), Evergreen (169.500), and Elizabeth (169.125). Jaime Fiske of Mountain Range fi nished fourth in all-around (35.350) and fl oor exercise (9.125). Pueblo Central claimed the class 4A team title last year with a score of (175.775).

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Bear Creek, Chatfi eld, Col-umbine, and Pomona starting in 2008. The Centennial Conference will add Arapahoe, Cherokee Trail and Regis to their foot-ball schedules next year. All three schools are thriv-ing from the recent population boom within southeast Aurora and the surrounding counties and will be a good fi t join-ing Cherry Creek, Eaglecrest, Grandview, Mullen, Over-land, and Smoky Hill. Looking ahead, the reshuf-fl ing among conferences will likely continue into the future, as more high schools are planned for the southeast Aurora area and up through the north I-25 corridor, which will likely call for more re-alignment and reclassifi cation in the years to come. Rocky Mountain High School Athletic Director and Front Range Conference President Wayne Moddelmog says he is looking forward to the future of athletics and ac-tivities in the newly realigned conference, “We are going to build new traditions and new rivalries which is defi nitely exciting.”

Frank Lee shared Graham’s sentiments. “We have been with the Centennial Confer-ence since the 1960’s and it will be hard to leave because we have such great respect for the conference,” says Lee, “…we are very excited for the move but with the growing demographics throughout the state it was inevitable.” Steve Atwood the District Athletic and Activity Direc-tor of Adams 12 Five Star Schools says the additions of these schools will bring a competitive dynamic to the Front Range Conference, “The conference will be add-ing schools rich in tradition. It will be a very diverse and powerful conference in the state. This is a great opportu-nity for them and for the con-ference as a whole.” With the exception of foot-ball, Boulder and Fairview will participate in all activi-ties and athletics in the Front Range joining Ft. Collins, Horizon, Legacy, Loveland, Monarch, Mountain Range, Northglenn, Poudre, Rocky Mountain and Thornton High School. Mountain Range, who just

recently opened its doors in 2006, will make the jump from class 4A to class 5A. According to Atwood, the school will do just fi ne. “Mountain Range is very in-teresting, within a short peri-od of time the school has been relatively successful. They are going to experience grow-ing pains but they have a great athletic department and the right personnel in place.” In less than two years, Mountain Range has won three conference titles, and just last month won their fi rst state team championship in gymnastics, led by sophomore Anna Simmons winning the all-around title for the second consecutive year. Mountain Range Athletic Director Bob Gorman says he understands the road ahead might be tough, but has faith in his school’s ability to step up to the challenge. “To com-pete in class 5A is going to be an adjustment and it is going to take a lot of work,” he says, “but we will be able to com-pete.” Moreover, Boulder and Fairview will only play foot-ball in the South Metro Con-ference with Arvada West,

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Budgets force realignmentArapahoe, Cherokee Trail and Regis will move to the Centennial Conference

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School, Littleton); Barbara Bishop (Midland International Elementary School, Colorado Springs District 11); Larry Cutter (Mitchell High School, Colorado Springs District 11); Ann Alfonso (O’Dea Core Knowledge Elemen-tary School, Poudre School District); Wendy Birhanzel (Patriot Elementary School, Fountain-Fort Carson School District); Susan Paulson (Ranch Creek Elementary School, Academy School Dis-trict 20); Julie Foster (Rudy Elementary School, Colorado Springs District 11); Wendy Pierce (Sabin International Elementary School, Denver); Janette Walters, (Thornton High School, Adams 12); Kerry Buhler (Upper Blue Elementary School, Summit County Schools) and Sandra Bickel (Webber Junior High School, Poudre School Dis-trict). The event was funded by a Library Services and Technol-ogy Act grant from the Insti-tute of Museum and Library Services.

Twenty-three school princi-pals were recognized recently for outstanding teamwork with school librarians. The Colorado Department of Education, Colorado State Library, Colorado Association of School Librarians, Colo-rado Library Consortium and the University of Denver re-cently recognized exceptional public school principals who support collaboration be-tween classroom teachers and certifi ed teacher-librarians, thereby leading to improved academic achievement. The 23 schools received recognition at the Colo-rado Association of Librar-ies conference in Denver on Thursday, Nov. 8, at a special program entitled, “Celebrate a Winning Team: Principals and School Librarians; Ingre-dients for Student Academic Achievement.” Principals who were select-ed demonstrated qualities of:

• Integrating the school library media program into the cur-riculum of the school.• Impacting student achieve-ment through collaborative, standards-based instruction. Establishing a common vision with school librarians and teachers for integrating 21st

century literacy skills into the curriculum.• Preparing students for life-long learning through utiliza-tion of a diversity of tools and resources for research skills instruction, critical thinking, comprehension, problem-solving, and independent reading. “The principals selected for this honor know that essen-tial skills for information and communication technologies literacy are taught not in iso-lation, but within the learning process,” said Jody Howard, independent school library consultant at the Colorado State Library. “A team in which principal, teachers and librarians work collaborative-ly is the ingredient for student academic achievement.”

The schools and principals who received plaques and professional books as part of their honor, were Kath-leen Smith (Cherry Creek High School, Cherry Creek Schools); Carol Peters (Clear Lake Middle School, Adams 12); William Kempsell (Cot-ton Creek Elementary, Adams 12); Cathy O’Donnell (Erie Elementary School, St. Vrain Schools); Barb Donahue (Foothills Elementary School, Jefferson County Schools); Linda Witulski (Gateway High School, Aurora Public Schools); Kathy Chandler (Green Gables Elementary School, Jefferson County); Joan Watson and her assis-tant principal, Karla Schriner (Horizon High School, Adams 12); Jeannie Peppel, John F. Kennedy High School, Denver); Richard Sinclair (Kaiser Elementary, Den-ver); Cathy Nolan (Legacy High School, Adams 12); Terry Miller (Lewis-Palmer Middle School, Lewis-Palmer Schools); Barbara DeSpain (Lois Lenski Elementary

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