It's that time of year again, to look back and reflect on the year that was. Plenty of good things came to local area high schools during the 2012 season. Numerous schools saw state championships. Several schools won multiple state titles....

FOUNTAIN - Dominant performances stole the show as the 5A and 4A Metro League meets were jointly held at Fountain-Fort Carson.
Pine Creek’s Heather Bates (17 minutes, 53 seconds) won the 5A girls 5K by more than a minute in leading the Eagles to ...

Simon Hayes, McKenzie Howie and Emma Kidd represent the full spectrum of high school track athletes, and all three are set to compete in the Olympics next week.
OK, not those Olympics. The flight for these athletes will stop for the National Junior...

Pikes Peak Region coaches of the year from 2012 spring sports season.

BASEBALL
Brett Brown, Coronado
Coronado didn’t even have a coach until a week before the season, but Brett Brown more than filled the void.
Stepping in late, Brown helped the...

FIRST TEAM
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(BOYS TRACK ALL-AREA TEAM)

SECOND TEAM
100: Kiera Brown, jr., Liberty
200: Chelsie Horton, sr., Fountain-Fort Carson
400: Chelsie Horton, sr., Fountain-Fort Carson
800: Laura...

Ally Watt thinks she might get a little taller before she’s finished with high school. She’s the fastest female sprinter in 5A, and if that happens, she can count on more hardware.
The Pine Creek freshman probably would benefit from a few m...

Pine Creek freshman Ally Watt was still in diapers when Pine Creek was built in 1998. On Saturday at the 5A track and field championships in Lakewood, Watt won both the 100- and 200-meter dashes, becoming Pine Creek’s first state champion in eith...

Notes and tidbits from the final day at the state track and field championships in Lakeowood:

Saving the best for first
With the rain coming down hard, Emily Lathen didn’t expect much from her first throw in the 2A girls’ discus. The Vang...

LAKEWOOD – Alexa Chacon didn’t want to take any chances. She had done the dirty work, and she simply needed to clear one more hurdle. So she acted as cautious as ever.
“The last one is the tricky one,” Chacon said after winning ...

LAKEWOOD - For The Classical Academy’s track team, the state meet was a mission of redemption. Not so much redemption of result, but redemption of capability.
TCA won both the boys’ and girls’ 3A team championships. The boys beat thei...