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State Championships

Cougars Wrap Up an Amazing Weekend

The third day of competition was as good as the previous two days with the Cougars grabbing one more gold, a silver, a fourth place and a ninth place (more on this later).  In all, the squad of thirteen runners managed to set three school records and grab three gold medals.  Add to that, a second place, a third, two fourths and a ninth.  This was by far our most successful Sate Meet in recent memory (perhaps ever).  The girls team tied with Doherty for eighth (33 points) and the best finish for a 5A Pikes Peak regional team.  The boys team tied Cherry Creek for fourteenth (25 points).  And, if we combine the two team scores, only Littleton (158), ThunderRidge (85), Cherry Creek (81), Rampart (65^1/2), Fort Collins (61), and Doherty (59) scored more points than the Coronado Cougars (58).

Saturday's action was hot right out of the blocks with LaTraia easily winning the 100 meter dash in a time of 11.91, besting her closest competitor by over three tenths of a second.  Across the track, Marvin McChriston was preparing for the triple jump and started his competition with a very respectable jump of 43-9.  But who would have thought, going into the competition that a jump of nearly 44 feet would not be enough to earn a spot in the finals.  Competition was fierce on Saturday and many jumpers were exceeding their previous PRs by more than a foot.  In fact, a triple jumper from Air Academy had already laid down a jump of 46' 3", nearly three feet beyond his previous best.  Marvin would certainly have to rise to the challenge if he had any prayer of reaching the medal stand.  His second jump of 44' 10", moved him into second place but with little room to spare.  But, that jump did set things up where Marvin could "go for it" on his third attempt.  Bam...Marvin pops off his best jump ever, soaring 45' 7" to add significant security to his position.  But the top ten jumpers had three more attempts in the finals and given how things were going, there was no telling what might happen.  Marvin hoped that he could get off one more good jump and somehow catapult beyond the 46' 3" (leading) standard.  Of course the other nine jumpers were thinking along the same lines. As it turned out, little changed over the final three jumps and Marvin was secured in his position on the awards stand on as the runner-up.  A sequence of Marvin's 45' 7" jump can be found on the photo page.

Travvis Scott was setting up his starting blocks to run the 400 meter dash about the same time that Marvin was taking his last jump.  This was an extremely competitive field with six runners capable of running under 49 seconds.  Travvis got out a little slow but fought hard to move up to seventh place; a spot that appeared to be just within his grasp.  But the two competitors (he'd worked so hard to catch) were too tough down the stretch and held off the charge.  Travvis finished with a 50.06 to finish ninth to earn his spot on awards stand.

The Cougars final Saturday event brought the Cougars yet another fourth place finish and served to re-set a two day old school record.  The team of Meredith Green, Liya Scott, Maia Trujillo and LaTraia Scott sliced a thin margin of .05 seconds off of the record they had set (earlier) in the preliminaries.  This was a record which seemed to be unbreakable, as it had withstood three near misses (all within .05 seconds) over the past twelve months.  The most recent "failed attempt" took place at the Panther 2 Invitational in April where the Cougars were able to creep within .03 seconds of the record.  The Cougar foursome hoped to make an assault at either the Lady Tiger Invite or the Apple Blossom Invitational, but conflicting circumstances foiled each of the attempts.  The record continued it's resilience.  So, the relay team entered the Metro League Meet with the goal of qualifying for State and lowering the both sprint relay records.  Everything appeared to be progressing as planned; the Cougars lowered the 4x200 record (by nearly two seconds) early in the morning, then things suddenly went south.  LaTraia fell at the end of the 200 and had to scratch out of open 200 and, more importantly, the the 400 relay.  The record had survived another scare and, worse yet, the Cougars would then have to wait until Sunday morning to see if their time of 50.39 would hold up to get them to the State Meet.  Whew, they qualified as the number 16 team (only 18 qualify) and the rest is now history. 

But this record (and the 4x200) is very likely to stand up to the test of time.

Congrats to the entire "State Team" of ;

Seniors

LaTraia Scott, Marvin McChriston, Meredith Green, Andrew Hugill, Zach Gius & Brice Holiday.

Juniors

Travvis Scott, Dusty Solis, Dylan Witte & Ryan Logan

Sophomores

Maia Trujillo & Riley Franklin

Freshmen

Liya Scott

State Meet - Day Two

Great Scott... Cougars are four for for

The Cougars placed in every event they competed in on Friday.  LaTraia Scott won the 200 meters in an extremely impressive time and school record of 23.98.  LaTraia also ran on the third place 4X200 meter team (Meredith Green, Liya Scott, Maia Trujillo and LaTraia).   Travvis Scott won the high jump state championship (on misses) with a jump of 6' 7".  Finally, Dusty Solis employed his deadly kick to surge past five or six competitors down the final stretch to claim the fourth place medal.

It was an awesome day for Coronado with two gold medals, a school record and, a third place relay and a fourth place finish.  All of this on a slow day when Coronado was only involved in four events.  Coronado will be participating in another four events on Saturday and would love to have a repeat of Friday's results.

Photos from Day One have been posted.  Check here for full results.

See Day One Write-Up (below)

Dusty Solis in the first lap of the 800.

State Meet - Day One

Cougars Crush Two Relay Records

In the preliminary heats, the team of Meredith Green, Liya Scott, Maia Trujillo and LaTraia Scott broke two sprint relay records in the span of two hours.  Their time of 1:42.76 in the 4x200 eclipsed the record (by 1.28 seconds) set last week at the League Meet.  And then, less than 110 minutes later the foursome ran a 49.46 in the 4x100 to best a record of 50.36 that they've been chasing for the past two years.  But this time, instead of coming close, they shattered the record by a huge .9 seconds.  The relay teams drew a "lucky" lane four for each of the final races.  The finals of the 4x200 will be run on Friday afternoon and the 4x100 will be run on Saturday.

LaTraia Scott ran her best times of the year to advance with the number one seed in each of the two sprints.  LaTraia ran an 11.9 in the 100 and 24.76 in the 200.  The finals for the 200 will be run Friday afternoon with the finals in the 100 taking place on Saturday morning.

Travvis Scott advanced in the 400 meters with the eighth fastest time (49.76) of the morning and will also run his finals on Saturday.

Andrew Hugill placed 12th in the 3200 meter run with a time of 9:53 and then contributed to the thirteenth place finish in the 3200 meter relay.  In the 3200 relay, Andrew got a little help from teammates, Dusty Solis, Dylan Witte and Ryan Logan for the best time run by a Coronado team this century, finishing in 8:07.81.  Finally, the 13th ranked 4x400 relay team, consisting of Zach Gius, Travvis Scott, Brice Holiday and Dusty Solis, finished 13th in the qualifying rounds with a time of 3:26.

Photos from Day One have been posted.  Check here for full results