Glenwood Springs track teams shine at Cherry Creek Invitational

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colorado - Glenwood Springs' third-place boys finish and fourth-place girls finish at the Friday-Saturday Cherry Creek Invitational showed it's more than worthy of competing with the state's best track and field athletes.

Both finishes were tops among Colorado Class 4A schools.

With 64 points, the Demon boys finished behind only Rampart (110) and Regis Jesuit (65.5), while the girls' 66 points placed them behind champion Cheyenne (Wyo.) Central (114), Overland (91) and Cherry Creek (80.5).

Among the individual highlights for Glenwood were another state pre-qual mark for Katrina Selsor in the girls 3,200-meter run (11 minutes, 46.37 seconds), another state pre-qual mark for Laura Young in the girls 300 hurdles (46.27), a state pre-qual mark for the girls 4x400 relay (4:03.19) and another state pre-qual mark for Donnie Jennert in the boys long jump (23 feet, 83Ú4 inches).

Jennert, Young and the 4x400 relay team all won their events. Selsor finished second.

Jennert's leap also broke Glenwood's school record of 23-63Ú4, set by Jacob Benson in 2000.

Fellow Demon Dakota Stonehouse also eclipsed a school record over the weekend, running the boys 300 hurdles in 40.01 seconds to knock off his own record (40.09) and win the event.

Those marks were just the tip of the iceberg for Glenwood at the talent-loaded meet, which featured 17 schools on the girls side and 16 on the boys side.

On top of a win in the long jump, Jennert also won the high jump (6-7) and took sixth in the 200 (23.18). Connor Riley chipped in with a win in the boys triple jump (42-3).

Several other Demons finished high, including Jolie Dubois (girls 200, third, 26.53), Theresa Gabriel (girls triple jump, sixth, 33-71Ú2), Jordan Ciani (boys shot put, eighth, 43-21Ú2) and Greg Orosz (boys discus, eighth, 126-81Ú2).

Glenwood enjoyed bountiful relay success.

Complementing the girls 4x400 win was a second-place finish in the 4x100 (51.32), a second-place clocking in the 800 sprint medley (1:56.81), a fourth-place run in the 4x200 (1:52.88) and a fourth-place time in the 4x800 (10:18.6).

Demon boys relayers took second in the 4x400 (3:32.33), third in the 4x100 (44.34) and fifth in the 4x200 (1:36.18).

"We had some exceptional performances," Glenwood Springs coach Blake Risner said, "met many state-qualifying standards and showed that we can compete with the best in the state."