Given the strong and talented senior leadership provided last year by Garrett Kenyon and Michael Claflin, Liberty runner Clayson Shumway perhaps held back a little in displaying his true competitive spirit.
Not any more.
With neither to follow this...

Few moments in 30 years of coaching have given Coronado cross country coach Doug Hugill the true range of emotions that poured over him by finally hoisting the 4A boys’ state team title trophy Oct. 28 at Norris-Penrose Event Center.
That’s...

When Bailey Roth moved to Colorado Springs just before the start of the 2012 school year, he knew the challenge that faced him.
The junior — the 3A cross country state champion in Georgia last year — had a new classification, and most...

It has catchy names, such as Little Willis, Western Drop Out and Spike Hill. The backdrop offered views of snowy mountain peaks, pine trees, creeks, bridges and barns, and was accentuated with a grandstand full of fans cheering runners as the rugged...

Bailey Roth slipped, then slipped again and in so doing watched the 4A boys’ cross country state individual championship slip away.
But while Roth had to settle for second place individually, he and his Coronado teammates made no such concession ...

It was an offseason of extreme highs and lows for Coronado's cross country program and coach Doug Hugill.
The downside was obvious as fire swept through the neighborhoods in which many of the school's students reside. Nearly all were evacuated and,...

After Saturday, Cheyenne Mountain cross country coach and guidance counselor Stan Lambros won’t have quite as much to think about.
That’s because in the nine-plus months since the Colorado High School Activities Association approved Cheyenn...

FOUNTAIN • There were 86 runners in the 4A Region 2 girls’ cross country championship Thursday at Fountain-Fort Carson, but Air Academy’s Katie Rainsberger’s primary focus wasn’t on any of them.
“Coming into the race...

Ali Deitsch was still too fast for the competition at the Doherty Spartan Invitational on Friday even with her wet, purple shoelaces flapping all over the place.
Both of the Palmer Ridge junior’s shoes came untied within the first mile of the cro...

FOUNTAIN – Between the two races at Saturday’s Brooks/TCA Titan Thunder Invitational, Pine Creek cross country runners produced – in horse racing terms – a win, a place and a show.
Eagles junior Caleb Ingram, easily a dark horse...