Championship Week!

 

It's Championship Week for both JV and Varsity this week! The season will soon wind to a close. Please mark your calendars for our Track Banquet on Sunday, May 19th at 3pm

THIS WEEK

Tuesday 4/30 -- JV @ Echo Park -- HOSTED BY HRHS -- meet schedule

• We need a couple of parents to help with serving the Coaches' Meal around 4-5pm in one of the sheds near the track. Pizzas will arrive at the track. We just need a couple of parents to welcome coaches and shoo away kids. Please contact Coach Krauss to help so our coaching staff can focus on coaching at the meet.

• This will be our final JV competition of the season. Those who are done with competition for the season need to turn in uniforms to Coach Krauss before the end of next week. 

SCHEDULE CHANGE FOR VARSITY

Varsity was originally scheduled for Thursday/Saturday. Based on the forecast, the meet has been moved to Friday 5/3 @ 4pm and Saturday 5/4 @ 9am

Click here for full schedule

THANK YOU!

Thank you for supporting our team's fundraiser! We raised $9,336 to help with extra coaches, a new high jump pit cover, team T-shirts, and a new team tent.

LAST WEEK

Thank you to the Carbone Family for hosting our team dinner last week! 

Although our varsity meet was canceled, we have full results from the Frosh/Soph meet plus lots of new meet photos thanks to Kristy Hart!

Congratulations to our Continental League Frosh/Soph Placewinners:

2nd -- Haden Hart -- 110 meter hurdles

4th -- Addy McLeod -- 200 meters

5th -- Giancarlo Ortega -- 800 meters

7th -- Addy McLeod -- 100 meters

8th -- Mara Wren -- 100 meter hurdles

9th -- Grayson Forget -- 800 meters

Week 8 Updates

 After a snowy Saturday, we're hoping for a week of better track weather!

Click here for last week's JV Results

Congratulations to our placewinners, Mara Wren (6th high jump) and Lillianah Velickovski (8th long jump)!

THIS WEEK

Wednesday 4/24 @ 2pm - Frosh/Soph Championship @ Echo Park - meet info

Friday 4/26 @ 5pm - Team Dinner @ 8452 Fairview Ct., Lone Tree

• THANK YOU to the Carbone Family for hosting!
• Please sign up to help provide food and drinks for the meal! We need bread, salad, cookies, and drinks.
• Please RSVP (Attending) if you are coming so the hosts can plan quantities

Saturday 4/27@ 9am - Varsity @ Ram Charger @ Jeffco Stadium - meet info

FUNDRAISING UPDATE

With 4 days left in our Snap!Raise campaign, we need only $750 more to reach our goal. Please help us finish strong this week!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

All athletes who complete the season with us (and their families) are invited to our Track Banquet on Sunday, May 19th @ 3pm 

Week 7 Updates

Last week was a great week for track and field! Our athletes set lots of new PR's, won lots of ribbons, and put down current state-qualifying results in two events. Scroll to the end for last week's results, place winners, photo links, and more.

TO-DO THIS WEEK

Order Your Team Shirt

Many athletes have already done this at practice this week. We just need names and sizes. Team shirts are funded by our fundraising efforts this year (see an update below). If they have not already ordered a size in practice, athletes should complete the form linked below by Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY 4/17

• JV @ Echo Park @ 2pm - Order of Events

• Spirit Night @ Parry's Pizza in Highlands Ranch @ 5-9pm - Come for dinner after the meet. Mention HRHS and Parry's will donate a portion of proceeds to our team. Thanks to our boosters for coordinating this event!

Friday 4/19 - No School + Prom -- NO PRACTICE

Saturday 4/20 @ 9am - Varsity @ Denver Christian -- Meet Info

FUNDRAISING UPDATE

Our athletes have done a great job asking for support from family and friends! 

• We have raised almost 85% of our $10,000 goal. 
• If every member of our team got one more $20 donation, we would hit our goal. 
• We have 10 more days to donate. Go Falcons! 

PARENTS, WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Thank you to Angie Austell for signing up to host our final Team Dinner on May 3rd!

We're still looking for a host for our next Team Dinner at HRHS on April 26th. 

• The main dish can be pasta, pizza, a taco bar, or whatever you dream up.
•  Multiple families can come together to host. 
• Please help keep this team tradition strong!

SIGN UP HERE

RESULTS, PHOTOS, AND STATE QUALIFYING

Click here and scroll down for hundreds of new photos from the weekend

Ponderosa Frosh/Soph Results 

Meet Champions

Addy McLeod - long jump

Bridget Carbone - triple jump

Madi Rinker - pole vault

5th Place - Mara Wren - 100 hurdles

6th Place - Evan Partridge - triple jump

7th Place 

Addy McLeod - 100 meters

Giancarlo Ortega - 400 meters

9th Place - Lyla Stevens - discus

TJ Twilight Results

Meet Champions

Girls 4x100 Relay **

3rd Place

Girls 4x200 Relay**

4th Place

Bridget Carbone - long jump

Bridget Carbone - triple jump

5th Place

Addy McLeod - long jump

Boys 4x800 Relay

6th Place

Emry El Bassuni - 100 meter hurdles

7th Place

Ezra Simonich - 100 meter hurdles

8th Place

Bella Hinkle - high jump

Dayla Hybertson - triple jump

Connor Cravens - 3200 meters

9th Place

Bella Hinkle - long jump

Chloe Young - triple jump

Celie Page - discus

Celie Page - shot

**Our Girls 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams are both currently ranked 14th in 5A teams in Colorado. The top 18 teams in each event qualify for the State Championship meet. Click here for more info on state qualifying.

Week 6 Updates: Wednesday Frosh/Soph Just Added

NEW PHOTOS

We have new photos to share from this week's Varsity meet thanks to Adam Cermak! If you have photos of JV or Varsity meets to share, please upload them here. Questions on uploading? Contact Coach Turnage

MEET RESULTS

Varsity Meet Results 

JV Meet Results 

Congratulations to our Varsity placewinners:

• 4th - Girls 4x100
• 5th - Girls 4x200
• 5th - Addy McLeod - long jump
• 6th - Addy McLeod - 100 meters
• 6th - Girls Sprint Medley
• 7th - Molly Smith - 200 meters
• 8th - Rachel Cowden - 800 meters
• 8th - Chloe Young - long jump

Congratulations to our JV placewinners:

• 1st - Madi Renker - pole vault
• 4th - Girls 4x800
• 5th - Yoshi Yokosawa - long jump
• 8th - Boys 4x400
• 9th - Lillianah Velickovski - long jump

THIS WEEK

Please use TeamSnap (Messages - Chat) to arrange carpooling if your student needs a ride or if you can offer a ride to this week's meets!

• JUST ADDED: Wednesday 4/10 @ 2pm Frosh/Soph @ Echo Park

• Friday 4/12 Varsity @ 11 a.m. @ TJ Twilight -- All City Stadium - Admission $5/adult - $3/student

THANK YOU

A BIG THANK YOU to all the family and friends who have helped our team surpass the halfway mark on our fundraising goal through our SnapRaise Fundraiser!! Please share our fundraiser on social media or via text or email to help us reach our goal before 4/26.

Our goals for this fundraiser included a new team tent for meets, extra coaches beyond the 5 the district funds, equipment & implements ... and now after Saturday's windstorm that picked up our entire high jump pit and flipped it over the fence surrounding the track, a new high jump pit cover (these run in the $2,000-$3,000 range). We appreciate your support in this effort!!

COMING SOON

Our next Team Dinner is scheduled for 4/26 at HRHS. We hope all athletes will attend to celebrate our fundraising efforts and the results of our Frosh/Soph Championship.

RSVP HERE (scroll to bottom for Attending)

 We're looking for parents to host and help provide food and drinks for the meal. The main dish can be pasta, pizza, a taco bar, or whatever you dream up. Multiple families can come together to host. Please help keep this team tradition strong!

SIGN UP HERE

Questions on Team Dinners? Contact Kristy Hart

First Week of April Updates

After an April Fool's Day snow, we expect great track weather for our practices and meets this week. 

Thank you to Katherine Sauerland who hosted and Kristy Hart who co-hosted our team dinner last Friday and to all the families who helped by providing salad, desserts, and drinks for the meal!

Here are results from last week's meets:

• JV Results
• Varsity Results

Click here to see our latest meet photos. Thanks to Haden Hart and Kristy Hart for taking these at the Broomfield Shootout!

If you have meet photos to share, please upload them here. Need help with uploading? Contact Coach Turnage

Our placewinners at the JV meet were:

• Lillianah Velickovski -- 5th girls long jump
• Mara Wren -- 6th girls long jump
• Yoshi Yokosawa -- 7th girls long jump

At the Varsity meet our placewinners included:

• Addy McLeod - 4th girls long jump
• Madi Rinker - 6th girls pole vault
• Bridget Carbone - 7th girls triple jump
• Bella Hinkle - 9th girls high jump

THIS WEEK

Wednesday 4/3 @ 2:00 pm - JV @ Echo Park

Saturday 4/5 -- Varsity @ JEFFCO STADIUM (Note: this is a new location)

Our Team!Snap fundraiser continues through 4/26, and we're off to a strong start thanks to several athletes who have shared the fundraiser through emails and texts! Click here to see our team video and support our team by sharing our fundraising page or donating:

We still have several athletes who have not entered emails or showed coaches their texts for the fundraiser, so we know we can finish strong with their help! Full participation from our team will help us fund:

•  A new team tent for meets: Our current tent is several years old and has been "Frankensteined" together with spare parts from old tents as parts have broken from the wind. We are planning to get a new tent that is built to withstand winds as high as 35 mph.

• Assistant Coaches: It takes a lot of expertise to coach distance, sprints, throws, jumps, and hurdles for 70+ athletes across JV and Varsity! The district only funds 5 coaches. Our team has 8.

• New equipment and implements: Every year, we have equipment and implement needs. This is our first season with new blocks, a new pole vault pit cover, and a new hurdles cart we were able to purchase with last year's fundraiser. This season, we have already purchased new throws implements and training equipment and we also hope to invest in new timing equipment for sprinters with funds from this year's fundraiser.

• Senior gifts and year-end awards and other team traditions

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!