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It’s Day 3 of the Colorado high school state track and field meet at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood. The Denver Post is there throughout the weekend providing live coverage. Refresh this page for the latest updates and results.
Thursday headlines
Colorado state track meet primer: Storylines, returning champions and what to know ahead of this weekend
In tiny Western Slope town of De Beque, Scottie Vines emerges as record-breaking high jumper
Day 1 & Day 2 headlines
State track briefs: Peak to Peak’s Kourtney Rathke, The Classical Academy’s Anna Willis smash 3A record in final pole vault showdown
Cherokee Trail boys win 800-meter relay title in state record time, indicating Cougars will capture second straight Class 5A team title
In 25th year of Special Olympic/Paralympic races at state track, events are “one of the greatest things we do here”
Overland’s Jarrius Ward breaks Class 5A state meet record in epic discus duel
Broomfield senior Lilly Nichols sets a new Colorado standard in the field pole vault
Colorado state track meet, Day 1: Results from Jeffco Stadium
Updates
Championship Saturday (8:30 a.m.): The third and final day of the 2024 CHSAA state track and field championships has arrived.
Can the Nuggets go from gags to riches?
They were equipped to type an exclamation point to one of the oddest playoff series in franchise history and instead put a question mark at the end of the sentence.
The Nuggets did not inspire confidence on Thursday. Now, the entire season comes down to a Game 7 on Sunday.
This team has met the moment for a calendar year.
Of course it came down to the puck on Matt Duchene’s stick.
It figures because of his history in this building and this state.
It figures, too, because he had his fingerprints all over Game 6.
Double overtime. Running on fumes. A week that turned the Avalanche’s season upside down.
It’s been a long time since Duchene played for Colorado at this point (although, fans still boo him at Ball Arena).
The Colorado Avalanche lost 2-1 in overtime to the Dallas Stars in Game 6 of the second round of the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado on Friday night, May 17, 2024. Dallas won the series 4-2.
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Georgie’s finest. Fistfights aren’t pretty. They sometimes require just hanging tough. With the season hanging in the balance, Alexandar Georgiev patrolled the crease with little room for error. Colorado’s high-flying offense found itself in a grinder.
For 236 days, the Colorado Avalanche was a Stanley Cup contender during the 2023-24 NHL season.
The calculus changed on Day 237, and the memories of how this campaign unraveled in swift fashion may only be rivaled by the what ifs and what could have beens in the decades to come.
It all came apart in a few days, weeks short of the intended destination.