When all of the best track and field athletes that Colorado has to offer converged on Jefferson County Stadium over the weekend, Fleming didn’t disappoint in the Class 1A competition as the Wildcats collected a few individual state titles.
Thanks to a collective effort, the Fleming ladies placed fourth as a team with 55.50 points. Kally Kirkwood led that effort with gold in the 400-meter dash, recording a time of 58.60 seconds, before placing fourth in the 200 with a time of 26.79. She also led the 800 sprint medley relay, which she anchored, to a victory after she, Lexi Schaefer, Siena Donnelson and Maddy Harms ended their race in one minute, 53.35 seconds.
The girls 4×200 relay claimed the silver with a 1:51.34 time, outpacing the 4×400 (fifth, 4:26.03), the 4×100 (eighth, 54.90) and the 4×800 (eighth, 11:22.07). Schaefer added her own flair to the individual events as she nabbed the bronze in the triple jump with a leap of 33 feet, six inches.
Madisyn Serrato contributed to both the track and the field side of things, as she claimed seventh in both the 3,200 run with a 13:38.64 mark and in the pole vault with a clearance of 7–6. Nolan Japp, the lone Fleming boy to make the podium, placed second in the triple jump with his own hop of 42–2.
Sterling adds a few podium finishes of its own
In Class 3A, Sterling’s track team found its way onto the podium a few times as well. Hunter Diamond placed eighth in the 100 (11.24), then helped his 4×100 relay team to sixth place (43.55).
The Sterling girls represented well in the triple jump, thanks to Emmie Farquhar (fourth, 34–4.25), Dillyn Morton (fifth, 34–1.25) and Audrey Reeves (eighth, 33–7.5). Farquhar doubled up with seventh in long jump (16–3.5). Elizabeth Miller placed fourth in the pole vault (10 feet), followed by Courtney Canada, who tied for fifth (9–6).
