LAKEWOOD – The 2025 Colorado High School Activities Association track and field meet wrapped up Saturday at Jefferson County Stadium with several athletes for the San Luis Valley competing.

Class 3A

Alamosa

The Alamosa High School track program swept both 3,200-meter run races on Friday. Ethan Merrick won the boys race in 9:41.31, and Elizabeth McQuitty won the girls 3,200 in 11:17.35.

Merrick took had a good strategy to score the win. He stayed with the front of the pack for the first six laps, then he kicked it into high gear on the final two laps and pulled away for the win.

“The goal was to stay with them for as long as possible,” Merrick said. “I just wanted to go out hard, because when you slowly come out, then people come with you.”

Merrick is only a freshman. He wants to keep winning state titles for the rest of his high school career.

“I want to get it all four years,” Merrick said.

Merrick also ran in the 1,600 meters on Saturday. However, he finished 17th in 4:40.78.

It was an entirely different race for McQuitty.

Eaton’s Delaney Reuter actually won the race, and McQuitty was second. But Reuter was disqualified and McQuitty was named the official winner.

McQuitty didn’t want to win that way. In fact, she was adamant about who won.

“I did not win,” McQuitty said. “Delaney won. She deserves that race. She ran amazingly, and it was very unfair. We went clear to cut into lane 5. She deserves to win.”

“It was sportsmanship at the highest level,” said McQuitty’s mother and Alamosa head coach Jen McQuitty.

McQuitty later ran in the 800 meters on Friday. However, she finished 12th in 2:27.32. On Saturday, she finished in sixth place in the 1,600 5:12.06. Reuter was the winner of that race and left little doubt this time – winning in about 1 ½ seconds.

McQuitty will now head to the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs to compete in both cross country and track.

“I’m excited to compete, and have great competition,” McQuitty said. “I know I’m going to be pushed.”

Also for the Alamosa boys on Friday, Jeremiah DeLaCerda was 15th in the 3,200 in 10:22.37, and Cody Williams was 16th in the 800 in 2:08.43. Williams was fifth in the 1,600 on Saturday in 4:309.74.

On Saturday, Brayden Moeller had two Top 5 finishes in sprint finals. He took fifth place in the 100-meter dash in 10.97 seconds, breaking his school record by 0.01 seconds. He also placed third in the 200 in 22.30.

The Mean Moose boys ran only one relay on Friday. The team of Adlai Gardner, Timone Dolan, Tyler Dokson and Brayden Moeller were 17th in the 4x400 in 3:34.82.

For the Alamosa girls on Friday, Timay Garcia finished fifth in the pole vault at 9-11. Braeyln Martinez and Amelia Martinez tied for 12th in the same event at 7-11.

Lily Heersink was 13th in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 49.88, and Brandi Garrison was 16th in the discus at 99-1, also on Friday.

In relays, Kailynn King, Kalyee Gonzales-Moore, Heersink and Zale’briel Smart were 13th in the 4x100 in 52.04, and King, Sylvia Daugherty, A’Jordane Lewis, and Gonzales-Moore were 11th in the 4x400 in 4:15.95. Both relay prelims were on Friday.

Alamosa finished eighth in the boys meet with 29 points. The Lady Mean Moose tied for 13th with 19.

In Special Olympic events, Matthew Hollingsworth was fifth in the mixed shot put at 19-10 ¾, and 12th in the mixed long jump 8-11 ½. Bethany Pittman was 26th in the mixed long jump at 3-9.

Centauri

For the Falcons, Troy Sowards followed up his state high jump championship by taking fifth in the long jump at 20-7.

Other Centauri boys who competed on Friday included Blake Johnson who was 11th in the shot put at 42-8 ¾, and Ben Norton was 14th in the 300 hurdles in 42.47.

The team of Dallyn King, Tyrel Hostetter, Carson Bagwell and Sowards were fourth in the 4x400 in 3:25.40 to qualify for the finals. In the final round, they finished fourth in 3:25.11.

For the Lady Falcons, Analynn Dwyer took 13th in the high jump at 4-11.

The Centauri boys were 12th seventh with 21 points. The Centauri girls tied for 32nd with three points.

Class 2A

Center

Center had one boy and one girls compete on Friday.

Andree Meraz finished in fifth place in the discus at 139-0.

For the Lady Vikings, Presley Wilson was 10th in the shot put at 32-6 ¾.

On Saturday, Caden Ruggles finished eighth in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 42.64.

Center tied for 34th in the boys standings with seven points. The girls tied for 39th with two points.

Del Norte

Damon Ledford-Vigil tied for fourth in the pole vault at 13-3 on Friday.

The team of Cruz Matta, Corbin Horrocks, Yalan Carrillo and Caleb Cowett finished ninth in the 4x400 in 3:33.63 to qualify for the finals. On Saturday, they took eighth place in 3:31.46.

The Tiger boys tied for 26th with 12 points. The Lady Tigers have not scored.

Sanford

Erica Miller accounted for all of Sanford’s points in the girls meet. She took sixth place in the 400 meters in 1:00.34.

The Lady Mustangs tied for 31st place with four points.

Class 1A

Creede

Creede’s Charlie Fairchild was seventh in the high jump at 5-9 on Friday.

Jasmine Laing tied for seconds in the girls high jump on Saturday at 5-2.

The Miners were 36th with 2 ½ points. The Lady Miners were 30th with seven points.

Sangre de Cristo

Hayden Cleve tied for fifth place in the pole vault at 10-8 on Thursday.

Brody Artaechevarria was seventh in the 800 in 2:06.40 on Friday and was sixth in the 400 in 53.10 on Saturday.

For the Lady Thunderbirds, Olyvia Wofford was ninth in the 100-meter high hurdles in 18.26 on Saturday.

The Sangre boys team was 23rd with 11 points. The Lady Thunderbirds were 34th with one points.

Sierra Grande

Jaydn Martinez was ninth in the high jump at 5-7 on Friday. Nehemiah Wilson was eighth in the long jump at 18-2 ½ on Saturday.

The team of Wilson, Martinez, Rolando Najera, Ayden Lopez were second in a 4x100 relay a run-off in 47.22 seconds and fell short of the finals on Friday.

The Panthers tied for 37th place in the boys meet with two points,

Emily Melgoza

Former Alamosa student-athlete Emily Melgoza finished sixth in the Class 1A girls discus at 104-1 for McClave. The Lady Cardinals tied for the state championship with Idalia with 70 points.

This academic year, McClave won state championships in volleyball, girls basketball and girls track. Melgoza was on all three teams.