Led by Niwot’s Rocco Culpepper and Monarch’s Tyler Rowan — the Longmont Times-Call and Daily Camera boys’ track and field athletes of the year — 48 locals made the all-state team put out by the Colorado High School Activities Association.
Culpepper captured three state titles for the Cougars, who placed second in 4A, winning the 800-meter run (1:55.23), 1,600 (4:17.23) and anchoring the 4×800 to a class meet record (7:43.92).
He was joined on 4A’s first team by 4×800 teammates Gavin Engtrakul, Cole Mazurana and Quinn Sullivan. On the second team was Abraham Menjivar and Joshua Archuleta, both of whom were part of a third-place 4×400 alongside Culpepper and Sullivan.
Rowan was the area’s lone 5A first teamer after winning his second straight title in the pole vault, clearing a personal-best mark of 16 feet, nine inches. Teammate Ethan Nuttall finished third in the event, making the second team.
On 4A’s first team, Longmont’s Teagan Malcom won the 300 hurdles (38.38 seconds). On the second was the Trojans’ third-place 4×200, which included Kolby Holmes, Tristan Rench, Zander Salva and Sam Varga.
On 3A’s top team, Holy Family’s Griffin Eastman won the 100 in 10.90. He led the Tigers’ sprint relays alongside second teamers Jonathan Nguyen (second in 4×100; third in the 4×200), Christopher Johnnides (4×200), DJ Redlinger (4×200), Adam Tapp (4×100) and Nate Welch (4×100).
Elsewhere on state second teams, Erie’s Mason Cowgill took third in the 4A discus, Peak to Peak’s Ethan Rathke was third in the 3A pole vault, Twin Peaks Charter’s Joshua Bishop was second in 2A 300 hurdles and Lyons’ Miles Dumbauld finished second in the 2A triple jump and third in the 110 hurdles and long jump.
Honorable mentions in 5A include Erie’s Jackson Cowgill (shot put) and the Tigers’ fifth-place 4×100 of Carson Hageman, Joshua Levine, Gavin Lusk and Braylon Toliver. Centaurus’ fourth-place 4×800 of Jacoby Ennis, Jesse Hatland, Jordan Schatz and Devon Villareal.
Honorable mentions in 4A were Niwot’s Weston Domich (triple jump), Frederick’s Tristen Dean (400), Silver Creek’s Michael Fertitta (pole vault) and the Raptors’ fifth-place 4×200 of Jack Boyt, Jackson Coleman, Cole Rogers and Kameron Sam.
The 3A HMs are Holy Family’s Michael Dooley (110 hurdles) and Jefferson Academy’s fifth-place 4×800 of Sean Beasley, Aden Garza, Rylan Mills and Chase Wittman.
The 2A honorable mentions are from Lyons. Second teamer Dumbauld was joined by the other three runners in the Lions’ fourth-place 4×400 in Matthew Hunter, Keenan Young and Will Dumbauld.
