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Colorado State Meet 2014 Recap - DyeStat

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DyeStat.com   May 19th 2014, 6:54pm
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Hall and Cranny share mile-high spotlight

 

State Meet Highlights

Colorado boasts several of the country’s top high school track and field athletes and they all stood up and delivered in Lakewood (5,480 feet elevation) over the weekend. Dior Hall moved to No. 3 on the all-time 100 hurdles list, Elise Cranny and Cerake Geberkidane produced mind-bending distance triples, and much more. The elevation does funny things to a state meet full of talented athletes, affecting the flight of throwing implements and jumpers and the lactic acid build-up of distance runners. One other thing that makes the state meet here a little different is that it scores nine places deep (a factor when you see how close the 6A team race shook out).

 

Top Performances:


- Let’s start here with Elise Cranny of Boulder’s Class 4A Niwot. She ran 10:17.48 in the 3200 for a 53-second win and a state meet record. It was also reported to be an all-time Colorado record, besting the 10:21.37 of Melody Fairchild in 1991. Colorado is one of those states where the so-called state records don’t include anything that happened away from the state (or sometimes the only ones that count are from the state meet). But, in fact, Megan Kaltenbach of Smoky Hill ran 10:03.15 at nationals in 2002. And Fairchild ran 9:55.92 for a full two miles indoors at Syracuse, N.Y. in 1991. The NCAA attempts to level its playing field but using altitude adjustments for distance races, but this is an inexact science. Cranny would get 18-19 seconds stripped from her time with an altitude conversion, so it is possibly superior to Kaltenbach’s sea-level time and perhaps not as good as Fairchild’s indoor run. (And remember, freshman Lauren Gregory ran 10:15.34 at Arcadia this year). Cranny ran 4:47.54 to win the 1600 meters at state, edging out Katie Rainsberger (4:48.84) for the win. An altitude adjustment would strip away seven seconds from that and put her at 4:40ish. But is that better than Eleanor Fulton’s 4:42.90 full mile at the 2011 Dream Mile in New York City? Again, it’s probably really close. Cranny’s weekend also included a late charge to win the 800 in 2:12.05. It was her second three-event sweep at the state meet.


- Dior Hall of George Washington ran a lifetime best 13.09 in the finals of the 100 hurdles and now trails only Candy Young (12.95) and Vashti Thomas (13.03) on the all-time list. Hall also ran 11.69 for second place in the 5A 100 and 24.26 for fourth place in the 200. Her mother, Yolanda Johnson, was No. 2 all-time in the 100 hurdles when she ran 13.25 in 1986.


- Carly Lester of Rocky Mountain broke the all-time state best in the 300 hurdles with 41.18. That’s also US#2. She also ran 14.16 for third in the 100 hurdles.


- Cerake Geberkidane of Denver East put together a spectacular distance triple of 1:52.30, 4:11.46 and 9:13.68. When you throw in those altitude considerations, it’s even more impressive.


- Alleandra Watt of Pine Creek had an amazing weekend in the sprints. She won the 100 with a maximum allowable wind of 2.0 in 11.53. She won the 200 in 23.73. And she was part of a Colorado record 4x200, 1:37.05 in the prelims when everyone still had fresh legs. She also was on the 4x400 relay that won in 3:49.30.


- Kevin McClanahan of Erie turned had an exceptional sprint triple in Class 4A, with 10.67, 21.33w and 46.78.


- Chyna Ries of Denver East won the long jump with 20-4.50 and was also third in the 5A 100 with 11.75.


- Jordyn Colter, recovering nicely from a stress fracture last fall, won the 5A 800 in 2:09.16 for Cherry Creek. She also edged out Lauren Gregory in the 1600 with 4:57.27.


- Sophomore Ashley Miller of Cherry Creek might just be the next big thing in Colorado. In the same race where Hall ran a state record, Miller ran US#2 13.38. And Miller also ran US#8 41.57 in the 300 hurdles. She is one of only three girls in the country ranked in the top 10 of both events.

 

Top Teams:


It was a tight battle for the 5A boys team title, with Fountain of Fort Carson pulling it out with 76 points thanks to a second-place finish in the 4x400 relay. Grandview (sixth in the relay) was second overall with 74 and Cherokee Trail was third with 70. The girls team race was tight, too, with Fort Collins beating Pine Creek 84-80.


The Palmer Ridge boys dominated Class 4A with 103 points and put a stamp on the victory with a 3:15.51 4x400 relay that barely missed the all-time state record. Niwot, with Cranny’s 30 points doing much of the damage, won the girls title with 66. The Classical Academy swept the 3A team titles.

 

Top Competition: The girls Class 5A 4x400 relay was dazzling, with seven teams under 3:56. Up front, it went right down to the wire with Pine Creek pulling it out with 3:49.30. Grandview was next in 3:49.42. Then Fairview in 3:50.00. And Thunder Ridge in 3:50.28. Four teams within a second.

 

Record-breakers: Of the many record-breaking performances out of the meet, there was another we hadn’t mentioned yet. Nicole Montgomery, a junior from Lewis-Palmer, broke the Class 4A meet record in the 400 with 53.44. That’s also US#5.

 

Results:

http://parser.dyestat.com/meets.jsp?state=CO



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