Denver North’s Kayla Young competed at the Foot Locker Cross County National Championships over the weekend, taking 24th as the only Colorado competitor in the field as the senior continues to pad her running resume.

“I think the race went...

Colorado high school girls stood out at the Nike Cross Country national championships Saturday in Portland, Ore.

Grandview’s Brie Oakley, who spent most of the season ranked No. 1 in the nation and won the state’s Class 5A cross country ti...

2016 Colorado Cross Country Championships at the Norris Penrose Events Center in Colorado Springs Saturday, October 29, 2016.

COLORADO SPRINGS — A highly emotional season for Peak to Peak High School’s cross country program ended Saturday with another emotional twist at the state cross country meet.

In September, a co-captain of the boys team, Brandon Ries, colla...

COLORADO SPRINGS — For almost two miles Lauren Gregory fought hard to make it a race worthy of two of America’s top high school runners. The three-time 5A champion from Fort Collins was laboring to stay with Brie Oakley, the Grandview star ...

FORT COLLINS — The Class 5A title duel between Lauren Gregory of Fort Collins and Brie Oakley of Grandview at the girls state cross country championships Saturday figures to be an epic race pitting two of the fastest runners in the nation.

They ...

AURORA — When Brie Oakley joined the Grandview cross country team a year ago and wanted to run in the prestigious Liberty Bell Invitational, coach Allyson Robbins thought it wouldn’t be right to let her run with the varsity because she had ...

So how much can you fit into a day? Katie Rainsberger squeezes everything she can into every 24 hours.

COLORADO SPRINGS — So how much can you fit into a day? Katie Rainsberger squeezes everything she can into every 24 hours.

The 5-foot-10, 128-pound, 17-year-old distance runner is up by 6:30 a.m. She eats oatmeal, prepares for school, showers a...

Air Academy's Katie Rainsberger is The Denver Post's female student-athlete of the week.