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Vail Mountain Nordic ski coach Shawn Ellenbaum said that before Wednesday’s Colorado High School League races at Vail Nordic Center, he and a few other coaches placed some unofficial bets on the winning times. With...

Take the next step. That was the theme of 2023 for many of the area’s top prep athletes and teams. Battle Mountain celebrated four state titles, three of which came after runner-up representations. The soccer...

Every August I look forward to the return of students. Usually, by the time we reach fall break, we’re ready for a bit of a reprieve. Come October, we’ve settled back into our routines, had...

On a chilly November afternoon two weeks before Nike Cross Nationals (NXN), Porter Middaugh and Will Brunner marked off a 1-mile loop around the snow-blanketed Eagle-Vail golf course. The agenda for the Battle Mountain runners...

Get some swag. That was the gist of Rob Parish’s pre-meet motivational speech to Will Brunner and Porter Middaugh at last Saturday’s NXR Southwest regional championships in Mesa, Arizona. For the 22 teams and 50...

The Durango cross country team joined the rest of the best at the 4A state championship meet Saturday in Colorado Springs. Niwot won both the boys and girls team titles. Niwot’s top five boys runners ...

The Summit High School cross-country team jogged to the start line on Saturday morning, Oct. 28, as snow flurries crashed over the Colorado Springs foothills and started covering the Norris Penrose Event Center — the...

When you’re one of the fittest runners on the start line, the most-common approach to ensure being in contention at the end is to employ a conservative, tactical race strategy. When you’re the fittest …...

For Will Brunner, the journey has always been as much of a thrill as the destination. “I think building up to racing has always been the thing that really excites me,” the Vail Mountain senior...

At last, the Devils are cross-country region champs. “It was the goal and we finally just got it done on the day we needed to get it done,” said head coach Melinda Brandt, who has...