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High School Sports

  • Lopez captures 800-meter run championship at Valhalla Classic

    GREELEY – Brighton’s Rachael Lopez won the 800-meter run at Saturday’s Valhalla Classic at the University of Northern Colorado.

     

                She finished in a time of 2:20.52, almost three seconds ahead of Frederick’s Makenzie Urban.

                Brighton’s 4-by-200-meter relay team of Joslynn Lopez, Sumer Minne, Alayna Truong and Elizabeth DeFeo won its race in a time of 1:51.37.

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  • Pawlak takes title in 1,600-meter run at Valhalla Classic

    GREELEY – Prairie View’s Alex Pawlak won the 1,600-meter run at Saturday’s Valhalla Classic at the University of Northern Colorado. His time was 4:43.43. He also placed fifth in the 800-meter run in a time of 2:07.52.

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  • PVHS girls soccer – a mix of youth and depth

    HENDERSON – On the one hand, Prairie View girls soccer coach Jason Oulman loves the idea of extra players on his squad this spring.

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  • Potestio named as new athletic director at BHS

    BOULDER – Todd Potestio has been around the athletic block.
        He was a basketball coach and athletic director at Eagle Valley High School in Gypsum. As the basketball boss, he guided the Devils to state playoff bids after a lengthy dry spell (including one 3-17 season). As the athletic director, he started the girls softball program for the school.

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  • Godinez has comfort zone in first head coaching job

    Anthony Day
    Contributing writer

        BRIGHTON – Gonzalo Godinez is not a stranger to the game of soccer.
        Even though this is his first head coaching job in his career he is well prepared for the challenge.
        Brighton High School hired Godinez at the start of this school year to lead the girls soccer program as the head coach. Godinez formerly coached for Adams City, Ralston Valley, and Pomona High School programs as an assistant.

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  • Brighton sees room for improvement after win

    BRIGHTON – It wasn’t an exceptionally pretty win for Brighton when the Bulldogs beat Littleton 9-3 Friday at a wind-blown Duke White Field.

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  • BHS gets new A.D.

    Todd Potestio from the Boulder Valley School District is Brighton's new athletic director.

    He will "replace" Rich Affleck, who stays with the school district but returns to Prairie View High School in the fall. Affleck had been the school district's athletic director the past two years and split his time between Brighton and Prairie View high schools.

    Potestio is an assistant principal at the Arapahoe Campus in the Boulder Valley School District. Before that, he was a coach at Berthoud High School.

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  • College baseball

        Former Brighton High School pitcher Zac Wittmus has a record of 3-3 for Trinidad State Junior College this season. His ERA is 2.50.
        In 36 innings of work, he’s struck out 26 batters.

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  • Wilson tabbed EMAC player of the year

        Prairie  View’s Jordan Wilson was the Eastern Metro Athletic Conference’s player of the year this season.
        She joined Brighton’s Brielle Brady on the first-team, EMAC all-conference team. The second team included PVHS’ Kiki Heard. The honorable-mention certificates went to Aili Kremer and Paxton Duran of Brighton and to Karissa Cardenas and Cierra Mendoza of the ThunderHawks.

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  • Thompson bides his time with CSU-Pueblo football team

    PUEBLO – Former Prairie View all-conference football player Jarred Thompson knows his time will come for his new team, the ThunderWolves of Colorado State University-Pueblo.
        That time wasn’t this past fall.

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