Colorado High School Sports News

Nominations are being accepted for The Denver Post Gold Helmet Award, which is celebrating its 58th year of recognizing outstanding young men in Colorado.

It was a fall sports season marked by highs, lows, and a few really heartbreaking finishes for Windsor High School.

With the winter sports season rapidly approaching, the Delta County Independent is looking for a few sports fanatics to help with high school sports coverage.

A pair of two-run homers. That is how Melbourne football coach Todd Wilson explained the bizarre score by which his Bulldogs advanced to this week's second round of the Class 5A state high school playoffs.

Softball Eaton - Beth Cheney Platte Valley - Delaney Furnish, Kim Widick, Elisabeth Larson Valley - Taylor Hutton, Haley Hutton, Lindsey Hubbard, Hope Asbury The fall sports season may have just ended on Saturday for county teams, but it's not too early to start looking ahead to the winter.

Returning state qualifiers for Windsor High School expecting to make their marks this year are, back row, from left, seniors Brett Ross and Kurtis Ramsay, and front row, from left, Nathaniel Garcia and Austin Harris, both juniors.

So much for sugar and spice and everything nice. The Colorado Springs Christian volleyball team is just plain mean to opponents and has been for six years now.

Keys to the engine These Fort Morgan volleyball players earned honors for sparking coach Tom Gonzales team throughout this 2009 season.

View larger image Strasburg's Lauran Agnew, right, gets a spike past Morgan Lewis of Northumberland during Tuesday's Group A state quarterfinal volleyball match in Strasburg.

Olympic gold medalist and former Maryvale High School student, Henry Cejudo, recently presented members of the Maryvale High School wrestling program with his signature brand of adidas wrestling shoes.

Outside of their own locker room, no one saw this coming. The Akron volleyball team, which didn't even make it out of districts a year ago, had a stellar performance at the opening day of the Class 2A state volleyball tournament Friday.

The routes to possible state titles became a whole lot clearer on Sunday for five county teams.

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The high school girls soccer postseason continued Tuesday night with the first round of the state tournament.

Fort Worth Wyatt outscored Abilene High 8-3 in overtime Tuesday to take a 46-41 victory in the season opener for both teams.

Not everything has a happy ending - not in life nor in sports. We had three volleyball teams going to regionals Saturday - Eagle Valley, Vail Christian and Vail Mountain - all looking for the magical state berth.

Kudos to Greeley cross country coaches, whose expertise, direction, motivation, understanding and dedication to their student-athletes was never more visible than on Saturday at the state meet at Fossil Ridge High School.

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If recent history has taught us anything about Class 3A boys soccer, it's to expect the unexpected.

Nikki Marshall, right, runs to the ball with Carly Peetz of Nebraska defending. Cliff Grassmick / September 25, 2009 Shaye Marshall knew her big sister was one of the best soccer players in the country and the face of the Colorado program entering the season.