2013 Boys Swimming Archive Stories

THORNTON • Air Academy capped its second straight 4A boys’ swimming state title with an exclamation point Saturday. Senior Devon Davis, chosen as the 4A Swimmer of the Year after the meet, anchored the winning 400-yard freestyle relay for the Kadets in his final high school swim to help give Air Academy a wide final margin. Th

Coronado sets relay state record Coronado’s 200 freestyle relay team of Kyle Allison, Bryan Rossmanith, Eric Albers and Danny Kay set a 4A state record en route to the state crown with a time of 1 minutes, 26.66 seconds. That was nearly a second faster than the previous mark and helped propel the Cougars to a third-place tea

THORNTON • Discovery Canyon coach Terre Christensen was brought to tears midway through the boys’ 4A state swimming and diving championships Friday. Thunder swimmers set school records in all three relays at the Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center and took six spots in the finals of the individual events, much to Christensen&rsq

Lewis-Palmer sets school records at 5A prelims At Grand Junction: With state records falling by the wayside, Lewis-Palmer swimmers caught the momentum and rode it to several school records at Mesa State on Friday. Michael Havenar shattered the school record by 9 seconds in the 500 free

Josh Day had a pretty good idea that the boys’ swimming team at Lewis-Palmer would be pretty good when the program got off the ground in 2005. Day, now a second-year assistant coach for the Rangers, departed the program upon graduation in 2008, his team on a 33-match dual winning streak. He left, then came back. Guess what?

Boys' swimming psych sheets have been posted for this weekend's state meet. The 4A meet takes place in Thornton at VMAC, while the 5A meet is at Mesa State College in Grand Junction. Both meets open Friday and finish Saturday.

Moments after touching home in first place, John Frank shook the water from his face and looked quickly at the scoreboard. “I knew it was good, but didn’t believe it,” said the Pine Creek junior. “I took a second look to make sure.” Frank had achieved his goal of breaking the pool record in the 100-y

After a life of moving around – thanks to a father in the Air Force – Devon Davis finally has a little peace of mind. He knows where he’ll reside for the next four or so years. The Air Academy swimmer, who broke the state 4A record in the 100 butterfly at last season’s 4A state meet, signed his national letter of

After the week Hunter Bains had, it wouldn’t have been surprising if the Lewis-Palmer swimmer just wanted to crawl into bed for a long nap. The junior led the Rangers to a tie with 4A defending state champ Air Academy on Wednesday and then was a key contributor to L-P defeating 5A powerhouse Arapahoe on Saturday, 100-88. Ba

On a day when most spring sports in the area became casualties of the chilly fickleness of Mother Nature in April, swimming kept its dependable spot in climate-controlled comfort. Even so, one swimmer recalled a much colder scene. “I’m glad I have an indoor sport, but I have done a polar bear plunge a couple of times,”

For Eric Moore, the end result Wednesday on the scoreboard at the Fountain-Fort Carson pool is hopefully just the beginning. The senior diver posted a state-qualifying score at the Trojans’ double-dual against Harrison and Wasson. Not only that, his total of 195 points continued to approach the school record of longtime friend Keit

It started as a simple question, then an ambitious idea to restore a bit of the past at Widefield. Why doesn’t our school offer boys’ swimming as a varsity sport? The thought entered the minds of then-sophomores MacKenzie Nance and Raymond Jordan last year when they took swimming as a class at the Widefield Com