AHS girls place second at 3A Cross Country Championships
Moose boys team finishes seventh in state
Sarah De La Cerda finished 7th on Saturday. | Photo by Andy Bockelman
UPDATE
ALAMOSA High School closes the books on its cross country season with a second-place team finish in the Colorado 3A Girls Cross Country Championships and a seventh-place team finish in the Colorado 3A Boys Cross Country Championships.
Sophomore Sarah De La Cerda had a top 10 finish in the girls individual standings, finishing 7th overall in 19:14.4. Teammates Autumn McQuitty, Elizabeth McQuitty, and Madeline Castillo all finished together, running 17th, 18th, and 19th, respectively, in the individual finishes.
Basalt’s Katelyn Maley won her second straight girls 3A state title, and The Classical Academy swept the girls and boys team titles.
Jayr Almeida had a top 25 finish to pace the Alamosa boys team. Almeida ran the course in 17:18.2 to finish 21st. Santiago Trujillo was 33rd and Mario Villalba 35th.
Full girls’ results are here.
Full boys’ results are here.
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Moose eye state cross country
titles Saturday
The Classical Academy stands in the way
ALAMOSA High School girls cross country has its eyes set on a Class 3A state title this weekend, but it will have to out run defending champion The Classical Academy of Colorado Springs which returns three of its top runners from a year ago.
The Maroons are paced by sophomore Sarah De La Cerda, who won the Class 3A Region 1 meet last week. De La Cerda finished 13th as a freshman running in the state meet a year ago. This time, she faces stiff competition from Classical Academy
2021 state cross country championship
- Where: Norris-Penrose Event Center, Colorado Springs
- Date: Oct. 30
- Results: Updated live on CHSAANow.com
- Watch live: NFHS Network
senior Kennedy McDonald, who finished second a year ago, as well as Classical’s Cassidy McDonald and Sophia Valentine, who finished eighth and ninth, respectively, in 2020.
The Alamosa girls run as a tight group with two sister tandems – Autumn McQuitty and Elizabeth McQuitty, and Lia Castillo and Madeline Castillo – joining De La Cerda at the front of the pack. Junior Abby Wubben and freshman Audrey Howard give Alamosa added depth.
The Alamosa boys cross country team also heads into Saturday’s state cross country championships with high hopes of a team gold. But like the girls, The Classical Academy is standing in the way after finishing second a year ago and now bringing back four of its top runners.
Coming off back-to-back regional titles, Alamosa heads to the state boys cross country championship looking to improve on its fourth-place team finish from a year ago. Isaac Higareda, who finished 16th in the state a year ago, and junior Santiago Trujillo, who won last week’s regional title, pace the Maroons. Jayr Almeida, a junior, and sophomores Izaiah Casanova and Mario Villalba, all had top-10 regional finishes last week. Junior Alan Flores and sophomore Thaddaeus Cody also qualified for the state race.
Centauri High School qualified six runners for the 2A girls cross country state race and six runners for the 2A boys cross country championship. Del Norte High junior Riley Orr qualified for the 2A boys race.
The 3A girls race is at 1 p.m. and the 3A boys race is the final race of the day at 2:20 p.m.
A full list of state qualifiers by classification is here:
2A Girls Championship
Centauri High qualifiers:
Hannah Guymon, freshman, McKenna Guymon, junior, Tayte Hostetter, sophomore, Jocelyn Jarvies, senior, Tayden Montoya, freshman, Kaia Skadberg, sophomore.
2A Boys Championship
Centauri High qualifiers:
Carson Bagwell, freshman, Ren Canty, junior, Tyrel Hostetter, freshman, Mason Sowards, junior, Troy Sowards, freshman, Estevan Vega, junior.
Del Norte High qualifier:
Riley Orr, Junior
3A Girls Championship
Alamosa High qualifiers:Lia Castillo, junior, Madeline Castillo, sophomore, Sarah De La Cerda, sophomore, Audrey Howard, freshman, Autumn McQuitty, junior, Elizabeth McQuitty, freshman, Abby Wubben, junior.
3A Boys Championship
Alamosa High qualifiers:
Jayr Almeida, junior, Izaiah Casanova, junior, Thaddaeus Cody, sophomore, Alan Flores, junior, Isaac Higareda, junior, Santiago Trujillo, junior, Mario Villalba, sophomore.
