Telluride High School’s Soleil Gaylord added to her growing collection of state titles last weekend when she was the repeat champion at 1,600 meters and 3,200 meters in the State Track and Field Championships in Lakewood.

Gaylord, a junior, duplicated her double championships from a year ago in Class 2A. 

She also teamed with Maya Ordonez, Esme Fahnestock and Sydney Evans as the Telluride girls won the 4x800 relay at the weather-delayed state meet at Jefferson County Stadium.

Together, the Telluride girls finished second as a team with 74 points, trailing only Paonia (110) as the Eagles’ won their fifth consecutive girls state championship. 

The Miners finished ahead of third-place Meeker (65). Buena Vista was fourth.

The state high school track championships originally were scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

However, a big spring snowstorm forced Colorado High School Activities Association officials to postpone the meet and reschedule it over two days — Saturday and Sunday.

The revised schedule didn’t slow Gaylord at all as she opened the meet with a win at 3,200 meters, finishing in 11 minutes, 25.22 seconds. Annie Hughes, a sophomore from Buena Vista, finished second in 11:30.96.

Telluride’s Ordonez, a sophomore, came across the line in fourth place in the 3,200 (11:38.87).

One day later, Gaylord and Ordonez would finish 1-2 for Telluride in the 1,600. Gaylord won the 2A title in 5:16.11 with Ordonez right behind in 5:18.49.

Ordonez and Gaylord also scored points for the Miners in the 800-meter dash at state. 

Gaylord finished second (2:21.71); Ordonez was seventh (2:26.75). The race was won by Hayden freshman Hannah Wilkie (2:18.58).

Telluride senior Natalia Kelley raced onto the state podium with a fifth-place at 400 meters (1:00.38). 

And the Telluride girls collected a bevy of relay points, led by the state championship in the 4x800 relay (9:57.14). Lyons finished second; Paonia was third.

The Lady Miners’ 800-sprint medley relay team finished fifth over the weekend behind Brianna Brown, Amber Padgett, Shannon Wyszynski and the aforementioned Natalia Kelley.

The 4x100 relay team of Skyler Nunn, Wyszynski, Jessica Barkmeyer and Brown placed eighth.

And the 4x200 squad was ninth behind Padgett, Kelley, Nunn and Wyszynski.

The Paonia girls won the 4x200 relay in a state record time of 1:43.95.

In the meet-closing 4x400 relay, the Telluride girls teamed to finish third in 4:16.83. The team featured Nunn, Fahnestock, Brown and Kelley.

Meeker won the race in 4:08.01.

BOYS TEAM

The Telluride boys also hit the podium at state in relay events last weekend.

The 4x100 relay team finished fourth (44.78) with D.J. Snow, Sayre Stropko, Ethan Shaw and Hunter Brier.

The same foursome raced to a fifth-place finish in the 4x200 relay. The Cedaredge boys won the event, helping them to a second consecutive team state title.

Telluride sophomore Jaden Evans finished seventh in the 1,600 and the 3,200 at the state championships. He ran 10:20.09 in the 3,200 meters, which was won by Soroco’s Ben Kelley in 9:47.71.

Evans posted a 4:37.80 in the 1,600, also won by the Soroco runner (4:22.06).

In other individual podium finishes at the state championships, Telluride junior Kade Brantingham placed seventh in the shot put (135-9). The event was won by Crowley County sophomore Lane Walker (154 feet).