By Friday afternoon, the Durango High School track and field team already had started collecting precious medals of multiple colors.
The Demons also collected a few school records Day 1 of the CHSAA Class 4A Track and Field State Championships on Thursday in Lakewood from their boys 4x800-meter relay team and triple jumper Gabi Razma.
The 4x800 team earned a silver medal for runners Trent Andrews, Alastair McMillan, David Moening and Joe Maloney and a new record for the DHS books, missing gold by about five seconds.
DHS ran a record 8 minutes, 0.37 seconds.
Razma jumped to another school record. Her 35-foot, 8.75-inch hop broke her own school record and earned her a bronze medal.
The girls 4x800 team – Shannon Maloney, Katarina Seibert, Dominique Ward and Madeigh Winsor – finished seventh with a season-best 9:39.23.
Hannah Hwang finished 14th in the 400 prelims, and Devin Lewis eked into the 200 finals, finishing seventh in the prelims with a 22.17 dash, a personal record.
Also on Day 1, McKenna Franzen took 10th in the shot put with a 37-7 throw, a personal best, and Austin Miles took 12th (47-2.75) in the boys event.
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