COLORADO SPRINGS – Elevated to being the only ‘Receiving Votes’ team in the Colorado High School Coaches Association’s last biweekly class 2A boys’ cross country poll of 2024, released prior to the imminent CHSAA State Championships, Ignacio also ended up outside of the top 10 teams at the season’s grand finale.
Running just after the lunch hour Saturday afternoon, the Bobcats were led by junior Trace Crane, who clocked a strong time of 17 minutes, 50.6 seconds and placed 30th out of 144 crossing the finish line inside the equestrian arena at Norris-Penrose Event Center.
Classmate James Martin, who’d completed the first mile in 21st place, right behind 20th-place Crane, ended up 58th with his 18:38.7 as IHS accumulated an adjusted score-4 total of 221 points, landing them 14th overall. Ranked No. 1 in the aforementioned poll, Golden View Classical Academy copped the state championship with a winning low of 47 points – bettering No. 2 Crested Butte Community School (66) as well as Colorado Springs-based No. 3 Thomas MacLaren School (68) in the 20-team standings
Additionally, for Ignacio, sophomore Thunder Windy Boy placed 94th in 19:17.5 (19:17.44), sophomore Judah Ashley 116th in 20:05.7 (20:05.60) and senior Li Zhenghui 142nd in 24:04.7 (24:04.60).
