Michelle Simmons notched a finals berth and a handful of team points for the Ignacio High School track and field team.
Simmons, a senior, earned a spot in the 200-meter dash finals after taking fourth in the preliminaries with a 26.37-sprint at the CHSAA Class 2A Track and Field State Championships on Thursday in Lakewood.
She also placed seventh in the high jump, clearing a personal-record-tying 5 feet and earning the Bobcats three points, their only points of the day.
Horizontally, Wyatt Hayes took 14th in the boys long jump, leaping 19 feet. The freshman missed qualifying for finals in the 400, finishing 16th in 53.23.
That was a trend Thursday.
The Ignacio girls 800 sprint medley relay team missed the finals by one spot and two hundredths of a second. They came in 10th in the preliminary heats in 1 minute, 55.8 seconds.
Del Norte, the last team to make the finals, finished in 1:55.78.
The boys 4x200 team missed qualifying, taking 14th in 1:36.84 in the preliminary heats.
The state meet will continue Friday and Saturday.
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