Hot and cold.
Colorado’s 87th scholastic sports season began fall practice in earnest Monday.
From Eaglecrest football players beginning at 12:01 a.m. at Legacy Stadium in Aurora under cool conditions and bright lights – which ceremoniously lit up the school year to the others in the mountains and plains who started in the morning and afternoon under sunny skies and near-record high temperatures – participants in nine fall sports began obtaining assorted aches and pains, brush burns, double sessions and dreams of top-flight seasons full of excitement.
The uniforms have yet to be handed out for anything but boys golf, which opened last week, but the return to school and teammates is the first step.
More than two weeks of preseason practice is underway, save for softball and boys tennis players, who will join golfers with early starts, as the first official competition date statewide is Aug. 30.
But the fun has begun.
