Season No. 2 in 2007-08, winter sports, will begin preseason practice Saturday.
How time flies …
As usual, there will be five offerings in the middle of three seasons during the school year – boys and girls basketball, ice hockey, boys and girls skiing, girls swimming and wrestling.
Skiing may be delayed awhile, depending on mountain snows, but the overlap, specifically with volleyball’s state tournament this weekend and the rounds of football playoffs that will touch into December, has begun.
The first contest of winter will be Nov. 29. The schedule will run into the Christmas season and, of course, be dormant until after New Year’s Day.
The regrouping will last into February, when the wave of state title competitions will begin.
Girls swimming and diving will be Feb. 15-16 at Edora Pool Ice Center, Fort Collins; boys and girls skiing from Feb. 21-22 at Steamboat Springs; wrestling from Feb. 21-23 at the Pepsi Center; ice hockey March 1 at World Arena, Colorado Springs, a switch from the Denver Coliseum; and boys and girls basketball from March 14-15 at the University of Colorado’s Coors Events Center (5A-4A), Colorado State’s Moby Arena (3A) and the Colorado State Fair Event Center in Pueblo (2A-1A).
Defending champs
Boys basketball
Class 5A: East
Class 4A: Abraham Lincoln
Class 3A: Eaton
Class 2A: Grand Valley
Class 1A: Kit Carson
Girls basketball
Class 5A: Highlands Ranch
Class 4A: Broomfield
Class 3A: Bishop Machebeuf
Class 2A: Limon
Class 1A: Eads
Skiing
Boys: Aspen
Girls: Summit
Ice hockey
Aspen
Girls swimming
Class 5A: Cherry Creek
Class 4A: Ralston Valley
Wrestling
Class 5A: Ponderosa
Class 4A: Alamosa
Class 3A: Brush
Class 2A: Dove Creek
