No surprise here — Buena Vista’s Mason Finley has been named Gatorade’s Colorado high school boys track and field athlete of the year.
The UCLA-bound Finley set the national schoolboy record of 236 feet, 6 inches in the discus and went 71-8 3/4 in the shot put, which ranked fourth nationally.
Also owner of a 3.75 GPA, Finley is a finalist for national boys track athlete of the year.
“He’s just someone we’ll never see in Colorado ever again,” Buena Vista head coach Kyle Graff said. “At the state meet, he was like a rock star. I’m not going to have another one like him.”
Neil H. Devlin, The Denver Post
Eight Outlaws are all-stars.
A league-leading eight Denver Outlaws were named to the Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game rosters.
The game will be July 16 at Invesco Field at Mile High and will pit veteran stars against younger players in a “Old School vs. Young Guns” format.
Outlaws attacker Brendan Mundorf, who leads the MLL in scoring with 24 points, along with midfielders Brian Langtry and Kyle Harrison and defenseman Lee Zink, will play on the veteran team.
Denver attackman Drew Westervelt, rookie midfielder Max Seibald, defenseman Matt Bocklett and goalie Jesse Schwartzman will play for the young team.
WAC tourney heading to Vegas.
The Western Athletic Conference will announce today that it is moving its basketball tournament to the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons.
The Englewood-based conference has been playing at campus arenas in recent years, including Nevada last season and next season. The Orleans seats 8,500.
“It’s a neutral site,” commissioner Karl Benson said. “It’s a destination. It’s geographic. It’s proximity to WAC schools.”
Benson said he has sought a neutral site for years.
“There wasn’t a venue within the WAC that made sense,” he said. John Henderson, The Denver Post
Three qualify for Publinx.
Air Force senior-to-be Tom Whitney earned medalist honors with a 7-under-par 133, Broomfield’s Jon Lindstrom was second at 136 and Colorado State sophomore Zahkai Brown finished third at 140 to qualify for the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship from a play-in tournament at King’s Deer Golf Club in Monument.
The Publinx championship will play July 13-18 in Norman, Okla.
DU sets men’s hoops schedule.
The University of Denver men’s basketball team will host three NCAA Tournament teams from last season, and 16 of its 30 games will be played at Magness Arena — the biggest home slate in team history.
The Pioneers begin their season Nov. 13 against NCAA tournament qualifier Northern Iowa at Magness. They also face tournament teams Cal State Northridge and Western Kentucky. DU will host Wyoming (Nov. 25).
