Colorado’s winter high schoolers have next.
On Tuesday, Season No. 2 in 2009-10 will open for boys and girls basketball, ice hockey, girls swimming, boys and girls skiing and wrestling.
As usual, there is overlap with the football playoffs — four classifications will decide championships on Saturday — as well as a mandatory statewide shutdown over the holidays.
An assortment of tournaments and nonleague contests will dominate early play, to be followed by a late-winter rush, beginning with girls’ state meets in swimming Feb. 12-13 in Fort Collins and Loveland.
Additional highlights pop up at the Colorado wrestling tournament at the Pepsi Center (Feb. 18-19), the largest spectacle of the school year, and the state basketball tournament at multiple sites, including the Coors Events Center in Boulder for the two upper classes (March 12-13).
The kids of spring won’t wait for the end of winter. Colorado’s third season will open on March 4, or 10 days before basketball crowns all champions.
Neil H. Devlin, The Denver Post
