This year’s win is a storybook ending for retiring coaches Carl Padilla and JC Watt (above). Tiffany Jehorek photo. The Meeker Cowboys are your 2024 Colorado State Wrestling Champions, having won their ninth team title and continuing to be one of the winningest teams in the state. Head coach JC[Read More…]
Author: Tiffany Jehorek
MEEKER COWBOYS 2024 STATE CHAMPIONS
It took a mighty team effort for the Cowboys to secure the 2A title for the first time since 2016. Jake Blazon, Orion Musser, Koy Weber, Tristin Rollins, Clay Crawford, Reed Goedert, Holton Harvey, and Noah LeBlanc all put valuable points on the board. Tiffany Jehorek photos
Cowboys take first in regionals, send 11 to state
The Cowboys are sending 11 wrestlers to the 2024 Colorado State High School Activities Association State Wrestling Tournament at Denver’s Ball Arena this weekend after a very successful regional showing in La Junta, Colorado, last weekend. Meeker showed up to the Class 2A Region 3 Tournament ready to represent the[Read More…]
MHS boys focus on final regular season games
The Cowboys set a goal to dominate and they are getting it done. Senior Jonathan “JT” Fitzgibbons, leading in rebounds and field goal percentage, said, “Since the last time we faced Olathe, we have been dominating with our scoring abilities, setting the goal to finish each game by halftime and[Read More…]
Lady Cowboys on the road again this week
The Meeker High School girls’ basketball season is nearing the end of the regular season, with just one week left of regular play. “This season is flying by,” commented senior Ainsley Selle. The team went 1-1 last weekend with a close 44-42 win over Gunnison and a 45-49 loss against[Read More…]
Cowboy wrestlers host duals, head to regionals
For 10 seniors and two coaches, Saturday was the last time they’d compete in the Meeker gym as part of the Meeker High School wrestling program. In the final regular season matches where the Cowboys hosted the 2024 Meeker Duals and for a third straight year (COVID didn’t allow for[Read More…]
Tough weekend for lady Cowboys
The Meeker Cowboys girls’ basketball team faced some challenges this past weekend as they went 0-3 against Little Snake, Olathe and Roaring Fork and are now 7-8 on the year. “Of the eight teams in our league six of them are in the top 32 right now and of those[Read More…]
Cowboys tie longest win streak since ‘14-’15
The 14-1 Meeker Cowboys have tied the longest win streak since the 2014-2015 season and are looking good to beat the best season in MaxPreps record. The win record also moved them up in CHSAA seeding and they finally broke the top 10. The three-game weekend on the road didn’t[Read More…]
Cowboys dominate at Parachute’s Great Eight
The Meeker Cowboys dominated the Great Eight Duals in Parachute, winning the entire event with great finals matches against hosts Grand Valley. Five rounds of duals and no one came close to matching the Cowboys on the mat with wins over Coal Ridge 69-11, Basalt 66-15, Hayden 52-15, Moffat County[Read More…]
Cowboys continue winning streak
The winning streak for Meeker Cowboy basketball continues as they enter the final weeks of the regular season 11-1. They continue to inch up in the rankings and are the highest-ranked Western Slope team. Last weekend they dominated three home games: Vail Mountain 64-26, Grand Valley 65-50 and North Fork[Read More…]
Lady Cowboys 7-5 on season
The Meeker Cowboys basketball girls team is now 7-5 and sitting at number 12 in class 3A after a 1-1 weekend. Grand Valley is the highest-ranked team on the Western Slope. They are undefeated, and have handily beaten all their opponents except the Cowboys. In their first matchup the Cowboys[Read More…]
MHS grapplers perform well in Hotchkiss
The Cowboys entered the Fight at the Fork with 27 other teams full of tough competition, previous state champions and kids ranked high. “We have some kids that are sick and so didn’t have a full team, but the kids that were there are all still improving and all of[Read More…]
