MEEKER | The Cowboys’ track and field team was busy last weekend, competing in meets in three different locations, with personal bests posted by athletes in all three meets. The Cowboys will compete in Glenwood Springs this weekend, with the pole vaulters competing Friday and the rest of the meet held[Read More…]
MHS Track & Field
Meeker girls win first meet on Bob King Track
MEEKER | “We had a great home meet on Friday, the weather held and we were very proud of the performances by all of the athletes,” Meeker High School track coach John Strate said of the first high school track meet held on the new Bob King Track at Starbuck Stadium.[Read More…]
Meeker hosts first meet at new Bob King Track on Friday
Both county baseball teams play in Rangely on Saturday MEEKER | “I think it has been at least 12 years since we have hosted and roughly 30 years since we hosted a meet with pole vault,” Meeker High School head track and field head coach John Strate said about Friday’s meet[Read More…]
Meeker tracksters start season in Rifle; first home meet in years coming March 30
MEEKER | More than 20 Meeker High School track and field athletes spent their first day of spring break in Rifle competing in a track meet, where several did well despite the weather. The teams will be idle this week but they will come back from break and prepare for their[Read More…]
Track practice …
Members of Meeker’s track program were recently running the streets getting ready for the season, which will feature their first home meet in several years. The Bob King Track, which was new last year, will host a home meet March 30 and coach John Strate is asking for volunteers to[Read More…]
Meeker girls finish third in 2A at state track meet
MEEKER | “Our girls knew heading in they could compete at the state level and they were right,” Meeker head track coach John Strate said after the 2017 Colorado State Track and Field Championships held last weekend in Denver. The girls’ team finished third as a team in 2A. Although[Read More…]
MHS tracksters prepare for state
MEEKER | The final track and field meet of the regular season was held at Grand Valley High School last Saturday and the Meeker Cowboys used it to prepare for the upcoming 2017 Colorado State Track and Field Championships, which start today in Denver. The Meeker girls’ team won the[Read More…]
Main shatters 25-year-old Meeker High School discus record
MEEKER | Records are made to be broken, but Meeker High School sophomore Sydnie Main not only set a set new school record, she shattered an old one. Classmate Gracie Bradfield set a new school record in the 200-meter dash during the Western Slope League meet in Grand Junction last[Read More…]
MHS track teams win Rangely meet
MEEKER I Boys and girls on the Meeker High School track teams competed in Coal Ridge last Friday then in Rangely the next day. The girls’ team placed second out of 17 teams in Coal Ridge, while the boys were fourth in a field of 19 teams.
Russell, Burke set new school records
MEEKER I The new Bob King Track at Starbuck Stadium was the site of its first track meet last Friday, hosted by Barone Middle School, featuring 12 teams and more than 700 athletes. While most of the Meeker High School track team was helping run the middle school track meet,[Read More…]
4×100 girls’ relay win gold in GJ
MEEKER | Although the Meeker High School track and field team has been practicing on the new Bob King track this season, it will be Barone Middle School hosting the first track meet on the new facility, while several members of the high school team will be pole vaulting in[Read More…]
Meeker girls’ track team places third in Cedaredge
MEEKER | The Meeker High School girls’ track team finished third last Saturday in Cedaredge, four points behind Paonia and Coal Ridge. Meeker’s girls and boys had success in Cedaredge. “Things went well again for us in Cedaredge,” head track coach John Strate said. “Some of the best performances on[Read More…]
