MAJOR FEAT BY MINOR FEET

Denver East junior Arria Minor on Thursday sets a state record of 22:89 in a 200-meter preliminary race on the first day of the Colorado high school track and field championships at Jeffco Stadium. The six-time individual state champion broke her own record of 23:18 that she set earlier this year. The new record ranks as second best in the nation.

The 2018 Colorado high school state track meet got underway on Thursday at Jeffco Stadium. Here are notable results and individual performances from the first day in Lakewood: Max Manson breaks dad’s pole vault record. Monarch junior Max Manson broke his dad’s state meet record en route to winning the Class 5A pole vault title. Aurora Central’s Pat Manson previously held the state meet record with his vault of 17 feet, 3 inches, set in 1986, but the younger Manson managed to vault 17-3½ to surpass the mark and his runner-up teammate, senior Cole Rowan, who was the event’s defending champion. East’s Arria Minor keeps burning up the track .With temperatures in the mid-70s and very little wind to keep the Denver East phenom at bay, junior Arria Minor set records in the 200m and 400m prelims. The six-time individual state champion’s time of 22.89 in the 200 broke her own state record of 23.18 that she had set earlier this year, and the time ranks second-best in the nation. In the 400, Minor’s mark of 51.92 broke a state record (Ana Holland, Regis Jesuit, 52.49) while also setting this season’s best outdoor time in the nation. Gabriella McDonald goes back-to-back in discus. Rocky Mountain senior Gabriella McDonald earned her second straight Class 5A state discus title with a throw of 148 feet, 2 inches. That mark blew away the next closest competitor by a whopping 18 feet, as runner-up Morgan Stewart of Fossil Ridge threw 130-2. The Colorado State commit for both track and soccer (goalkeeper) now turns her attention to capturing a championship three-peat in the shot put on Saturday. Broomfield girls storm back to win 4x800m relay. Last fall, Mountain Vista outran fellow favorite Broomfield to win the program’s first girls cross-country state championship, leaving the Eagles in tears after the race. But several of those same Broomfield girls struck back on the track, with the Eagles erasing an earlyrace deficit to capture the 4×800 title in 9:16.33 over runner-up Mountain Vista (9:23.15). Sophomore Sydney Swanker ran the anchor for Broomfield, which took second in the event last year to Fairview. Moore outdoes seasoned field in long jump. With a long jump of 22 feet, 10¼ inches, Fort Collins junior Micaylon Moore — who didn’t even qualify for state in the event last season — beat out a seasoned field that included runner-up Dawson Spann of Cherokee Trail (22-7¼; took sixth last year) and Jequan Hogan of Fountain-Fort Carson (22-7, placed third again). The victory marked a storybook ending to an already dazzling season for Moore in which he also broke the school’s 85-year-old long-jump record in April at the Cherry Creek Invitational.