Colorado Girls Swimming and Diving Rankings Posted Here (1-25-2016)

Colorado Girls Swimming and Diving Rankings Posted Here (1-25-2016)

Fairview was able to strengthen it's position on top of the rankings with a few more improvements at the Boulder County Invitational, while Valor Christian was restored to the top of the rankings with it's showing at the Jeffco Invitational, in spite of landing in 2nd place to Evergreen.  Evergreen made a strong statement to jump over Manitou Springs and into 3rd place among 4A.  In 5A, Heritage made a major leap from 8th to 4th and Chaparral went from 12th to 8th.  

This is nearing the start of the league championship meet weekend with some leagues doing lower level league meets next weekend. Jeffco schools will still have some dual meets this week while other leagues will hold B/C/JV meets leading up to League championship meets the weekend of February 5-6.  Knowing this, there shouldn't be much movement in the rankings next week, but the following week should offer more insight into what may happen at the State Meet.  

Next Rankings Published - Week of Feb 1st

Colorado Girls Swimming and Diving Rankings Posted Here (1-19-2016)

Colorado Girls Swimming and Diving Rankings Posted Here (1-19-2016)

While Fairview remains strong atop the 5A rankings, with Regis and Fossil Ridge making up a little ground, 4A has become a dogfight between Valor and Cheyenne Mountain.  Cheyenne Mountain had a very strong meet at the Hornet Invitational this weekend.  So much so that they have now taken over the top spot in the poll by 2 points with Manitou Springs 100 points behind Valor in a solid 3rd place.  Valor will be at the Jeffco Invitational along with many other teams, so they may muster a reply, while Fairview will be headlining the Boulder County Invitational at VMAC.

This is nearing the start of the league championship meet weekend with some leagues doing lower level league meets next weekend. 

Big meets in January outside of the League/State meets:

Jan 22/23 - Jeffco & Boulder County Invitationals

Next Rankings Published - Week of Jan 25th

Colorado Girls Swimming and Diving Rankings Posted Here (1-12-2016)

Colorado Girls Swimming and Diving Rankings Posted Here (1-12-2016)

Valor and Fairview remain on top of the rankings.  5A State meet looks to be much more diverse this year compared to three teams booking most of the total points.  This will make it much more challenging for teams to climb up into the top 10 without strong representation of both individual events and relays.  

4A schools that can land a relay or two in the top 8 at State will see big jumps since the top 5 schools look to take up a big chunk of the points this year.  

Big meets in January outside of the League/State meets:

Jan 15/16 - Arapahoe, (Pueblo County) Hornet & Smoky Hill Invitationals
Jan 22/23 - Jeffco & Boulder County Invitationals

Next Rankings Published - Week of Jan 18th

Colorado Girls Swimming and Diving Rankings Posted Here (12-31-2015)

Colorado Girls Swimming and Diving Rankings Posted Here (12-31-2015)

Valor and Fairview start the new year and new season at the top of the rankings with others in pursuit.  Fairview starts with over a 100 point jump on Regis, while Valor has a much more narrow 30 point lead over Cheyenne Mountain.   

At this point the question has to be asked about impact of the Olympic Trials this summer, and kids that have opted not to swim high school this year to focus in on that effort....  Is it crippling teams that could be stronger?? Those that have their full teams seem to have a definite advantage so far.  

Big meets in January outside of the League/State meets:

Jan 8/9 - Mountain View, (Mountain Range) Mustang, Mountain Vista Invitationals
Jan 15/16 - Arapahoe, (Pueblo County) Hornet & Smoky Hill Invitationals
Jan 22/23 - Jeffco & Boulder County Invitationals

Next Rankings Published - Week of Jan 11th

Boys & Girls Swimming: NISCA Awards All-American Certification to Athletes

The National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) has recently announced their annual All-American honors, and Colorado has it's share of recipients.  The awards are determined first based upon times/scores that coaches submit at the end of the season and that meet a very high consideration time or score standard. After the submission window closes, the Top-100 times/scores are ranked and awarded. 

Colorado had strong representation in the lists and had the 9th highest overall number of recipients with the following stats:

Colorado (9th):

  Boys - 12 Relays, 28 Individuals, 3 divers, 79 splashes earned All-American status

  Girls - 10 Relays, 28 individuals, 4 divers, 72 splashes earned All-American status

  Overall - 151 splashes earned All-America standing

2015-16 NISCA High School Swimming and Diving All-American List

NISCA also awards Academic All-Americans based upon submitted athletes who have a 3.75 cumulative GPA as of their first semester of their Senior year.  Colorado had a significant number of student athletes qualify for this honor as well.  Colorado had 6 boys and 33 girls earn this prestigious award.  For the boys, Cheyenne Mountain and Fossil Ridge led the way with 2 boys each, while 8 girls from Fairview and 5 girls from Monarch, Mountain Vista, and Fossil Ridge had the highest counts.  

2015-16 NISCA High School Swimming and Diving Academic All-American List

Boys Swimming: Grandview boys land three NISCA/Speedo All-American awards for 2015 season

Courtney Oakes - Aurora Sentinel

Girls Swimming: Fairview's Freeman gets Olympic Trials cut in Oregon

Adam Dunivan - BoCoPreps.com