One week left until the state swim and dive meet. One week left to make state times and scores.
On Saturday, all of the swimmers from Boulder and Broomfield Counties will head to the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center for the Granite Peaks League meet to battle it out for individual and team titles. Ladies who haven't met state qualifying marks will get one more chance.
Some will enter the competition with top-10 marks in Colorado.
Fairview's 200-yard medley relay quartet of Abby Davis, Claire Burkhard, Lexi Byrn and Ava Teunnisen rank seventh among all classifications after picking up a time of one minute, 49.55 seconds at last weekend's Boulder County Invite.
The Knights' senior stud, Amelia Mason, leads all of Colorado high schoolers in the 200 freestyle thanks to her mark of 1:50.26 last weekend, besting Cheyenne Mountain's Samantha Synsvoll by over two seconds. Broomfield's Ridley Hagerman isn't far behind at third (1:53.00).
The leaderboard for the 200 individual medley contenders provides a smorgasbord of BoCo-area talent, starting with Legacy's Emee Henkel (sixth, 2:06.71) and followed by Broomfield's Ellie Foulke (seventh, 2:06.73) and Monarch's Audrey Shambo (10th, 2:07.07).
The 50 free is even more tantalizing for local talent, with Mason marking second in the state (23.53), Monarch's Eliza Lennox claiming fourth (23.74), Holy Family's Lorelai Frauenfelder jumping in at fifth (23.76) and Centaurus' Virginia Walsh book-ending the leaderboard at 10th (24.18).
Byrn checks in at fourth in the 100 butterfly (56.58), with Boulder's Hazel Huilman right on her tail at seventh (56.86). The 100 free will be another big event to watch, as Mason (second, 50.70), Lennox (fourth, 51.63), Frauenfelder (seventh, 52.01) and Walsh (eighth, 52.56) are all making waves.
Two Broomfield swimmers take the cake in the 500 free. Hagerman ranks at the top of the leaderboard at 4:57.91, and Foulke doesn't trail too far behind at 5:06.49. Fairview, again, earned the No. 4 spot in the 200 free relay thanks to Teunnisen, Mason, Lucy Glynn and Caroline Bruno.
Walsh is the only local lady to make a splash in the 100 backstroke at second (55.93), while Shambo (1:04.16), Huilman (1:04.42) and Henkel (1:04.78) rank 2-3-4 in the 100 breaststroke. The Byrn-Glynn-Davis-Mason team from Fairview is third best in the 400 free relay (3:34.83), while Broomfield trails just a bit behind at eighth (3:39.52) thanks to Foulke, Hagerman, Avery Weihing and Myra Wherry.
Erie sophomore Caitlyn McCollum has put together the best dive this season with a top score of 217.30, which places her squarely at fourth. Prelims for the GPL meet will begin at 3 p.m. on Friday. Finals will kick off at the same time on Saturday.