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June 22, 2021
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Caldera finishes prep career with ten athletic letters BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Adams City graduate Gerardo Caldera was aiming for 12 high-school athletic letters. He would have had 11 (baseball in 2020) if not for the coronavirus pandemic. As it turned out, he finished with 10. The 11th would have been as a wrestler three years ago. But his weight-class competition was Christian Rowell, who won a state title. Even so, Caldera is happy. “I set out to get 12 letters, one in every sport but I had a tough freshman year in wrestling,” Caldera
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said. “But after that I knew I couldn’t get 12. So, I had to get 11.” Caldera said there was no instance the past four years when he wanted to stop pursuing the athletic letters. In fact, he
wanted to add one. “I wanted to be on the dive team, but with baseball being in the same
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Youth football Commerce City Youth Athletics changed its registration format for the coming tackle football season. There won’t be in-person registration this year because of the pan-
demic. Instead, send your name, date of birth, address, best contact phone number and an email address to cc_raider@msn.com. You can also call 303-7=286-7669.
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season and meets being at the same time as my baseball games, I couldn’t do it,” he said. Caldera signed a letter of intent to play football at Waldorf University in Forest City, Iowa. “I developed myself as a man, having to be more responsible and maintaining good grades, just always being on top of things and how much easier things are when you’re on top of things,” he said. “I do regret not being in the weight room as much as I was my junior and senior year. I feel if I would have been in the weight room since my freshman year, my body physique would look
different and better but also I would have more power in all my sports.” Caldera was one of four Eagles’ athletes to sign college letters of intent this spring. “The advice I’d give folks trying to balance sports and academics is pace yourself,” he said. “Try to finish as much work in the classroom so when you get home you have less and more time for studying plays and being in the weight room.” “It’ll be difficult at first. But eventually you’ll get the hang of it,” he said. “One more thing -- just be patient with everything. Good things will come slowly but surely.”
S P O R T S SCORECARD Prairie View High School
ThunderHawks finished with a record of 8-3.
Girls soccer LITTLETON -- Paige Foa scored three goals as Arapahoe shut out Prairie View 10-0 at Littleton Public Schools Stadium on June 15 in the first round of the state 5A girls soccer tournament. Makenzie Adams, Brynn Shimbukuro, Marin Klaess, Caroline Weiss, Abby Harrison and Neve Borgerding also scored goals for the Warriors. AHS goalkeeper Abby Morgan made one save in recording the shutout win. No stats were available for PVHS. The
Track and field AURORA -- Here are Prairie View’s results from the Rangeview Raider Last Chance Qualifier June 17 at Hinkley High School: Girls 400-meter dash: 8. Kaitlyn Miro, 1:07.47. 800-meter run: 8. Paige Walker, 2:58.67. 300- hurdles: 4. Harmony Tanksley, 54.74 seconds. Boys 400-meter run: 7. Allen Allende, 54.2. 8. Link Arellanes, 54.71. Triple jump: 8. Leandro Diaz, 37-11.
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