Track start Stutzman claims Gatorade title

Senior named Colorado Girls Track & Field Player of the Year

BY JOHN RENFROW JRENFROW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

If there’s a piece of advice Emma Stutzman would give her younger self on the track, she would say to show up prepared, be patient and let your hard work speak for itself. e younger Stutzman hoped, but never imagined, she would be named the best female track runner in the state.

After stamping a historic high school career at Pomona High School, Stutzman was named the Gatorade Colorado Girls Track &

Field Player of the Year for 2022-23. at’s a rst in the Arvada school’s history.

“It wasn’t necessarily one of my goals to get the (Gatorade) award,” Stutzman said. “It was more of just like a cherry-on-top kind of thing. It de nitely wasn’t something I really even knew that much about.” e award comes a month after Stutzman earned a long-anticipated rst state title, nishing the Class 5A girls 3,200-meter run in a time of 10 minutes, 12.68 seconds in May.

A day later, her winning time of 4:39.94 in the 1600 shattered the previous Colorado prep sports record, and ranked No. 3 nationally among girls prep competitors in 2023, earning Stutzman her second state title in two days. e previous 1600