National award comes to Sampson, RVHS grad/swimmer

BY STEVE SMITH SSMSITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

RICHMOND, Va.— Colorado Mesa University’s Ben Sampson is this year’s College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association NCAA Division II Men’s Swimmer of the Year.

Sampson, a redshirt sophomore who graduated from Ralston Valley High School, was one of 21 Mavericks’ swimmers (12 women, nine men) who earned at least one, rst-team all-American honor, according to a statement from CMU. Sampson is the rst Mavericks swimmer to receive the honor.

Sampson led the way for the Mavericks, winning the national title in both the 200-yard individual medley and 200-backstroke. He is the rst male swimmer in CMU history to win a title after Lily Borgenheimer became the rst women’s swimmer to do so last year in the 200-breaststroke.

He had also set the NCAA Division II record of 1:40.73 (1:39.53-altitude adjusted) in November dur- ing the TYR/CMU Invitational.

Swimming and head diving coaches from around the nation voted on the CSCAA’s major awards. First-team, all-American status goes to the top eight nishers in each event. Second-team picks go to the ninth- through 16th-place nishers.

Sampson was also an all-American in all seven of his events, picking up six, rst-team honors after nishing third in the 400- individual medley, fourth in the 100back, fth in the 800-freestyle relay and eighth in the 200-medley relay. He also helped the Mavs to a ninth- place nish in the 400-medley relay and is now a 14-time all-American over the last two seasons. at total is the second highest in program history behind only Mahmoud Elgayar, who received two more all-America honors to complete his brilliant career with 15 total honors. He received at least one in each of his ve seasons. e CMU men placed a programbest fth at the national meet.

Six other swimmers – ve men, one woman .. earned second-team all-Americans. MSU put together 24, top-eight nishes in the two-day national meet.

Horizon High School

Baseball

Horizon needed six innings to beat Silver Creek 14-3 in ornton March 14. e game ended early because of the state’s mercy rule. Devon Larson and Liam Paul had base hits and RBIs for the Raptors. Davis Wilkins had two hits, including a triple, and four RBIs for the Hawks. Nick Lay had a home run and drove in four runs.

Girls soccer

Arvada West downed Horizon 5-1 in Arvada March 15. Freshman Elizabeth Leitch scored the Hawks’ goal. Goalkeeper Pauline Saldivar made 10 saves.

Eaglecrest shut out the Hawks 2-0 in ornton March 14. Saldivar made 11 saves.

Girls tennis

Broom eld blanked Horizon 6-0 in Broom eld March 14. No stats were available for either team.

Boys swimming

Fairview stopped Horizon 219-75 in ornton March 15. Bryson Kassatly won 1-meter diving with 121 points.

Samuel Schleicher was second in the 100-yard butter y, where his time was 1:00..34. He also took fourth in the 200freestyle with a time of 1:58.94. Trevor Dobbles took second in the 100- breast stroke with a time of 1:13.35.

Nelson Pitz was fourth in the 200- individual medley with a time of 2;17.26.

Adam Stevenson was sixth in the 100yard backstroke with a time of 1;10.9 and seventh in the 200- individual medley with a time of 2;36.94. Logan Kish was seventh in the 100- backstroke (1:12.64) and eighth in the 100-yard freestyle in a time of 59.05 seconds.

Track and eld

Here are Horizon’s results from the ornton Early Bird meet at District 12 Stadium March 15.

Girls: 200-meter dash: 4. B. Palillian, 28.33 seconds. 6. O. Stoolman, 28.93.

400-meter dash: 6. A. Snyder, 1:06.55.

1600-meter run: 2. L. Crawford, 5:41.54.

100-meter hurdles: 1. B. Palillian, 15.93.

8. H. Like, 18.92. 300-meter hurdles: 1.

B. Palillian, 50.49. 5. O. Stoolman, 55.11.

High jump: 3. E. Mcclellan, 4-10. 4. A. Strasheim, 4-8. Long jump: 6. E. Lee, 13-1. 7. O. Stoolman, 13-0. Pole vault:

4. B. Wittwer, 7-0. 8. A. Espinosa, 5-0. Discus: 7. A. Whitmarsh, 61-7 1/2.

Boys: 1600-meter run: 1. E. Adams, 4;36.57. 6. C. Weadon, 4:57.79. 3200-meter run: 1. B. Davis, 9:54.29. High jump: 1. K. Kimaita, 6-2.

Legacy High School Girls tennis