By Luke Loftus The Johnstown Breeze
2026-04-02 06:00 AM
The Roosevelt Power Meet took place at Roosevelt High School on March 28. The boys and girls track teams for the Rough Riders continue to impress and come away with top placings.
The boys team finished second overall with 86 total points, topping schools like Rocky Mountain, Broomfield, and Timnath.
Sophomore Houston Howell, who continues his great season on the track, finished second in the 200-meter, gathering the team eight points. Howell would also finish fifth in the 110-meter hurdles, which got them four more points.
JuniorOwenHaysdominated the hurdles at this meet. Getting the team 20 of their points in two events, the 110-meter hurdles and the 300-meter hurdles. Hays would win the 110-meter by seven tenths of a second and the 300-meter by roughly three full seconds.
The Roosevelt 4 x 400-meter relay team won again, as they did in Windsor. But this time it was a lot closer than the nine second gap in Windsor. They won this one by barely over a second. Tailing close behind was the Rocky Mountain relay team.
The 4 x 800-meter relay team finished second behind the Thompson Valley team, which won the event by 38 seconds.
Rough Rider Nathan Cassidy won the long jump with a jump of 21 feet 11 inches.
The boys track team showed their depth in the shot put. Senior Taybor Konrad finished second with a throw of 55 feet 4 inches. Senior Noah Dunn would finish fifth. Konrad and Dunn would get the team 11 points.
Sophomore Ikaika Cano would finish fourth in the discus, with a throw of 148 feet. Getting the boys another five points.
The girls team would finish third place overall in this meet with 65 points, trailing second place Timnath with 81 points and Rocky Mountain with 91 points.
Sophomore Sydney Ludington finished second in the 800-meter with a time of 02:20.34. Getting the team eight points.
The girls got five points from the two hurdle events, four points from senior Braelyn Bailey who finished fifth in the 100-meter hurdles and senior Abby Leibman getting one point in the 300-meter hurdles with an eighth-place finish.
The girls relay teams finished well: second in the 4 x 200-meter, fourth in the 4 x 400-meter, second again in the 4 x 800-meter – coming in second by four seconds, but with a 14 second lead over third place.
In the triple jump, the Roosevelt team gathered 13 points from three separate girls. Junior Janaya Johnson was in third with six points, senior Braelyn Bailey with a fifth-place finish and four points, and junior Bailey Kielian got sixth place and three points for the team.
Bailey wouldn’t stop there. She would also win the high jump event. Bailey would get the team a total of 18 points from three separate events.
Senior Makaylee Meyer would win the pole vault, getting the team another eight points.