By Luke Loftus The Johnstown Breeze
2026-03-19 05:00 AM
The Roosevelt High School track and field team traveled to Windsor March 14 to compete in the Murray Kula Invite.
This meet was stacked with 5A and 6A schools from around the area. Schools like Fossil Ridge, Rocky Mountain, Valor Christiann and of course the host, Windsor.
Starting with girls track and field team, they came in at eighth place overall, tallying 37 total points.
Junior Madison Kage, fresh off the heartbreaking defeat in Mead where she plays guard for the girls’ basketball team, finished eighth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:01.12. Getting the team one point for this finish.
Senior Elizabeth Roberts got the team eight points for her second-place finish in the 800-meter dash, running it in 2:21.47. A full five seconds quicker than third place.
Senior Abby Leibman gathered nine total points for the team in two separate hurdles, the 100-meter and the 300-meter. She finished third in the 300-meter and sixth in the 100-meter.
The relay team for the 4 x 400 meters won the event and won the race by nine seconds with a time of 4:14.74.
Onto field events of the meet, Roosevelt had two girls gain points in the long jump. Juniors Bailey Kielian and Janaya Johnson. Johnson also placed fourth in the triple jump; she would get the team eight points from those two events.
Now onto the boys, they would finish third overall at this meet. They gathered 57 points. Only trailing Rocky Mountain and Thompson Valley.
Sophomore David Roberts finished second in the 800-meter dash with a time of 1:59.15, getting the team eight points with that effort.
Another sophomore, Houston Howell, showed out well in both hurdles’ events, the 110-meter and the 300-meter. Finishing second in the 110-meter and first in the 300-meter. Getting 18 of their 57 points from those two races. Howell would also get two more points in the pole vault, with a sixth-place finish Three sport athlete, Noah Lucero, got the team three points in the high jump, finishing fifth. Senior Joseph Wooldridge won the shot put, with a distance of 49 feet. Getting the team 10 points for that throw. Also, junior Chance Maso finished seventh in the event, getting two more points.
But the points wouldn’t stop there. Sophomore Ikaika Cano finished second in the discus, with a throw of 148 feet and 6 inches, getting another eight points for the team.
The Roosevelt track and field team takes a break for Spring Break. Their next event is the Roosevelt Power Meet, at home, on April 18.