{"id":128298,"date":"2026-05-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-middle-school-track-athletes-set-records-to-close-out-season\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:00:00","slug":"cortez-middle-school-track-athletes-set-records-to-close-out-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-middle-school-track-athletes-set-records-to-close-out-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Middle School track athletes set records to close out season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=434f9843-47f0-5a8b-8903-aedfe00b2c8d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=434f9843-47f0-5a8b-8903-aedfe00b2c8d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=434f9843-47f0-5a8b-8903-aedfe00b2c8d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=434f9843-47f0-5a8b-8903-aedfe00b2c8d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"M-CMS athletes Noah Hobbs, Zaine Brito, Zane Herrmann, and Anecito Cano-Aguilar form the school record-setting 4 x 400 meter relay team for the Panthers. (Courtesy of Daisy Ragland)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">M-CMS athletes Noah Hobbs, Zaine Brito, Zane Herrmann, and Anecito Cano-Aguilar form the school record-setting 4 x 400 meter relay team for the Panthers. (Courtesy of Daisy Ragland)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>CORTEZ \u2013 The Montezuma-Cortez Middle School track and field team made sure to end their season with a bang.<\/p>\n<p>Wrapping up their schedule with the San Juan Basin League championships, the Panthers closed the season with six new school records while finishing third as a team in both the boys and girls competitions. Under the guidance of coaches Daisy Ragland, Ashley Brito, and Monique Mack, the Panthers won six events between their two squads at the league meet.<\/p>\n<p>One of their champions set a new school record in the process, as eighth-grader Braxton Thornbrugh ran away with the 100 meters in a time of 11.80 seconds. Seventh-grader Harley Hampton added another individual school record in the 50 meters (6.97).<\/p>\n<p><!-- gallery:07ba6964-44e3-4cce-9012-9693af3860d9 --><\/p>\n<p>The Panthers prided themselves on strong relays, taking down three SJBL victories among the various relay events.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the season, the Panthers posted new program bests in four separate relays, including the girls 4 x 100 (Hampton, Ellee Lloyd, Presley Oliver, and Ashlynn Forsman \u2013 54.90) and girls sprint medley relay (Hampton, Lloyd, Forsman, and Summer Lovett \u2013 2:09.35).<\/p>\n<p>The boys also had a pair of records in the sprint medley relay (Thornbrugh, Zaine Brito, Zane Herrmann, and Aniceto Cano-Aguilar \u2013 1:49.28) and 4 x 400 (Brito, Herrmann, Cano-Aguilar, and Noah Hobbs \u2013 4:02.02).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-CMS standards established as Panthers finish third in league meet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6313],"tags":[38,39,28,37,36,6419],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-128298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-2","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-dove-creek-high-school","tag-headlines","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-tj-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128298"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=128298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}