{"id":30245,"date":"2023-12-10T02:43:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/brinley-duran-representing-colorado-at-regional-championships\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:15:07","slug":"brinley-duran-representing-colorado-at-regional-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/brinley-duran-representing-colorado-at-regional-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Brinley Duran representing Colorado at regional championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=03028184-8411-5375-a171-4888032cfbab&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" alt=\"Brinley Duran of Cortez will be the Western Slope\u2019s sole representative this summer in 10-and-under class of Midwest All-Star Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.  Courtesy photo\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Brinley Duran of Cortez will be the Western Slope\u2019s sole representative this summer in 10-and-under class of Midwest All-Star Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.  Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>With each new award for Cortez swimming standout Brinley Duran, another opportunity comes knocking on her door.<\/p>\n<p>The elementary school swimmer earned one of 10 coveted spots in her age group to represent Colorado as part of the Midwest All-Star Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, in early January. Having earned her stripes on the state-wide circuit, Duran now gets to test her swimming acumen against athletes in her age bracket from across the upper Midwest and Great Plains.<\/p>\n<p>Duran joins nine other girls from Colorado in the 10-and-under classification, serving as the lone representative from the Western Slope.  A star on the Durango Swim Club, Duran enjoyed a dominant run at the Western Slope League Championships this summer, part of an impressive stretch of meets where she enjoyed tremendous success.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to sterling times, she met the rigorous criteria put forth by the selection process, claiming top performances amongst her peers in multiple strokes and distances.<\/p>\n<p>The meet will run over the weekend of Jan. 6-7 in the Iowa state capital, with sixty representatives from Colorado filling out each of the boys and girls in the 10 and under, 11-12 year-old, and 13-14 year-old divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10-year-old heading to Iowa for All-Star meet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245","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=30245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81013,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245\/revisions\/81013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30245"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}