{"id":72285,"date":"2017-05-22T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T23:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/young-bluejays-shine-at-state-track-meet\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T23:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T23:31:12","slug":"young-bluejays-shine-at-state-track-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/young-bluejays-shine-at-state-track-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Bluejays shine at state track meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One year after graduating several senior stalwarts, the Mancos High School track team returned to the Class 2A State Track Meet in Lakewood, May 20-21, and watched a new wave of talent emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Pacing the Bluejays was freshman Caden Showalter, whose sixth-place finish in the discus (135 feet, 9 inches) made him the highest ranked ninth-grader at the meet. Showalter also finished 15th in the shot put (39 feet, 4\u00be inches).<\/p>\n<p>Freshmen Anthony Medina and Breccen Morelli also came through with solid performances for Mancos, finishing 14th in the long jump (19 feet, 1 inch) and 17th in the 400-meter dash (54.46), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Other individual finishers included Griff Huver, who placed 11th in the long jump (19 feet, 5 \u00bc inches), Jack McKie, who finished 14th in the 3200-meter run (10:44.41), and Caden Galloway, who leapt to a 16th place finish in the high jump (5 feet, 6 inches).<\/p>\n<p>The Bluejays 4\u00d7800-meter relay team made up of Caleb Yoder, Teslin Stecher, McKie and Morelli finished fifth overall (8:38.70) and as a team, the Bluejays finished 32nd overall in Class 2A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showalter, Medina and Morelli shine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[83,37],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mancos","tag-mancos-high-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72285","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=72285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72285"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}