Brendan Ploen

Position: Herald Sports Writer

Durango, Bayfield and Ignacio qualify for volleyball regionals

All three area high schools qualified for the Colorado High School Activities Association’s regional volleyball tournaments when the draw was announced Monday. Bayfield, Durango and Ignacio high...

DATE: Nov. 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Animas High’s Riley Amos rides to mountain bike state championship

It was the perfect end to Riley Amos’ high school mountain bike racing career as the senior wrapped up Sunday’s Colorado High School Cycling League mountain bike state championships at Durango Mesa...

DATE: Oct. 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Fort Lewis College football gears up for season opener

Fort Lewis College senior defensive lineman George Marpaung is holding everyone on the Fort Lewis College football team accountable, and he believes it is going to kickstart a new era for a program...

DATE: Sept. 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Leo Garand to be next Ignacio High School athletic director

Leo Garand always knew he wanted to lead a high school athletic program, and Ignacio High School came calling at the perfect time. Garand accepted a position on July 12 as the next athletic...

DATE: July 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Natalie Lang topples Lake Memphremagog marathon feat

When Natalie Lang jumps in the water and begins swimming, her sense of time, direction and hearing sink to the depths of the open water, and instead, she lets her body do the work, stroke by...

DATE: July 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Cortez Water Dragons finish second at Durango swim meet

Brandon Walker is bringing in new methods as the latest head coach of Durango Swim Club and he showed it on Sunday, when he changed out of his polo and swam the mixed 800-meter freestyle relay, the...

DATE: June 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Sports

Ian Huang, Maggie Yount repeat at Steamworks Half Marathon

Steamworks Half Marathon race director Matthew Krichman called Ian Huang on Thursday after he saw that the defending champion was not registered on the sold-out, 300-person race roster. Krichman...

DATE: June 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Iron Horse Citizen Tour features skiers, a suit and lots of friends

Brayden Harms and his father, Dan, knew that Saturday’s Citizen Tour as part of the 48th Iron Horse Bicycle Classic would present a unique challenge: beat the train and get a run in down Paradise...

DATE: May 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Wrestling Roundup: Ignacio bulks up for Butch Melton

In one of the toughest wrestling tournaments along the Western Slope, the Ignacio High School wrestling team fared well as it placed ninth out of 23 teams with 66.5 points Saturday at the 2019...

DATE: Jan. 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Prep Roundup: Ignacio girls, boys hoops cruise past Norwood

The Ignacio girls basketball team remained undefeated in the 2A/1A San Juan Basin League on Saturday afternoon with a dominant 62-8 win against Norwood at IHS. The Bobcats (5-4, 4-0 2A/1A San Juan...

DATE: Jan. 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Late free throws lift Bayfield girls past Cortez

Tymbree Florian of Bayfield High School knew what was at stake when she went to the free-throw line with 9.3 seconds remaining in a game tied at 47 with Montezuma-Cortez. “Those last six...

DATE: Jan. 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Free throws give Bayfield boys dramatic win over Cortez

In its first 3A Intermountain League game of the season, the Bayfield High School boys basketball team looked in deep trouble as it was down nine points against undefeated Montezuma-Cortez, the...

DATE: Jan. 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

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