The 3A Western Slope League All-Conference selections have been announced upon the recent conclusion of the boys soccer and girls volleyball seasons.
For Carbondale’s Roaring Fork High School, making First Team All-Conference in soccer were senior Jason Clemente and junior Cal Stone.
Stone was the leading scorer for the Rams this season, amassing 12 goals and 15 assists through 17 games.
Clemente complemented from the midfield position, helping to set up the Rams’ attack and contributing four goals and two assists himself.
Basalt was also represented among the First Team selections by senior midfielder Marco Gonzalez.
Earning Second Team picks for the Rams were senior Peter Brennan and junior Randy Candela, and for the Longhorns was senior Mik Levy.
Honorable Mention picks went to juniors Wesley Serrano and Cristian Turcios for the Rams, and senior goalkeeper Erik Palomeres for the Longhorns.
League Athlete of the Year was Coal Ridge senior midfielder Peter Ortiz; Goalkeeper of the Year was senior Jaxon Hartley of Aspen; and Coaching Staff of the Year honors went to League champion Steamboat Springs.
For volleyball, Roaring Fork junior setter Tess Hayes was named Second Team. Hayes had 377 assists and 37 aces from the service line to lead the team in those categories. She also had 131 digs.
Lax standout signs to play D1
The combined Roaring Fork-Glenwood Springs-Basalt girls lacrosse team has produced its first NCAA Division 1 recruit in Glenwood Springs High School: senior Jordyn Miller.
Miller officially signed last week to play lacrosse for Eastern Michigan University.
“Playing D1 always seemed like such a reach to me,” Miller told the Glenwood Post Independent in an interview during her signing ceremony at GSHS on Nov. 12. “Especially coming from the Valley, I know that getting seen and getting to play college is super hard because we’re so small.”
Roaring Fork District high schools combined lacrosse teams for both boys and girls in order to achieve adequate numbers, with the girls team based out of Roaring Fork High, and the boys at Glenwood Springs.
For her high school career thus far, through three varsity seasons and 49 games for the Rams, Miller has scored a total of 107 goals and had 60 assists. A whopping 58 of those goals came during her junior year, and she’ll look to add to the total when she takes the field with the Rams this coming spring.
