Carbondale and Basalt will be well-represented at the Colorado High School Cross Country Championships this Saturday, Nov. 1, at the Norris-Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs. Competing at their Regional qualifying event last week, the Basalt High School cross country team, which combines with runners from Carbondale’s Roaring Fork High, qualified its girls team for […]
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Local student-athletes earn top-10 finishes at state mountain biking championships
Carbondale was well-represented at the Colorado High School Cycling League State Mountain Biking Championships, held at the Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley campus trails last weekend, Oct. 18-19. Riding for Roaring Fork High School, senior Quinn Carpenter placed sixth overall out of 136 state qualifiers in the varsity boys race on Sunday afternoon. Carpenter was […]
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Community sprouting around RFHS biodome
Next volunteer project day is Oct. 25 Gretchen Hofmann has been taking care of organic gardens and biodomes since landing at the Windstar Foundation, an Aspen nonprofit founded by musician John Denver, when she was 25. She made her career stewarding diverse landscapes, even teaching organic gardening at UC Davis. Coming full circle, she is […]
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Rams Report: Fall sports roll into final weeks of the season
Roaring Fork High School’s boys soccer and girls volleyball teams picked up key wins this week on the road, while the combined Basalt-Roaring Fork cross country team tuned up for a big meet this Friday. A rare mid-week cross country meet brought area teams to the Rifle Creek Golf Course on Tuesday, Oct. 7 for […]
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JV football building for the future, scores homecoming week win
Roaring Fork High School’s homecoming week got off on the right foot — football, that is. Playing only at the junior varsity level this season while in rebuilding mode, the Rams JV players got the Monday night spotlight, hosting Delta on the gridiron ahead of a student game of capture the flag that was part […]
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Draw with Timnath boots Roaring Fork soccer into top 10
The Roaring Fork High School boys soccer team played the state’s seventh-ranked 3A team to a scoreless tie on Saturday, Sept. 20, an outcome that in turn propelled the Rams into the top 10. The physical bout produced multiple yellow cards for both teams, landed one Timnath player in the hospital with a shoulder injury, […]
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Roaring Fork soccer making moves through early season
Roaring Fork High School’s boys soccer team continues on an early season roll, improving to 4-1 overall and taking their first 3A Western Slope League (WSL) win in action over the past week. The Rams won 6-2 at home on Sept. 11 over league foe Rifle, followed by a 5-3 win at Summit on Sept. […]
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Downvalley high schools combine forces for Basalt-based boys tennis team
Several high school sports wouldn’t even be an option for area student-athletes, were it not for a rule that allows for schools to team up if they don’t have enough numbers to support a particular program on their own. Among them for Roaring Fork and Basalt high schools, and in some cases Glenwood Springs High […]
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Rams volleyball grabs first win of season in home opener
Home, sweet, home: That’s what it took for the Roaring Fork High School girls volleyball team to finally earn their first win of the season. That, and some solid play Tuesday night, Sept. 2, against the visiting Gore Rangers of Vail Mountain School. After dropping the first six matches of the season, including a 3-1 […]
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High school sports return to the fields and courts
The start of the new school year this week for the Roaring Fork School District also marks the beginning of fall sports seasons. Roaring Fork High School returns to action with varsity boys soccer and girls volleyball, while the football team will be competing at the junior varsity level this season due to low numbers […]