Back in Colorado, the rest of the Summit High School track and field team competed at two meets. Most notably, Summit traveled to Lakewood on Thursday, April 10, to compete at the Don Osse Lakewood Tiger Invitational. 

The Summit girls were able to place second overall at the meet with 70 total points while the boys placed 10th with 36 points. 

Freshman Paige Ratliff and freshman Sophie Dinse were both able to score several points for the team in the girls 1600-meter run. Ratliff set a six-second personal best in the event, crossing the finish line in 5:58.89 to place third overall. Ratliff was soon followed by Dinse, who took fourth overall in 6:06.80.

The Summit girls continued to score points throughout the meet. Freshman Avery Russer placed third overall in the 300-meter hurdles (49.73) while sophomore Deirdre Dalzell took sixth (52.12).

Two weeks removed from setting a new school record in the 4×100-meter relay, the Summit girls returned to the track and dropped 0.03 seconds off its previous best mark. With junior Teagan Barth, junior Saige Heflin, freshman Ruby Snyder and freshman Avery Russer all running legs on the relay, the team placed first overall in the event. 

Barth, Heflin, junior Hailey Russer and Faith Fox also secured a first-place finish in the 4×200-meter relay. Clocking a time of 1:48.29, the relay marks the third fastest time in school history.

Additionally, Summit ran in a sprint medley relay. Although the event is no longer contested at the state meet, the Tigers set a new school record mark of 1:52.20. 

The Summit girls closed out the meet by taking fifth in the 4×400 and the 4×800-meter relays.

On the boys side, Summit sophomore Jay McDonald led the performances in the boys 1600-meter run. After completing a lengthy ski mountaineering season, McDonald returned to the track where he ran 4:29.62 to place second overall. Junior Carter Niemkiewicz followed in seventh, running 4:45.12. 

Moving up in distance to the 3200-meter run, sophomore Lukas Remeikis ran an impressive race. Taking nearly a minute off his previous best time from last year, Remeikis ran 10:17.04 to take second overall. Sophomore Owen Fallon also placed highly, taking ninth in 10:48.23.

In the hurdles, senior Simeon Ryan secured a seventh-place finish (17.59) in the 110-meter hurdles while sophomore Benayah Majka took 12th (47.49)  in the 300-meter hurdles.

Like the girls, the Summit boys were able to score a big chunk of points in the relays. The Tigers took fifth in the 4×100 (44.82), fourth in the 4×200 (1:33.71), eighth in the 4×400 (3:53.90) and sixth in the 4×800 (9:08.40). The 4×200 relay team was able to set a new school record in the event by a few fractions of a second.  

Summit traveled to Glenwood Springs for the Demon Invitational on Saturday, April 12. The girls took third (73) and the boys took fourth (54). Summit will now prepare for the Randall Hess Roughrider Invitational on Saturday, April 19.