CHSAA changes track qualifying

By MICHAEL HICKS

    AURORA - It took some compromise, but Colorado's best high school track and field athletes will gather at one venue again for the first time in 14 years.

    A proposal, which was tabled in January, that would've eliminated regional qualifying meets in favor of a 12-week season rankings system to determine state qualifiers in track and field for an all-classifications meet at one site passed Thursday during the Colorado High School Activities Association board meeting.

    But how the four classes qualify for state will be different. The proposal passed only after allowing 2A and 3A schools to continue using regionals to determine state qualifiers.

    The top three athletes in each event at regionals, along with pre-qualifiers, will advance to state as they do now.