The 2025 District Champion Hilltopper Boys Track & Field team! Photo by Blake Wood

The 2025 District Champion Hilltopper Girls Track & Field team! Photo by Blake Wood

By BLAKE WOOD
Assistant Coach
LAHS Track & Field

Both the Boys and Girls Los Alamos High School Hilltopper Track & Field teams were crowned 2025 District Champions on an intermittently rainy evening last Friday at Moriarty High School. The Boys finished ahead of Taos, 198-111, and the Girls bested Moriarty, 206-119.

Although athletes can qualify for next weekend’s State Championship based on meeting a performance standard, like at any meet, they can also qualify by finishing first or second in their event at the District Championship. Thus, many ’Topper athletes punched their ticket to State at this meet.

State Qualifying Girls included (event winner denoted with an *):

• Allie Holland* and Margaret Steinkamp in the 100 m.
• Chloe Coffey* in the 200 m.
• Margaret Steinkamp* and Jayden Burns in the 400 m.
• Rebecca Beaux* and Elizabeth Buck in the 800 m.
• Abigail Swigert in the 1600 m.
• Amelia Hill* in the 3200 m (she also met the performance standard).
• Colette Bibeault* in the 100 m hurdles (Dani Trellue, Maya Graves, and Raina Passalacqua finished 3-4-5, but also met the performance standard).
• Team* of Dani Trellue, Annie White, Jayden Burns, and Evangelina Gutierrez in the 4×100 m relay (also met the performance standard).
• Team* of Chloe Coffey, Annie White, Jenna Montoya, and Evangelina Gutierrez in the 4×200 m relay (also met the performance standard).
• Team of Maya Graves, Anna Wald-Hopkins, Ciara Colgan, and Margaret Steinkamp in the 4×400 m relay (also met the performance standard).
• Team* of Allie Holland, Colette Bibeault, Emmeline Keller-Moore, and Ensley Jorgenson in the 1600 m medley relay (also met the performance standard).
• Sarah Martis in the discus (also met the performance standard).
• Colette Bibeault* and Iris Purtzer in the high jump (both also met the performance standard).
• Rebecca Beaux in the pole vault (also met the performance standard).
• Colette Bibeault* and Raina Passalacqua in the triple jump (Colette also met the performance standard).

State Qualifying Boys included (event winner denoted with an *):

• Akim Leija-Sanchez* in the 200 m.
• Jacob Hilderbrand in the 400 m.
• Mikey Bane in the 800 m.
• Brayden Allen* and Kaj Maupin in the 1600 m.
• Kaj Maupin* and Mikey Bane in the 3200 m.
• JJ Diaz* in the 110 m hurdles.
• Connor Lattimore in the 300 m hurdles.
• Team of Benjamin Sanchez, Rylee Gramer, Sean Lucero, and Gus Ovaska in the 4×800 m relay.
• Team* of Rylee Gramer, Connor Lattimore, Andy Enriquez, and Jens Wald-Hopkins in the 1600 m medley relay.
• Matt Brousseau* and Jaydon Dudley in the shot put (both also met the performance standard).
• Moses Ward in the discus.
• Patrick Montoya* and Jacob Hilderbrand in the high jump.
• Dario Reyes* in the pole vault.
• Carlo Baca in the triple jump.

The State Championship will be held Friday and Saturday, May 16-17 at the UNM Track in Albuquerque.

Carlo Baca placed 2nd in the triple jump with a leap of 39′ 2″, qualifying for the State Championship. Photo by Blake Wood

Raina Passalacqua qualified for the State Championship with her 2nd place triple jump of 32′ 2-1/2″. Photo by Blake Wood

JJ Diaz edged out Jonathan Munoz of Taos to win the 110 m hurdles in a time of 16.74 seconds. Both qualified for the State Championship. Photo by Blake Wood

Chloe Coffey leads off the first place 4×200 m relay. With teammates Annie White, Jenna Montoya, and Evangelina Gutierrez, the Hilltoppers qualified for the State Championship with a time of 1:44.66. Photo by Blake Wood