Fort Collins-area high school lacrosse teammates, others sign on to play college sports
Two members of the Rocky Mountain High School boys lacrosse team, which represents all Poudre School District schools, signed national letters of intent to play together at the next level at Adrian College, an NCAA Division III school in Michigan.
Owen Smith, a senior at Fort Collins, and Austin Selvage, a senior at Poudre, both inked their letters with Adrian in recent weeks.
More than 25 other athletes at area high schools have also signed on this spring with two- and four-year colleges and universities to continue playing their sports next fall.
Poudre and Rocky Mountain were holding signing-day celebrations Monday. Other local schools recognized their spring signees over the previous three weeks.
Thirty-three athletes from area high schools signed their letters of intent to play college sports last fall and 39 more signed in February.
Here’s a list of the spring signees, as reported by the athletic directors of their high schools:
Fort Collins
Alex Burns, golf, Kansas Wesleyan
Hannah Burns, softball, Garden City CC
Emily Johnson, volleyball, Wingate University
Alex Leland, swimming, Concordia University-Irvine
Neyla Olwine, softball, Hamline University
Clara Smith, track and field, Oberlin College
Owen Smith, lacrosse, Adrian College
Brendan Stanley, diving, Denison University
Chase Wiggins, football, Feather River College
Fossil Ridge
Quinn Van Maannen, volleyball, Southern Nazarene University
Nathan Riess, St. Mary’s (Minn.), soccer
Nash Baker, swimming, Concordia University-Irvine
Will Boyle, soccer, CSU Pueblo
Peyton Hoyt, soccer, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Brayden Gemaeloch, soccer, Illinois Wesleyan University
Caitlin Hunt, cross country, Metro State University
Liberty Common
Brandon Bate, track and field, Colorado State University
Cole Wagner, baseball, Benedictine College (Kansas)
Poudre
Johnny Fisher, track and field, William Penn University
Ryan Giglio, track and field, Cal Poly-Humboldt
Doug Gill, football, Hamline University
Austin Selvage, lacrosse, Adrian College
Resurrection Christian
Ella Peacock, basketball, Dordt University
Lexi Reeser, volleyball, Missouri State-West Plains
Bryleigh Schweer, volleyball, Dordt University
Taylor Wright, basketball, Dordt University
Rocky Mountain
Dalton Kaines, cross country, track and field, University of Portland
Pryor MacEachran, swimming, California Lutheran University
Rachel Peebles, soccer, Fort Lewis College
Timothy Thompson, cross country, track and field, Colorado School of Mines
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