Hoehne’s Braylee Foster wins state high jump, adds two sprint medals
Braylee Foster turned a state high jump title into a three-medal weekend, showing Hoehne can develop one athlete for both sprint speed and vertical power.
Hoehne junior Braylee Foster left the Colorado state track and field meet with a title in the high jump and two sprint medals, a rare combination that put a small Las Animas County school in the center of the Class 2A race.
Foster won the 2A girls high jump at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood with a personal-best clearance of 5 feet 5 inches. She also finished second in the 100-meter dash in 12.47 seconds and third in the 200-meter dash in 25.80 seconds, making her one of the meet’s most productive individual performers across multiple events.
The Colorado High School Activities Association said Foster was second in the 100 and later won the high jump title on the final day of the 2026 championships, which ran May 14-16 in Lakewood. Across the five classifications, 70 individual champions and 20 relay champions were crowned. In 2A, Lyons won the girls team title for the sixth time overall and its first since 2012, setting the backdrop for a meet that featured deep competition at the top.
For Hoehne, Foster’s results pointed to something bigger than one weekend. A state champion who also medals in both sprint finals gives the Farmers a rare kind of scoring range, the sort that reflects not just one standout event but broad athletic development. Foster was entered in the 100, 200, 4x100 relay and high jump, and that spread shows how much value one athlete can bring to a rural program when speed and explosiveness translate across events.
The state title also marked another step forward from last year. In the 2025 state meet, Foster won the Class 2A girls high jump with a mark of 5-3 and placed fifth in the 200-meter dash in 26.49 seconds. This spring, MileSplit Colorado had already listed her among the state’s best high jumpers and one of the top 2A sprinters, and the state meet results matched that billing with a stronger jump and higher finishes in both dashes.
In a county where school sports are one of the most visible stages for local talent, Foster’s weekend gave Hoehne a statewide showcase. The three-medal performance showed that a small-school athlete from Las Animas County could contend in multiple events at once, not just survive at the state level but help define it.
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