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An evening earlier in Denver, Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball coach Cory Parker admitted that Aspen was, in reality, a ski city.
However he additionally set forth a private activity of turning it right into a basketball city, and that’s precisely what Aspen regarded like when the AHS gamers hopped off the bus Sunday at Paepcke Park to dozens of followers, crimson pompons and a celebration worthy of a champion.
With a police escort into city, the Skiers had been capable of relish of their Class 3A state title, gained Saturday over Centauri contained in the College of Denver’s Hamilton Gymnasium. The win capped off an ideal 27-0 season and it was this system’s first state championship.
Parker, a 2008 AHS graduate who got here house to educate and educate, was the primary off the bus Sunday and shortly after gave a brief speech that resembled a lot of what he stated Saturday after finishing their fairy story season.
“That’s going to be powerful, for certain. Commencement goes to be powerful,” Parker stated after Saturday’s sport of the crew’s 10-man senior class. “However what we’ve carried out right here and what we’ve created goes means past simply this crew. It is a tradition. This a tradition that we’ve constructed and these boys have been the beginning of it. So sure, this personnel will go, however the legacy will proceed to stay and the tradition will proceed to stay.”
Images: Aspen basketball championship parade
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
Austin Colbert/The Aspen Instances -
After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
Austin Colbert/The Aspen Instances -
After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
Austin Colbert/The Aspen Instances -
After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
Austin Colbert/The Aspen Instances -
After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
Austin Colbert/The Aspen Instances -
After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
Austin Colbert/The Aspen Instances -
After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
Austin Colbert/The Aspen Instances -
After ending 27-0 and successful the Class 3A state championship on Saturday in Denver, the Aspen Excessive Faculty boys basketball crew returned to Aspen on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to a police escort and a hoard of followers awaiting them at Paepcke Park to rejoice this system’s first state title.
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The ten seniors using off into the sundown embrace brothers Shae and Braden Korpela, Ben Godomsky, Lucas Lee, Porter Lee, Sergio Ruiz, Ansel Whitley, Quinn McKie, Simon Holloway and Hudson Nunes. It was a gaggle that grew beneath former head coach Alex Schrempf earlier than Parker took over this season after having been Schrempf’s assistant the previous 5 seasons.
“I’m feeling good. I’m feeling extraordinarily proud,” Parker had stated Saturday. “Not solely on the court docket with what they did and their resiliency and toughness and the way they improved on the court docket, however the household side, the brotherhood side.”
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