Manitou Springs multi-sport athletes are maximizing their opportunities
It's been some kind of a year for Manitou Springs. The Mustangs went to the final four in basketball for the first time in thirty years, the football team has won four straight and the soccer team won the league title for the first time ever. Those three sports feature a bunch of the same players. The same guys who are part of a historic year, "We know what kind of talent we have out here. We kind of expected something pretty good, but we definitely did surprise ourselves with the way we've been playing," says Manitou Springs junior, Caleb Allen.
The football players had four days to prep for the season once basketball ended. They actually missed the first game of the year, their only loss. Guys like Isaiah Thomas are playing football and futbol, "Being able to make football practice, and then go to games, it gets pretty busy," says Thomas. Sometimes he gets the two confused, "During practice all the time, the ball will come at my face, and I just catch the ball," says Thomas.
It's the kind of schedule that only exists during a pandemic but these guys have made the most of it, making history across three sports at the same time, "I feel like we kind of expected how good we're doing. We played all the sports forever, and we've kind of played how we've always played as a team," Manitou Springs senior, Joah Armour.
