ALAMOSA – The annual Colorado High School Coaches Association Al-State Games will take place June 16-20 at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

Ten athletes and two coaches from the San Luis Valley will be participating in this years games.

Highlighting the local athletes is Sanford High School’s Trason Gartrell, who will compete in two sports – boys basketball and football.

Gartrell will play for the White team in boys basketball. The White team will play the Red team at 6:30 p.m. on June 16 at UNC’s Bank of Colorado Arena. Also on the White team will be Gartrell’s Sanford teammate, Cahl Larsen. Sangre de Cristo’s Deagon Rogers will play for the Red team.

The other game will have the Blue team facing the Black team at, 7:45 p.m. that same day.

The third place will be at 6 p.m. on June 17 and the Final will take place at, 7:30 p.m.

The girls basketball schedule will have the Red vs. White at 4 p.m. and the Blue vs. Black at 5:15 p.m. on June 16 at the Bank of Colorado Arena. The third place is at 3 p.m. and the final is at 4:30 p.m. on June 17.

No SLV girls basketball players will compete.

Softball will also be played on June 17 at 11 a.m. at Gloria Rodriguez Field. No SLV softball players will be competing.

Wrestling, boys soccer and girls soccer will take place on June 18.

One local wrestler will compete in Sierra Grande’s Jeremiah Lopez. The wrestling matches will take place at 1 p.m. at the Bank of Colorado Arena.

Girls soccer will be played at 6:30 p.m. and boys soccer at 7:30 p.m. at Jackson Field. No locals will be in the soccer games.

Volleyball will take place June 19 at the Bank of Colorado Arena. One SLV volleyball player, Sargent’s Reese Anderson will play for the Blue team. Centauri’s Eddie Chacon will coach the Red team.

The schedule will have the Red vs. vs. the White at 2:30 p.m. and the Blue vs. the Black at 3:30 p.m. The third place match is at 5 p.m. and the Final is at 7 p.m.

The All-State games will wrap up on June 20 with the football at Nottingham Field. The game begins at 1:30 p.m.

Gartrell will play for the South team, along with Monte Vista’s Azariah Hurtado and Kelby Mondragon, and Centauri’s Carson Shawcroft and Spencer Smith. Centauri coach Kyle Forster will be one of the South team’s coaches.

One SLV athlete will compete in Spirit in Monte Vista’s Justyce Martinez. The Spirt teams will perform at the football game.