Rifle Bears track coach Christopher Bomba has coached the sport for more than 20 years, and he said he may go another 20 without seeing a feat like the one senior sprinter Rylan Petree delivered Saturday, at the 2026 Runners Roost meet at French Field in Fort Collins.
Petree, who is committed to run at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs in the fall, arrived with her eyes on the Rifle record book and left eight hours later with three new school records.
“In the 23 years I’ve been coaching, I’ve never seen three individual records in a season, let alone three in one day,” Bomba said. “It’s such a rare feat that most coaches out there won’t see something like this in their entire tenure. We will be hard-pressed to have another athlete do that. It was an amazing experience to sit back and watch.”…