Sports

Hideout Golf Course hosts exciting Amateur and Shootout tournaments

One hundred and ten golfers descended on the Hideout Golf Course this past weekend for the annual Hideout Amateur Golf Tournament. The two-day event, held July 27 and 28, provided some exciting golf and, for one golfer, a second hole-in-one in as many years at the Hideout. Last year, Jake Francom...

Hideout Golf Course set to host Shootout and Amateur tournaments

It might get a little crowded at the Hideout this weekend. For the second straight year, the Monticello golf course will break tournament attendance records (or at least see the most players in recent memory) when it hosts the popular Hideout Shootout and Hideout Amateur. Over 60 teams are set to...

San Juan High School athlete recognized as a top tier baseball player

San Juan High School junior shortstop Davis Mendoza has been recognized by human performance company EXOS as one of the top tier baseball players in the west region of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, and Montana. Mendoza will be one of 50 athletes at the EXOS Select 50...

Jazz player visits

Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale conducted a skills camp in Monticello last week as part of a statewide Junior Jazz Road Trip. The event, held at Monticello Elementary School, attracted a large number of enthusiastic local kids. O’Neale was undrafted after leaving Baylor University and spent two...

Third annual San Juan Stampede Pro Rodeo hits the county this weekend

This Thursday through Saturday, June 13-15, the San Juan County Fairgrounds will be abuzz with bulls and blood, dust and mud, ropes and reins, joy and pain, and the roar of a weekend crowd as the third annual San Juan Stampede Pro Rodeo rolls into Monticello. The event has seen great success since...

Monticello High School finishes second in 1A Deseret News All-sports awards

Every year since 1978, the Deseret News has monitored twelve high school boys and girls sports and awarded points for first through eighth place state championship finishes. At the end of the school year, the scores are tallied and the DesNews awards what it calls the All-sports awards for all...

Adam Bunker wins event, earns honor at multi-state track meet

Adam Bunker officially wrapped up his Monticello High School track and field career in impressive fashion June 6-8 when he won the 2000-meter steeple chase at the Great Southwest Classic Track and Field Meet at the University of New Mexico. Bunker’s first place finish of 6:21.75 earned him the Pat...

San Juan High soccer is ready for the big leagues

In less than three months, San Juan High School will embark on an exciting voyage into uncharted territory. Beginning this fall, Bronco athletes will lace up their cleats and head out onto soccer fields for the first time ever in varsity competition. For both the girls and boys teams, it has been...

Giddings wins second straight discus crown

Last year, then sophomore Katie Giddings surprised the 3A Track and Field world when she stole the 3A State Championship in girls discus. Fast forward one season and Giddings, now on everyone’s list of athletes to watch, joined some elite company as a two-time state champ. Giddings’s winning throw...

Monticello track and field – boys capture state title, girls finish fourth

For only the second time in school history, the Monticello boys track and field team won a state title on the Clarence Robinson Track at BYU in Provo, this past Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18. However, Monticello’s track and field dominance has been a recent phenomenon. They’ve won two of the...