High School's Altitude Affects Sports Programming

At 10,200 feet, every sport is a winter sport for students at Lake County High School in Leadville, Colo.

Girls playing football in the snowGirls playing football in the snowFriday, Aug. 26, dawned bright and, it would seem, seasonable by Leadville, Colo., standards. Brad Plackemeier, Lake County High School's new athletic director and dean of its 315 students, sat in his office looking out at the state's two tallest mountains, 14,433-foot Mount Elbert and 14,421-foot Mount Massive, which were dusted by new snow above the timber line. "It's about 40 degrees right now," Plackemeier said. "It's not too bad." Not too bad at all, considering that his predecessor in the job, Rick Ince, got snowed on when he interviewed at the school back in August 1974.

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