Rocky Mountain’s Edison Doebbeling named Blue FCU Boys Athlete of Week

This week’s Blue Federal Credit Union Boys Athlete of the Week award is gliding by way of the water.

Rocky Mountain swimming’s Edison Doebbeling took prime honors within the Fort Collins space for the week of March 30 to April 4 after a giant day within the pool.

Doebbeling gained a pair of occasions and helped Rocky take a relay title at Mountain View’s April Fools Invitational on April 4.

The Lobos swimmer took the 100-yard butterfly title, profitable by a wholesome margin with a time of 55.54 seconds.

Doebbeling then dominated the 100 breaststroke race, outpacing the sector by over two seconds and touching in 1 minute, 1.08 seconds.

The Rocky sophomore wasn’t achieved, both.

He swam the breaststroke leg of the 200 medley relay race, serving to the Lobos edge out Mountain View by lower than a tenth of a second for the win.

This has been a breakout season to this point for Doebbeling, who additionally gained the 100 freestyle race in a quad meet earlier this season.

The sophomore swimmer has additionally been a standout within the pool for Team Vortex in membership swimming and with Liberty Common earlier than transferring to Rocky.

Doebbeling is the third Lobos in 4 weeks to earn Blue FCU Athlete of the Week honors, becoming a member of Rocky observe and subject athletes Gwen Grumbles and Carson Holley.

Doebbeling (who’s listed by his given first identify of John on some rosters) can be the second boys swimmer to win the weekly award this spring, matching Fossil Ridge’s Parker Grissom.

Rocky followers hit the polls laborious, pushing Doebbeling forward of a crowded subject with 30.8% of the full vote.

That finally propelled the Lobos sophomore forward of these 4 different terrific boys Athlete of the Week nominees:

• Preston Mozer, Fort Collins observe and subject (runner-up with 26.7% of the vote)
• Kaden Souders, Fort Collins baseball
• Asi Rigby, Windsor baseball
• Tyler Kephart, Fossil Ridge baseball

The Blue Federal Credit Union Athlete of the Week sequence options 5 nominees on Mondays, with voting at Coloradoan.com till 11:59 a.m. each Thursday.

Fans can nominate their favourite athletes (deadline: 11:59 p.m. each Sunday), and the Coloradoan Sports employees will finally choose the nominees every week.

If you have got nominations for a future Athlete of the Week, please ship them through e-mail to ChrisAbshire@coloradoan.com for consideration.

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Chris Abshire covers highschool and group sports activities for the Coloradoan.