First-ever high school cornhole champs hail from Colorado

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KMGH) — Thunder Ridge High School successful Colorado volition adorn their rafters with the archetypal ever nationalist title banner for the crippled of cornhole.

The American Cornhole League hosted the inaugural National High School Cornhole Championships connected New Year’s play successful Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and a plucky radical from Colorado took location the trophy.

“There wasn’t adjacent a squad earlier (the National Championship), we figured retired you had to correspond your school,” said Gavin Hamann, a sophomore astatine Thunder Ridge. “You’d conscionable travel each Wednesday and play.”

“We would play successful the parking lot,” said Jaxson Remmick, who is besides a sophomore.

Jake Thayer and Cooper Bingham are the elder statesmen of the group.

“I similar the competitiveness and I similar gathering caller people,” Bingham said. “Hanging retired with radical each week, it’s conscionable a bully affable experience.”

Their competitory tone was stoked upon discovering the recently announced Cornhole National Championships; however, determination wasn’t overmuch clip to get ready.

“We had a period to effort to prepare,” Thayer said. “A period to signifier arsenic overmuch arsenic we could.”

“I consciousness similar we were the underdogs,” Hamann said. “Not a batch of radical knew astir us. Everybody determination has been throwing for two-plus years. We’ve been throwing for, like, 1 year.”

“All of our friends astatine schoolhouse marque amusive of america sometimes: ’You’re playing successful a maize spread tourney — that’s weird,'" Remmick said.

There are a batch of strategies that spell into tossing bags.

“If you space it a definite mode oregon if you marque the beads signifier a definite mode successful the container it’ll bash antithetic things and you tin manipulate the crippled similar that,” Thayer said. “We decidedly aren’t conscionable playing to play; we privation to effort and get better, we privation to win.”

In summation to glory, they won much than $8,000 astatine the National Championships, each of which is going to Thunder Ridge. It volition beryllium utilized to officially commencement the TRHS Cornhole Club and turn the game.

“It takes a batch of accomplishment but astatine the aforesaid clip you don’t request to beryllium the tallest oregon the fastest oregon whatever,” Remmick said. “Anyone tin play the game.”

Bags and boards — a elemental conception fostering relationship and a agleam aboriginal for 4 Colorado precocious schoolhouse students.

“(These) bags person brought our person radical truly close,” Hamann said.

This communicative was primitively reported by Nick Rothschild connected thedenverchannel.com.