With a win over Dakota Ridge in the first round of the Class 4A playoffs Thursday, Windsor girls soccer’s playoff run is off to the races.
But a pair of athletes on the team — coincidentally, the Wizards’ two top goal scorers — have been off to the races all season.
Along with starring in soccer, junior Tatum Gentry and freshman Maya Aguilar have also carved out quite a niche for themselves in track and field.
“I think both coaches give a little, and we give a little,” Gentry said. “Because everybody knows we’re going to show up and give 100% no matter what.”
In addition to playing midfield and leading the Wizards in scoring (Windsor’s stats are not updated, so an exact total is not available), Gentry also participates in the 4×100 and 4×200-meter relays, long jump and the 100-meter dash.
Aguilar is a striker for the soccer team and also runs the 100, 200, 400, 300-meter hurdles, long jump and any relay the team needs her in.
“I kind of do a lot of events,” she said.
Both — along with Kiana Cumings and Maya Brasch — were part of the 4×100 relay that tied a state record (46.41) last month at the Randall Hess Roughrider Invite in Johnstown.
“It’s a lot of give and take on a lot of people’s parts,” Lordemann said. “Coaches are giving and taking. Players are giving and taking on both teams, right? … So it’s a testament to those two kids, it’s a testament to our program and it’s a testament to the rest of our girls, because it’s hard when they aren’t at practice sometimes. But our team has been very gracious about all of it.”
Though running track may mean some missed soccer practices — and vice versa — the time spent training their speed and quickness is obvious on the soccer pitch.
“When you see it in person, it’s just different,” Lordemann said of how fast Gentry, Aguilar and the rest of the Wizards team. “You can see it on tape. And you’re going to plan for it on tape. But when you have to deal with it in person, it’s a different beast.”
Both Gentry and Aguilar agree that there are transferable skills, especially when racing another player to a ball on the pitch.
“I think the quick speed that you have to step to a ball in soccer is like how you have to accelerate fast in track,” Aguilar said. “During soccer, sometimes I think, ‘Use your track speed. Just go at it. Be fast.’ ”
Windsor’s Macy Isom (4) celebrates scoring a goal during a first round game of the CHSSA girl’s soccer state championship against Dakota Ridge at Windsor High School in Greeley on Thursday, May 7, 2026. (Brice Tucker/Staff Photographer)
And “fast is fast,” Lordemann said. But the skills needed for each sport are far from a one-to-one comparison.
“In the track world, it’s straight ahead, right?” Lordemann said. “In the soccer world, we hate straight ahead. Give me speed all day long, but there’s not that much that honestly correlates.”
Gentry all-but-echoed her coach’s sentiment.
“For soccer, you’re changing speed and changing directions, where you barely do that for track unless it’s on a curve,” Gentry said. “So I feel in soccer, it’s almost a little bit harder. You’re changing speed. You’re going diagonal. You’re checking the other way and then going straight. So you’re using more of your bodily abilities to be able to make that quick change.”
Gentry did both her freshman year, but decided to focus just on soccer as a sophomore last year. But with Aguilar joining the Wizards this year, the two friends — who know each other from attending middle school together at Frontier Academy in Greeley — dove back into both.
“This year, because Maya was with us, I wanted to do both again because I knew I had a buddy,” Gentry said.
Along with having a friend on each team — which isn’t a given at a school the size of Windsor with more than 1,100 students — it also gave both someone else who understands their unique situation.
“It’s hard to make those connections on both teams,” Aguilar said. “But going in, being able to have each other and understand it makes it a lot easier.”
Gentry, Aguilar and the rest of the Windsor girls soccer team, ranked No. 9 in the bracket, will make the long drive to Grand Junction on Saturday to play the eighth-seeded Tigers.
Windsor’s Kyle Martinez (8) heads the ball during a first round game of the CHSSA girl’s soccer state championship against Dakota Ridge at Windsor High School in Greeley on Thursday, May 7, 2026. (Brice Tucker/Staff Photographer)
The game is set to begin at 5 p.m. at Community Hospital Unity Field, 1840 N. 12th St., Grand Junction, on the campus of Colorado Mesa University.
The Wizards are 11-3-2 overall after their first-round win. Grand Junction enters the match 14-2.