Senior wide receiver Nelson Spruce (Fin’15) caught a record-setting 106 passes last year, earning team MVP honors. The straight-talking finance major from Southern California ranks second at CU for all-time receptions, with 205 heading into his final season. Here he talks football with his trademark candor.
Possible combinations of football helmets, jerseys, pants and shoes after May’s uniform redesign.
ard Xavier Johnson (Comm’16) tore his left Achilles tendon during off-season workouts and may miss the entire 2015-16 men’s basketball season.
Colorado football has new players, new uniforms — and new digs.
University of Colorado Boulder alums Emma Coburn (Mktg’13) and Jenny Simpson (Econ, PolSci’09) won USA Track & Field titles on back-to-back days in June.
Fastest Mile Senior Jake Hurysz (Comm’15) in February broke the CU record for fastest mile with a time of 3 minutes, 58.13 seconds, finishing fifth at the Husky Classic, an indoor track meet in Seattle. Former Buff Stephen Pifer (Geol’08) held the previous record of 3:59.55.
Brie Hooks (Soc’17) may be small — 5 feet,1/2 inch — but she’s come up big for CU soccer. Last season the forward from greater Seattle led the team in goals (8) and points (23) and made the All-Pac-12 second team. A singer who has studied sign language, she imagines a career working with the deaf.
The women’s golf team finished fifth at the Pac-12 Championships, its best result since joining the conference four years ago. The Buffs hosted the tournament at Boulder Country Club April 20-22.
All told, the University of Colorado Boulder has won 28 national titles – 20 in skiing, seven in cross country and one in football.
The Colorado men’s basketball team wrapped up the 2014-15 season with a March appearance in the College Basketball Invitational.
CU, always in the Red Zone.
Like younger siblings tend to do, Cierra (a.k.a. CeCe) and Gabby Simpson learned from Taylor’s experience and decided that CU was the right place to be.
Led by junior Ammar Moussa, the Buffs won their second NCAA Division I Championship in a row and finished the season ranked No. 1 in the nation, the first team to hold the top spot all year since Wisconsin in 2006.
Men’s basketball tipped off Pac-12 play with a Jan. 2 defeat of UCLA, 62-56, at Coors Events Center — marking CU’s first victory over UCLA in 53 years and the Buffs’ 100th win under head coach Tad Boyle.
The women’s soccer and volleyball teams reached their respective NCAA tournaments for the second year in a row in 2014, advancing to the second round in both cases.
The decisive digits that delineate deeds of distinction.
In October, Julyette Steur and Kyra Wojcik delivered CU’s first-ever regional title in doubles tennis by winning the USTA/ITA Mountain Regional Round of 64 final at the University of New Mexico.
Jeremy and Yannik Paul, identical twins from Germany, are believed to be the first twins to play men’s golf for CU-Boulder. Recently ranked among the world’s top 200 men’s amateurs, they are sophomore business majors, roommates — and aiming for the pro tour. Jeremy is older by one minute.
Last spring Sarah Lautman (Engr’15), a chemical and biological engineering major from Massachusetts, joined the women’s lacrosse team as a walk-on — and came up big during the team’s inaugural season, scoring game-winning overtime goals three times. Lautman was one of four CU players to tally at least 25 goals as the Buffs went 11-8 in 2014, their first season as a varsity sport.
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In its first meeting ever with Colorado State, Buffs’ soccer prevailed 2-0 over the Rams, who are coached by former CU coach Bill Hempen…Junior Arielle Roberson led CU women’s basketball in scoring and rebounding last year, but will miss the 2014-15 season after tearing a ligament in her left knee. She also missed the 2011-12 season due to a hip injury…Former CU basketball standout Bob Jeangerard (Mgmt’55) was posthumously inducted into CU’s Athletic Hall of Fame…Former CU football coach Dan Hawkins will coach the U.S. senior national team in the 2015 American football world championships in Stockholm, Sweden, July 4-18.
The CU men’s cross country team, ranked No. 1 in the nation, posted a perfect score of 15 in winning its Rocky Mountain Shootout for the 24th consecutive year.
This spring CU will host a Pac-12 Conference Championship for just the second time.
Football celebrated three 20th anniversaries in 2014: Rashaan Salaam’s (Soc ex’95) Heisman Trophy-winning season, “The Catch” in the Michigan game and Bill McCartney’s final year as head coach.
CU club sports left their mark in 2014, claiming a remarkable five national titles by summer.
Shalaya Kipp (IntPhys, Psych’14) capped her CU track & field career by finishing fifth in the NCAA Championship’s 3,000-meter steeplechase and earning All-American honors for the 10th time in her career, including four times in the steeplechase.
CU football opened its 2014 season on big stages — NFL stadiums in Denver and Foxborough, Mass. — winning one and losing one.
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Conor McGahey became the public address announcer for home CU football games in 2011, succeeding Alan Cass (A&S ex’63, HonDocHum’99), who retired after 50 years of making calls for CU sporting events — including almost 30 years of CU football. McGahey, 29, works full-time for Kroenke Sports & Entertainment as associate producer for game presentation for the Colorado Avalanche and the Colorado Mammoth.
At the CU Sports Performers of the Year celebration, volleyball player Taylor Simpson was named Female Athlete of the Year for 2013-14, while basketball forward Josh Scott and skier Rune Oedegaard shared the men’s honor…
