Sports Briefs – Fall 2014
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Former CU runners who won titles at the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships in late June:Jenny Barringer Simpson(Econ, Pol-Sci’09) prevailed in the 1,500 andEmma Coburn(Mktg’13) won the 3,000 steeplechase for the third time in four years
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Years sinceRashaan Salaam(Soc ex’95) won CU’s first (and only) Heisman Trophy
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Overall position former CU wide receiverPaul Richardson(Comm ex’14) was selected in the NFL draft by the 2014 Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks
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Years CU has had a football team
Buff Tidbits
At the CU Sports Performers of the Year celebration, volleyball playerTaylor Simpsonwas named Female Athlete of the Year for 2013-14, while basketball forwardJosh Scott and skierRune Oedegaardshared the men’s honor…
With the release of the NCAA’s 2009-13 Academic Progress Report, CU sports programs saw their best results since the report was introduced in 2003. The men’s cross country team, which won the 2013 NCAA title, and the women’s team earned perfect four-year Academic Progress Rate scores of 1,000…
CU student-athletes received the 2013-14 Pac-12 Sportsmanship Award for their efforts to help Boulder recover from the massive flooding of September 2013…
Former WNBA guard and Ms. Colorado Basketball Jamie Carey joinedLinda Lappe’s (Mktg’02) CU women’s basketball staff as an assistant coach. Carey won 80 percent of her games over five years as a Colorado high school coach.
Kipp Closes Out Memorable Career
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.
Kipp came in as the pre-race favorite, having won the steeplechase at the Pac-12 meet and at the 2012 NCAA Championships.
“She’s had an amazing, wonderful career,” coach Mark Wetmore said.
SeniorEmily Hunsuckerwas also an All-American, placing second at the NCAA meet in the hammer throw after winning the event at the NCAA West Regional.
Also landing an All-American spot — his fourth — wasJoe Bosshard(Acct, Fin’13, MBA ex’15), who finished seventh in the NCAA 10,000 meter.
Club Sports Make National Impression
CU club sports left their mark in 2014, claiming a remarkable five national titles by summer.
The triathlon squad won its fifth consecutive national championship and was joined by swimming and diving, four-time winners, and men’s freestyle skiing, which has won four championships in six years. Also at the top of their respective sports were men’s lacrosse and men’s ultimate frisbee. In addition to team honors in ultimate,Jimmy Mickleclaimed the Callahan Award, given to the nation’s top male and female college ultimate players.
Photography courtesy of Shannon Lukens