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Awards For CU Golf
May 3rd
Senior Jenny Coleman was recently named an All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention and received the team’s Most Valuable Player award.
Sophomore Allie Zech earned the team’s Outstanding Academic Award.
In her final season at Colorado, Coleman has truly solidified herself as the one of the Buffs’ best. Coleman’s fourth consecutive NCAA Regional will also mark the 47th event of her career, both program records. Coleman ranks in the top five of nearly every category of the CU record books.
Coleman continues to extend her program records of 325 birdies and 1,815 holes at or under par. Her career stroke average of 75.04 is the third best in CU history for those with 50-plus rounds played and the second-best for those with 100-plus rounds.
In her career, Coleman has one victory, seven top five finishes (tying for second-best all-time), 10 top 10 and 19 top 20 performances. She has had a stellar senior campaign, posting three top five finishes. Coleman had an impressive end to the regular season, having three straight top-14 finishes heading into the Pac-12 Championships.
At the inaugural Silverado Showdown, co-hosted by Colorado in Napa, Calif., Coleman had one of the best performances of her career and in CU history. She finished third at the Showdown, with her 210 scorecard tying for the third lowest in program history at a 54-hole, par-72 tournament. There she also tied the school career and season records for rounds in the 60s, seven and three, respectively. She is one of two Buffs to have back-to-back rounds in the 60s and is the only Buff to do so in a single tournament.
Zech, an Indian Wells, Calif. native, earned the team’s academic honors. Zech majors in international affairs with a focus on Asia and holds a 3.71 cumulative grade-point average. Six of Zech’s nine rounds this season have counted toward team scoring, with Zech holding a 78.50 stroke average in 2013-14.
The Buffs had eight top 10 finishes this season, having a runner-up finish at the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic to begin the season and finishing third at March’s Clover Cup. Entering the Pac-12 Championships, the Buffs had three consecutive top eight performances.
With a current 77.23 team stroke average on the season, including 77.37 in the spring, the Buffs are on pace to have their third best all-time stroke averages in both categories.
Source: CU Buffs
How Fast Is CUs Saarel?
May 2nd
Saarel, of Park City, Utah, arrived in Boulder already in the passing lane.
An engineering physics major with an interest (bet on it not being mild) in chemistry, he earned a 4.0 GPA in his first semester. And that, said Wetmore, was because “you can’t get a 5.0 . . . he finishes practices, takes his shoes off and goes to the library.”
When the Buffs leave the state for meets, as some will do this weekend for competitions in Austin, Texas and Stanford, Calif., Wetmore says Saarel “studies on the bus to the airport, studies at the airport and studies on the airplane. He’s a willing worker when he gets to practice and will do anything we ask of him. If he’s ever tired he doesn’t show it. He’s intense in practice, intense about his school work. I’d like to find a way for him to get a 3.999 (GPA) and relax a little, gear it down a little more.”
Saarel didn’t start running until he was a high school freshman, and that came at the urging of his sister, Emma, now a runner at Swarthmore (Pa.) College. After starting in cross country, he branched out to track, and in a short time reached a comfort level in both.
After winning the Utah State Class 3A cross country championship in the second-fastest time (14:56.7) ever run on the course, he was named the 2012 Gatorade Utah Cross Country Runner of the Year. Other accomplishments that year included first place at the Foot Locker West Regional and a second-place finish at the Nike Cross Nationals Southwest Regional championship. In track as a senior, he also won Utah state titles, with record times in the 800 (1:51.13) and the 1,600 meters (4:07.95).
Like all else he attempts, Saarel is into it in a big, big way at CU. Last fall, in his first cross country season for the Buffs, his finishes earned All-Pac-12 First Team, All-Mountain Region and All-America honors. In his first race for the Buffs – the NCAA Pre-Nationals – he was CU’s No. 2 scorer with a ninth-place finish. In the NCAA Championships, he finished eighth as the Buffs won their fourth NCAA team title since 2001. He became CU’s first true freshman since Billy Nelson to earn All-America recognition. Nelson, who finished 42nd that year (2002), now is one of Wetmore’s assistants.
Saarel is among 14 CU student-athletes who will compete on Sunday in the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford, while a pair of CU sprinters will run at the Longhorn Invitational on Saturday in Austin. Saarel is scheduled to run in the 5,000 meters on Sunday night.
Source: CU Buffs
Seats3D For Folsom Field
Apr 30th
University of Colorado Athletic Ticket Office is three days into the use of a new, interactive website that gives season ticket holders more control in the seat improvement process.
Partnering with Ballena Technologies, CU has launched Seats3D, enabling those football season ticket holders who wish to move their current seats or add additional seats to their account for the upcoming 2014 football season.
Last September, the University of Colorado Athletic Department announced the “We Care Customer Service Pledge.” This initiative was designed to raise the level of service expectation for every customer service interaction with the athletic department, specifically focused on the CU Athletic Ticket Office and Buff Club.? The Seats3D process is one of the new ways the ricket office is hoping to improve the customer experience and move towards fulfilling that pledge.
Fans have received an email with a designated date and time, at which point they can login to the interactive website. They can see what seats are available, the views from those seats, and have the opportunity to make choices. Fans who are satisfied with their seat locations and do not want to make any changes for the upcoming season do not need to go through this process.
The upgrade process will continue until May 9 of this year, and will be utilized again for men’s basketball in June and July.?
If you would like to become a season ticket holder, please call 303-492-8282 and one of our Customer Service Representatives will assist you between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Source: CU Buffs
