grizzly club donor repo corporate sponsors A Better Cut Barber Shop A & L Coors, Inc. Adams State MBA Airgas USA, Inc. Alamosa Building Supply/La Jara Trading Post Alamosa Chiropractic Alamosa County Alamosa Lumber Company/ Valley Lumber Company Alamosa State Bank Alcon Construction, Inc. Alpine Electric, Inc. Alta Fuels American Electric CO Arby’s Asphalt Constructors, Inc. ASU Bookstore Atencio’s Market B & H Sports Best Western Alamosa Inn Bistro Rialto Blessed Brews Cattails Golf Course Caton’s Super Lube Century 21 Property Management Chaparral Chili's CIA-Leavitt Insurance Agency City Market
Colorado Army National Guard Colorado Choice Health Plans Colorado Potato Administrative Committee Colorado Sports Colwell Inspection Group Community Banks of Colorado Comfort Inn & Suites/Super 8 of Alamosa Cooley & Sons Excavating, Inc. Crown Trophy of Boulder Cottonwood Dental Center, LLC David Wehe, CFP Davis Partnership Architects Del Mar Carpet One Diesslin Structures, Inc. Domino's Edward Jones - Alamosa Edward Jones - Monte Vista Extreme Graphics Fairfield Inn & Suites 1st Southwest Bank Flood & Peterson, Ins. Inc, Freedom Financial Services GH Phipps Construction Companies Hampton Inn Holiday Inn Express & Suites Horizon Coach Lines Hunan Chinese Restaurant/ East West Grill J & J Rental Centers KSPK-FM &TV Kristi Mountain Sports L & M Auto Sales Little Caesars/Pepperoni Brothers, LLC McDonald's Milagros Coffee House/Rainbow’s End Monte Vista Cooperative Nestle Toll House Cafe O & V Printing Porter Realty, Inc.
Rio Grande Savings & Loan Rio Grande Scenic Railroad RMS Utilities Rock Creek Family Medicine, P.C. Rocky Mountain Eye Center, P.C. Rocky Mountain Septic & Excavating Safeway San Luis Valley Brewing Company San Luis Valley Federal Bank SLV Health San Luis Valley Rural Electric Co-op, Inc. San Luis Valley Title Company Sherwin Williams Silver Mountain Disposal, LLC Skiball's Running World Skyline Hospitality Inc. SLV Pizza Company Smoothy’s Juice Bar Sodexo Campus Services Sonic Drive-In Southside Rentals & Kiva Apartments Southwest Ready Mix Inc. Taco Bell/Long John Silver Alamosa Store Town & Country Auto Mall VIP Salon & Spa Valley Courier Valley Electric, Inc. Valley Food Co-op Valley Wide Health Systems, Inc. Van Iwaarden Builders, Inc. Vance Law Office Vendola Plumbing & Heating Inc. Vista's Wal-Mart Wall, Smith, Bateman & Assoc., Inc. Walters & Mullins, Inc. Xcel Energy
Alamosa’s first Rio Frio 5K benefits Grizzly Club Alamosa’s annual Ice Festival provided the perfect opportunity for a pet idea of Jeff Owsley ’86: a run on the river – not along it, ON it. The president of the Grizzly Club, Owsley credits his running partner, Mark Pittman ‘05, ‘13, ASU assistant director of Housing/Residence Life, with coining the event’s name: The Rio Frio. Held January 31 on a frozen, yet slightly slushy Rio Grande near Cole Park, the 5K attracted 230 runners and walkers. It garnered $3,300 in proceeds that were dedicated to Grizzly Club scholarships. Not an athlete during college, Owsley didn’t start running until age 42, when he was diagnosed with a weak heart. He started running, completed his first half-marathon, and lost 40 lbs. “My beer belly saved me,” he joked. Since then, he’s run the Boston Marathon twice and even finished an ultra marathon. “The hardest part was staying awake,” he said. Owsley has been director of Alamosa’s Small Business Development Center for two years, and is involved with the SLVGO (Great Outdoors) Coalition, which hopes to develop more water-based and winter recreation opportunities. “I would like to use the running/race industry to enhance the SLV economy,” he said, noting the Front Range has one of the largest running communities in the nation. Forty percent of Rio Frio participants were from out of town. Above right: Jeff Owsley with a running pal from Colorado Springs.
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