Crowd helps Golden’s ultimate disc team snap losing streak

Colorado Summit too hot for Minnesota Wind Chill to handle

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With the Colorado Summit headed into a make-it-orbreak-it game, fans showed up in force this weekend to ensure their team got the W. e Summit — Golden’s new semi-professional ultimate disc team — left the Minnesota Wind Chill out in the cold June 24, beating the visiting team 25-15. is snapped a three-game losing streak for the Summit, which needed the win to stay No. 2 in the West Division and keep its playo hopes alive.

About 1,500 fans packed into Colorado School of Mines’ Marv Kay Stadium for the decisive regular-season game. Summit personnel said afterward it was probably the biggest and best crowd they’ve had so far this season.

“It was a really fun game; the crowd was incredible,” player Alex Atkins said. “It was a bounce-back game for us. We needed a big win, and we did well.” e Colorado Summit was one of three new teams in the American Ultimate Disc League last year. AUDL is the top league in the world, but is considered semi-professional because players aren’t paid enough to play full-time, so most have day jobs. e league, which is in its 12th season, is comprised of 24 teams across North America. Teams play seven-on-seven non-contact ultimate disc, also called ultimate Frisbee, for 12-minute quarters. e Colorado Summit played at the University of Denver last summer, where it averaged 1,000 fans per

Georgetown’s Slacker Half Marathon a special feat for heart transplant recipient

BY DEBORAH SWEARINGEN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

When Sedalia resident Andrea Ogg received a heart transplant in July 2018, she made a promise with herself to live a full life in honor of her donor.

As Ogg competed in the Slacker Half Marathon from Loveland Ski Area to Georgetown on June 24, she hoped to embody that promise.

“For me, the half marathon is the exclamation point on that sentiment of my just unending gratitude that someone made this decision (to donate their heart),” she said. “It’s a big responsibility.”

Ogg, now 57, was born with a rare congenital condition called left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy, in which the lower left chamber of the heart doesn’t develop correctly. However, she didn’t learn about the condition until an unrelated echocardiogram in her mid-30s.

For years, she struggled to exercise, fainted regularly and experienced shortness of breath — all symptoms of the heart condition she didn’t know about. But she internalized the idea that she was lazy, unathletic and unmotivated to put in the work necessary to get in shape.

Learning of her heart condition was hard but also validating.

“In reality, I’d been working harder than everyone else just to get through life,” Ogg said.

After being diagnosed, she continued to manage her symptoms with a cardiac debrillator for some 15 years before her heart stopped at a play rehearsal, putting her in end-stage heart failure and on the list for a transplant.

Transplant surgery and the