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INDEX

Football......................Page 6 Team leader................Page 8 Linebackers..............Page 10 Conference rating ..... Page 12 Diversity...................Page 14 Men’s basketball.......Page 20 Women’s basketball..Page 22 Get Social... Pages 26, 27, 28 Volleyball..................Page 32 Soccer......................Page 38 Cross Country...........Page 40 Pac-12 ..................... Page 43 Campus Map ........................ Pages 48, 49

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BUFF NATION

Where the Buffalo roam It’s time to get sporty at college

By Christy Fantz Colorado Daily Columnist

en for a dude, but now that you’re a bona-fide Buff, you aybe the University of need to get your shit togethColorado hasn’t had a er.

Ralphie is routinely football title since before you praised as one of the best were a twinkle in your parlive mascots in the nation. ents’ reproductive organs.

She is cared for by Ralphie And yes, sometimes the tears of Folsom Field can be Handlers — CU student athletes who keep an eye seen rushing towards (and a tight leash) on that 1,100-pound fuzzball when the Pacific she’s let loose(ish) on Folat a rate of som.

Class VI Fun fact: Ralphie’s first rapids on run was in 1934 against the Saturdays University of Denver, where during the a buffalo calf was rented Fantz fall. But here’s some from a local ranch. juicy info: In its history, Col- Chip on your shoulder orado has won 28 national Chip the Buffalo is the championships. (The crowd faux-fuzzed costumed fan goes wild.) who does tricks, cheers, Some Buffs sports are rid- push-ups and such during ing a rebuilding path, some Buffs games. Snap a selfie are climbing the Pac-12 ladwith him and whisper sweet der, and some are destroynothings into his horns. ing school records with sucFun fact: Chip was cess. Now that you’re going crowned back-to-back to get comfy around here for Mascot National Champion a while, be sure to particiin 2009-2010. pate in, attend or tailgate at least one game. (You’ll be Pac-12 back.)

This is the Buffs’ conferHere are some basics to ence. What does this mean add to your sports-smarts. for you? Not much. Develop (It’s like street-smarts, but spirited rivalries. And then with balls.) drink those rivals far under the table.

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CU Buffs’ mascot Ralphie is a girl. She is often mistak-

Black & Gold

As you sit there in a black

Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer Chip gets caught up in the student section during a game in Boulder.

shirt with gold “Colorado” letters on it, I’m going to destroy all that you thought was true and tell you that CU’s official colors are silver and gold.

Before you set yourself on fire, I have a story for you: The silver and gold apparently represented the rich minerals of Colorado. But homies from the olden days decided that the uniforms kind of looked stupid in silver and gold (it was so “Real Housewives”).

Don’t be assholes

College games get rowdy.

They get loud. They get drunk.

Some fans are assholes.

Try to be well-behaved Buffs by taking a step back, pulling your head out of your beer and letting the other fans get in trouble. Words will fly in the stadium and at the tailgate. Try to keep your cool by being fair fans.

Now get the hell out of here, I’m sure there’s some Buffs sport to watch.

Beat it!

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FOOTBALL

MacIntyre brings ‘more energy’

CU head coach makes big staffing changes his fourth year on the job

By Brian Howell BuffZone.com Writer fter a rough season in 2015, Arizona head football coach Rich Rodriguez made the decision to revamp his defensive coaching staff.

That meant firing two assistants that had been with him a long time — defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel and defensive line coach Bill Kirelawich.

Rodriguez said dismissing those coaches was “the most difficult thing I’ve done in my career.”

In the world of coaching, however, what’s good for the team trumps friendships, and head coaches often have to make the difficult determination that a change is necessary.

Colorado head coach Mike MacIntyre has had to make tough choices, too.

Entering his fourth season in Boulder, MacIntyre’s coaching staff looks much different than it did during his first season, in 2013.

“Any time you make a change, it’s difficult, because you care about the people and love the people and understand it,” MacIntyre said. “I think (the key is) the way you handle it and the way you do it. We’re all in this business and understand that we have to keep moving forward and keep doing that. It’s always tough.”

When he was hired at Colorado, MacIntyre did what most coaches do in a new job and brought several assistants with him from his previous stop at San Jose State. In fact, seven of the nine assistants he hired for his original staff in 2013 had worked for him at San Jose State.

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Friday, Sept. 2 vs. Colorado State (at Denver) , 6 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Sept. 10 vs.

Idaho State, 3:30 p.m.

(Pac-12) Saturday, Sept. 17 at Michigan Saturday, Sept. 24 at Oregon Saturday, Oct. 1 vs. Oregon State Saturday, Oct. 8 at USC Saturday, Oct. 15 vs.

Arizona State Saturday, Oct. 22 at Stanford Thursday, Nov. 3 vs. UCLA, 7 p.m. (FS1) Saturday, Nov. 12 at Arizona Friday, Nov. 19 vs.

Washington State Saturday, Nov. 26 vs. Utah Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer In year No. 4, head coach Mike MacIntyre believes his staff is headed in the right direction.

“Any time you make a change, it’s difficult, because you care about the people and love the people and understand it. I think (the key is) the way you handle it and the way you do it. ”

Mike MacIntyre Colorado head coach

remained the same for his second year at CU, in 2014.

Most of them worked together to rebuild the San Jose State program, but two years into their time together in Boulder, the Buffs were 6-18 and had managed just one Pac-12 win in 18 tries.

That offseason, MacIn-

tyre began making changes, and after a disappointing 4-9 season last year, he made even more, revamping his entire offensive staff.

Going into his fourth year in Boulder, MacIntyre has just five of his nine original assistants, and only one coach on the staff — defen-

sive line coach Jim Jeffcoat — has the same job title as in 2013. In addition to making changes to his nine-man coaching staff, MacIntyre fired strength and conditioning coach Dave Forman (who came to CU from San Jose State) in the offseason and replaced him with Drew Wilson.

Making changes and recognizing when things aren’t working can be vital to the growth of a program.

“I haven’t been a guy that has fired coordinators or fired a lot of people,” Arizona State head coach Todd Graham said. “I hired them, so you have to develop them.

On the same hand, you have to do what’s best for the team. Sometimes you can make a mistake (with a hire), and if you do, you’ve got to

Friday, Dec. 2 Pac-12 Championship (Santa Clara, Calif.)

correct it, quickly.

“You can have one guy out of nine on your staff that’s the wrong fit and it causes a lot of problems.”

Two years into his tenure at CU, MacIntyre recognized the need to fix the defense quickly. Defensive coordinator Kent Baer was let go, and Jim Leavitt was hired. Last season, the offense sputtered, and the Buffs hired Darrin Chiaverini in December to work with Brian Lindgen as co-coordinators.

“I think it’s extremely important that you have to do that and work with (changes),” MacIntyre said. “Those are tough decisions for the betterment of the program and the betterment of the

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Sefo Liufau ready to lead

After overcoming injury and adversity, QB out to add wins to record-setting ledger

By Pat Rooney BuffZone.com Writer efo Liufau already has rewritten the University of Colorado football record book. With his senior season starting, undoubtedly there will be a few more chapters added to that ongoing rewrite.

Yet with his health fully restored and an outside threat to his seat atop the Buffaloes’ depth chart now just an odd footnote in the program’s history, Liufau knows there remains much work to be done. According to the senior quarterback, all his records — a whopping 75 school marks and counting — mean little when compared to the 10 total wins he has been able to celebrate since he became a regular part of CU’s attack in 2013.

In a spirit that will make Buffs fans proud, Liufau is far less concerned with his continued assault on the CU record book than making sure his senior season if highlighted by a few more of those winning celebrations.

“Ultimately, my main goal is to win with this team,” Liufau said. “If we don’t win this year, then I’ll feel like I haven’t left the program in better shape than when I came. I just want to give everything I can back to this team, to this university, for trusting me with the team for four years. It’s all-or-nothing this year.”

For a guy who could own the most prestigious of all passing records after his next completion — Liufau needs just 13 yards to surpass Cody Hawkins’ record total of 7,397 career passing yards — Liufau found his status as the Buffs’ leader threatened from several angles during a long and eventful offseason.

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“Ultimately, my main goal is to win with this team. If we don’t win this year, then I’ll feel like I haven’t left the program in better shape than when I came.”

Sefo Liufau Colorado quarterback

“Either way, you’re going to have to compete. It’s just like in life — if you don’t want to compete, you’re not going to get the job you want. It’s like Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer that with anything in life, realColorado quarterback Sefo Liufau talks to reporters during CU media day in early August. ly.”

Since he took his last snap First and foremost was his coach…everybody that I’ve Webb’s team during the offLiufau has gone from the surrecovery from a Lisfranc dealt with has had different season. A much-ballyhooed gery room to a possible back(foot) injury he suffered early scenarios. The good thing is graduate transfer from Texas up role to, once again, the in last November’s home (Liufau) had one pin go in, it Tech, Webb originally comunquestioned leader of the game against Southern Cal, a was a clean break. When you mitted to the Buffs and might Buffs’ offense. And despite setback that ended Liufau’s have two pins in there, I’ve very well have supplanted his very public courting of junior season and kept him had problems with those Liufau as the team’s starter.

Webb, MacIntyre believes his shelved through spring prac- guys being able to get back Webb ultimately reversed signal-caller is poised for a tice. on time. that commitment and landed career year as the Buffs The silver lining of Liufau’s “He’s done everything he’s at Pac-12 rival Cal, where ear- attempt to return to a bowl extended convalescence was been asked and he’s even lier this week he was named for the first time in nine that he also was able to let a the Golden Bears’ starter. years. trimmed down some more, nagging shoulder injury heal lost a little body weight and It was the sort of situation “He’s extremely mentally that often prevented him that easily could have led to tough and the guys respect gained a little muscle. So he from throwing during pracLiufau perhaps questioning him,” MacIntyre said. “Sophtook advantage of the situatice last year. Through the the CU coaching staff’s faith omore year he threw the ball tion. He’s made great strides in his abilities. Yet throughfirst two days of CU’s prewell. Last year he was runso far.” season workouts Liufau has out the ordeal Liufau continning the ball really well. I Just the second player in reported no lingering issues ued to focus on his rehabilita- think that this year he’ll put it the 127-year history of the with his surgically repaired tion while welcoming the all together and have a pheCU program to be named a foot. possibility of added competinomenal year and walk out of team captain in three consec- tion.

“He was making all the here with what he’s earned utive seasons, the Buffs clearbenchmarks with how that “The coaches said it was for with victories he needs to get. ly are Liufau’s team. progresses,” head coach the best for the team and I I’m excited to see him do it.”

Yet even without his injury said, ‘OK, that’s fine.’ I’m all Mike MacIntyre said. “It’s the question mark, Liufau’s team about the team and I always Pat Rooney: twitter.com/ seventh one I’ve gone very nearly became Davis prooney07 through as a head have been,” Liufau said.

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FOOTBALL

Gillam, Irwin on comeback trail Veteran linebacker and lineman both injured in Week 2 last year

By Pat Rooney BuffZone.com Writer he home opener for the Colorado Buffaloes football team last fall should have been a glorious occasion.

And, in many ways, it was.

Under a bright sky and a perfectly picturesque Boulder setting, the Buffs put together what arguably turned out to be their most complete performance of the 2015 campaign, amassing their best single-game rushing performance in 13 years (390 yards) while dominating the second half in a 48-14 thrashing of UMass.

It was, however, a costly victory.

Middle linebacker Addison Gillam and left tackle Jeromy Irwin both limped off the field that day with knee injuries that kept them sidelined the remainder of the season.

Though both players missed spring practice while focusing on rehabilitation, both are back on the field for preseason workouts and ready to reclaim their starting roles.

“It’s been an interesting couple of days of just shaking off all the rust,” Irwin said.

“That’s what it’s like now, just working on my craft. The hardest part was watching. I hate watching. I want to be out there with the guys I grind with. Sitting down and watching is not that fun. I stayed here since May break just getting ready to go.”

Gillam’s injury was particularly frustrating, as it marked the second consecutive season he had been limited by physical setbacks following a record-setting freshman season.

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since the statistic was first tracked beginning in 1964 and was expected to blossom further in 2014.

But that never quite happened. While Gillam answered the bell for 11 of 12 games, a rash of injuries and illness dropped his season tackle total to 79. Gillam made five tackles in last year’s opening loss at Hawaii before tearing his left meniscus early against UMass, a setback that ultimately required a pair of surgeries.

“I’m excited to actually be able to hit and all that,” Gillam said. “I definitely missed all this, not being out here. It was very frustrating and it still is.

It’s been good in the weight room, but I haven’t been able to do much running. I’m still worried about getting in shape.”

While Gillam could only watch as CU’s defense took marked steps forward under then-new defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt, Irwin’s injury began a carousel along the offensive line that left quarterback Sefo Liufau, and eventual injury replacements Jordan Gehrke and Cade Apsay, under near-constant assault.

With Irwin set to resume his role as the line’s anchor at left tackle, the silver lining of last year’s constant lineup juggling is that four of the five linemen currently sitting atop the Buffs’ depth chart boast significant starting experience, as does current No. 2s Jonathan Huckins and Shane Callahan.

“Last year was a learning curve for some of the young guys, because they did get thrown in there early,” Irwin said. “I think they’ve improved a tremendous amount. It always pays off when you get guys in there early to take reps, because the more experience you get with your technique and everything else.”

Above: Colorado linebacker Addison Gillam participates in drills during practice in early August.

Left: Offensive tackle Jeromy Irwin talks to reporters during CU media day in early August.

Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer

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Buffs bringing up the rear

Media predicts CU to finish last in the South, Stanford to win conference

By Brian Howell BuffZone.com Writer OLLYWOOD, Calif. — Colorado’s football team has yet to finish higher than sixth place in the Pac-12 South division since joining the conference.

Media that covers the conference doesn’t think that will change this year.

In July, the conference released the preseason media poll, with CU once again tabbed to finish last in the South division.

Stanford was picked to win the North division, with UCLA picked to win the South. Of the 33 media members who votes, 20 picked Stanford to win the conference title game. USC, Washington, UCLA and Utah were also given votes to win the title game. It’s the first time Stanford has ever been picked to win the conference title.

This is the 56th year that the media has done a preseason poll, and 29 times the media has correctly picked the champion. Only twice in the last nine years has the champion been correctly picked, however.

CU has been picked last in the South each year since joining the conference in 2011, and the Buffs have been unable to climb out of the cellar. They are 5-40 in Pac-12 play, including 3-33 the last four years. CU is 2-25 in Pac-12 games under the direction of head coach Mike MacIntyre, who is entering his fourth season in Boulder.

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Struggles on defense contributed to Arizona slipping to 7-6 last year, and it led to head coach Rich Rodriguez revamping his staff on defense.

Rodriguez fired defensive

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Colorado head coach Mike MacIntyre speaks at the Pac-12 football media day in Los Angeles in July.

coordinator Jeff Casteel and said Thursday it was “the most difficult thing I’ve done in my career.” He then hired Marcel Yates as defensive coordinator. Yates came from Boise State and has given the Wildcats a jolt.

“The most encouraging thing I saw from our defense was just the renewed enthusiasm,” Rodriguez said. “I don’t really know how good we’re going to be; I just know we weren’t really good last year, and we need to get better.”

man Victor Viramontes will compete.

“It’s a big decision,” Dykes said. “It’s a decision that you want to let play out, and it’s an important decision.

Between those four guys, I’m confident that we’ll have a good quarterback.”

Leach on technology

Washington State head coach Mike Leach is always good for colorful quotes, and he didn’t disappoint on Thursday. Leach was asked about the Pokemon Go craze and answered by expressing QB battle at Cal his distaste for some technology.

Cal quarterback Davis “Nobody talks to people Webb, a graduate transfer anymore,” he said. “I mean, from Texas Tech, has there’s people who won’t impressed coaches with his work ethic, but coach Sonny even talk face to face. They’ll Dykes said he’s not ready to go across the room and text each other. I think it’s actualname a starter.

Webb, Chase Forrest, Ross ly kind of disturbing. I think Bowers and incoming fresh- the days before cell phones,

when it was dirt clod wars at construction sites, was a lot more wholesome and productive, to be perfectly honest.”

Adding talent

Reed Saxon / Associated Press

Pac-12 football preseason media poll North Division (first-place votes) Points

Like CU, Utah joined the Pac-12 in 2011, and coach Kyle Whittingham attributes that move to the Utes increasing their talent level.

“The vast majority of our football team would not be on our football team had we not had the Pac-12 affiliation,” he said. “There’s no doubt.

That’s just a fact. I can say that with absolute certainty.”

Stanford (24) 186

Ducks waiting on Allen

Arizona 87

Oregon receiver Devon Allen missed fall camp as he participated in the Olympics in the 110-meter hurdles.

“It is the biggest excuse and the longest excuse, the

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Washington (8) 163 Oregon (1) 132 Washington State 112 California 67 Oregon State 33 South Division UCLA (19) 180 USC (12) 173 Utah (2) 127 Arizona State 85 Colorado 63 Title game winner: Stanford (20 votes); Others receiving votes - USC (5), Washington (4), UCLA (3), Utah (1).

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CU makes diversity a priority

Rick George said he feels good about the culture

By Brian Howell BuffZone.com Writer OLLYWOOD, Calif. — Improvement of racial diversity and inclusion of minority students will always be a point of emphasis at the University of Colorado.

However, athletic director Rick George said he feels good about the culture that has been developed in CU athletics.

“I feel strongly about the culture that we’ve created within the athletic department, and I think our studentathletes embrace that culture, and our staff does,” George said.

During a meeting with the board of regents July 14 in Silverthorne, chancellor Phil DiStefano painted a picture of black athletes feeling underappreciated at CU. DiStefano raised a lot of eyebrows when telling regents a story of being told by a staff member that black football players and men’s basketball players felt “Everything they do pays for the young white female playing tennis or on the golf team or track and field. He said they talk about being part of ‘the plantation,’ that their sweat and tears are really for other people, not for them.”

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the climate at CU today.

George was in Los Angeles on a fundraising trip, while Awuzie and others associated with CU athletics were in Hollywood for Pac-12 football media days. Buffzone.com talked to several people associated with CU, including Awuzie and a former player, and they all said they had never heard anyone refer to CU or any facilities at CU as a “plantation.”

“I had not heard that before,” said George, “and immediately when I heard that, I talked to my staff and talked to our team and talked to the staff member that those comments came from. These were comments that were made by a couple of players three or more years ago.”

Awuzie, who is black, said he was surprised to hear that comment.

“I’ve never heard it until it was brought to my attention,” he said. “I hang out with all the black people on the team and white people on the team and I’ve never, ever heard that.”

DiStefano’s comments to regents came during a discussion about diversity and inclusion. While the “plantation” comment caught many off guard, DiStefano’s message was worthwhile, given a recent survey of undergraduate students that showed only

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Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer Only five of the nine assistant coaches CU’s Mike MacIntyre hired in his first year with the Buffs remain on staff as he enters his fourth year in Boulder.

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Now, it’s time for them to perform during the season, but MacIntyre believes this is a better staff than he’s had.

“I think we’ve got more energy, No. 1,” he said. “Better expertise in some areas, No. 2; and I think on the recruiting side of it, we have some people that are more well-rounded recruiters and do a good job in that area.”

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overall direction you’re trying to go.”

With year No. 4 set to begin, MacIntyre believes the staff is headed in the right direction, not only in terms of the quality of the coaches, but in how they get along as a group.

“I’ve been very pleased with how the staff has worked together, been extremely pleased with their work ethic,” he said. “We all get along well and they care about young people. They all want to be at Colorado and they’re excited about being

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

A Buff first: CU vs. Notre Dame Buffs to face Fighting Irish for the first time at Legends Classic

Demanding start for Boyle’s Buffs The Colorado Buffaloes 2016-17 men’s basketball schedule has taken another step closer to full completion.

In late-July, the Pac-12 Conference announced its site designations for the upcoming season. As of August, specific dates and matchups were still to be determined, the Buffs and their fans now know where and when the Buffs will be on the road, and which weekends their respective league rivals will visit the Coors Events Center.

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or the first time in the 116-year history of Colorado basketball, here come the Irish.

On July 13, tournament organizers released the full schedule for the 2016 Legends Classic, and CU’s first game at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn pits the Buffs against Notre Dame for the first time in program history.

CU takes on the Fighting Irish on at 5 p.m. Nov. 21. The game will air on ESPN 2.

Notre Dame has reached consecutive Elite Eights under coach Mike Brey, but the Irish lost two key figures from that run in guard Demetrius Jackson, a second-round pick of the Boston Celtics, and forward Zach Auguste. Notre Dame won the 2015 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

The Buffs will take on either Texas or Northwestern in their final game at the Barclays Center on Nov. 22. Texas reached the NCAA Tournament this past spring and Northwestern went 20-12.

“To play at the Barclays Center on the East Coast, it’s a totally different environment against a national program,” CU head coach Tad Boyle said. “It’s a great game for our program. Mike Brey has done a great job there, and they’re going to be good again.”

The announcement also confirmed CU’s home opponents in the first two games of the Legends Classic.

The Buffs will host Seattle on Nov. 14 followed by Nov. 17 against Louisiana-Monroe. Times for both home games will be determined later.

While a win against Notre Dame would be a highlight of Boyle’s tenure at CU, the Buffs’ last meeting against Seattle was perhaps the low point. Relegated to the College Basketball Invitational in 2015 after a

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Like last season CU will open the league slate on the road, this time against Utah the weekend of Dec. 28-Jan. 1. The Buffs didn’t play three consecutive league games on the road last year but will do so out of the gate in 2017, following the Utah date with a swing through Arizona to face the Wildcats and Arizona State.

The Arizona-Arizona State trip was the only one not made by CU during the 2015-16 season in the league’s rotating schedule. The lone pair of teams that did not visit Boulder last year, USC and UCLA, will open the home portion of CU’s Pac-12 slate the weekend of Jan. 11-15.

David R. Jennings / Staff Photographer CU head coach Tad Boyle said facing Notre Dame for the first time in history will be “a heck of a challenge.”

disappointing 15-17 regular season, CU suffered a 72-65 season-ending defeat at Seattle — a loss many Buffs cited as a springboard to a 2015-16 campaign that saw the program return to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in five seasons.

With a December home date against Xavier essentially cancelling out last season’s neutral-court opener against Iowa State, Notre Dame could prove to be a significant upgrade against the next-best opponent from CU’s nonconference slate in 2015-16, SMU. Unlike this past season, when CU suffered narrow defeats against Iowa State and SMU, the Buffs hope

to turn the tables in matchups against Xavier and Notre Dame likely to draw wide national television audiences. A possible matchup against Texas would only bolster what looks to be a somewhat improved strength-of-schedule rating for the Buffs.

“It’s a challenging one,” Boyle said. “I don’t usually compare yearto-year because that’s hard to do.

But last year we played SMU, which was a top-10 caliber team, and know we get a really good Notre Dame team. It’s a heck of a schedule and it’s going to be a heck of a challenge.”

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From there, the Buffs will regularly rotate home and road series. After visiting Washington and Washington State the weekend of Jan. 18-22, CU hosts defending league champ Oregon — a likely top 10 to 15 team again next season — along with Oregon State the weekend of Jan. 25-29.

The Buffs travel to Northern California to take on Stanford and Cal on Feb. 1-5, with CU hosting Washington and Washington State the following weekend.

CU travels to Oregon and Oregon State the weekend of Feb. 15-19, followed by three consecutive home games to complete the regular season, beginning against Utah between Feb. 22 and 26. The Buffs complete the regular season with home dates against Cal and Stanford.

CU finished fifth in the Pac-12 last season with a 10-8 mark and has gone 56-50 in league play in six seasons under head coach Tad Boyle.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Pleasure from coach Payne New coach making a favorable impression with Buffs

By Brian Howell BuffZone.com Writer henever Kennedy Leonard encounters one of her new basketball coaches — and that’s been happening a lot lately — she’s asked how her family is doing or how she’s doing in school.

“You can tell she really cares about us — all of them do,” said Leonard, who is starting her sophomore season with the Colorado women’s basketball team. “It’s a Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer different kind of feel, a posiNew CU coach JR Payne has high fives for Bri Watts, left, and Lauren Huggins during practice in the spring. tive feel.”

CU head coach JR Payne, hired in the spring, has started to build a solid foundation with her players, who, by most accounts, are learning to like and trust their new leader.

“It’s awesome,” said forward Haley Smith, who will be a senior this season. “Her focus is on family and us having good relationships, so she’s really made a point that that’s something she wants to work on with all of us, having that positive relationship off the court so that things translate really well onto the court.”

Payne, her top assistant and husband Toriano Towns and newly announced assistant Shandrika Lee have all come to CU after working together at Santa Clara the past two seasons.

“We’re not talking really too big of a picture with them or coming in with any heavy rules and regulations and things like that,” Payne said in April. “We’re really just trying to get to know everybody for now.”

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Assistant coach: Shandrika Lee • Shandrika Lee joined the Colorado women’s basketball team in April as an assistant coach after spending two seasons as an assistant on CU head coach JR Payne’s staff at Santa Clara University, where she played a key role in guiding the Broncos to a 23-9 mark last season.

• Lee served as an assistant coach with the University of Oregon women’s basketball program for three seasons prior to her time at Santa Clara.

• A 2004 graduate of Pepperdine University, Lee played in 98 games and averaged 12.0 points per game during her career. As a guard on Pepperdine’s squad, the Waves qualified for two NCAA Tournaments and made a pair of WNIT appearances.

• A two-time WCC AllAcademic nominee, Lee graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sports medicine.

She went on to earn her master’s degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in physical education and sport studies from Cal Poly in 2008.

The Buffs are coming off a 7-23 season, but Payne said she can already tell she’s got a team she can work with and build with.

“My overall impression is just that we work hard already,” she said. “People are playing hard.”

Part of that could be the excitement of getting on the court, and part could be the players’ intention to make a good impression on the new coaches.

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After two solid years with Missouri that ended with an up-and-down sophomore season, Wright traded his Tigers stripes to become part of the Buffaloes herd, committing to coach Tad Boyle’s Colorado basketball program in June as a transfer.

Wright was one of three players to transfer out of the Missouri either during or immediately after the season.

Yet he was quick to say that at least in his case, it was less about program instability than it was about finding a comfortable fit at a place where he can occasionally play in front of his family and friends from his native Los Angeles.

“I think I just needed a new home, a new fit,” Wright said.

“It just wasn’t the right place for me. (Colorado) definitely recruited me out of high school and I had a couple other schools in the Pac-12 looking at me out of high school, but I didn’t really look at them because just how my recruitment worked out.”

Per NCAA transfer rules, Wright will sit out the 2016-17 season and have two years of eligibility remaining beginning in 2017-18. He was one of two players Boyle was able to add late after a pair of scholarships opened up from the transfers of former CU players Tre’Shaun Fletcher and Kenan Guzonjic after the season. The other was another Los Angeles product, 6-foot-10 forward Lucas Siewert, who will be a freshman this fall.

A 6-foot-5 guard, Wright presumably will have one season to play alongside fellow 6-6 wing player George King and two seasons with incoming 6-5 freshmen guards Deleon Brown and Bryce Peters. Wright’s addition allows Boyle to count on an experienced Division I player to join the mix with a quartet

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of new faces in 2017-18 following the graduation next year of seniors Xavier Johnson, Wesley Gordon, Josh Fortune and Derrick White.

“Colorado is one of those schools where they are doing good every year,” Wright said. “Definitely I think people are starting to realize it’s a successful program.”

Wright started all 31 games last season for a Missouri team that finished last in the Southeastern Conference with a 3-15 league mark. He ranked as the team’s thirdleading scorer at 9.6 points per game but suffered a significant dip in his shooting percentages from his freshman season, dropping from .414 to .355 overall and falling from .388 to .315 from 3-point range.

Wright admits he was pressing somewhat at the season’s outset and believes he corrected some of his errors as the season progressed.

The numbers back this slightly, as he shot .330 during nonconference play but improved to .370 in SEC games.

And, to his credit, Wright made drastic improvements in other aspects of his game.

He led the Tigers with a 5.2 rebounding average after posting a 2.3 mark as a freshman while also more than doubling his assists total.

Despite being a regular part of the Missouri rotation as a freshman Wright attempted just 18 free throws all season.

He got to the line 113 times last year and knocked them down at a .761 clip.

Wright is confident he can further hone these overall aspects of his game while being relegated to a practice player this winter.

“I get to practice every day, I get to lift weights every day to get stronger, and at the same time I get to work on my game,” Wright said. “The year off will be great for me I think.”

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26 percent of black students felt valued on the CU campus.

“We’re always going to address issues openly and the chancellor addressed those openly and candidly and I respect that,” George said. “(The ‘plantation’ comment) was more of something that happened in our past, but you’ve got to understand the past to change the future.”

George said he’s aware of the survey, and that diversity is a high priority in the athletic department. For months, CU has been working on a strategic plan for diversity and inclusion and hopes to be completed with that plan in the next month.

“We talk to our student-athletes about that all the time,” George said.

“We engage in conversation about

those subjects because we do want to make sure that all of our students and student-athletes have a great experience.”

Going into his fourth year at CU, Awuzie said that while CU is not a highly diverse campus, he has had a great experience.

“It’s just a different culture that you get used to,” he said. “It’s not that

there’s racism or anything. We know (Boulder) is predominantly a white town, and they’ve accepted us with open arms. We have fun there; we have a lot of friends of different colors.

It’s a very diversity-inclusive place, so I really like it there.”

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Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer Bri Watts, left, and new CU coach JR Payne laugh during a spring practice.

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Smith said it’s been a smooth transition to this point and, as a veteran leader, she’ll work to make sure it continues to be a smooth transition.

“I think it’s really important just for leadership on the team to completely buy in and preach the same thing the coaches are preaching,” Smith said.

To this point, the players like what Payne and her staff are preaching, and Leonard said it helps that team chemistry was already strong.

“I think it makes it easier for coach JR, because we’re

already a team and get along well together, so she can just come in and try to fix the basketball part of it, as opposed to the whole team chemistry,” Leonard said.

With any coaching transition, there’s a risk of players transferring out, but Leonard said she doesn’t believe anyone has that mindset.

“Everybody is here for a reason,” she said. “I think all of us still have passion here (at Colorado). I think all of us are here for the long run, and we’ll see how it goes.”

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after making it the past two years,” Buffaloes senior Cierra Simpson he University of Colosaid. “But I think the mindrado volleyball team set we’re coming into with felt deser ving of an NCAA this year as a whole is puttournament berth in 2015 ting ourselves in a position but the selection commitwhere we know we’re in tee disagreed. the tournament, we’re not When the dust settled on even on the bubble and it’s their 19-13 season, the Buf- not going to come down to faloes were one of several crossing our fingers at the bubble teams left out of last minute. the NCAA bracket. At Col“There are a lot of things orado’s media day in early we can do early in the seaAugust, the players in son, especially with nonattendance were adamant conference matches, to that they are focused on make sure that we aren’t in not putting themselves in a situation where, like I the same position this said, we won’t be crossing year. our fingers or anything Their goals is to avoid like that.” the bubble altogether.

Looking to play their way “Obviously it was devas- back in the NCAA tournaCliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer ment after qualifying in Colorado head coach Jess Mahoney, left, and Cierra Simpson said the Buffs are focused on a NCAA tating not making it to the tournament bid this season.

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Buffs set to have 15 matches televised in 2016 The Colorado volleyball team will have 15 matches, 10 home and five away, featured this season on Pac-12 Networks, starting with both matches of the Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge, one of the most prestigious nonconference tournaments, on Sept. 3-4.

The Buffs will host Penn State at 7 p.m.

Sept. 3 at the Coors Events Center, which is also head coach Jesse Mahoney’s first home game. The second match for the Buffs of the challenge against Illinois at 6 p.m. Sept. 4 will also be televised live.

CU will not have any other non-conference matches televised, despite playing a very exciting schedule. The Buffs open the season Aug. 26-27 at the Portland State Tournament (Portland, Ore.) and will also play on the road at the San Diego Invitational (San Diego, Calif.), Sept. 9-10. The Buffs will also host the Omni Invitational on the final weekend of nonconference play, Sept. 16-17, which includes a match against in-state rival Colorado State. It will be the first match against the Rams at the CEC since 2008.

Thirteen of CU’s 20 league contests will be on Pac-12 Networks, starting with the first six of the season. The Buffs open up conference action with four consecutive home matches, hosting Utah (Sept. 21), Arizona (Sept. 25), USC (Sept. 30) and UCLA (Oct. 2).

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The final home match on TV for CU is against Washington on Nov. 18, and the Buffs will celebrate senior day against Washington State on Nov. 20, the last home match of the regular season. The final two matches of the season will both be televised. Colorado will face Arizona State for the first time of the season on Nov. 23 in Tempe, Ariz., before ending the regular season at Utah (Salt Lake City) on Nov. 25.

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When the dust settled on their 19-13 season, the Buffaloes were one of several bubble teams left out of the NCAA bracket. At Colorado’s media day in early August, the players in attendance were adamant that they are focused on not putting themselves in the same position this year. we’re all really excited for the season because not making it was so hard on all of us.”

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The Buffs also are carr ying an 18-player roster, which is bigger than Mahoney has had in the past. With such a large roster and a new head coach, the Buffs may need some extra time for players to fall into roles and for the new faces to adjust to Mahoney’s coaching style.

Whoever ends up in what roles for the Buffs in 2016, the goal is definitely to get back to the NCAA tournament after being passed over last winter.

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Colorado but realized CU would be the best fit. I wanted to play in a conferlexa Smith was not ence like the Pac-12. unlike any number of “Just going from Colorapending high school gradu- do, especially to the Midates eager to spread their west, you realize what you wings and explore the vast miss so much. It just world beyond their homewasn’t the best fit for me towns.

Not long after Smith began that journey, though, she experienced another of life’s allures — the one that says sometimes there’s just no place like home.

When Smith was the most coveted volleyball recruit in Colorado, and one of the tops in the nation, she opted to forge her future at Purdue. Now Smith is back in her home state and ready to help lead the new-look Colorado Buffaloes back into the NCAA Tournament.

“I was mainly looking to go out of state at first, but later on I realized I wanted to be closer to home,” Smith said. “I looked at a couple of the schools in

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Hailing from LewisPalmer, the same Monument high school that produced recently graduated

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CU basketball star Josh Scott, Smith made her verbal commitment to Purdue early in her junior year and never developed a relationship with the staff of former coach Liz Kritza.

However, Smith does have a longstanding relationship with CU junior Gabby Simpson, as the duo spent six seasons together as teammates on the club circuit. The idea of playing together once again was a big reason why Smith was enrolled in classes in Boulder last winter.

“We’ve known that family for a really long time,” Smith said. “I grew up playing with them and against them. It definitely has been an easy transition for me, especially since we have new coaches. My first day with the team was also the coach’s first day, so that made the transition so much easier.”

That coach, former University of Denver leader and CSU assistant Jesse

Mahoney, has in Smith a player who will slide easily into the role vacated by graduated outside hitter Alexis Austin. And her arrival also gives Mahoney the flexibility to use Simpson to fill a void at setter.

Smith appeared in all 33 games last year as a freshman for Purdue, averaging 2.05 digs per set while recording 80 kills. As a senior at Lewis-Palmer, she was named the national player of the year by the National High School Coaches Association and also earned the Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year honor.

“That was a pleasant surprise, finding out she wanted to transfer home,” Mahoney said. “She’s probably our most complete player. She just does ever ything really well and will be a big part of what we do on the floor (this year).”

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SOCCER

Team is ready to turn the page

Coach Sanchez and his team putting slump behind them

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he late collapse was as thorough as it was unexpected, creating the sort of doldrums that sometimes can poison an entire program.

For University of Colorado soccer coach Danny Sanchez, the late slump that resulted in an 0-8-2 mark over the final 10 games of the 2015 season was by far the worst stretch of his tenure in Boulder. It often wasn’t pretty, but the good news is that Sanchez believes his team turned the page even before the calen-

CU adds to strength and conditioning staff • The University of Colorado filled the void on its strength and conditioning staff by announcing the hiring of Karim Derqaoui in June. The addition completes a shuffling of the strength and conditioning staff when James Hardy, primarily the men’s basketball strength and conditioning coach, left CU in March to take a job with the New England Patriots. His position was filled by Steve Englehart, who already was on CU staff, and Derqaoui will assume Englehart’s former role working with the Buffs’ soccer, tennis, and track and field programs.

• In a huge perk for CU soccer coach Danny Sanchez and his squad, Derqaoui boasts a wealth of soccer experience at the professional and international levels, including a stint with PFC Litex, a first-division club in Bulgaria, as the team’s athletic performance coach. Derqaoui also spent time with two MLS clubs, the Portland Timbers and FC Dallas.

dar turned to 2016.

Buffaloes are looking to the promise of the near future instead of dwelling on last year’s disappointment.

“To be honest, it’s pretty much history,” said Sanchez, who begins his fifth season at CU. “When you take a

step back, we didn’t finish Pac-12 play the way we wanted, but it wasn’t like we played horrible. We addressed a lot of things in the spring with returning players with areas we have to do better in.

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Monarch grad finished 16th at NCAA Championships last season

By Brad Cochi BuffZone.com Writer ince her highly successful days at Monarch High School, Kaitlyn Benner’s cross country career has truly taken off over the past two years at the University of Colorado.

Colorado’s seventh-place finisher in Class 5A as a high school senior in 2013, Benner has quickly developed into an All-American among the Division-I collegiate ranks. At the 2015 NCAA Cross Country Championships last November, Benner placed 16th for the CU women, who placed second as a team.

Still having not used any redshirt time, Benner enters the 2016 campaign as a true junior with immense potential for even more of a breakout season.

“I’m just hoping to improve on pretty much all of my finishes last season,” Benner said. “It was definitely a breakout season for me. I finished top 16, but I was like

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championships, and we have a good group returning this continuing to build up to a three seconds from finishing and Karina Mann, who are year,” head coach Mark Wetin the top 10. Being that close more focused as 800-meter potential top-10 finish at the more said. “Frankly, I think it last year, hopefully I’ll be a lot specialists for the Colorado NCAAs. might be our best team ever, fitter coming into nationals track and field team, and Leg“When everyone is that and so we expect to finish and I can try to do even betacy High School alumna Mel- good and that close, a lot of very high in the national ter.” anie Nun. With the Colorado that is about having a good championships. New Mexico Benner is one of four local men’s and women’s teams race on that day,” Benner won by a large margin last alumni on the Buffaloes roscoming off matching runner- said. “But hopefully I can season, and they have a good ter, including former Monup team finishes at the 2015 break into that top 10.” team returning this season. arch teammates Elissa Mann NCAA Cross Country ChamExpectations for the UniStanford, Oregon and Washpionships last season, it’s an versity of Colorado cross ington have good teams makexciting time for the local country program are always up a loaded Pac-12 this largest Birkenstock selection runners to be teaming up for to finish among the top teams ing season. Our women could be the Buffaloes. in the nation. This year, 30+ Styles y one of the three or four best For Benner in particular, expectations for the Buffa& Colors teams in the country and still now that she’s claimed her loes might be even higher finish fourth in the conferfirst All-American honor and than normal, particularly for ence.” comfortableshoes.com placed second in both the the women’s team.

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“It’s a fresh start, but it wouldn’t have mattered if we won the Pac-12 last year. The year before we finished third and it didn’t mean anything in ’15. It’s a fresh start, it’s a fresh year, with a lot of new players.”

Here is a look at the most pressing questions the Buffs must address.

Who will take over as goalkeeper?

Kate Scheele was a rock at the back of the defense during her two seasons at CU. Her graduation leaves a void that will be filled by either redshirt sophomore Scout Watson or redshirt freshman Jalen Tompkins.

Entering her third year in the program, Watson has the advantage of experience. She made four starts last year as an injury replacement for Scheele, but Sanchez expects an open-competition situation during the preseason that likely will lead to

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both players getting opportunities to start early in the regular season.

“They both did very well in the spring, and I’m going to guess that competition will carry into the season,” Sanchez said. “Scout got a little bit of experience last year, so that was good for her. But they split time in the spring and (Tompkins) is also a very good goalkeeper.

Unlike Kate last year, whose job it was to lose, this is 100 percent wide-open. We feel good about both of them.”

How much will the freshmen contribute?

Sanchez welcomes to camp the most decorated and highly touted batch of rookies he has brought to Boulder. Chief among them is 6-foot-1 midfielder Taylor Kornieck, a captain in the U.S. U-18 Women’s National Team. The Nevada native scored 54 goals as a high school senior and amassed

come Wednesday. They’re talented players who have bought in, but it is always kind of an unknown until you roll the ball out.”

2016 CU soccer schedule Friday, Aug. 26 at Kansas Sunday, Aug. 28 at Missouri Thursday, Sept. 1 vs. Michigan State

Who will score CU’s goals?

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84 goals and 37 assists in her prep career.

“Unlike some sports, we recruit players to come in and play,” Sanchez said. “We really only have five or six

The Buffs scored only 24 goals last season and managed just seven during the season-ending 10-game winless streak — with three of those goals occurring in one game. Co-leading goal scorer Brie Hooks opted to transfer to Seattle, and between graduations and transfers CU lost half of the team’s slim 2015 goal total.

“Sometimes to put it on a player or two is asking a little much in conference play,” Sanchez said. “I think Danica Evans will have a breakout year. She had a good year last year, but I think she can do a lot better and so does she.”

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Proud to be in the Pac-12 Five years after move from Big 12, Buffs pleased with conference

By Brian Howell BuffZone.com Writer f there really are two teams that want back into the Big 12 Conference, as Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder said in July, Colorado isn’t one of them.

The Buffaloes, who left the Big 12 in 2011, aren’t interested in leaving the Pac-12, CU athletic director Rick George told BuffZone .com.

“We’re proud to be in the (Pac-12) Conference,” George said. “I can’t see any reason that we would want to go back to the Big 12 at this point. We have not even had a discussion about that.”

During Big 12 football media days in Dallas, the Big 12 announced plans to pursue expanding from its current membership of 10 schools. On Tuesday, Snyder said, “I tell you what, there are teams that left our conference right now that wish they could get back in the conference.”

Snyder didn’t say which schools want back in, but he said, “Two I know of.”

CU and Nebraska left the Big 12 in the summer of 2011, with CU going to the Pac-12 and Nebraska to the Big Ten. In 2012, Missouri

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tant for us.”

Fundraising has increased since the move to the Pac-12 was announced in June 2010. Since George was hired as athletic director in 2013, the athletic program has raised more than $100 million, a large portion of which has gone toward the $166 million facility upgrade project, which has transformed the department.

Earlier this year, BuffZone.com asked associate athletic director Kurt GulCliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer brand, who coordinates Colorado athletic director Rick George said the Buffs are pleased to be fundraising efforts, if CU part of the Pac-12 and have no intention to change conferences. would be in as good of a and Texas A&M left the Big “One of the biggest advan- position financially and with 12 for the Southeastern tages from an athletic stand- its facilities had it stayed in the Big 12.

Conference, while the Big point is the way we’re con“No, not at all,” he said.

12 added TCU and West Vir- nected with our recruiting Both conferences had ginia. areas and with our alumni in Snyder’s comment has left California, Arizona, Oregon nearly identical distribution numbers for the 2014-15 many speculating which two and Washington,” George school year, with the Big 12 schools would want back in. said. “We have so many Most have put CU at the top alumni on the West Coast, it distributing $25.2 million per school and the Pac-12 really connects us. From of the list, citing the Buffs’ distributing $25.1 million that standpoint, it’s really struggles on the football per school. important. field as a main reason.

“We’re happy with the dis“From an institution Five years after its move, however, CU has no regrets. standpoint, I think (chancel- tribution that we’re getting from the conference,” lor Phil DiStefano) would CU has a much broader George said. probably tell you that alumni base in the Pac-12 there’s a lot of other The Big 12 recently footprint than in the Big 12 research institutions like announced a big jump for and has been able to conours (in the Pac-12), and the 2015-16 school year, disnect more with their alums because of being in the con- being able to be in that kind tributing an average of $30.4 of company I think is impor- million to its members. The ference.

Pac-12 members University of Arizona Arizona State University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles University of Colorado University of Oregon Oregon State University University of Southern California Stanford University University of Utah University of Washington Washington State University

Pac-12’s distribution numbers for 2015-16 are not likely to be released until next spring.

CU was a member of the Big 12 from 1949 to 2011 (counting the years when the conference was the Big Seven and then the Big Eight).

As the Big 12 looks to expand, several schools are in the running, with BYU and Cincinnati as the possible favorites. Others, including Colorado State, Central Florida, Connecticut, Houston and Memphis, are in the mix.

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SOCCER

CU studies head-injury prevention Experiment led to modified rules during the Buffs’ spring games

By Pat Rooney BuffZone.com Writer ikaela Kraus was just moving into the heart of the recruiting phase of her prep soccer career when she suffered an unsettling injury scare.

Early in her sophomore season at Cathedral Catholic in San Diego, Kraus went after a 50-50 ball in the air with the sort of routine aggressive fearlessness that always piques the interest of Division I coaches.

This time, though, something went awry. When Kraus went airborne, her forehead collided not with the ball but with the onrushing forehead of an opposing player.

Afterward, Kraus felt as if she treated the injury with proper due diligence by the time she returned to the pitch

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weeks later. Yet when a similar play resulted in a hard crash to the turf and a relapse of Kraus’ groggy symptoms, the future University of Colorado recruit understood the need to recover from concussion No. 2 with greater caution.

It is a career sequence well in Kraus’ past, yet one that made an experiment conducted by CU and its Division I soccer peers in Colorado this past spring a little more personal.

“That definitely was a bit of a shock,” Kraus said. “I think with the first one, I didn’t know how big a deal a concussion is. I think I took a month off, but I didn’t really research it or study what had happened or anything like that. The second time it happened, I realized I have to be

careful and understand what’s happening and what can happen in the long run.

“I definitely recovered from the second one differently. I took a lot more mental tests and baseline tests. I definitely did the second one way differently and took a lot more precautions.”

With the long-term impact of head injuries the center of ever-increasing conversation among all sports, CU soccer coach Danny Sanchez is a pioneer of sorts regarding the issue in his sport.

Prior to his time at CU, Sanchez gradually eliminated headers off long-range kicks and goalie punts during his practices while leading the program at the University of Wyoming. Sanchez has continued that practice through his first four seasons

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This spring, Sanchez wanted to take an additional step in curbing young soccer players’ exposure to possible head injuries. After analyzing a game last fall between the Buffaloes and the University of Denver, it was determined that 94 percent of the 40 goal

kicks taken by the two sides ended in headers near, and often past, midfield. Not only are players’ foreheads colliding with a ball that has gathered momentum through 60 to 70 yards in the air, but each instance creates the sort of mid-air free-for-all that led to

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Enlisting help from the programs at DU, Colorado College, Northern Colorado and Air Force, each one of the Buffs’ spring games were played under modified rules that eliminated clearing kicks and punts by the goalies.

Moreover, after each game, players from both sides were asked to fill out an anonymous survey detailing their thoughts and reactions to the modified rules.

“How I look at it is, if you can minimize the impact throughout the year and it doesn’t really affect the game, why wouldn’t you do it?” Sanchez said. “I think, big picture, you don’t really change the game. But if you look at 20 games versus a 100 practices, that’s really a lot more of what you do besides competitions. I think a lot of people are interested and a lot of coaches are supportive

because they deal with it.

That’s the way it’s going.

Why can’t the University of Colorado be out on the forefront?”

Like football, the big-picture impact of head injuries in soccer has gained a bigger spotlight in recent years.

It also is becoming apparent female soccer players are at greater risk for head injuries than their male counterparts. In a study conducted by professors at CU-Denver and published last year in JAMA Pediatrics, female high school soccer players incurred headers at a rate of 4.5 per 10,000 exposures, versus 2.78 for males.

Yet that same study highlighted how soccer concussions occur more frequently via the sort of head-to-head trauma suffered six years ago

by Kraus than on the longrange headers banned during CU’s spring games. In that light, the data from the post-

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experiment was less about pioneering a rules change that isn’t going to happen than highlighting the myriad ways teams can limit their players’ exposure to potential head injuries outside the arena of competition.

In that regard, Sanchez considers the experiment a success.

“It was kind of what we thought it would be because coaches look at the big picture,” Sanchez said. “The bigpicture on the Colorado side is that there is a way to miniKira Horvath / Staff Photographer mize exposure. The game is CU women’s soccer head coach Danny Sanchez has taken steps to the game. But at our level, lessen the long-term impact of head injuries in the sport. you can limit the exposure in training and spring games. game surveys compiled by zant of the injury’s long-term Hopefully ideas like that will CU clinical professor Kathryn affects, while the players gencontinue to trickle down to Hardin hardly was surprising erally were split on whether the youth level.” or revelatory. For instance, they liked or disliked the players with a history of con- modified spring rules.

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