Volume 126, No. 116
Thursday, April 13, 2017
A FAMILY LEGACY Three Hutton generations find home in CSU softball
NEWS
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OPINION
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(Top) Christine Oglesby (Hutton) played for CSU in 1987-1990. PHOTO COURTESY OF CSU ATHLETICS (Middle) Senior Haley Hutton has started at shortstop all four years. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN (Bottom) Sophomore Bridgette Hutton has pitched in the CSU rotation since 2015-16. PHOTO BY FORREST CZARNECKI COLLEGIAN
By Austin White @ajwrules44
Everyone has a home. Home is place where all the worries of the world can melt away, and a true state of belonging can be felt. Fort Collins and Colorado State University have been trying to provide this to their growing class sizes and their athletes that come from around the country. For Colorado State senior shortstop Haley Hutton, the decision to play for the Rams was a passage into the home in Fort Collins that her family had be-
gun more than 50 years ago. Today, Hutton will be remembered as one of, if not, the best softball players to ever take the field for the Rams. There really is no place like home. A Legacy Begins Fred Oglesby came to CSU in the fall of 1961 to play football for the Rams, who played their home games at Colorado Field on campus since Hughes Stadium was still seven years away from opening. Oglesby was the first one in his family to attend CSU, and he was also the first college athlete produced from them.
It did not take long for Oglesby to realize the amount of strength and conditioning needed to be a student athlete. That requirement pushed him to get a degree in sports medicine from CSU. He stopped playing football after his freshman year to pursue his athletic training passion, while also meeting his soon-tobe wife along the way. Oglesby went on to graduate from CSU and ended up with a job down in Amarillo, Texas as an athletic trainer for a local high school. He and his wife had their first child while living in Texas, but soon moved to Pueb-
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lo, Colorado for the head athletic training job at the University of Southern Colorado, also known as CSU Pueblo. While in Pueblo, Oglesby famously saved a football player’s life after he was struck by lightning during practice. He was able to use a new and growing procedure known as CPR; he was one of the first people to be able to use it successfully. He worked there from 1968 to 1974 and had two more children, one being his only daughter Christine. In 1974, Oglesby made his way back to where it all see HUTTON on page 16 >>
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