Bill McCartney and Bobby Anderson highlight the list of inductees into the University of Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame, a list that also includes Adam Goucher, Bill Marolt and Fred Casotti, the school said Thursday.
The ceremony, to be held Oct. 12, also will induct the entire team and coaching staff of Colorado’s 1959 NCAA champion ski team, the school’s first national champion.
Among those who will be inducted: Anderson will become the school’s fourth College Football Hall of Famer this December; Casotti was a longtime sports information director and assistant athletics director at the school; McCartney coached the 1990 national championship football team; Goucher is a four-time NCAA individual champion in cross country and track; and Marolt, also a four-time national champ, was a skier, skiing coach and athletic director.
DU men’s lacrosse team adds to coaching staff
The University of Denver men’s lacrosse team hired Jon Torpey to be its associate head coach, coach Jamie Munro said. Torpey was an assistant at Denison (Ohio) University and spent three years at Goucher (Md.) College. He was also a four-year starter and three-year captain at Ohio State.
Dan Carey, a National Lacrosse League all-rookie team selection from the Colorado Mammoth, was named the Mann Cup most valuable player after leading the Peterborough Lakers to a 17-10 victory over the Victoria Shamrocks to win the Canadian national indoor lacrosse championship.
Carey scored two goals and had two assists Wednesday to clinch the best-of-seven series in five game. He scored 12 goals and had nine assists in five Mann Cup games.
Danielson still among pack in Spanish Vuelta
Durango’s Thomas Danielson rode the 18th stage of the Spanish Vuelta cycling race, a 95.1-mile stage from Granada to Sierra de la Pandera, in 3 hours, 28 minutes and 27 seconds to finish in eighth place.
The Discovery Channel team rider is sixth overall at 7:05 behind the leader.
