OUTLAWS’ REESE COACH OF YEAR
After leading his team to a league-best regular-season record and helping craft its stingiest defense, the Denver Outlaws’ Brian Reese was named Major League Lacrosse coach of the year Friday.
The award was decided by a vote of the league’s coaches and general managers. Reese became the first Denver coach in the 9-year-old league to win the award. He received 52 points and nine first-place votes for the award. Boston Cannons coach Bill Daye was second with 18 points.
The Outlaws (9-3) were the first team to clinch a playoff berth in the MLL semifinals and will be seeded first next Saturday when they face the Cannons (6-6) in Annapolis, Md. Reese, who has also been the Outlaws’ general manager since 2005, is 22-9 in nearly three seasons as coach. This season, the Outlaws have allowed a league-low 11.5 goals per game.
Arp, Clapp tied at Stroke Play Championships.
Colorado State senior Riley Arp and Dean Clapp of Meadow Hills separated themselves from the pack after the second round of the Colorado Golf Association Stroke Play Championship and are tied atop the leaderboard at 5-under-par 137.
Arp and Clapp scored identical 2-under 69s at Lakewood Country Club and broke off from a four-way first-round tie.
Keenan Holt of Hillcrest in Durango shot a second- round low 68 to jump into second place, one stroke back.
CU’s Marshall on Herman Trophy watch list.
The National Soccer Coaches Association of America named University of Colorado standout Nikki Marshall to the Herman Trophy watch list — the women’s college soccer equivalent of the Heisman Trophy — for a second consecutive season.
Marshall, from Mead, is joined by two Texas A&M players also from Colorado — Centennial’s Kristin Arnold, a junior goalkeeper; and Castle Pines North’s Bri Young, a sophomore defender.
Coloradans dot mountain bike roster.
Several Colorado athletes were named to the 43-member U.S. team that will compete in the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Canberra, Australia, Sept. 1-6.
Boulder’s Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski received the only automatic nomination to the men’s team as USA Cycling Cross Country mountain bike national champion. He is joined by Todd Wells of Durango and Sam Jurekovic of Colorado Springs. Heather Irmiger of Boulder, Georgia Gould of Fort Collins, Katie Compton of Colorado Springs and Judy Freeman of Boulder made the women’s cross country team. Joey Schusler of Boulder made the men’s downhill team.
