Former University of Colorado women’s basketball player Alyssa Fressle will transfer to Boston College, Eagles coach Sylvia Crawley announced Wednesday.
Fressle, a former Highlands Ranch High School star, previously announced she would transfer from CU, where she averaged 7.8 points while starting 30 games as a sophomore. NCAA transfer rules require her to sit out the 2010-11 season to regain her eligibility.
DU’s Kim near NCAA top 10.
University of Denver golfer Kimberly Kim shot a 1-under-par 71 at the women’s NCAA championships at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, N.C., rocketing from 30th into a tie for 12th place with a two-round, even-par 144 total. Arizona State’s Jennifer Johnson leads at 137.
Olympian Zamansky calls it a career.
The giant slalom at the Vancouver Olympic Games will go down as the last race for Aspen’s Jake Zamansky, who announced his retirement from competitive ski racing.
Zamansky was a member of the U.S. development team at age 17 and a product of Aspen’s Team Geronimo who won U.S. championship medals and NorAm titles during his career, along with earning enough World Cup points to qualify for the Olympics. He finished 31st at the Vancouver Games.
Zamansky said he plans to continue working with longtime sponsor Spyder and also will work with Team Geronimo next winter.
“I didn’t intend for the Olympics to cap my career,” Zamansky said after returning from a surfing trip to Nicaragua with fellow U.S. Ski Team alums Scott Macartney, Erik Schlopy and Bryon Friedman. “I still thought I had some fight left in me, but the way my body feels, it’s just the right time to move on.”
Wyoming adds assistant coach.
University of Wyoming men’s basketball coach Heath Schroyer hired Nate Dixon as an assistant.
Dixon is a veteran of Sun Belt Conference coaching, having been an assistant last season at Louisiana- Lafayette, and at New Orleans and Louisiana-Monroe before that stop. Schroyer said he has known Dixon more than 10 years. He called Dixon “a great on-the- floor coach and also a heck of a recuiter.”
Staff openings at CSU-Pueblo.
Colorado State-Pueblo is looking for two new coaches after head women’s tennis coach Brian Drummond and assistant volleyball coach Kelli Berg resigned at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference school. Drummond was a head coach last season after being an assistant for the Thunderwolves. Berg, an assistant the last two seasons, resigned to pursue a career in physical therapy.
DU announces Hall of Fame class.
The University of Denver’s 1968 hockey team and Gordon Cooper, Lee Courkamp, Sara Fadenrecht, Carlene Petersen and Dr. Nancy Sampson make up the 13th class to go into DU’s sports Hall of Fame. They will be inducted Oct. 14.
The hockey team won the second of back-to-back NCAA championships, led by captains Keith Mag- nuson, Craig Patrick and Tom Miller.
Cooper was an all-conference football player from 1949-51 and also played baseball and ran track.
Courkamp holds 17 school records in cross country and track, set from 1961-66.
Fadenrecht, an all-conference pick in 1995-96, is the only male or female DU basketball player to amass more than 1,800 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career.
Petersen started the DU women’s tennis program and was inducted into the Colorado Tennis Hall of Fame in 2007.
Sampson, a business professor, will be inducted as a “special individual” for her 38 years of service on DU’s faculty athletics affairs committee.
