Colorado Eagles captain Riley Nelson has been named the Central Hockey League’s most valuable player.
He was named to the all-CHL team the past three seasons, but it is the first MVP award for Nelson, who is the Eagles’ all-time leading scorer.
He is the second consecutive Eagles player to win the CHL’s MVP honor and the third overall. Kevin Ulanski won the award last season, and Greg Pankewicz won in 2004-05.
Nelson finished the season fourth in league scoring and led all players in plus/minus with a career-high plus-40.
Fronk fuels Denison’s title.
Spencer Fronk, a freshman from Cherry Creek High School, helped the Denison (Ohio) men’s swimming and diving team win the NCAA Division III championship Saturday night in Knoxville, Tenn., stopping an extraordinary title run by Kenyon (Ohio).
Fronk anchored Denison’s third-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay, clinching the NCAA title for the Big Red. Denison finished the 20-event meet with 500 1/2 points. Kenyon, the runner-up with 499 1/2, had won the last 31 national championships.
Fronk placed 10th in the 100 freestyle.
CSU-Pueblo hires Turner.
Former Union University head coach Ralph Turner is the new head men’s basketball coach at CSU-Pueblo.
Turner, a National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC)/NAIA coach of the year in 2002, led Union from 1994-2009. He is the school’s all-time wins leader with 362 in his 15-year tenure. He led teams to the NAIA national tournament nine times and won six TranSouth Conference championships. His teams made it to the NAIA Elite Eight twice and to the NAIA Sweet 16 five times.
