CU Buffs’ QB recruit Brock Berglund eyes starting job
It’s easy to admire Brock Berglund’s enthusiasm, but it’s tough to see him accomplishing this particular goal.
Now that the Valor Christian quarterback has committed to attend the University of Colorado and play for coach Dan Hawkins or whomever might hold the job of head football coach in 2011, Berglund has set his sights on helping bring “the best class in 20 years” with him to Boulder.
Berglund, a life-long Buffs fan, committed to CU coaches late last month over offers from approximately 20 other schools. The other four at the top of his list were UCLA, Utah, Kansas and Duke.
Now he aims to convince other players to join him.
“I don’t think I’m going to limit myself to even the state,” Berglund said. “I’m going to go on Rivals and find the guys who are even interested in Colorado and I’m going to call them up and talk to them, and if CU is a fit for them, I want them to be at CU and be a Buff.
Former CU Buff Darrell Scott transfers to South Florida
Two of Colorado’s once promising skill players are leaving Boulder for home.
Darrell Scott, the nation’s top running back prospect in 2008, announced on his Facebook account that he will transfer to South Florida.
Markques Simas, a gifted but troubled wide receiver who had his scholarship revoked by Dan Hawkins on June 2, would like to transfer to San Diego State.
Scott’s former high school coach, Todd Therrien, told the Tampa Tribune he had not heard the news directly from Scott, but that running with the Bulls would be a natural fit for the ex-Buff.
Will Pac-10 shift mark CU baseball’s return to Boulder?
Colorado will be the dominant team in one sport when it moves to the Pac-10.
“We’re adding a new sport, skiing, for the first time,” Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott noted during Friday’s news conference at Folsom Field.
The CU Buffs will bring at least 22 national championships to the “conference of champions” when they leave the Big 12. Twelve of those banners are skiing titles.
CU athletics director Mike Bohn said increased revenue the athletic department is expecting to receive in the Pac-10 could lead to the return of baseball and the addition of women’s sports such as softball and lacrosse down the road.
CU-Boulder club sports athletes recognized at annual banquet
A s the school year comes to an end, the 1,500-plus members of the University of Colorado’s collegiate sport clubs have hung up their skates and jerseys.
And CU Recreation Services and the Collegiate Sports Club board members recognized the hard work, dedication and success of these student-athletes this week at the ninth annual Leadership and Awards Banquet.
The banquet, held Tuesday at the University Memorial Center, included a buffet dinner, slide show and award presentation by Collegiate Sport Clubs coordinators Patty McConnell and Kris Schoech.
Former CU coach Jeff Bzdelik introduced as Wake Forest head coach
Jeff Bzdelik says Winston-Salem, N.C., is where he has always really wanted to be.
During a press conference on Wednesday morning, the former Colorado head coach was introduced as the new head coach at Wake Forest.
“It really goes full cycle and bring us home to where we want to be,” said Bzdelik, who was a young assistant at Davidson, a small college in North Carolina, three decades ago. “This is my dream job and I embrace it with all I have.”
Sioux land Danny Mattson
Academy of Holy Angels forward Danny Mattson has committed to UND for 2009 or 2010, his coach said today.
Mattson scored 19 goals and added 49 assists for 68 points in 28 games as a sophomore last season and led the 26-1-1 Stars in scoring. He was recently on the U.S. Under-18 team that participated in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial tournament.
“He’s got the kind of skills that you are born with — you can’t learn them,” Holy Angels coach Greg Trebil said. “He puts up a lot of points. He’s a good hockey player, a good ol’ fashioned hard worker and he combines that with a lot of skill.”
Mattson also had offers from Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Stay tuned, there will be much more on Mattson later.
NHL & Women Hockey Players From Ontario
The Roots of Ontario Hockey began in the1890s. Arthur Stanley, son of Lord Stanley, the Governor-General of Ontario, founded the Ontario Hockey Association in 1890. The OHA consisted of one league of senior men’s hockey teams from Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, and London. In 1892 the junior-level was introduced.
Women started playing hockey in Ontario around the same time. It is reported that the first women’s hockey game took place in Ottawa in 1889 and the first recorded women’s game took place in 1892 in Barrie, Ontario.
Colorado’s first family of hockey
Shortly after the University of Denver hockey team captured the 2004 NCAA championship, Drew Shore left sticky notes at prime locations throughout his parents’ Cherry Hills home.
The 13-year-old’s scribbled notes weighed the pros and cons of moving to Canada to live with a host family in British Columbia to develop his hockey career in order to eventually play for the Pioneers. He moved, all right, and this fall the 18-year-old center will skate onto the ice at DU as the leading member of a family of hockey prodigies.
Former All-American, L.A. Kings Goalie Jon Quick Named To U.S. Olympic Training Team
Former All-American and current L.A. Kings goalie Jon Quick has been named to the U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Training Camp as announced by U.S.A. Hockey on Tuesday, June 30. Quick is one of three goalies invited to the Olympic Orientation Camp. In total, 34 players were named to the training roster.
Quick now has the chance to become the first Minuteman since Thomas Pock to play in the Olympic Games. Pock represented Austria in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
This past season with the Kings, Quick had a breakout year in the NHL. He saw action in 44 games playing nearly 2,500 minutes with a 2.48 goals against average and a .914 save percentage – all team best totals as he posted a 21-18 record. He also posted four shutouts and was named the NHL’s First Start of the Week (ending Feb. 
after posting a 3-0-0 record with a 1.67 goals-against average, .950 save percentage and one shutout in three games. He was also named the NHL Third Star of the Week (ending Dec. 28) after posting a 2-1-0 record with a 0.67 goals-against-average, .958 save percentage and two shutouts in three games.
University of Colorado Senior Jennifer Barringer Wins Honda Award as Top Female Athlete in Track & Field
Jennifer Barringer, a senior at the University of Colorado, has won the 2009 Honda Sports Award in track and field, designating her as the nation’s top collegiate female athlete in that sport. The honor was based on the results of national balloting among 1,000 NCAA member schools as part of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program, now in its 33rd year.
The Honda Sports Award is given annually to the top women athletes in 12 NCAAsanctioned sports, along with automatic nomination for Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. Barringer was voted over three other nominees: Sarah Bowman, a senior at themUniversity of Tennessee, Tiffany Ofili, a senior at the University of Michigan and Blessing Okagbare, a junior at the University of Texas, El Paso. The candidates were selected by Women’s Track and Field Coaches.