2009 COLORADO CROSS COUNTRY DO NOT APPROACH THE BUFFALOES! These animals may appear tame, but are wild, unpredictable and dangerous. Buff aloes can weigh 2,000 pounds and can sprint at 30 mph, three times faster than you can run. INDEX COLORADO AT A GLANCE SPORTS INFORMATION Academics and Athletics ................... 75-77 Location .........................Boulder, Colo. (103,216) Cross Country Contact .............Linda Poncin Coaching/Staff ..........................................3 Founded .......................................................1876 Offi ce ...................................303/492-5980 All-Americans .........................................55 Enrollment .................................................30,128 Fax .......................................303/492-3811 Athlete Biographies ............................7-41 Colors ................................. Silver, Gold and Black E-Mail [email protected] Big 12 Conference ...................................72 Nickname ...................................Buff aloes (Buff s) Internet .........................www.CUBuff s.com Big 12 10th Anniversary Team .................73 Home Course ............Buff alo Ranch at So Campus Boulder/Denver Facts and Trivia ........ 78-79 Distances ..................5,800-m (women), 8k (men) PRACTICE SCHEDULE Buff s vs. The Nation .................................47 Elevation ..................... 5,435 feet above sea level Mondays ................. 2:00 p.m. (Fieldhouse) Conference History ..................................45 NCAA Affi liation ......................................Division I Tuesdays ................. 2:00 p.m. (Fieldhouse) Head Coach Mark Wetmore .......................2 Conference .......................... Big 12 (Joined 1996) Wednesdays ............2:00 p.m. (Fieldhouse) Honor Roll ......................................... 56-57 President ......................................... Bruce Benson Thursdays ...............................................Off Letterwinners, All-Time .................... 62-65 Chancellor ......................................Phil DiStefano Fridays . 6:30 a.m. or 2:00 p.m.(Fieldhouse) National Champions ..........................48-54 Faculty Athletics Representative ......Dr. David Clough Saturdays .......................................Raceday NCAA History & Results ...........................46 Athletic Director ..................................Mike Bohn Sundays ....... 8 a.m. (long runs off campus) Post-Collegiate Success ..................... 60-61 Senior Woman Administrator ................Ceal Barry Rocky Mountain Shootout History ...........44 ON THE COVER Running Town USA ............................ 68-69 Front .................................Jenny Barringer, Support Staff ...........................................74 CROSS COUNTRY INFORMATION Emily Hanenburg, Kenyon Neuman, and Tradition....................................................4 Head Coach ............Mark Wetmore (15th Season) Jordan Kyle. 2008 In Review .................................42-43 Assistant Coach .......................Heather Burroughs 2009 Outlook ............................................5 Director of Operations ...................Karen Lechman Inside Front .................................. Schedule 2009 Rosters .............................................6 Cross Country Offi ce .......................303/492-5227 Inside Back .......Success in the Wetmore Era University of Colorado ....................... 70-71 Back ................................CU Campus Aerial USA Championships ................................59 Walk-On To All-American ........................58 PHOTO CREDITS: Chip Bromfi eld, Cliff Grassmick, Brian What They’re Saying About Boulder ........80 Lewis, CU Photo Offi ce, Gary Ahearn, Patrick Collard, World Championships .............................59 Heather Burroughs, Allison Wade, Cheryl Tregworthy, Year-by-Year Results ......................... 66-67 Andrea DuBay, Mark Foos , Casey Cass and Geoff Thurner 2008 TEAM FINISHES Men Women 2009 SCHEDULE Big 12 Championships ......2/66 pts. ....5/145 Sept. 5 Alumni/Open/Time Trial Buff alo Ranch @ South Campus, BOULDER NCAA Mountain Region ....1/42 pts. ....4/133 Oct. 3 ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHOOTOUT Buff alo Ranch @ South Campus, BOULDER NCAA Championships ...12/372 pts. ............. 9:15 Women’s 5.8k 10:00 Men’s 8,000-m Letterwinners Ret/Lost ............ 7/2 ........6/2 Oct. 17 at Pre-NCAA Invitational LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course, Terre Haute, Ind. All-Americans Ret/Lost ............ 1/0 ........1/0 Oct. 31 at Big 12 Championships Columbia, Mo. Postseason Scorers Ret/Lost .....5/1 ........5/1 Nov. 14 at NCAA Mountain Region Championship Albuquerque, N.M. Newcomers ..................................7 .........12 Nov. 23 at NCAA Championships LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course, Terre Haute, Ind. Feb. 13 at USATF Cross Country Championships Spokane, Wash. *--all student-athletes have signed waivers March 27 at IAAF Cross Country Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland disclosing their academic standing 2009 colorado cross country 1 HEAD COACH MARK WETMORE Colorado head coach Mark Wetmore enters his 18th season at Colorado, his 15th as the head coach, as the only Division I cross country coach to win all four NCAA titles - men’s and women’s team and men’s and women’s individual- at the same school. His women’s team won the team championship at Iowa State in 2000, while his men’s team won the following year at Furman. He has coached Adam Goucher (1998), Jorge Torres (2002) and Dathan Ritzenhein (2003) to men’s individual titles, while Kara Grgas-Wheeler won the 2000 women’s crown. His men’s and women’s teams became just the fourth in championship history to sweep the team titles, doing so in 2004. In 2006, his men’s team came through again in muddy conditions to win his fi fth team championship. He has earned the honor of being the NCAA Women’s Coach MARK WETMORE of the Year twice (‘00 and ‘04) and the NCAA Men’s Coach of the Year once Head Coach, 15th Season (‘06). Wetmore’s coaching career began immediately after high school, with a municipal junior track club called the Mine Mountain Road Department. From there, he coached a TAC team while simultaneously coaching distance runners at his prep alma mater, Bernards. Wetmore served a four-year stint at Seton Hall from 1988-1991 where he was an assistant coach for the men’s and women’s distance programs and as a member of the academic support staff . In August of 1991 he moved to Boulder and took a volunteer position in ’92. He was promoted from volunteer to part-time assistant in 1994, and assumed head coaching responsibilities two weeks prior to the 1995 NCAA Cross Country Championships in Ames, Iowa, where the CU men fi nished just off the podium in fourth, the women fi fth with both combining for eight All-American performances. All told nine of Wetmore’s athletes — Adam Goucher, Alan Culpepper, Sara (Gorton) Slattery, Kara Grgas- Wheeler, Jodie Hughes, Jorge Torres, Dathan Ritzenhein, Renee Metivier and Jenny Barringer— have combined for 18 NCAA individual cross country, indoor and outdoor championships. Barringer was the fi rst CU collegian to win a USA Track and Field crown in 2007 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and she did so again in 2009. Barringer placed fi fth at the IAAF World Championships in 2009 and set the American record in the steeplechase at 9:12.50, breaking her former record by almost 10 seconds. His men’s teams have won 12 Big 12 Conference titles, while his women’s teams have won 11 of the last 13 titles. Wetmore has earned the conference coach of the year honor 19 times in cross country, as well as 12 region coach of the year honors. He has tutored 15 individual conference champions, 13 regional title winners and 79 All-Americans while six CU runners have been crowned USA Cross Country Champions, including Billy Nelson in 2003, Pete Janson in ‘04 and Liza Pasciuto in ‘05. Three former student-athletes, Goucher, Shayne (Wille) Culpepper and Alan Culpepper, represented the United States at the 2000 Olympic Games while Ritzenhein joined the Culpeppers in ‘04 . In 2008, three more former athletes made the Olympic team, Kara Goucher, Billy Nelson and Jorge Torres. Current CU harrier Jenny Barringer also made the team and was one of six U.S. track team members to come back to college the following fall. Over two dozen Buff distance alumni have signed professional running contracts; 14 are still competing. After sending 17 of his current and former athletes to the IAAF World Cross Country Championships since 1992, USA Track & Field named Wetmore to the coaching staff for the USA National Team that competed at the 2004 Championships in Brussels, Belgium . He coached the junior men’s team to a seventh-place fi nish, paced by future Buff Ryan Deak. A native of Bernardsville, N.J., Charles Mark Wetmore graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English Education from Rutgers in 1978 before receiving his master’s in movement sciences from Columbia in 1988. He lives in the mountains west of Boulder. 2009 colorado cross country 2 COACHING sTAFF Colorado’s first female three-time cross country All-American, Heather Burroughs is back for her sixth season on the staff of her alma mater assisting head coach Mark Wetmore with both the men’s and women’s teams. Since joining the staff , she has coached eight conference championship teams, three NCAA Championship teams and 24 All-Americans. During Burrough’s Colorado cross country career she was a top-fi