The fastest female swimmer in the history of the United States first gained recognition at Cherry Creek H.S. as a six-time All-America, Athlete of the Year and winner of State, Junior National and Olympic Festival championships. Unbelievably, she couldn’t even swim across the pool until she was 12.
Next to her constant battles with asthma and…
The fastest female swimmer in the history of the United States first gained recognition at Cherry Creek H.S. as a six-time All-America, Athlete of the Year and winner of State, Junior National and Olympic Festival championships. Unbelievably, she couldn’t even swim across the pool until she was 12.
Next to her constant battles with asthma and…
If 1996 was something of a heartbreaker for Libbie—she finished in a non-qualifying fourth place at the Olympic Trials—then the year 1997 definitely was not a disappointment, in fact, heart booster describes it best!
The Fort Collins runner got off to a fast start, winning the four-mile Kansas City Trolley Run with a time eclipsing the…
When Abby Waner graduated from ThunderRidge High School in 2005, many media pundits and coaches asserted that she may be the most-talented all-around women's basketball player to come out of the state of Colorado ever.
Abby certainly provided good reasons for that assessment. In her senior year as a prepster, she led her ThunderRidge team to…
Colorado’s top female athletes and contributors to women’s athletics, selected by a panel of sportswriters and sportscasters from around the state, were honored by Sportswomen of Colorado at the 33rd annual awards banquet on March 11th, 2006. Th 2007 Sportswoman of the Year winner is the fastest woman in auto racing, NHRA drag racer Melanie…
Nationally, worldwide, Katie Uhlaender is the absolute best skeleton racer there is. And, that makes her Colorado’s Sportswoman of the Year. Skeleton is that “gentle” winter sport where competitors fling themselves on a little sled and race down an icy track, head first, at speeds up to 80-miles-an-hour. Uhlaender is a 2-time World Cup champion…
Erin Popovich set 20 new swimming records at the 2008 Summer Paralympic games in Beijing last September. She won four gold medals and two silver medals, breaking two world records (200m individual medley and 100m breaststroke) and two Paralympic records (100m and 400m freestyle). She won three gold medals and three silver medals while setting…
Our Sportswoman of the Year is already making headlines in 2013. She was unanimously elected by the nominating committee based on her performance in 2013. She was just 17-years-old when she won the first of four World Cup races, the first woman to do so before the age of 18. When she won the slalom…
Her fame in soccer circles is worldwide and her competitive spirit is legendary, which explains why this Littleton-reared kicker is the first female athlete to be featured on a trading card.
Few women have had a greater opportunity to make an impact on their sport than April, who in November 1991, in China, led the United…
To say that her 1998 ski season was downright disastrous is understating Ann’s face-to-face confrontation with gut wrenching reality. Seemingly on course for a medal in Nagano, the 30-year-old freestyle skier from Steamboat Springs was leading going into the final pre-Olympic moguls race at Breckenridge.
Instead of heading for Japan on the highest possible note however,…
Five days after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Sportswomen of Colorado’s 2001 Sportswoman of the Year showed that there are still good things in this world with a gritty, come from behind performance in the World Mountain Bike Championships at Vail. In fifth place entering the final lap of the women’s elite, 20 plus-mile cross-country…
Ellen Miller is in some ways a typical athlete, always wanting to do more, to see if she can accomplish the next challenge she takes on. She sets records all over the place; she competes in everything from running and mountain biking to snowshoeing and Nordic skiing. She travels around the world, vying for championship…