Portal:1973 Spring Men/Memorable Events

Won the Aspen Tournament and we think Collazo (now name of LaSaxon) still has the trophy

Participated in the first All Academy competition

Spring Break Trip to UK (Barry, Russell, Volodzko, Hayes, Yaniglos, Priddy, Scheussler, Meeker, Silver, Read, Murphy, Segulaja, Diffley, Geers, Arnold, Merideth, Walker, Callazo, Weiss, Finnegan)

In fact, I distinctly remember an Easter weekend tournament Fort Collins without any coaches and I was the captain. Tex couldn't go since he'd been away from the family so much that spring. I remember telling him not to worry, that we'd take care of it ourselves. We were itching to go because it was an invitational four team tournament - us, CSU (the host), the Denver Barbos and Notre Dame. Of course, CSU set it up so they played Notre Dame on Saturday and we got to play the Barbos. We beat them and then had to take on Notre Dame on Sunday. Problem was we were scattered across northern Colorado for sleeping arrangements - mostly in girlfriend's dorm rooms, etc. 15 minutes before the game against Notre Dame on Sunday morning, I'm watching Notre Dame warm up with 20 players and I could only count 12 on our side. But, somehow we had 15 when the whistle blew and went on to beat Notre Dame, win the tourney and bring home a large trophy. I remember the big smile on Tex' face when we showed it to him.