{"id":14252,"date":"2019-05-07T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T22:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=14252"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:13:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T22:13:02","slug":"book-in-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2019\/05\/book-in-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Book in Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2019\/04\/CC-BUL-SPR19-11_AthleticsSoccerBook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14068\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2019\/05\/book-in-play\/cc-bul-spr19-11_athleticssoccerbook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2019\/04\/CC-BUL-SPR19-11_AthleticsSoccerBook.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"946,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CC-BUL-SPR19-11_AthleticsSoccerBook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2019\/04\/CC-BUL-SPR19-11_AthleticsSoccerBook-237x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2019\/04\/CC-BUL-SPR19-11_AthleticsSoccerBook-807x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-14068 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2019\/04\/CC-BUL-SPR19-11_AthleticsSoccerBook-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a>Horst Richardson coached men\u2019s soccer at Colorado College for 50 years, with his wife Helen serving as the team\u2019s surrogate mother, game-day chef, and documentarian from almost the very beginning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So it is no surprise that in retirement, they hung in there for more than three years to complete \u201cThe History of Men\u2019s Soccer at Colorado College, 1950-2015\u201d (available through horstandhelenbooks.com).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nor is it a surprise that the book reflects an even greater team effort. To gather the most vivid material, Horst connected with nearly 200 former players \u2014 representing every Tiger team, including <b>Saad Sahawneh \u201951<\/b>\u2019s original ragtag crew \u2014 plus dozens of friends of the program, parents, staff, and even referees. Routinely ceding paragraphs and pages to their memories, he and Helen (a former teacher and proofreader) create a joyful chronology that gives as much attention to road-trip bus breakdowns and player pranks as to corner kicks and NCAA trips. Nearly 100 photos, many of which came from locker room walls or Helen\u2019s scrapbooks, add further color and energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The book, naturally, serves as a record of CC\u2019s ascension to the upper tier of Division III programs. But his former German students wouldn\u2019t be wrong if they accused Horst of having assembled a <i>Liebesbrief <\/i>\u2014 a love letter to soccer and the student-athlete, and to the school where he and Helen inimitably connected the two. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horst Richardson coached men\u2019s soccer at Colorado College for 50 years, with his wife Helen serving as the team\u2019s surrogate mother, game-day chef, and documentarian from almost the very beginning. So it is no surprise that in retirement, they hung in there for more than three years to complete \u201cThe History of Men\u2019s Soccer at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-14252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2019","tag-athletics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14257,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252\/revisions\/14257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}