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Wrapping Up Division III Week

Thank you for helping celebrate CC’s student-athletes!

Your faculty athletics representatives – Pedro de Araujo and I – appreciate your attention this week. We hope you’ve learned a bit more about Division III and our amazing student-athletes! 

If you missed one of our features or you’d like to revisit some of the student-athletes we celebrated this week, check out CCTigers.com

Here’s our final pair of student-athletes:

Class Year: 2025
Sport: Basketball 
Major: Business, Economics, and Society with a minor in Education  
Favorite Class: Introduction to Classroom Culture K-12
Top CC Academic Moment: During one of my introduction classes at Colorado College, we assisted a nonprofit to help rebuild its website. It was extremely rewarding to see the changes that the organization made after we presented our suggestions. 
Special Talent: I make outstanding guacamole.
Hobbies: Hanging out with my friends and family, skiing, hiking, and intramural sports 
Proudest Moment at CC: Beating the number one team in the nation at home
Community Service Experience: Our basketball coach, Katherine Menendez, creates many service opportunities for our team. In this past year, we mentored a class of fifth graders from a local school. We created memories and relationships that our team cherishes and we hope to continue in future years. During the holidays, we sponsored families in Colorado Springs to allow them to fill their Christmas wish lists. Outside of our team community service, I chose to do additional service at Care and Share Southern Colorado Food Bank.

Class Year: 2025
Sport: Tennis
Major: Neuroscience 
Favorite Class: Anatomy 
Top CC Academic Moment: Getting back-to-back-to-back 100% on exams in Anatomy 
Special Talent: Tweener lobs (sorry Coach Wilson) 
Hobbies: Woodworking and intramural sports
Proudest Moment at CC: 10-0 run in singles and doubles in Orlando during Spring Break 2022
Community Service Experience: Work with shelter animals at Humane Society of Ventura County and volunteer coaching at Libbey Park in the Ojai Valley.

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Celebrating Student-Athletes During Division III Week

This week is all about our Division III student-athletes

I hope you enjoy learning more about these two CC Tigers!

Class Year: 2025
Sport: Swimming and Diving
Major: Economics
Favorite Class: Paris on the Precipice (in Paris)
Top CC Academic Moment: Making the Dean’s List my freshman year
Special Talent: I can play the violin.
Hobbies: Cooking, running, and driving around with my friends
Proudest Moment at CC: The women’s team getting second place at our conference meet this year. It had been a goal of ours for the past few seasons and we really focused and worked hard towards achieving that goal.
Community Service Experience: In high school, I organized my swim team’s annual breast cancer awareness fundraiser in 2020 and 2021.

Class Year: 2024
Sport: Track
Major: Economics
Favorite Class: Time and Uncertainty with Professor Jessica Hoel
Top CC Academic Moment: Constructing an experiment on risk aversion in Prof. Hoel’s class. 
Special Talent: Have telekinesis with my twin brother
Hobbies: Playing piano, soccer, and ping-pong
Proudest Moment at CC: Running in the 4x400m at the conference championship my freshman year. 
Community Service Experience: Creek clean-up

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Well Wishes for Barbara Wilson on Her Retirement

Dear Campus Community,

It is with a deep sense of gratitude and mixed emotions that I announce that Barbara Wilson, associate vice president for administrative services, will retire in mid-May after over 22 years of service to Colorado College. 

Please join me in thanking Barbara for her years of service and wishing her well. Watch your email for an announcement of her retirement celebration event, coming soon.

Sincerely,


Robert G. Moore

Senior Vice President for Finance & Administration/CFO/COO

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Help Recognize Our CC Student-Athletes

It’s Day 5 of Division III Week and we aren’t done yet!

This week, we’ve highlighted two Division III student-athletes each day. Today, I’m thrilled to introduce to two more CC Tigers!

Class Year: 2024
Sport: Women’s Tennis
Major: Political Science
Favorite Class: The Judiciary (shoutout my advisor Doug Edlin)
Top CC Academic Moment: When I successfully passed elementary level French 
Special Talent: I can nap anywhere, anytime
Hobbies: Running, baking chocolate chip cookies, watching the Bachelor, playing spike-ball at the beach
Proudest Moment at CC: Our team’s upset against Hardin-Simmons in Texas last spring. I split sets in my singles match and clinched the third, and I remember celebrating with my teammates and coaches. It was such a good feeling.
Community Service Experience: 
I’ve been a member of beach cleanups in my hometown and also volunteered with local kids camps in the summers.

Class Year: 2025
Sport: Diving
Major: Molecular Biology
Favorite Class: Advanced Joint Anatomy
Top CC Academic Moment: Getting an A in Chemistry 2
Special Talent: Tumbling
Hobbies: Guitar, skiing, brewing kombucha
Proudest Moment at CC: My proudest moment at CC was throwing a front 3 1/2 off of three-meter this season! 
Community Service Experience: I loved serving meals at the Colorado Springs Rescue Mission this semester. 

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