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THAT TIME OF YEAR – Colorado Golf Association

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April 11, 2024

THAT TIME OF YEAR – Colorado Golf Association

Stretch run of college golf season set to begin for Colorado-based teams, with conference tournaments preceding NCAA regionals and nationals

By Gary Baines – 4/11/2024

The college golf season — at least the first portion of it — began more than seven months ago. But now it’s time to get down to the nitty gritty.

In other words, the postseason is nearly upon us. First up, there’s conference/league tournaments, followed by NCAA Regionals (for those teams and individuals that qualify), then by the national championship (again, for schools/individuals that advance).

Fields for the NCAA Regionals will be revealed on various dates in the coming weeks: April 24 for women’s Division I, April 26 for men’s Division II, April 29 for women’s DII and May 1 for men’s DI.

But today we’re focused on the conference/league tournaments for the college programs based in Colorado. Things start with the University of Northern Colorado women at the Big Sky tournament April 15-17 and ends with the University of Denver men at the Summit League shindig April 28-30.

Here are some of the essentials from those tournaments — for both NCAA Division I and II programs in the Centennial State.

BIG SKY CONFERENCE WOMEN

Dates: April 15-17

Site: The Wigwam in Litchfield Park, Ariz.

Colorado-Based Team Competing: University of Northern Colorado.

UNC National Ranking: 185th

UNC Players Ranked in Top 200 Nationally: None.

UNC Team Victories This Season: None

Notable: UNC finished fifth out of 10 teams at last year’s Big Sky meet.

MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE WOMEN

Dates: April 16-18

Site: Mission Hills CC in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Colorado-Based Team Competing: Colorado State University.

CSU National Ranking: 49th.

CSU Players Ranked in Top 200 Nationally: Andrea Bergsdottir 59th.

CSU Team Victories This Season: 3.

Notable: Even before the postseason, the Rams have set their single-season program record with three team victories, including two during the spring portion of the schedule. … CSU placed third out of nine teams in last year’s MWC meet. … Bergsdottir has posted top-10 finishes in her last seven college starts. … Lauren Lehigh of New Mexico, a two-time Colorado 5A state high school individual champion, will play in her final MWC tournament. She’s ranked 80th nationally in Division I.

SUMMIT LEAGUE WOMEN

Dates: April 21-23

Site: Firekeeper GC in Mayetta, Kan.

Colorado-Based Team Competing: University of Denver.

DU National Ranking: 44th

DU Players Ranked in Top 200 Nationally: Anna Zanusso 121st, Clara Gestsdottir 183rd.

DU Team Victories This Season: none.

Notable: DU won last year’s Summit League team title, marking the Pioneers’ 18th league championship in the last 19 times the tournaments have been contested. DU’s Anna Krekling captured the 2023 individual title. … The Pioneers haven’t won a tournament this season, but have finished second twice.

PAC-12 CONFERENCE WOMEN

Dates: April 21-23

Site: Palouse Ridge GC in Pullman, Wash.

Colorado-Based Team Competing: University of Colorado.

CU National Ranking: 68th

CU Players Ranked in Top 200 Nationally: Morgan Miller 140th; Sabrina Iqbal 176th.

CU Team Victories This Season: none.

Notable: This will mark the final Pac-12 Conference tournament. For its part, CU is headed to the Big 12 in 2024-25. … Anne Kelly, CU’s head coach since 1997, will conclude her college coaching career this spring as she announced her impending retirement last fall. Current CU associate head coach Madeleine Sheils will succeed Kelly at the Buffs’ helm. … The Buffs finished 11th out of 11 teams in last year’s conference meet.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE MEN

Dates: April 21-23

Site: Boulder Creek GC in Boulder City, Nev.

Colorado-Based Teams Competing: CSU-Pueblo, Colorado Christian, Colorado Mesa, Colorado School of Mines, Fort Lewis, Regis.

Top-100 National Rankings (Div. II) for Colorado Teams: Colorado Christian 8th; CSU-Pueblo 14th; Colorado School of Mines 22nd; Colorado Mesa 27th; Fort Lewis 75th.

Colorado-Based Players Ranked in Top 100 Nationally in Division II: Adam Duncan, Colorado Christian 6th; Jamie Roberts, CSU-Pueblo 29th; Xavier Bighaus, Colorado Christian 32nd; Lucas Taggart, Colorado School of Mines 40th; Colt Tenpenny, CSU-Pueblo 56th.

Notable: CSU-Pueblo prevailed in a playoff over Colorado Christian for the league team title last year, giving the ThunderWolves their third straight RMAC championship. … Colorado Christian’s Bighaus claimed the individual title in 2023.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMEN

Dates: April 21-23

Site: Boulder Creek GC in Boulder City, Nev.

Colorado-Based Teams Competing: CSU-Pueblo, Colorado Christian, Colorado Mesa, Regis, MSU Denver, Fort Lewis, Adams State.

Top-100 National Rankings (Div. II) for Colorado Teams: CSU-Pueblo 42nd; Regis 79th; Colorado Christian 81st; Colorado Mesa 82nd; Metro State 91st.

Colorado-Based Player Ranked in Top 100 Nationally in Division II: Kylie Severin, CSU-Pueblo 32nd

Notable: CSU-Pueblo took home the title in the 2023 RMAC tournament, with CSUP’s Severin and Zoey Rodriguez sharing the individual crown.

BIG SKY CONFERENCE MEN

Dates: April 22-24

Site: Wigwam GC in Litchfield Park, Ariz.

Colorado-Based Team Competing: UNC

UNC National Ranking: 175th

UNC Players Ranked in Top 200 Nationally: none.

UNC Team Victories This Season: none.

Notable: UNC won the Big Sky team title last year, earning an NCAA Regionals berth. The Bears put three players in the top four individually — Jack Castiglia (2), Yuze Zhang (3) and TJ Shehee (4).

PAC-12 CONFERENCE MEN

Date: April 26-28

Site: Desert Forest GC in Carefree, Ariz.

Colorado-Based Team Competing: CU

CU National Ranking: 66th

CU Players Ranked in Top 200 Nationally: none.

CU Team Victories This Season: one.

Notable: CU, bound for the Big 12 next season, will play in its final Pac-12 tournament. … The Pac-12 meet is very unusual by college golf standards in that it’s a 72-hole affair — as opposed to 54 holes for most events. … In February, the Buffs won their first large-field tournament since 2019.

MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE MEN

Date: April 26-28

Site: Emerald Valley GC in Creswell, Ore.

Colorado-Based Teams Competing: CSU and Air Force.

CSU National Ranking: 64th.

Air Force National Ranking: 253rd.

CSU/Air Force Players Ranked in Top 200 Nationally: Connor Jones, CSU 81st.

CSU/Air Force Team Victories This Season: one (CSU).

Notable: CSU placed fourth out of 11 teams at last year’s MWC meet, while Air Force was 11th. CSU’s Christoph Bleier tied for the top spot individually in regulation, but lost in a playoff. … Jones, a resident of Westminster and the 2022 CGA Player of the Year, will wrap up his college career this spring.

SUMMIT LEAGUE MEN

Date: April 28-30

Site: Covered Bridge GC in Sellersburg, Ind.

Colorado-Based Team Competing: DU

DU National Ranking: 218th.

DU Players Ranked in Top 200 Nationally: none.

DU Team Victories This Season: none.

Notable: DU finished runner-up out of 10 teams at the Summit League meet last year.

About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com

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Colorado congressional members speak ahead of SNAP deadline, open enrollment

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October 31, 2025

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Colorado congressional members speak ahead of SNAP deadline, open enrollment

DENVER (KDVR) — Open enrollment season kicks off in just a couple of days. SNAP benefits are set to run out at the same time on Nov. 1.

Some leaders on Capitol Hill say Americans should prepare to be sticker-shocked by an increase in premiums. This is all coming with no deal on healthcare subsidies as Congress remains shut down.

Open enrollment begins with no deal on healthcare

We heard from both Democrats and Republicans representing Coloradans on Capitol Hill.
They have different thoughts about how we got to this point and what could happen next.

“This is going to impact everybody, even if you are on an employer-sponsored healthcare. That’s why we need to fix this,” said Congressman Jason Crow, a Democrat representing the state’s 6th Congressional District. “House Speaker Mike Johnson has closed the House of Representatives. He has not convened Congress for about a month now. So that prohibits our ability to negotiate, to debate, to discuss the path forward. So they actually just need to reopen negotiations, reopen the Congress and in the case of the President, he needs to come back to the United States so we can strike a deal.”

Democrats in Congress are sounding the alarm ahead of open enrollment. Some people getting their insurance through the open market are already seeing cost projections ahead of November 1st, like Mike, a retiree from Littleton.

“I could finally afford to retire early, knowing I would still have healthcare. My plan through Cigna today costs $936 a month. Thanks to the ACA tax credits, I only pay $141. Without that subsidy, it would be completely unaffordable. It’s a game changer for me and millions of others,” Mike said.

The state estimates 225,000 Coloradans rely on the subsidies, saying they are set to average an increase of 101% statewide. Some members of Congress say there will be a trickle-down impact.

“When people see that shocking number, far too many are going to choose to opt out and that puts us all in a vulnerable position and especially them. The skyrocketing cost will hit all of us. They will be able to adjust, but we need action now. We need leadership in Washington to care about working families,” said Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen, a Democrat representing Colorado’s 7th Congressional District.

Some Colorado Republicans in Congress are standing firm against the subsidies, saying they need reform before they can approve them.

“These subsidies that democrats are talking about are going to illegal immigrants. If we want to get the cost of healthcare down in Colorado, we have to stop paying for illegal immigrants. We have to stop being a sanctuary city and state, and we have to cut the red tape and regulations in Colorado that is strangling our economy to include healthcare,” said Congressman Gabe Evans, a Republican representing Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.

It’s important to note that those subsidies are only available to people in the nation lawfully.
They expire at the end of the year.

SNAP benefits set to run out on Saturday

With the federal government still shut down, SNAP benefits will halt for families across the nation. So how is Colorado going to handle it? Can there be a compromise or even a lawsuit that can stop it? While some continue to urge the federal government to act, the state of Colorado moved ahead with its plan to help cover for it.

Democratic members of the House Committee on Agriculture joined Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse on Wednesday in urging the Trump Administration to use $5 billion in contingency funding for food assistance.

“The Trump Administration has made a conscious decision to, and deliberate choice, to suspend snap benefits,” said Congressman Neguse, a Democrat representing Colorado’s second congressional district. “Over five billion dollars available today that could be used. That must be used under the law so that hungry families don’t starve.”

President Donald Trump and Speaker of the U.S. House Mike Johnson have said those funds cannot be used to cover the benefits.

“There was a memo that went out, basically saying that those contingency funds are supposed to be used in an emergency. That’s normally a natural disaster or something like that, not a government shutdown. So I think them talking and Speaker Johnson has talked about this and Trump has, basically saying this isn’t an emergency,” said Michael Fields, FOX31 political analyst and Republican strategist.

The calls from Congress come after Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser joined more than 20 other states in suing the USDA Secretary over the suspension of the benefits, marking the 40th time the state has sued the Trump administration. Fields said he does not think the administration will act on the emergency relief or lawsuit.

“I don’t think that it’s good policy. It’s not going to work. The fact that we are suing the federal government 40 times, I don’t think, is something that we should be celebrating, given the fact that this is all taxpayer money that we are talking about,” Fields said. “So I don’t think they are going to win this case. I think Phil Weiser should be putting pressure on Senator Hickenlooper and Senator Bennet to vote to reopen the government.”

The state’s Joint Budget Committee approved the use of $10 million in state funding to help offset the loss of SNAP dollars. JBC members said the funds go to food banks and pantries in the state to help meet demand, as the state cannot issue SNAP benefits.

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The Running Man Advanced Screening Contest

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October 30, 2025

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The Running Man Advanced Screening Contest

October 30, 2025 / 4:00 AM MDT
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Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the advanced screening of The Running Man on Monday, November 10 at AMC 9 + CO! This contest ends on Nov. 5.

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2 Colorado counties say motor vehicle theft cut in half over last 3 years

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October 29, 2025

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2 Colorado counties say motor vehicle theft cut in half over last 3 years

October 29, 2025 / 9:56 AM MDT
/ CBS Colorado

After reaching crisis levels in recent years, Adams and Broomfield counties are reporting a sharp decline in motor vehicle thefts.

According to data shared by the Colorado 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, the statistics show Adams County has seen a 52% reduction in vehicle thefts, while Broomfield County follows closely with a 47% drop between 2022 and 2025. The DA’s office also shared more specifically that Thornton has recorded a 60% decline in motor vehicle thefts, and Westminster had a 55% decrease.

Both the DA’s office and the Broomfield Police Department credit efforts to crack down on this type of crime, as well as legislative changes with tougher punishments. A new law was passed in 2023, which redefined motor vehicle theft as a felony offense.

Colorado’s 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason explained that stricter consequences can be a stronger deterrent. Broomfield police say they have also started using undercover efforts and other methods to keep motor vehicle thefts down.

“After the law changed, any motor vehicle theft is a felony. Which it should be. If you steal a car, you should be charged with a felony, and that’s what we’ve done,” said Mason. “And consequently thieves know that there will be consequences if you steal a car.”

This data closely follows the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office announcing arrests in a large motor vehicle theft ring where more than 50 suspects were impacted, including in Broomfield.

To keep vehicles safe, Mason recommends drivers always keep their cars locked and, as we get into the colder months, not leave their car running outside unattended.

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