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Abby Waner Named Colorado Sports Hall of Fame High School Athlete of the Year
1/18/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
DENVER COLO. - Duke University freshman women's basketball player Abby Waner was one of six individuals that will be honored as the 2005 “Centennial” State Athletes-of-the-Year at April's Colorado Sports Hall of Fame banquet at the Denver Marriott City Center, which was announced this week.
The Selection Committee of the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame picked Champ Bailey as the professional Athlete-of-the-Year as he helped the Broncos to the AFC's West Division title with a 13-3 record along with an opening playoff win last Saturday over the New England Patriots 27-13 to give Denver a chance for its seventh Super Bowl appearance.
Other selections were Tony Mustari (Greeley Central) and Waner (ThunderRidge) as the boy's and girl's High School Athletes-of-the-Year, respectively, and Marty Sertich (Colorado College) and Loree Smith (Colorado State), as the men's and women's Athletes-of-the-Year, respectively. Former University of Colorado wide receiver Jeremy Bloom of Loveland, Colo., was chosen as the individual Athlete-of-the-Year for his competition as a freestyle skier.
Tuesday's AOY selections will be honored at the April 18 banquet along with the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2006 - Ceal Barry, Tom Hancock, Bill Hybl, J. Allen “Pat” Patten, Davis Phinney and Dennis Smith. The newest members of the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame were selected last October.
In his seventh NFL campaign, Bailey joins linebacker Al Wilson as the Bronco's All-Pro selections this season. Bailey also earned his sixth consecutive Pro Bowl nomination and his second as a member of the Broncos. He played in 14 regular-season games this year with 72 total tackles (62 solo), a team-leading 28 pass deflections and a career-high eight interceptions.
In the New England playoff game, Bailey recorded two solo tackles and three pass deflections, including an interception return from his own end zone to the Patriot's one-yard line. The third-quarter interception came in the back corner of the Broncos' end zone and Bailey returned it 100 yards to the Patriots' 1-yard line before fumbling the ball out of bounds. The 100-yard return marks the longest interception return in Broncos postseason history and the longest non-scoring return in league history.
Mustari, who is currently competing at the University of Northern Colorado, completed his high school wrestling career last February with a 43-0 record, including a 40-match streak of not being scored upon. A three-time Colorado state champion at Greeley Central, he posted a career prep mark of 161-11. He also became the first-ever wrestler in the state of Colorado to win two national championships as he won the 112-pound freestyle crown by outscoring the opposition, 83-0, at the 2005 Cadet & Junior Nationals in Fargo, N.D.
Selected as the 2005 Gatorade and McDonald's National Player of the Year, Waner led ThunderRidge to three state titles and a 26-2 record as a senior when she averaged 32.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 5.4 steals a game. two-time “Miss Colorado Basketball” (2004, 2005), Waner, a product of Highlands Ranch, Colo., also led the United States to the U-19 World title last summer. She is currently starting for undefeated second-ranked Duke (17-0).
Sertich became the second Colorado College player in three years to win the Hobey Baker Memorial Award in 2005 when he claimed as a junior both the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and national scoring crowns. Sertich, who collected 27 goals and 37 assists during the 2004-2005 season, also earned 2005 WCHA Player of the Year honors as he recorded at least one point in 33 of Colorado College's 42 games entering the Frozen Four.
One of the most well-known names in Colorado State track & field history, Smith added an NCAA Outdoor title to her accomplishments with a winning margin just under six feet further than her nearest competitor at the Sacramento nationals (224-feet, eight inches). A Julesburg, Colo., native, Smith returned for her senior season in 2005 with three All-American certificates, two school records, six Mountain West Conference titles and a gold medal from the North American-Central American Championships in the hammer.
Bloom assured himself a berth in the 2006 Winter Olympics by winning the U.S. Olympic Trials December 30 after a poor qualifying run that saw him place 10th out of 12 competitors. Bloom dominated the men's world freestyle skiing for the 2004-05 season by winning six consecutive World Cup events (five in moguls, one in the non-Olympic dual moguls) en route to earning his first overall title.
Barry led the Colorado women's basketball program for 22 years where she compiled a 427-242 record. Her 26-year career coach mark of 510-284 (.642) ranks 25th among NCAA Division I coaches. Barry' s tenure at CU saw the Lady Buffs post 13 20-win seasons, 12 trips to the NCAA Tournament, including six Sweet 16s and a trio of Elite Eights.
The son of a Colorado Sports Hall of Famer John Hancock, Tom Hancock coached Lakewood High School to a 15-season football record of 137-36-3 with six appearances in the state championship game where his teams won three titles (1960, 1964 and 1968). One of Colorado's top prep athletes at Greeley Central High School, Hancock started two seasons at linebacker at the University of Colorado where he also competed in wrestling.
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the El Pomar Foundation (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Hybl is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the United States Olympic Foundation (USOF). Hybl was named USOC President Emeritus in December 2000 at the completion of his four-year term as Chair/President of the organization (October 1996 to December 2000).
One of the finest University of Colorado athletes during the 1940s, Patten graduated Denver Manual High School and served in the Army before completing his CU career with seven letters in wrestling, cross country and track. Patten became known as one of the state's top wrestling coaches as he led his high school teams to 12 individual state champions and 17 of his wrestlers went on to earn national titles.
Phinney won over 300 career cycling events during his 18-year career. Phinney's career highlights included an Olympic bronze medal (1984), a Pan-American Games gold medal (1983), four National Championship titles. Phinney was the first American ever to win a road stage in the Tour de France in 1996. He is married to Connie Carpenter, a 1995 Colorado Sports Hall of Fame inductee and Olympic gold medalist.
Inducted into the Broncos' Ring of Fame in 2001, Smith had a 14-season career with the Broncos. He was voted to play in six Pro Bowls (following the 1985- 86, 1989-91 and '93 seasons), was named All-NFL four times (1985-86, 1989 and 1993), was named All- AFC four times (1984-86, 1988) and played on three Broncos Super Bowl teams (XXI, XXII, XXIV). Smith ranks fourth all- time in games played by a Bronco (184), fifth in games started (170) and sixth in both career interceptions (30) and interception return yards (431).
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