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Steel & Silver trophy heading to Colorado Springs
Between the games of the soccer doubleheader on Sept. 22, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Chancellor Pamela Shockley-Zalabak will be awarded the trophy for winning the 2009-10 Steel & Silver Series.
Shockley-Zalabak will accept the trophy from Colorado State-Pueblo President Joseph Garcia between the men’s and women’s soccer matches between UCCS and CSU-Pueblo, which will be at approximately 6:50 p.m. Ent Federal Credit Union sponsors the competition and the trophy bears its name.
The contest awards points to the winner of games between the schools in seven women’s and three men’s sports and a five-point bonus to the university whose student-athletes have the best grades. Mountain Lion teams won this year’s contest with a score of 29-16, including the coveted five-point grade bonus. UCCS teams prevailed in women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s cross country and men’s golf. CSU-Pueblo teams prevailed in women’s basketball and women’s indoor and outdoor track. The schools were even in men’s basketball and softball.
The traveling trophy, created by Joan Aaland of Colorado Springs, is an 18-inch-high, 80-pound bronze and mahogany trophy that features a beam representing Pueblo’s steel production history and a pick axe representing the mining history of Colorado Springs with a wolf and a mountain lion, team mascots. The trophy is awarded to the annual winner of the series. UCCS has won the Steel & Silver Series in each of its five years of existence.
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