TRENTINO, Italy—The University of Colorado Ski Team will be represented by 12 current and two former student-athletes in the 26th Winter Universiade, also known as World University Games, here across Italy from December 11-21, 2013.
The total of 14 student-athletes are the most the Buffs have ever sent to a single Games.
CU coach Richard Rokos is once again the head alpine coach for the United States for the World University Games, as he has been seven previous times. He lead Team USA to the best performance by any US Alpine team on foreign soil the last time out in Erzurum, Turkey, when the alpine team won seven of the eight medals brought home by the United States the entire games.
Rokos doesn’t anticipate a performance that dominant this time around for the United States, but is nonetheless excited both by what his United States squad can accomplish, as well as by his “other” team at the games, the University of Colorado.
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