Notable Athletes
Swimmer Amy Van Dyken, six-time Olympic gold medalist, was an NCAA champion and All-American at CSU. Van Dyken returned to Colorado State to train under current head coach John Mattos for the 2000 Olympics, having won four medals in 1996, the first female athlete in US history to do so in one Olympic Games. Glenn Morris, a track and football standout at Colorado A&M in 1935, won gold in the decathlon at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Morris was inducted into the USATF Hall of Fame in 2007.
Other notable athletes to graduate from CSU include Thurman "Fum" McGraw, CSU's first football consensus All-American in 1948. He led CSU to its first-ever bowl game, the 1949 Raisin Bowl. McGraw would remain at CSU for more than 40 years in various coaching and administrative positions. Bill Green, the school's first consensus All-American in basketball in 1962 and 1963, was later a first round draft pick by the Boston Celtics. CSU alum Lonnie Wright boasted the rare accomplishment of playing professional football and basketball during the same year, with the Denver Broncos and the Denver Rockets in 1967. Although the school no longer fields a varsity baseball team, former Major League pitchers Felix "Tippy" Martinez, Mark Huismann, Mark Knudson, and Frankie Gonzalez all played for the Rams. During her four years at CSU in the 1990s, basketball star Becky Hammon scored more points than any male or female player in school history. Hammon went on to become a WNBA all-star.
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