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MIKE SMITH
Director of Equipment
Mike Smith is in his sixth year as director
of equipment, and his 10th year as
football equipment manager, as he was
hired full-time on August 1, 1995. He is an
EMC, or certified equipment manager, a status
he has earned for his years of service in
the profession.
He also works closely with NIKE, as CU
and the sports shoe and apparel giant have
been partners since 1996. He has worked
with NIKE to help create new technologies
that the CU football program has been the
first to experiment with.
Smith, 34, returned to his alma mater
from Utah State University, where he was head equipment director for
one year. Prior to his employment in the Aggies athletic department, he
worked for IN2 Sports for two years as a team sales specialist.
He has also worked five Hula bowls (1998-2001, 2004) as its equipment
and operations manager, coordinating the many needs of almost
100 of college football’s most outstanding players.
He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1992 with a bachelor’s
degree in mathematics. While he was a student at CU, he worked
on the grounds crew, served as a Ralphie runner (accompanying the
team to the 1989 Orange Bowl), and worked three years as a student
equipment manager, and was head manager his senior year.
Born May 26, 1970, in Denver, Smith graduated from Broomfield High
School in 1988, where he lettered in golf, basketball and baseball. An
avid golfer, he plays to a single-digit handicap and has played in several
area tournaments. He is single.
JUSTINA BOYD
Director of CHAMPS/
Life Skills Program
Justina Boyd is in her second year on
the Colorado athletic staff, having joined
the Buffaloes in March 2003 as the school’s
first-ever director of the CU CHAMPS Life
Skills Program.
Her primary focus is to coordinate
programming in the area of personal development,
career development and campus
and community service for CU’s 300-plus
student-athletes, all while working in
harmony with academic and athletic commitment.
Specifically, Boyd will facilitate programs
and resources to help students adjust to the challenges of
university life and being a Division I student-athlete; assist students in
their personal growth and career development, provide opportunities
to develop their leadership skills and be positive, contributing members
of their communities.
Boyd came to CU from San Diego State University, where she had
worked the previous five years as the director of compliance and student
affairs. She played an integral role in establishing the life skills
program at SDSU in her time there.
She also worked for five years as the director of compliance, financial
aid and eligibility at her alma mater, the University of Arizona. She
earned two degrees at UA, her bachelor’s of science in business administration
and her master’s of arts in education. She started her
professional career there as well, working two years as an academic
counselor, where she coordinated and supervised the tutorial and
study programs for all intercollegiate sports. She also spent two years
as an academic advisor for the football and basketball teams.
At Arizona, she lettered three times in track, participating in sprints
and relays.
A native of Denver, Boyd graduated from Denver’s George
Washington High School, where she lettered in track and field.
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KRISTIN COLON
Golden Buffalo Scholarship
Fund Director
Kristin Colon is in her 12th year in the
CU athletic department, her ninth as the
Golden Buffalo Scholarship Fund Director.
She had worked the previous three years as
the director of the Golden Buffalo
Volunteer Network prior to her promotion
in 1996.
Colon, 37, started working in the department
as an intern in November, 1992, after
working three years as Travel Director with
Maritz Travel, based out of St. Louis, Mo.
She graduated from Scripps College in
1989 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology,
with an emphasis in communications. At Scripps, she lettered four
times in soccer, earning all-conference honors three times, and also participated
in water polo for three years. She was selected to appear in the
1988 annual edition of the American College Athletes Hall of Fame. She
also served as the student director of the NCAA’s “Volunteers For
Youth” program from 1987-89 for the Claremont colleges.
Born July 29, 1967, in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, she graduated from
Fairview High School in Boulder, where she participated in soccer and
swimming. Formerly Kristin Heath, she is married to Eric Colon, and
they have two sons, Heath (4) and Davis (1).
TOM DOYLE
Director of Sports Video
Tom Doyle is in his sixth year as director
of sports video, returning to the CU staff
for his second “tour of duty” in August
1999. He oversees the day-to-day operations
of scouting video for all varsity sports
at CU.
Doyle, 42, was CU’s assistant director of
sports video in 1996 and 1997 under Bill
Wong before serving as the director of football
video at the University of North
Carolina for the 1998 season. Prior to coming
to CU for the first time, he was the video
coordinator at his alma mater, East
Carolina for six years (1991-96). He graduated
from ECU with a bachelor’s degree in communications in 1991.
He is a 12-year veteran of producing videos for coaching staff uses in
scouting and evaluation, as his expertise led to him serving as a twotime
vice president of the Collegiate Sports Video Association, a
professional group of national video directors. He was first elected to
the post in May 2000 and served three years in all.
Born June 10, 1962 in Chicago, Ill., he graduated from West Carteret
High School (Morehead City, N.C.) in 1980. A former member of the
United States Air Force, he also has an extensive background in many
forms of mass media, having worked in radio, television and print. He is
married to the former Barbara Mullis, and is the father of three grown
children, twin boys Thomas and Charles and daughter Mary.
BRUCE FLETCHER
Director of Licensing
Bruce Fletcher is in his fourth year as
CU’s director of licensing, joining the CU
staff in June 2001, when CU’s licensing
office was transferred to athletics. He is
thus the first athletic department
employee to hold the position.
Fletcher, 39, came to Colorado from
Villanova, where he spent the previous
seven years as the corporate account manager
for the athletic department. He was
responsible for generating $2.3 million on
advertising and sales revenues through
local, regional and national partnerships.
He also managed Villanova’s licensing