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and then as video production coordinator, including shooting, editing,
producing and directing features and programming. He also worked the
1998 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Coors Field, shooting and
scripting special features leading up to and following the event.
In 2003, CU won a Golden Matrix Award for “Best Overall Video
Display” in the university division at the Information Display and
Entertainment Association (IDEA) conference in Atlanta. He was present
to accept the award, along with assistant Jim Fairchild. The
following year, BuffVision was awarded two distinctions for the 2004
Aurora Awards, a Platinum Best of Show statue for BuffVision In-Game
Entertainment Graphics/Design and a Gold Award for The Buffalo
Stampede, CU’s coaches’ show.
In 2004, he was selected as the CU Athletic Staff Member of the Year
by the Student-Athletic Advisory Committee, and was honored with a
CUSPY Award for the honor.
He has worked as an independent contractor with the NFL’s Denver
Broncos and the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche, working for the latter as an
in-game director for the 1998-99 season. He also works as a freelance
photojournalist, producer and editor, handling video production for private
business and community groups. His clients have included Winter
Park Resorts, US West, Colorado State University, the National Sports
Center for the Disabled, and Colorado Time Systems.
He has worked numerous times as a production assistant for
regional sports productions, including for Turner Sports, Mountain
Mobile Productions and TCI Digital TV.
He is a 1996 graduate of Colorado State University, earning his bachelor’s
degree in technical journalism and broadcasting. He graduated
Magna Cum Laude.
He was born May 24, 1974 in Oakland, Calif., and attended two high
schools. His father was stationed in the Azores, Portugal, and he spent
two years at Lajes High School, where he lettered in football, soccer, volleyball
and basketball. After moving to Colorado, he graduated from
Liberty High School in Colorado Springs, where he lettered in football.
He played volleyball on CSU’s club team for three years. He is single
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LISA VAN GOOR
Events Coordinator
Lisa Van Goor is in her fifth year as CU’s
events coordinator, joining the athletic
department staff on August 15, 2000.
She didn’t have to travel very far from
her previous job, as she had worked for one
year as the events coordinator for the
School of Arts & Sciences with the
University of Colorado Foundation.
She was a member of the second class
to be inducted into CU’s Athletic Hall of
Fame, entering in 1999 with Gil Cruter,
Burdie Haldorson, Kayo Lam and Joe
Romig; that quintet joined the late Byron
White, the sole inductee in the inaugural
class, as the first six to be honored with induction.
Van Goor, 42, lettered four years in basketball at Colorado between
1981 and 1985, and her number 25 is one of just three jerseys officially
honored for the sport at CU and the only one for the women. She is still
CU’s all-time leading scorer (2,067 points), rebounder (1,154) and
blocked shot leader (289). An all-Big Eight performer for 1982-83, she
was named to the conference’s honorable mention all-decade team for
the 1980s as she was one of the most dominant performers in early days
of NCAA Division I women’s basketball. She graduated from CU with a
degree in EPO biology in 1986.
She enjoyed a seven-year career playing professional in Europe, as
she was on six different teams in three countries: Spain, Italy and
France. An all-star performer, she was once second in the league in scoring
while playing with Kerrygold, based in Las Palmas in the Canary
Islands, Spain.
Following her retirement in 1992, she returned to Boulder and
worked in management with Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Four years later, she
became the sales coordinator for Tatonka Capital in Boulder, a position
she held for the next two years. She was then in sales and marketing for
a couple of area firms until joining the CU Foundation in 1999.
Born December 13, 1961 in Yankton, S.D., she lettered in basketball
and track at Yankton High. Her hobbies include skiing, biking and crafts.
She is single.
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COLLEEN REILLY KRUEGER
Associate Sports
Information Director
Colleen Reilly Krueger is in her 13th
year in the sports information office, joining
the Colorado media relations staff as an
assistant director on July 14, 1992. She was
named associate SID on July 1, 1998, as her
tenure as an assistant is the longest in CU
history and is also currently the second
longest in the Big 12 Conference.
Reilly Krueger, 37, She has staffed many
NCAA championships in cross country, skiing
and basketball. She worked as the
media coordinator for five women’s basketball
sub-regionals in Boulder, and was the
media coordinator for the 2001 NCAA Women’s Midwest Regional at the
Pepsi Center in Denver. She has also worked two NCAA men’s basketball
championships (1989, 1992) as well as the 1998 and 1999 Women’s Final
Four. She also was the editor of CU’s game day football program for six
years and is a contributing writer for the University’s alumni magazine,
Coloradan.
She served on the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball
Championship Committee in 2003 and ‘04 as well as softball (2003) and
volleyball (2003), as a committee liaison for each respective championship’s
sub-regional rounds for the national office.
She worked two years as the assistant information director at the Big
Sky Conference prior to coming to Colorado, and had a one-year internship
with the Eastern College Athletic Conference in Centerville, Mass.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in sport management from the
University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1989. While at UMass, she
was a three-year letterwinner for the nationally ranked women’s field
hockey program and was a member of the 1987 team that advanced to
the NCAA Final Four (which came away with a third-place finish). As an
undergraduate, she worked three years as a student assistant in the
UMass sports information office.
She has been a Special Olympics volunteer for various events in both
Idaho and Colorado since 1991 and has been the Bolder Boulder’s assistant
race day media coordinator since 1993. She volunteers at St.
Thomas Aquinas University Parish, was the Women’s Sports Foundation
Scholarship Judge in 1999, serves on the Sportswomen of Colorado
nominating committee and is a tutor for the Boulder Pulic Library’s
adult literacy program.
Born Colleen Reilly on Jan. 8, 1967 in Mineola, N.Y., the Long Island
native graduated from Centereach High School, where she lettered in
field hockey and basketball. Her sister Kerriann Broussard (Events and
Attractions Group) and brother-in-law Mark Broussard (media
relations) both work for the National Basketball Association (NBA).
She married CU’s assistant athletic director for facilities, John Krueger
in 2000.
TROY ANDRE
Assistant Sports Information
Director/Internet
Managing Editor
Troy Andre is in his second year as CU’s
assistant sports information director/internet
managing editor, as he joined the
Buffalo staff in July 2003 from the
University of Minnesota-Duluth.
His primary responsibilities are handling
the SID duties for volleyball, assisting
in the computer statistical needs for
CU’s other sports, and serving as the
webmaster for CUBuffs.com, the school’s
Internet website.
Andre, 30, worked for five years at Minnesota-Duluth both as the
assistant sports information director and ticket manager, helping to
publicize and promote 14 NCAA Division II sports and two NCAA
Division I programs. He was UMD’s primary contact for volleyball,
women’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball; maintained
UMD’s official website; supervised the office work-study