Colorado College Athletics

Colorado College, a four-year nationally prominent liberal arts & sciences college, enrolls 1,900 undergraduates. Founded in 1874 at the foot of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs, CC is recognized for utilizing its unique location and flexible schedule-- the innovative Block Plan--in hands-on learning , offering small, seminar-style courses from the first year on, and preparing its graduates for varied careers as well as graduate and professional schools.

Colorado College is considered unique for its block plan scheduling, which is described as eight 3-1/2 week sessions, equivalent to four semester hours each. Students take only one course per block and professors teach only one course per block. Implemented in 1970, the Block Plan allows for intensive study with no interruptions from other academic obligations, extended laboratory and on-location fieldwork, and independent study. Disciplinary majors offered include Anthropology, Art (History; Studio), Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Dance, Drama, Economics (Business), English (Creative Writing; Film Studies), French, Geology, German, History, Mathematics (Computer Science), Music (Ethnomusicology), Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Russian, Sociology, and Spanish. Cooperative programs include the 3-2 Engineering program offered with Columbia University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Southern California, and Washington University; Army ROTC available through University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Approximately 55% of students study abroad before graduating. Sole sponsor of programs in France, Germany, Mexico, and Russia. Co-sponsor of programs in Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Florence, Hong Kong, India, Japan, London, Russia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Programs with Regensburg University, Germany; Gsttingen University, Germany; the Kansai Gaidai, Japan; and Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Other foreign study options also available.

The athletic teams at Colorado College compete at the independent NCAA Division III level. Women’s soccer and Men’s Hockey are classified as Division I A.

Recent Highlights:

• Men’s Ice Hockey is ranked No. 2 nationally.
  
  
• The CC men’s soccer team that reached the Div. III playoffs for the third time in four seasons also rates among the nation’s elite in the classroom. The team boasts a 3.24 GPA.
  
  
• Junior swimmer/diver Lise Melbye qualified for the NCAA Div. III national championships in the three-meter finals; her older sister qualified for the one-meter board in 1996.
  
  
• Peter Sejna, a junior left wing who led WCHA-leading and fifth-ranked Colorado College hockey team to a 7-0-1 record in November, has been named the inaugural winner of the Commissioners’ Choice National Player-of-the-Month Award.
  

Recent Championships:
Men’s Ice Hockey has won three league titles, a school-record eight consecutive home-ice playoff berths and six NCAA tournament bids tucked away since 1994.
Men’s Volleyball has reached the NCAA Division III playoffs 1997-2002.
Men’s soccer has reached the NCAA Division III playoffs 1997-2002.

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