{"id":1839,"date":"2010-09-23T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2010-09-23T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T23:21:44","slug":"uccs-keeps-steel-and-silver-series-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"UCCS keeps Steel and Silver Series trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_6775.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1841\" title=\"IMG_6775\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_6775-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_6775-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_6775.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Between games of a Sept. 22 opening of men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer seasons, UCCS Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak accepted the trophy for the 2009-10 Steel &amp; Silver Series from CSU-Pueblo President Joe Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure the 80-pound trophy didn\u2019t slip from her grasp during series of afternoon and early evening rain storms, Shockley-Zalabak donned a pair of gloves to improve her grip.<\/p>\n<p>Shockley-Zalabak accepted the trophy between the men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer matches between UCCS and CSU-Pueblo. The UCCS women\u2019s team won their match by a score of 2-1; the men\u2019s team lost by a score of 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Steel and Silver Series is more than one game. The contest awards points to the winner of games between the schools in seven women\u2019s and three men\u2019s sports and a five-point bonus to the university whose student-athletes have the best grades. Ent sponsors the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Lion teams won the contest with a score of 29-16, including the coveted five-point grade bonus. UCCS teams prevailed last year in women\u2019s volleyball, men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer, women\u2019s cross country and men\u2019s golf. CSU-Pueblo teams prevailed in women\u2019s basketball and women\u2019s indoor and outdoor track. The schools were even in men\u2019s basketball and women\u2019s softball.<\/p>\n<p>The traveling trophy, created by Joan Aaland of Colorado Springs, is an 18-inch-high, 80-pound bronze and mahogany trophy that features a beam representing Pueblo\u2019s steel production history and a pick axe representing the mining history of Colorado Springs with a wolf and a mountain lion, team mascots. The trophy is awarded to the annual winner of the series. UCCS has won the Steel &amp; Silver Series in each of its five years of existence.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the game, UCCS students rallied in a show of support for UCCS athletics and attended the opening soccer game. Students wore matching shirts, painted bare chests and marched from main campus to Mountain Lion Stadium cheering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Between games of a Sept. 22 opening of men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer seasons, UCCS Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak accepted the trophy for the 2009-10 Steel &amp; Silver Series from CSU-Pueblo President Joe Garcia. 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