It wasn’t too long ago that Durango native Mason Rowland wrapped up her stellar three-sport career at Durango High School with the Steinmark Award, which honors the top female athlete in Colorado rega.
Mason Rowland was a force every time she stepped on the basketball court, soccer field or volleyball court during her time as a Durango Demon. The state took notice, and the Durango High School gradua.
The Big Life of Larger-than-life Dan Luna Pencils Robinson, Mile High Sports Magazine Share
Colorado lost a tennis champion, educator, public servant and gentleman when Daniel “Big Dan” Luna died, on Oct. 21, at his home in Denver. What Dan accomplished in 88 years is the stuff of legend – from lunch with Eleanor Roosevelt to encounters with Bertrand Russell and his idols Ricardo “Gorgo” Gonzáles and Arthur Ashe, who after an exhibition match at the Broadmoor, favorably compared Dan’s serve to Gonzáles’ effortless lightning wooden-racket tornado.
Dan destroyed the stereotype of dumb jocks. Pulverized it like the Renaissance man he was. Like a rocket serve at ad-in, set point.