College Football
19-year-old Buffs’ player arrested, suspended
BOULDER – Colorado football player Jeffrey Hall was arrested last weekend on suspicion of choking a woman and fighting with officers, police said Tuesday.
The woman told officers that Hall choked her at a party late Friday, the Boulder Daily Camera reported.
While the woman was speaking with officers early Saturday, Hall approached them while another man tried to restrain him, according to a police report.
Later, Hall lunged at the woman, ignoring the officers’ commands to get on the ground, police said. Hall swung at the officers, who shot him twice with a Taser before subduing and handcuffing him, police told the newspaper.
One of the officers was hit in the head, authorities said.
Hall, 19, was suspended from the team indefinitely, athletics spokesman Dave Plati said. He was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault on a police officer, obstruction of a police officer, resisting arrest, second-degree assault and possession of alcohol by a minor. He was released on bond.
Hall, a sophomore, plays defensive back and on special teams. He appeared in all 12 of the Buffaloes’ 2013 games.
Associated Press
College Soccer
Mavericks hire a pair of new head coaches
GRAND JUNCTION – Todd Padgett is the new men’s soccer head coach, and Jason Clare is the new women’s soccer head coach at Colorado Mesa, the Mavericks’ athletic department announced this weekend.
Padgett, who spent the previous three years as the women’s head coach at Eastern New Mexico, is a Fort Lewis College alumnus. The four-time All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference defender/midfielder was an assistant coach at FLC for three years.
Clare began last season as an assistant coach for the Mavericks, then was named the interim head coach after Erin Sharpe resigned during the season. Clare, from England, also helped coach Montezuma-Cortez alumnus Micah Conrads to RMAC Goalkeeper of the Year honors last year.
This is Clare’s first head coaching job.
Durango Herald
