The Last Stand
Photo archive for July 10, 2007
Former Colorado Rapids and World Cup Soccer player Marcelo Balboa was in Steamboat Springs Monday helping with Rob Bohlmann’s Steamboat Soccer Academy. Balboa, who retired from professional soccer in 2002, was in town lending a helping hand to some of America’s future stars. “This camp fell at a good time for me, and I needed a chance to come to paradise for a few days,” Balboa said. After spending six seasons with the Rapids from 1997 to 2001, Balboa was one of the most recognized names in professional soccer. He hosts and participates in several camps each year, but says he is picky about which camps he will coach at. “I don’t want to do a camp if it’s more like day care,” Balboa said. “I want to work with players who are eager to learn, and want to step up to that next level of soccer. The Steamboat Soccer Academy, which drew 165 players, ends today. Bohlmann has organized the camp for 13 summers, and says it’s a great preview for the Steamboat Mountain Soccer Tournament. Balboa said he hoped the players he visits with in this week’s camp will learn a little something about the game, but more importantly leave with a love of soccer he hopes will last a lifetime.
A strange noise in her kitchen stirred seventh-grade teacher Kerry Kerrigan from her sleep last week. When she went downstairs to investigate she discovered that a bear, which had ripped the screen off her window and pushed it open, was helping himself to a late-night snack in the kitchen.
A waterskier slices through the waves on Bald Eagle Lake this week in an attempt to escape the area’s hot weather. Lakes, the Yampa River and pools are popular places to escape this summer’s rising temperatures.
Parker Schell juggles a soccer ball Monday on a soccer field at Ski Town Fields on Pine Grove Road. The Steamboat Springs City Council could decide tonight whether to place tax funding for a $34 million recreation center at the site on November’s ballot.
As director of Routt County’s Department of Environmental Health, Mike Zopf monitors the condition of the Yampa River. He is hoping that cooperation with the city will result in more usable information on the health of the river.
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