BOULDER – Mark Wetmore isn’t big on profiling, but he’s analytical enough about recruiting to complete his due diligence on prospects, their race times, their backgrounds and whether they might be “a good match for our culture.”
Pierce Murphy went one-for-three in those categories, maybe two-for- three depending on how much weight Wetmore assigned to Murphy’s high school times. But the short answer to that question is “not much.”
When he wasn’t surfing – which he did nearly as much as he ate and slept – Murphy ran track and cross country for the diminutive, independent Island School in Lihue, Hawai’i.