BOULDER – Dave Hestera, one of CU's bright stars on the University of Colorado football team in the early 1980s, passed away here on Sunday after a valiant years-long battle with Parkinson's disease; he was 62.
A graduate of Arvada's Pomona High School, he signed with Wyoming in the winter of 1979, playing one season for the Cowboys, earning a letter under coach Bill Smith seeing increased playing time as the year progressed. He transferred back to his home state in 1980 and after sitting out a year as required at the time by the NCAA, he would go on to have a stellar career as a Buffalo.