BOULDER - Two longtime members of the University of Colorado Athletics family, David Plati and Bill Marolt, were among 12 honored Thursday evening by the CU-Boulder Alumni Association at its 86th annual awards ceremony.
Marolt received the George Norlin Award. Norlin was CU’s fifth president, and he oversaw the redesign of the campus to its current architecture, and resisted the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan to remove the university’s Catholic and Jewish faculty. The Norlin award recognizes alumni who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in their field and a dedication to the betterment of society.
Marolt was a four-time NCAA champion skier for Colorado and also a member of the 1964 U.