About
The Colorado Collegiate Chronicle publicizes the collegiate sporting scene in “The Centennial” state. Tim and Lynn Simmons of Longmont have funded, developed, and produced the website and eblasts for the Colorado Collegiate Chronicle.
In addition to a website where each college and university is featured, the Colorado Collegiate Chronicle produces a “weekly” update for football and men’s and women’s basketball, featuring results, standings, players of the week, and other tidbits publicizing those sports.
The Colorado Collegiate Chronicle also features happenings for the Colorado Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.
Tim Simmons grew up in Pueblo and graduated from Central High and then Southern Colorado State College. He received a master’s degree from the University of Iowa. Lynn is from Albuquerque, where she graduated from Highland High and the University of New Mexico. She has a master’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado.
Helping Tim and Lynn Simmons with the Colorado Collegiate Chronicle are David Plati, Historian/SID-Emeritus (Men’s Golf SID) at the University of Colorado.
Entering his third year of retirement from the University of Colorado, Plati will provide content for the Colorado Collegiate Chronicle, including his popular “Plati-‘Tudes” column for CUBuffs.com and occasionally on Colorado Sports Hall of Fame, where he was recently named the group’s Historian. He is also the chairman of the 20-plus-person selection committee. He is also a member of the Public & Media Relations committee for the Colorado Chapter of the National Football Foundation, where he coordinates the banquet program.
Doug Strauss starts his first season with the Colorado Collegiate Chronicle. Known as the world’s top statistician for Beach Volleyball, Strauss is a University of Colorado graduate who followed his brother (Mike) onto Plati’s staff in Boulder. In addition to working the past seven Olympic games, including seven for NBC Sports, “Statsman” is the information guru for the domestic Beach Volleyball tour, along with working the past 21 years as a statistician for
