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List of 4 news stories.

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  Dr Pepper® Announces the Winners of the 16th Annual Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway

  1/17/2025
  Provided by Keurig Dr Pepper
  Four College Students Received $100,000 Tuition Award
  
  

  FRISCO, Texas, Dec. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr Pepper^®, part of the Keurig Dr Pepper portfolio of brands, today announced the student winners of the 16th annual Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway, who were each awarded $100,000 in tuition funds during the College Football Conference Championship games on Saturday, December 7th. Eight finalists participated in the Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway at the ACC, Big 12, SEC, and Big Ten championship games, competing to see who could throw the most footballs into an oversized Dr Pepper can in 30 seconds.

   

   
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  Former Mullen linebacker tackling the challenges of a first-year elementary school principal

  1/17/2025
  by Dennis Pleuss with Colorado Preps
  LITTLETON — As a linebacker for Colorado State University from 2007 to 2010, Dr. Rick Brewer knew how to analyze a situation in front of him.
  
  

  Now, as a first-year principal at Ute Meadows Elementary School in Littleton the 36-year-old in using those same tools he used on the football field when he led the Rams with 105 tackles his senior season.

  
  “I think my experience as a former team captain at Colorado State and a leader of 110 guys who are all pushing toward the same mission helped me. College guys can get wayward. I was able to lead that crew,” said Brewer, who was hired by Jeffco Public Schools in the Spring of 2024 to become the new principal at Ute Meadows in South Jeffco. “Leading educated professionals that want to do good things for kids, this is like second nature.”

  
  Brewer is a Denver native that attended Mullen High School before going onto Colorado State. He played football for legendary coach Dave Logan and ran track under coach John Hancock at Mullen.
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  Full Circle: How one prep athlete’s journey turned into opportunity for others

  1/17/2025
  by Doug Ottewill with Mile High Sports
  When it was all said and done, Michael Mancinelli had been a major contributor on three straight state championship teams; it was an impressive run that included a 33-game winning streak. Mullen High School, where Mancinelli enjoyed a rarified streak of success as a high school football player, was dominant from 2008 to 2010. Such excellence provides opportunity.
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  Swimmers, Take Your Marx

  3/21/2024
  by: Hank Hooper, Associate Athletic Director
  Prepare to Compete

  Coach Marx Takes the Helm

  
  There is no substitution for competition. Constant competition hardens and sharpens athletes.  It crossfits athletes and enhances gross-body coordination and enhanced near vision not to mention increases stamina and brings about greater exercise intensity.  Competition just makes you better.  Mullen’s newly named head girls’ swim coach is exactly that… a competitor.  Jenn (Belz) Marx, a 2014 Mullen grad, has always competed.  If she was not swimming for records, she was helping win lacrosse games or crewing her boat to maximum speeds.  In short, she Competed. 
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