Tag: Megan Leatham

Warrior Games

Colorado Springs, San Antonio to Host Future Warrior Games

The Warrior Games, which features hundreds of wounded, ill and injured military service members and veterans who compete in adaptive sporting events, will return to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2025 and then move to San Antonio, Texas, in 2026 and 2028. The annual Warrior Games was first held in 2010. It includes wheelchair basketball, cycling, […]

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Colorado Springs NCAA Soccer

Colorado Springs to Host 2025 NCAA Division II Men’s and Women’s Soccer Championships

The 2025 NCAA Division II Men’s and Women’s Soccer Championships will be moved to Weidner Field, home of Switchbacks FC in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The 2025 championship were awarded to Matthew, North Carolina, after this year’s event was scheduled for Chattanooga. But with Chattanooga removing itself as host for the 2024 championships, Matthew will move […]

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IJRU World Jump Rope Championships
The 2023 IJRU World Jump Rope Championships in Colorado Springs saw 1,200 athletes compete from 25 countries. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

World Jump Rope Championships Leap to New Heights

In the sport of jump rope, athletes inevitably get tangled in a rope during a routine. When that happens, they take a step back, reset and get right back to business. It’s also an apt metaphor for the landscape of competitive jump rope in recent years. While the sport has been on the competitive scene […]

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Pikes Peak Apex

Pikes Peak APEX New Format, 2023 Dates Announced

The Colorado Springs Sports Corporation is the new organizer for the Pikes Peak APEX, presented by RockShox, a unique mountain bike challenge on the slopes of the Pikes Peak region’s trails. The 2023 event will maintain the vision of making Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region an internationally recognized endurance sports destination while enabling […]

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Ed Robson

Colorado Springs to Welcome 2023 USA Weightlifting National Championships Week

Colorado Springs, Colorado, will host the 2023 USA Weightlifting National Championships Week for the first time in the national governing body’s 96 years of competition. It is the second time a USA Weightlifting national event has visited the state of Colorado, following the Denver-based 2021 North American Open Finals. The competition from June 24 through […]

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ColoradoSpringsSportsCorp

2023 World Jump Rope Championships Headed to Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado, will host the 2023 World Jump Rope Championships in a partnership between the Colorado Springs Sports Corp and International Jump Rope Union, the international federation for the sport of jump. The event will have 3,000 participants from more than 30 countries and will mark the first time the event will be held […]

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Bob Bodor

Bob Bodor to Lead Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

When the the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb stages its 100th running up the Colorado Springs mountain, it will have a new executive director at the helm for the first time in a decade. The historic motorsports event has announced that Bob Bodor will take over leadership of the organizing committee, succeeding Megan Leatham, who […]

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Megan Leatham Named Colorado Springs Sports Corp President and CEO

Megan Leatham, the executive director of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the Colorado Springs Sports Corp, the organization’s board of directors announced. Leatham was selected after a national search process for her track record of excellence in leadership, business management and financial acumen. […]

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