Kicking off the Saturday Homecoming and Family Weekend festivities, the Colorado State University Homecoming 5K race was a smashing hit as it made an exciting return for in-person runners after a successful virtual race the previous fall.
Now as the homecoming game nears, several traditions are back — including the firing of Comatose, which had an active September at two home football games.
After a successful virtual race to adapt to the 2020 global pandemic, the Homecoming 5K Race will be back on campus for a triumphant return to the Oval on Oct. 9 for the 41st annual race.
Colorado State University’s Homecoming and Family Weekend — set for Oct. 6-9 — features a host of events, with an appropriate theme as in-person activities have resumed on campus: “Charging Forward.”
Homecoming and Family Weekend — one of CSU’s most treasured traditions — is back with in-person events in October.
The 40th Annual Colorado State University Homecoming 5K was unlike any other 5K that came before it. The race was held in an entirely virtual format, allowing runners from all over the globe to participate and submit their times between September 20 and October 3.
In sticking with the CSU's zero-waste mission, the Department of Health and Exercise Science aims to reuse and recycle all the left-over shirts from the Homecoming 5K in ways that benefit the community. A local fashion designer is using them to make masks for essential workers and the community.
It's a homecoming for Lt. Col. Matthew Tillman, who is back at his alma mater leading CSU's Army ROTC program.
The Homecoming 5K, one of CSU's great traditions, is taking a nontraditional approach to its 40th running.