Why is this called the Colorado Collegate Soaring Association? Something driven by the Air Force Acadamy?

Why not the US College Soaring Association? Why was this not owned by the SSA?

College soaring clubs/teams sound great, other than thr fact that this is literally the first that I have ever heard of them. I have never seen anything about this on the SSA website, Social Media, or heard about it in conversation.

What a great place for the SSA to help focus a local SSA clubs efforts on developing a college soaring club (and eventually team). This ticks a lot of currently challenged SSA growth "boxes" if you think about it.

But as with all 2nd tier college "sports" clubs or teams, without active competition, good marketing and GREAT social fun for the college kids, it is doomed to fail quickly. And, as with all things new, this effort would take a good amount of care and feeding from a number of established clubs and SSA leaders to create a self sustaining/growing new segment of US soaring participation.

I would definitely be willing to work on University of Michigan or Michigan State University, if, 20-30 other major Universities had equal commitments from other pilots to seriously explore found clubs/teams ;and the SSA put a plan together to develop something for college). it needs to be a national effort that can feed of itself to succeed. One or two at a time would fail.

A great first target would be a "Big 10," "PAC 10" and "ACC" college soaring team series.

Who's with me? ;-)

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