BOULDER – From an athletic standpoint, Alex Kizirian’s time at the University of Colorado will mostly be measured in feet and inches. Pounds, too. He left Boulder this spring as the school record-holder in the indoor weight throw (70-8) and outdoor hammer throw (212-4).
But numbers achieved and records surpassed in tossing heavy objects don’t tell Kizirian’s story. Don’t even come close, in fact. Stats provide hardly more than prologue.
A Bulgarian immigrant who accompanied his mother to Colorado in 1998 when he was 6, Kizirian’s success at CU is measured in self totality, his passion to better himself and excel.