Editor’s note: Fourth in a series about basketball icons in Colorado. The first three installments profiled Alex English, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Rudy Carey.
BOULDER — A chorus of singing birds fills the air on a late-May morning when the most accomplished college basketball coach in state history seeks a moment to reflect.
Standing in her backyard, surrounded by trees that frame clouds rolling across the Flatirons, Ceal Barry holds a commemorative basketball from her final home game leading the CU Buffs women’s program when a photographer asks to change positions.