BOULDER — They still remember when their coach bought the team ice cream cones.
That's when Judy Sigel Freeman and Jill Sigel Greer — identical twins who showed up at the University of Colorado in 1971 with absolutely no thought of actually playing tennis for the Buffaloes — knew they'd "hit the jackpot."
"It was so amazing to us that someone would buy us something to eat because we played tennis for CU," recalled Jill. "We looked at each other and said we've died and gone to heaven."
Maybe not actually heaven. But with the recently enacted Title IX legislation newly in place and Colorado sponsoring a women's tennis program, Boulder was close enough in 1972.