Strong work ethic puts CU's Pursell in position to succeed

A redshirt freshman from Valencia, Calif., Colby Pursell has worked his way to the point he could be the University of Colorado's starting center this season. (As a 200-pound freshman at Hart High School in Valencia, Calif., during the fall of 2012, Colby Pursell was not only in his first year of playing football, but his first year in organized sports.

By the end of that season, Pursell had displayed enough potential to get called up to varsity for the playoffs.

"They saw potential in me and I kind of took that to heart, so I knew I had to work out," he said. "I had to adjust if I wanted to be good because I didn't want to be average. I wanted to be good at what I did, so I had to work hard…