The First annual Golden Gate's
���������� By Gary Braham�� 5-22-2000
The first annual Golden Gate's are now finished.� For the past several weeks, the fans have voted on thier favorite player, teams and a whole lot of other catergories.�� Who were the big winners?� No surprises here, the complete results can be found on our Golden Gate's page, but there are a few trends to talk about.
The big winners was anything related to them mens hockey team.� They picked up 6 awards and 1 runner up.� The football team had 2 awards, 1 runner up.� Womens basketball- 1 award, 2 runners up, womens hockey and volleyball both had 1 award and 1 runner up.� One big surprise might be the 5 runners up awards won by the womens soccer team.
Mens hockey winning everything isn't really a surprise.� The mens hockey team is the best team we have at Colgate, and they also have one of the largest fan groups.� There's a� large fan contingency that comes to this site from US college hoceky online as well.� Hockey has also dominated the discussions on the message board.� Most of this sites most loyal followers are all hockey fans.
I like the way the Golden Gate's went off.� I wish there was more discussion about each topic, but hopefully we'll do better next year.� I also might divide all the awards into a mens and womens section.� That might be a bit fairer and will allow more people to win something.� I'll also try to finish a week earlier since after school ended, total voters really dropped off.�
We also debated actually telling the athletes that they won.� But since I don't really know most of them, and they have probally never heard of this site, we decided not to since I'm not sure how much the award will mean to them.� But if you do know any of the winners, please pass along the information if you would like.� Thanks to everyone who voted again, we'll see you next year.