Terry Frei - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Terry Frei's website is http://www.terryfrei.com Frei is a general feature writer and columnist at the Greeley Tribune, a commentator for Mile High Sports, an affiliate professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver, the author of seven well-received books and a screenwriter. He also has written for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, the Oregonian, and The Sporting News. On the heels of his critically acclaimed fact-based novel, Olympic Affair: Hitler's Siren and America's Hero, Frei returned to non-fiction for March 1939: Before the Madness. Frei's other non-fiction books are Playing Piano in a Brothel; '77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age, Third Down and a War to Go, and Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming. The Witch's Season was his first novel. He started writing it at age 17, and part of it appeared in the Wheat Ridge (Colo.) High literary magazine. It was published many years later. Frei and Adrian Dater also collaborated on Save By Roy. Frei spent his early years in Eugene, Oregon, where his father, Jerry, spent 17 years on the University of Oregon football staff, including as the Ducks' head coach. Jerry Frei, a decorated World War II fighter pilot, was progressive and ahead of his times on such issues as integrating his coaching staff and allowing his players freedom to wear their hair as they liked and participate in campus politics and anti-war protests. In fact, those teams, players, coaches and times became the basis of The Witch's Season. Terry is a graduate of Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. At CU, he has served as vice chair of the History Department advisory board and chair of the International Affairs advisory board. Frei has been named a state's sportswriter of the year seven times -- four times in Colorado and three times in Oregon. At various times in his career, he has been best known for his NFL and/or NHL writing, but has covered it all. In Denver, he frequently has been labeled a "hockey writer" because of his long-time coverage of the Colorado Avalanche and the NHL for The Denver Post and also simultaneously as a featured ESPN.com hockey columnist for eight years. He doesn't dodge that title but it doesn't do justice to his background and eclectic interests as a writer and columnist. At The Sporting News, his stories included major or cover pieces on Jerry Rice, Thurman Thomas, Emmitt Smith, Shaquille O'Neal, Michael Irvin, Richard Dent and Aeneas Williams. He has covered many Olympic Games, Super Bowls, NBA Finals, NHL Finals, World Series, Final Fours, major bowl games and high-profile boxing matches -- all while continuing to enjoy writing about events both high profile and grassroots. Frei is a frequent speaker at schools and events, including at veterans-oriented functions. He has delivered the John Paul Hammerschmidt Lecture in honor of the World War II pilot and longtime Congressman; spoken at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, the Wisconsin State Historical Society, and Lambeau Field; and was a keynote speaker at the World War II Glider Conference in 2010, when he appeared with many surviving heroes, including Lt. Col. Jim Megellas, the most-decorated officer in the history of the 82nd Airborne.

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Total articles 2488

• Frei: Twenty years ago, Steve Moore played his final game for the Avalanche

  By Terry Frei Verified · Mile High Sports

  Mar. 08, 2024

• DU hockey's David Carle

  By Terry Frei Verified · Mile High Sports

  Dec. 29, 2022

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