Author: Joe DelNero

It can easily be said that Marty Jertson ’02 has an affinity for golf. “My dad got me into it,” Jertson said, having played the sport since he was 7 years old. “Golf was what we would do every weekend.” When he got to Mines, Jertson played golf all four years, finishing third at the RMAC Championships as a senior. After graduating with his mechanical engineering degree in 2002 and a short stint trying to earn his way on the PGA Tour, he accepted a job at PING Golf, a golf equipment manufacturer. Today, Jertson is the director of...

Over the past year, Alex Beaman ’14 invaded one of the largest cities in the world. A Mines alumnus with a degree in engineering physics, Beaman stormed Cairo armed with nothing but a 175-gram round, plastic disc, with the intention of bringing ultimate to the city. Played by an estimated 7 million people around the world, ultimate—better known as ultimate Frisbee—is a unique, fast-paced sport that combines the flow of soccer with the aerial passing and catching of football. The object of the game is to score by catching a flying disc in the opposing team’s end zone. The...