Staff Directory
Stratton, Taylor
Taylor Stratton
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- Program Director
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Taylor Stratton, a former Ralphie Handler, was named the manager of CU’s Ralphie Live Mascot Program, assuming the role on April 1, 2020 after serving as the assistant coach for the program for the previous four years (2016-19).
Stratton replaced John Graves, who had served in the role for five years (2015-19); she becomes the second woman to head the program, joining Gail Pederson in the prestigious role; Pederson coordinated the program from 2006-14. Stratton is the first woman to act in a coaching role with the program.
Stratton joined the athletic department full-time after working on the Boulder campus since January 2014, when she started in the admissions office. She moved over to the Alumni Association as the program manager for Student and Young Alumni Outreach in October 2017. She and her team were responsible for training for CU’s latest live buffalo mascot, Ralphie VI, who made her debut in the 2021 football season.
She graduated from CU in 2013 with a triple major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Studies and Geography. As an undergraduate, she lettered three times as a Ralphie Handler her sophomore through senior years under coaches Graves and Ben Frei, and was Interviewed by Bryant Gumbel for HBO’s Real Sports. She completed her Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, in spring 2022.
Though born in Florida, she grew up in Southern Colorado on the Hitch Rack Ranch, her family’s multi-generational working ranch. There, her family raised Register of Merit AQHA race and performance horses and had a commercial herd of Herefords (beef cows) with bloodlines dating back to her great grandfather’s herd.
She was born March 26, 1991 in Orlando, Fla., and graduated from Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, where she had extensive involvement in Ag focused groups, including the Pikes Peak Rangerettes, Interscholastic Equestrian Association, 4-H, and horse shows for both the Palomino Horse Breeders of America and American Quarter Horse Association (she was an officer for both the Rangerettes and 4-H). Her hobbies include playing polo with her pony, Violet, watching the Colorado Avalanche, country swing dancing, and traveling. She also studied abroad in Tanzania, and her love for travel has taken her to some of her favorite destinations including Montana, Wyoming, Morocco, South Africa, Australia, Italy, Austria, Greece, Spain, Costa Rica, Utah, South Carolina, California, Texas, New Orleans. Nicknamed "T-Stratt." She married Mitchell Fenton August 2022.
Stratton replaced John Graves, who had served in the role for five years (2015-19); she becomes the second woman to head the program, joining Gail Pederson in the prestigious role; Pederson coordinated the program from 2006-14. Stratton is the first woman to act in a coaching role with the program.
Stratton joined the athletic department full-time after working on the Boulder campus since January 2014, when she started in the admissions office. She moved over to the Alumni Association as the program manager for Student and Young Alumni Outreach in October 2017. She and her team were responsible for training for CU’s latest live buffalo mascot, Ralphie VI, who made her debut in the 2021 football season.
She graduated from CU in 2013 with a triple major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Studies and Geography. As an undergraduate, she lettered three times as a Ralphie Handler her sophomore through senior years under coaches Graves and Ben Frei, and was Interviewed by Bryant Gumbel for HBO’s Real Sports. She completed her Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, in spring 2022.
Though born in Florida, she grew up in Southern Colorado on the Hitch Rack Ranch, her family’s multi-generational working ranch. There, her family raised Register of Merit AQHA race and performance horses and had a commercial herd of Herefords (beef cows) with bloodlines dating back to her great grandfather’s herd.
She was born March 26, 1991 in Orlando, Fla., and graduated from Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, where she had extensive involvement in Ag focused groups, including the Pikes Peak Rangerettes, Interscholastic Equestrian Association, 4-H, and horse shows for both the Palomino Horse Breeders of America and American Quarter Horse Association (she was an officer for both the Rangerettes and 4-H). Her hobbies include playing polo with her pony, Violet, watching the Colorado Avalanche, country swing dancing, and traveling. She also studied abroad in Tanzania, and her love for travel has taken her to some of her favorite destinations including Montana, Wyoming, Morocco, South Africa, Australia, Italy, Austria, Greece, Spain, Costa Rica, Utah, South Carolina, California, Texas, New Orleans. Nicknamed "T-Stratt." She married Mitchell Fenton August 2022.
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