Luke Ruff
Down home, nice, funny and easy going are just a few words that would describe Luke Ruff, the senior safety on the University of Wyoming football team and last week’s Athlete of the Week.
He was the most decorated football player in Colorado in 2008. He also lead his team to an 8-4 record and the quarterfinals of the 2008 5A State Playoffs, according to the UW athletics website.
This season he earned the Capitol One Academic All-District 7 honors.
After Ruff graduates, he plans on going to graduate school and maybe getting his doctorate.
“It depends on how much school I want to do,” he said.
Ruff says he has been blessed with the university and UW athletics. His family life seemed to help him succeed on and off the field. He has both a twin sister and an older brother.
“I learned by having a twin sister that I had to be more sensitive,” Ruff says. Both of them were home schooled. However, Ruff went to Douglas County High School in Castle Rock, Colo.
Besides playing football in high school, Ruff ran track and field and also played lacrosse. He also played in a heavy metal band as the drummer.
His older brother continued to pursue it, but Ruff could not after he came up to Wyoming.
“That commitment would have made me run down to Denver every weekend, and as much as I wanted to, it was just going to be too difficult to balance,” Ruff says.
Besides family, Ruff says he loves the outdoors.
He likes to snowboard, go shooting, play with his boat and go wake boarding.
