Photo by Paul Aiken

A body found Friday along the Peak to Peak Highway has been identified as Tennyson McCarty, a former University of Colorado football player, shown in this 2006 file photo.

The body of a man discovered late Friday afternoon along the Peak to Peak Highway has been identified as former University of Colorado football player Tennyson McCarty.

Boulder County Coroner Tom Faure today said more laboratory tests and investigation will have to be completed before the cause and manner of McCarty’s death can be determined.

However, both Faure and Boulder County sheriff’s officials said foul play is not suspected.

The body was found near a vehicle parked in a turnout on the Peak to Peak, northeast of Peaceful Valley, according to sheriff's officials.

McCarty, 32, lettered as a tight end for Bill McCartney’s and Rick Neuheisel’s Buffs from 1994 to 1997, and played on Boulder High’s 1992 state championship team.

After college, McCarty helped form a traveling magic and Christian ministry act with Broomfield resident Jim Munroe.

The duo, featured in a Camera profile published exactly one year ago Sunday, traveled the country performing their show, the Maze, on college campuses.

At the time, McCarty said that when his hopes of a professional football career didn’t pan out because of a series of injuries he sustained while playing for CU, he decided to get involved more heavily in campus ministry and moved to Austin, Texas.

That's where, in 2000, that he met Munroe, who rekindled a childhood interest in magic.

The group eventually became part of the "Acquire the Fire" tour, a youth-oriented program started by evangelist Ron Luce.

McCarty told the Camera last year that the traveling act was his "ultimate calling."

McCarty’s and Munroe’s Web site, www.whatisthemaze.com, indicates the show was scheduled to appear Thursday — the day before McCarty’s body was discovered — at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.