Owen Holland has achieved results at races that he never thought he could pull off. When Owen Holland ’25, of Newton, Mass., took an economics class in his first year at Colgate, he said it was the first time he had taken a course that truly helped to explain the world. That course was Introduction to Economics (ECON 151), which helped him understand how economics was linked to the basic day-to-day actions of people. From that point on, Holland started monitoring the news closer than before. “After that class, I started reading the news more,” he said. “That class helped…