Author: John Houser

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="7986" alignment="left" img_size="full" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][heading style="dot" heading="2007 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee" firstword="yes" dotted="yes"][vc_column_text] If women’s sport advocate Linda Estes opened the door for girls to compete in New Mexico, Susan Vigil MacEachen was among the first to run through. One of the great female...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="7915" alignment="left" img_size="full" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][heading style="dot" heading="2009 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee" firstword="yes" dotted="yes"][vc_column_text] Dr. Umphrey is currently working as a Family Practitioner, Physiatrist at the San Jose Medical Center in San Jose, California. Albert Chainey completed his residency at the University of Colorado...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="7928" alignment="left" img_link_target="_self" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][heading style="dot" heading="2007 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee" firstword="yes" dotted="yes"][vc_column_text] Every farm girl in New Mexico puts on an athletic uniform — a daily occurrence from Deming to Clayton, Albuquerque to Las Cruces, Jal to Farmington — she is wearing...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="7939" alignment="left" img_size="full" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][heading style="dot" heading="2009 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee" firstword="yes" dotted="yes"][vc_column_text] Terance Mathis came to the University of New Mexico unheralded, unrecruited and unsure of what the future would hold. By the time the 5-foot-9 Georgia native left the University of...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="7912" alignment="left" img_size="full" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][heading style="dot" heading="2007 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee" firstword="yes" dotted="yes"][vc_column_text] You’ve got a better chance of discovering an Artic iceberg in Hobbs than of finding someone who will say a bad word about Buddy Robertson. Hard working. Honest. Decent. Friendly. Honorable. Family-oriented:...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="7934" alignment="left" img_size="full" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][heading style="dot" heading="2008 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee" firstword="yes" dotted="yes"][vc_column_text] Notah Begay III was born and raised in Albuquerque and attended Albuquerque Academy where he achieved All-American status by winning the National High School Golf Championships his senior year.  He...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="8009" alignment="left" img_size="full" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][heading style="dot" heading="2010 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee" firstword="yes" dotted="yes"][vc_column_text] Jim Ciccarello is. in his 42nd year of teaching and coaching for Albuquerque Public Schools. and has estimated to have taught or coached over 60,000 students. A graduate of Valley High...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="8006" css_animation="appear" alignment="left" img_size="full" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][heading style="dot" heading="2013 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee" firstword="yes" dotted="yes"][vc_column_text] Henry Sanchez was born where Billy the Kid once hung out: Lincoln. Henry graduated from Capitan High in 1945, when he was voted the school’s outstanding athlete of the...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="7931" css_animation="appear" alignment="left" img_size="full" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][heading style="dot" heading="2007 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee" firstword="yes" dotted="yes"][vc_column_text] Nancy Lopez is a living legend, a role model for millions, a golfer whose historical importance to the sport will lat long after her gleaming trophies have begun gathering...