She competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the 2004 Games in Athens.
One of the elite female athletes that followed Burrell in the South Valley, Natalie Martinez (1996), a stellar basketball and softball player, is also going to be recognized.
Two important coaches in the school’s history Prentis Jones (cross country, track) and Ron Contreras (wrestling) are to be honored as well. Contreras helped to build the Ravens’ consistently excellent wrestling program. Both Jones and Contreras are deceased.
Others to be inducted include Michael Walker, a three-sport athlete who played in the mid-1960s, and coach Art De La Cruz, who had two stints as a coach at Rio Grande and he was part of the drive to get a swimming pool on campus.
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The NMAA state basketball championships were allowed to finish even as COVID started to emerge in March, but games at the Pit ultimately were held without fans. (Jim Thompson/Journal)
The drill is, I sit down in mid-to-late December, sift through the previous 12 months, both in my head and in our archives, and extract my choices for the top five high school sports stories from that calendar year.
There was very little sifting required this year. The year’s top five prep stories are, unfortunately and not surprisingly, a somber quintet of headlines. COVID-19 was the story none of us could escape, and we remain even now in its persistent clutches as we look forward to what we hope will be happier – and busier – times in the new year.