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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. ....
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... Sometime – not today, not tomorrow, not the day after, but sometime – professional combat sports events will return to New Mexico. Members of the New Mexico Athletic Commission, the state board that regulates combat sports, want to help make that happen. But, with the COVID-19 pandemic still alive and accompanying protocols still in place, the question is how. And when. ...................... “We need to start getting ready for when we do start having events,” chairman Joe Chavez said at Tuesday’s NMAC meeting, held via Cisco WebEx. Compliance with public health orders, Chavez said, is a given. “But we’re gonna have to have our own kind of rules because of COVID for the fighters and our officials and the people participating. … We’re probably not going to be doing any fights within the next 60 days, but I want to start getting ready for what we’ ....