Past Hall of Famers Video (1973-2011)

ABQ NM Past Inductees Untitled from Gene Pino on Vimeo.

2010 Inductees

Rocky Long (2011)

Rocky Long came to the University of New Mexico in 1968 as an unheralded recruit and went on to become one of the best-known names in Lobo football history. His accomplishments as a Lobo player are many. Most notably is that he was the only three-time MVP in lobo football history and a ...

Jim Ciccarello (2011)

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 School and the University of New Mexico, Jim has spent his entire career as an elementary school PE teacher and high school ...

Curtis Williams (2011)

Curtis Williams began his career in education in 1972 with the Gallup/McKinley County Schools at Gallup Junior High School and Tohatchi High School from 1972-77. In 1979, Curtis assumed the position of head boys and girls cross country coach at Gallup High School and established one of the most dominant cross country programs ...

Past Inductees

  Albuquerque NM Sports Hall of Fame Members 1973-1974 F.M. (Tony) Wilson Bobby Unser Roy W. Johnson 1974-1975 Don Perkins Paul (Babe) Parenti Bob Foster 1975-1976 Ralph Bowyer Al Unser Sr. Adolph Plummer 1976-1977 Jim Cleary John Dolzadelli 1977-1978 Nancy Neeld Pete MacDavid Abbie Paiz 1978-1978 Mannie Foster Cathy Carr ...

Duane Ward (2010)

Roy Duane Ward was born in Park View, New Mexico and graduated from Farmington High School. He was a major league baseball reliever during the late 1980s and early 1990s. While in high school, Ward was named to the baseball and basketball All-State teams. He was also named All-American in ...

Pervis Atkins (2010)

  In the summer of 1959, Pervis Atkins drove his friend Bob Gathers from California to Las Cruces as a favor. The young men wanted to play on the same team, so Bob convinced Coach Warren Woodson to let Pervis try out while he was in Las Cruces ……the rest ...

Albert Chainey Umphrey (2010)

  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 Medical school in Denver Colorado. Chainey attended Albuquerque Academy and went onto the University of California and eventually went ...