SM 63 — COACH ELOY BRAZIL, IN RECOGNITION

SENATE MEMORIAL 63 53RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 2018 INTRODUCED BY Pete Campos 6 8 10 A MEMORIAL RECOGNIZING ELOY BRAZIL, MAXWELL MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS BEARS VARSITY BASKETBALL COACH.

145 WHEREAS, Coach Eloy Brazil, a graduate of Cimarron high school in Colfax county, was a star basketball player;

and WHEREAS, his first year of coaching boys varsity e t 17 basketball was at Cimarron high school in 1976;

and w l n d 18 WHEREAS, Coach Brazil led the Cimarron rams boys varsity = = 19 a l team to its first state championship in school history just i a e r 20 three seasons later, in 1979;

and a t m m 21 WHEREAS, Coach Brazil spent fourteen seasons coaching the d r e 22 Cimarron rams boys basketball team to hundreds of wins and c e s k 23 several state tournament appearances;

and e a n b 24 WHEREAS, Coach Brazil went on to coach at Springer high u [ school for sixteen seasons and led the Springer red devils boys .210163.1 varsity basketball teams to two state titles and several state tournament appearances during his tenure;

and WHEREAS, Coach Brazil began coaching the Maxwell bears 6 boys varsity team in 2012, leading the team to the school's first-ever state title in the 2017 class A state boys basketball championship;

and SM 63 WHEREAS, Coach Brazil was one of twenty-three high Page 1 school coaches from across the country selected as 2016-2017 national coaches of the year by the national federation of state high 12 school associations coaches association;

and WHEREAS, he has coached boys and girls in New Mexico e e 17 communities for over forty years and has devoted his life to e e n d 18 teaching youth not only the game of basketball but also the = = l ] 19 game of life;

a l r i 20 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE t e a t OF NEW MEXICO that Coach Eloy Brazil be recognized for his m m 21 e d dedication to the youth of Colfax county communities;

and r e 22 c e r c 23 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Coach Eloy Brazil be e a n b 24 congratulated for his long and continuing career as head u [ basketball coach, celebrating the 2017 class A state boys .210163.1 - 2 - basketball championship with the Maxwell bears boys varsity basketball team;

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