Five former athletes and coaches are scheduled to be inducted into the Eastern New Mexico University Hall of honors next fall.
They include Elizabeth Richards-Capps (women's basketball), Tommy Joe Smith (football), Lindsey Davidson-Masiarek (volleyball), Phil Clabaugh (baseball) and Mike Maguire (volleyball/athletic director).
The inductees will be honored at a banquet at ENMU on Oct. 25 and again the following day during the Greyhounds' home football game against Texas A&M-Kingsville.
- Richards-Capps, who helped Texico win three consecutive Class 2A championships in basketball from 2000-02, played for the Zias from 2002-06, currently ranks 12th on the Zias' career scoring list with 1,043 points and fourth in rebounds with 680. She had 17 double-doubles, including 10 in a row at one stretch, and was a first-team All-Lone Star Conference South selection as a senior when she led the league in rebounding a 10.4 per game and finished ninth in scoring.
- Smith was a four-year letterman from 1959-62 under coach Carl Richardson as a left tackle and blocked for four current Hall of Fame inductees in Pete Jaquess, Sonny Wiginton, Jerry Blakely and Eldon Wetsel. He also played defense for the Hounds and received his BBA degree in 1964 while serving as a volunteer assistant for coach B.B. Lees.
- Davidson-Masiarek played volleyball as a setter for Maguire at ENMU in 1998 and 1999 and is a member of the school's all-decade and all-century teams, earning All-LSC South selections both seasons and All-LSC academic honors as a senior. She set school single-season assist records both years and has two of ENMU's three 1,400-set seasons.
- Clabaugh revived the school's baseball program when he arrived in 1992 and coached for 20 seasons, notching 455 victories at ENMU and 551 counting four previous seasons at Western New Mexico. He earned his 500th college coaching win on March 20, 2009, on a walkoff hit by his son, Seth, one of 12 wins in the team's final at-bat that season en route to the program's first LSC tournament berth.
- Maguire recorded 417 victories in 23 seasons over two stints as the Zias' volleyball coach, with 10 seasons of at least 20 wins and four LSC coach of the year awards (1991, 1993, 1995 and 1999). The Zias went 25-9 in 2004 and reached the NCAA Division II regional finals before losing to host and top-seeded Nebraska-Kearney.
ENMU won conference regular-season titles under Maguire in 1991 and 1993 and the LSC tournament championship in 1993.
