Two ENMU athletes named to New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame

Two Eastern New Mexico University athletes were among those named to the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024, according to an ENMU news release on Monday.

Greyhound football players Steve Loy and Michael Sinclair are in the class that also includes New Mexico State’s Randy Brown (basketball) and Fredd Young (football), rodeo’s Roy Cooper, and Paralympian Alana Nichols.

“These athletes and coaches have had significant careers, achieved high standards of athletic success, and contributed to sports, thereby bestowing fame and honor to the State of New Mexico,” ENMU’s release stated.

The organization has scheduled a press conference to welcome the new members for 9 a.m. Dec. 28 at the Pit on the University of New Mexico campus.

The induction ceremony is set for June in Albuquerque.

Loy played linebacker for the Greyhounds football team and was also a member of the golf team in the early 1970s.

After he graduated in 1974, he coached golf at Arizona State, Scottsdale Community College and the University of Arkansas.

He is perhaps best known as the player agent for professional golfer Phil Mickelson. In a 2004 interview with the Clovis News Journal, he said his company represented about 60 pro golfers and 40 Major League baseball players.

Earlier this year, the Loy family donated $2.5 million to ENMU in what college officials called the “single largest gift in university history.”

Sinclair played a decade in the National Football League, mostly with the Seattle Seahawks, after becoming a sixth-round draft pick out of ENMU in 1991.

He was a three-time Pro Bowl selection as a defensive end and led the NFL in sacks in 1998.

While at ENMU, he was an all-Lone Star Conference selection and LSC Defensive Lineman of the Year. He recorded 279 career tackles as a Greyhound, with 45 tackles for a loss and 30 sacks.

Other NMSHOF members include Clovis High basketball star Bubba Jennings and Clovis High football coach Eric Roanhaus.

Former ENMU basketball player and Texas Tech baseball coach Larry Hays of Dora and former Olympic track athlete Amber Campbell of Tucumcari were inducted in 2023.

For a complete list of inductees, the HOF website is at:

nmshof.org/hall-of-fame/