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Longtime basketball coach Abe Estrada, 92, dies
Abe Estrada, pictured in the early 1980s, was a longtime basketball coach in Albuquerque. He died Oct. 22 at age 92.
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A key member of the Albuquerque High storied boys basketball program has died.
Abe Estrada, for many years a coveted assistant to Jim Hulsman inside Bulldog City, passed away on Oct. 22. He died a month short of his 93rd birthday.
Estrada was on the bench with AHS when it won state championships in 1971 and 1977.
He served three different stints as an assistant coach with the Bulldogs: 1970-79, 1980-82 and again from 1999-2004.
In 2010, he was the recipient of the Albuquerque Sports Hall of Fame “Award of Distinction”.
And in late September, Estrada was inducted into the Albuquerque High School Hall of Fame.
Estrada also served for a few years as the head boys basketball coach at Rio Grande High School.
He was born in Bayard, near Silver City, the eighth youngest of 10 children, and he graduated from Lordsburg High School in 1951.
He enlisted in the Navy and was a two-year letterman for both the men’s football and basketball teams as part of the fleet located in Japan in 1952 and 1953.
Estrada is survived by his wife of 68 years, Josie, plus many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
