Here are the six latest inductees into the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame

The ranks of the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame will grow by six on June 29.

On Tuesday, the NMSHOF announced its latest inductees.

They are:

Randy Brown, a former New Mexico State basketball star point guard (1998-91) who played 13 seasons in the NBA — five of those with the Chicago Bulls as a member of three of the Bulls’ championship teams.

Monument’s Roy Cooper, a rodeo legend who in the 1990s became the sport’s all-time leading money winner.

Steve Loy, a Sandia High School golfer and football quarterback of the late 1960s-early 70s who now, as an agent, represents golf superstars such as Phil Mickelson and Jon Rahm.

Farmington’s Alana Nichols, a six-time Paralympics medalist as a wheelchair basketball player and an alpine skier.

Michael Sinclair, a small-school football All-American at Eastern New Mexico (1987-90) who played 11 years in the NFL with Seattle and Philadelphia.

Fredd Young, a New Mexico State linebacker (1981-83) who in seven years in the NFL with Seattle and Indianapolis was twice voted All-Pro and was a four-time Pro Bowler.

A news conference is scheduled for Dec. 28 at the Pit to formally announce the new inductees.

Later that day, they’ll be introduced during the New Mexico Bowl at University Stadium.

The June 29 banquet is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at the Convention Center.

At New Mexico State, Young (he spelled his first name with one “d” at the time) was a dynamic defensive end who doubled as a kickoff and punt returner. He led the Missouri Valley Conference in punt-return average as a junior and took one back 57 yards for a touchdown.

“I’ve always enjoyed returning punts,” the Dallas Native told the Albuquerque Journal in October 1983. “Now, I enjoy returning kickoffs just as much. It gives me a chance to play a little offense.”

Sinclair came to Portales from Beaumont, Texas in 1987 as a 190-pound linebacker and grew into a defensive lineman, who, according to his Wikipedia page, sacked John Elway more often than any other player.

He led the NFL in sacks (16.5) for the Seahawks in 1998.

Nichols, paralyzed in a 2000 snowboarding accident, was introduced to wheelchair basketball while at the UNM in 2002. She returned to the slopes as a skier in 2008.

She has competed in five summer or winter Paralympics: 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016.

Loy excelled as a Sandia quarterback, with the support of then-Matadors coach Clem Charlton, despite having suffered severe frostbite in his feet when he and a friend were stranded in the Sandia Mountains by a sudden storm.

“I told (Loy),” Charlton told the Journal in 2021, ‘There’s nobody on this damn football team that’s got the guts and determination that you do.”

Loy lives in Arizona and travels all over the world for his golf clients, but hasn’t forgotten his Albuquerque roots.

When Charlton died in 2023 at age 98, Loy flew in for the service on his private jet before leaving for the Ryder Cup in Italy.

Cooper grew up in Lea County, part of a ranching family with a solid claim to the title of New Mexico’s rodeo First Family.

His father, Dale “Tuffy” Cooper, rode for the Lobos (yes, UNM once had a rodeo team). Roy’s brother Clay and sister Betty Gayle were champions in their own right, as was cousin Jimmie.

In 1976, at age 21, Roy Cooper became the youngest calf-roping champion in the history of the pro rodeo circuit.

Brown came to NMSU from Chicago, with a stop at the University of Houston, and helped lead Neil Mc- Carthy’s Aggies to records of 26-5 and 23-6 in his two seasons in Las Cruces. The Aggies made the NCAA Tournament both seasons.

A defensive force on the court, Brown averaged approximately 12.5 points and five assists per game for NMSU.