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PASOHERAL
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Actually, Prieto has had two div-
itrg car€ers,which have beensand-
wiclted arcuDda seve!.year layoll
to conceDtrate collegeand !urs-
on
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Her firstlenture into diviDgbegaD
at the aEeof 11-
. activity, however.
when Prieto is ioducted itto the
El Paso Athletic Hall of Fada on uoted,."Everybodyour tearo
on was
itr diilerentagegroups.
Everybody
wouldplace the toptwospots
i! abd
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ffiffif/posodiver selected
correctspart '
(Contiluedfrom Page C'l) rnost immediatety,' sle doids, You do!'t haveto give uP
we would beat them." laughed. competingbecause your age.
ol
At Austin, she was t}|e oDly Agchasa certain way of play Thete are mastersPlograms rn
hieh schooldiver ir El Paso. ing tricks on a person As a every spo{ now,"
iI h"d to b"g the principalto youLh she didn't have orany Prieto's seconddividg career
let me Eo to itate," she said. fears. As someone her fiIo
m almost etded in l9?9, wheBshe
"*obodv"knew thet we hed tle 20's fesr suddenly slrucka sour ruDtured disc aDdhad to u[der-
a
sDort-since I was tbe onlv one I trotewhenshe tirst stepped to up go back surgery. Tiree moDths
aian t lave to qualifv foi state the one-meterboard' Iater, however, sbe resuneal
ihere was somi touih competi ''There is some fear oow - traininq and won three gold
tliiiL"riil"nlttrlid*""" alout eventhoughI have beenback to medaliat the 1980 National In'
25 sooddivers.I placedsecond divingfor several years, wnen door AAU Mastets Champiod'
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rt!'ihreav.,r< I EetuD there,especrally tne on
-'ir'" iliiio-i"t " first Nationa! Jbiee'meter board''' she admit
shiDs.
'there vas onlv oledivethatl
Divins ChamDionship 1969 in and ted. couldnot alothe same," shesaid.
;l'j";A iiih. '
'Since there were no college
"You just have to keepon div-' "I used to do a lront 2 Pike.
ing unlil you get lhatfeerout Every time that I would get ilto
scholarshiDsolfered to girls In seven national maslers Dosition do it, I wouldbur[ mY
to
when she went to high school. championships srnceAugustor back.I stil do the dive, but from
Prieto hed to vi ually put (hat 1978'she h,aswon o-verz0 €oto a diflerent Dosition."
_has
activitv on the back butner. Fol_ medals and a handtul or sllver Practice always been a
lowinea 1Ah Dlece finishat the medals. Droblemi! Dl Paso. Mostly be_
iirt n-ational cirampionships, she "Going to that first masters iause of a lack of facilities
retired, meet changedmy Fnlloso-pny or
Oneday i! 1978, decided
she to lile ' she said '1.had..thougnt Prieto begins Practice thi8
make a visil to Mccuirk, who thel I was ovet lhe nlLl l0r a week with an aim at compeung
- lot of things. The thing lhat im in the outdoor nationals in Au_
*-ii tiaininE some athletes.
Mccuirk casrtellv showed a her pressed me the most was-tnat sust in California. to be the
'And it's turned out
mis=Leiir on
m-a-eazhe oivine. ihere were GGvear-olds -doing right sport after all.
"I slarted-back diving al'
to some of the dlves that I was
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Itti6;il:d'd;r;ilt#A$ft the nation as a senior i! €F#Blg,-;Fg;ii
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] indqctedinto the HaU 1969.
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was quarterback
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Gorman, who now haniltes the.women.s. athletic program a'+ ; ? r-d E ? E i= l|il
specialassiglments fo1g6a.116-al.UTEP and helpedto gel the
tioDalLeague,is notedfor his lpe-ciql Elents Center for the
anecdotes baseball.An um- oasketoaU
gslagF
on program.
I
pirt for 25years,Gorman was
in tive WortaSeries.
iwo ctrim. Casper_has b€eD an an-
pionship series aDd four Alli nouncer 4ayears. IIis sports
lo!
Star games.IIe was behindthe Droadcas6 Include Southwest
plate whenDo! Larsen;iGhJ conlerence football, Texas
*Sl#!::i'ir"Bif""""i"r",llSi""i,'"::..ii::i*r.:'g:l*iiT"",i
againstthe BrooklyD uasper.who hasbeen
Dodgers. :3[g-9-q.
- wrth KIIEY since1972. active
is
Ball has played teniis for i! various spons functions
i$
eiifiuryf
overhalf a centunf.He owns28 tiroughout the city. Like Bo$f-
' Soutlrwestern SectionalCham- d€n, he is a past presidentof
pionships - more than any !!e El Paso Atl etic Hall of
olnel PlaYer - five El Paso rame.
men's opeD sLrgles titles as D,.
w"U as i-,roJl-, r-e d'ifi;;e;i coached Burges to
-,nrrkhead
states aDdcanada. He is cur- illii'rrous dist ct Utlesi! foot-
iit'g'.'lsJ+:'Hi::-'r::1i"."T,"{"tlt""T:::3t'":y;
ri^n bowlirg aDd
.ba6ketball,
soltball-
' Prieto has claimed tl sold Honoredes high schoolath-
andllsilvermealals i! lational letes of the year are Robed
mastersdiving cbampionshiDs Poundsand Barbara FleminE
sincereturning to the spodln of District I-5A plus Caroi
1978.Fifteen of those medals Clover and Tommy BoDdsof
were earned after undergoing 2-5A.
