30 years of coaching in northern New Mexico
by Holly Mayfield
KRTN Multi-Media
MAXWELL — There was excitement in the air as Maxwell’s Athletic Director Amadeo Soto asked Coach Eloy Brazil to join him on the court at Maxwell High School Gym Saturday evening, February 17. The ceremony honored Brazil’s 30 plus years of coaching and recognised his recent national award. Players past and present, coaches, and friends gathered to honor Coach Brazil for receiving the National Federation of High School Coaches Association 2017 National Coach of the Year Award.
Brazil was presented with a banner that hangs next to the Maxwell Bears 2017 boys state championship banner, a championship game that the Bears won last year giving them their first State Championship which, ironically, was over another school Brazil earned a state championship with while coaching, Springer. He was also presented a plaque noting the national honor. Coach Brazil has spent his coaching and teaching career in Cimarron, Springer, and Maxwell. According to
Coach Brazil he has, “over 600 wins and over 300 losses,” the losses he attributed to himself. Brazil told the crowd how his basketball career began chasing balls for the older kids when he was only three. He went on to say that he has been doing the job he loves most, coaching.
