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Marv Sanders is shown coaching Farmington High’s boys basketball team in a photo dated Nov. 25, 1993. Sanders, an Indiana native, earned almost 800 coaching victories in New Mexico high schools. (Journal File)
Marv Sanders, the fourth-winningest high school boys basketball coach in New Mexico history who won four state championships during an illustrious Hall of Fame career, has died.
The Farmington High School Facebook page on Dec. 30 said Sanders passed away following a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease.
Sanders’ exact age could not immediately be confirmed, but he was believed to be 80 or 81.
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“RIP coach Sanders. I love you and thank you for all that you gave me and so many others,” one of Sanders’ greatest players at Farmington, Rob Robbins, posted on Facebook in a tribute to his former coach. “You were always there for me. You were the epitome
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The NMAA state basketball championships were allowed to finish even as COVID started to emerge in March, but games at the Pit ultimately were held without fans. (Jim Thompson/Journal)
The drill is, I sit down in mid-to-late December, sift through the previous 12 months, both in my head and in our archives, and extract my choices for the top five high school sports stories from that calendar year.
There was very little sifting required this year. The year’s top five prep stories are, unfortunately and not surprisingly, a somber quintet of headlines. COVID-19 was the story none of us could escape, and we remain even now in its persistent clutches as we look forward to what we hope will be happier – and busier – times in the new year.
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 1:35 pm
For New Mexicans, COVID-19 hit in March. It may be named after the previous year, when it first turned up, but the first confirmed case in the U.S. hit the West Coast in January, and in New Mexico it hit less than two months later. From there, COVID spread like a fog over the entire year, distorting our lives and livelihoods in innumerable ways. In hindsight, it’s easy to see how 2020 was destined to be a year of great disruptions.
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