ASU wrestling coach Thom Ortiz talks to student-athletes from Amphi High Schools Thursday, October 18, 2007, during a leadership workshop. Photo by Jim Davis/ Arizona Daily StarΒ 

Former Sunnyside wrestlerΒ Thom OrtizΒ has been selected as part of ASU’s 2016 Sports Hall of Fame class; he will be inducted October 8. Ortiz will be the sixth Tucsonan in the Sun Devils Hall of Fame, joining fellow Sunnyside wrestlersΒ EricΒ LarkinΒ and the lateΒ Eddie Urbano, Sahuaro wide receiverΒ John Mistler, Pueblo basketball guardΒ Fat LeverΒ and former UA and Salpointe head football coachΒ Ed Doherty. Up next? How about former Catalina Foothills softball playerΒ JackieΒ Vasquez Theodorakis, who was on the All-Women’s College World Series team when the Sun Devils won the 2008 national championship.


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