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Three Join the Citizen's Bank/NMSU Athletics Hall of Fame

Running back Denvis Manns '99, professional golfer Bart Bryant '85 and the 1985-86 women's golf team are the newest members of the Citizen's Bank/NMSU Athletics Hall of Fame.

Manns is the school's all-time leading rusher with 4,692 yards, and is one of only five players in NCAA Division I-A history to rush for at least 1,000 yards in four consecutive seasons.

Manns was in the Dallas Cowboys training camp in both 1999 and 2001 and played for the Barcelona Dragons and Frankfurt Galaxy of NFL Europe. He currently is an assistant football coach and teacher at Los Lunas High School.

Bryant earned third team All-America honors as a junior, and in his senior season was the 1985 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Player of the Year. He turned professional in 1986 and is coming off his best year on the PGA Tour.

Bryant has established himself as one of the best drivers on the tour, finishing seventh in driving accuracy percentage this season.

The 1985-86 Roadrunner women's golf team became the first NMSU women's team to win a conference championship. Team members included Lori Poling Tatum, Jayne Chalmers, Janice Littlefield Swisher, Monica Campos and Anita Sarwinski Dunmar. The team was led by head coach Paul Brilliant and assistant Jackie Booth.

The team laid the groundwork for future success of women's golf at NMSU, as the Roadrunners went on to win the High Country Athletic Conference title in 1989 and 1990; the Big West Conference title in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000; and the Sun Belt Conference title in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Poling, who became NMSU's first women's golf All-American in 1989, already is a member of the Citizen's Bank/NMSU Athletics Hall of Fame. Brilliant, who coached the team from its inception in 1982 through 1992, was inducted in 1999.

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