54 Years of Service to the Pueblo Community

The Greater Pueblo Sports Association (GPSA) is a group of people interested in promoting prominent athletes, sports teams, and recreational activities in Pueblo County for inclusion in the GPSA Hall of Fame.

The GPSA will be doing online ticket sales for the 2026 induction banquet. This is the first time the association has attempted to sell tickets in this manner. Tickets will be available for purchase on our GPSA website, pueblogshof.com, starting October 6, 2026, and sales will end Monday, November 9, 2026, at 5 pm.

The association will use a user-friendly program called Zeffy, which is designed for nonprofits. More information will be posted in our October Newsletter. Noteworthy suggestion: when you purchase your ticket, Zeffy will add a tip. All you need to do is scroll down to custom, change it to zero tip, and that will be the actual price of the ticket.

Ticket prices are the same as they have been for the last three years: $50. You can leave a custom tip to Zeffy so they can continue providing this service to nonprofits, but this is optional for each ticket buyer.

If you have any questions, you can contact President Jerry Sisneros at jrrysis@yahoo.com or 719-406-0976.

The GPSA Membership designated October 2026 to appeal to past inductees for financial support. We have one hundred and eighty-six living Inductees (186). If every inductee sent a small donation in Oct. of each year, the association can remain solvent with your financial support.

These donations help keep our banquet ticket affordable for guests celebrating inductees chosen annually for our Hall of Fame. The association would like to thank the inductees who responded last year.

You can still support the GPSA for 2026 by sending your donation to the GPSA at the address below.

Make your check payable to GPSA and mail it to:

GPSA
Midtown Post Office
P. O. Box 413
Pueblo CO 81002

At our monthly meeting in September, 2026, the Greater Pueblo Sports Association committee members voted on five candidates for our 54th Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on November 18, 2026.

2026 Hall of Fame Inductees:
Paul Arriaga, Jim Cornelison, George Gutierrez, Pat James, and Arnald Swift. With the addition of the 2026 class, the GPSA now has 394 members enshrined, 353 of whom are men and 41 women.

This is the third class in 54 years to include five inductees into the GPSA Hall of Fame. Of those two classes (2015 and 1996), both of them had at least one woman inducted (Dee Dee Dominquez and Kathleen Hancock in 2015) and Jessie Banks (1996).

There will be a feature on each inductee in our October 2026 GPSA Newsletter.

We look forward to seeing you there the night of the 54th GPSA Banquet, and a reminder that for the third consecutive year, the GPSA will hold a gift basket drawing on the night of the banquet.

Respectfully,

Jerry Sisneros
GPSA President

Below are short bios of the Brian Macartney Award recipients for the best male and female high school athletes during the 2025-26 school year.

Enzo Pecoraro—Pueblo East

Tennis
* 1st Team All-League; 13-5 record at #1 singles as a senior.
* Three-year letterman.

 Basketball
* CHSAA Honorable Mention All-State; CHSCA All- State.
*1st Team All-League; All-Defensive Team.
*Class 5A Leader in Steals; 2nd Most Double Doubles in Class 5A.
*South Central League (SCL) Leader in: Steals, Double Doubles, Total Rebounds, and Blocks.
* 2-Time Team Captain; Three-year varsity letterman.

Baseball
* Junior All-Star Game Selection; Twice named Honorable Mention All-State and 1st Team All-SCL.
* SCL Leader in: RBIs and Fielding Percentage.
* Two-year varsity letterman.

Academics
* 4.0 Unweighted GPA; 4.7 Weighted GPA.
* Classes: IB Physics, IB Calculus, IB English 12, 1B Psychology.
* Class Rank: Finished in the top 5.
* Named East Male Scholar "Athlete-of-the-Year" Award.
* East High School Tom Sorenson Memorial Scholarship winner.
* Currently attending Hastings College, NE on a baseball scholarship.

Drue Golob—Pueblo Central

Wrestling
* Varsity Letterman
* Ranked 9th in the State (Senior Year)
* Named by The Pueblo Chieftain to Pueblo's top 10 girls wrestlers to watch in the 2025-2026 season.
* 3rd Place at Regionals - 155 lbs.
* State Qualifier - 7th Place; Member of the 4A State Championship Team (2026)
* Nominated twice for The Pueblo Chieftain “Athlete-of-the-Week.”
* Received college offers to wrestle for Cornell College, IA, and Otero Junior College, CO.

Track and Field
* Varsity Letterman
* Named by The Pueblo Chieftain to Pueblo's top 45 girl track and field athletes to watch for the 2026 season.
* Ranked 25th in State; 2nd Place at South-Central League in the discus.
* Received a college offer to throw for Redlands University, CA, committed, and will be attending in the Fall 2026.

Other Achievements/Academics
* Baseball Manager - Varsity Letterman.
* Student Council- Senior Class President; Student Council; Newman Club.
* Athlete with Most School Spirit; The LE Conatore "True Blue Wildcat" Award.
* 2025 Homecoming Queen; Academic Letterman - SEBS Program.
* United States Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award - Displaying courage, poise, self-confidence, and leadership as a high school athlete.

Sollie RasoAt their GPSA August 18 monthly meeting, it was determined that Pueblo West High School (PWHS) was the winner of the Sollie Raso Championship Award for the 2025-26 school year, according to Miles Gorham, GPSA Vice-President.

The award will be presented to one of the eight area high schools whose athletic teams excelled the most in the three-sport season (Fall-Winter-Spring).

The GPSA established the "Sollie Raso All Sports Championship Award" in honor of Sollie. Sollie was a teacher, coach, administrator, and county commissioner. Raso served on many boards for the city of Pueblo as well as for the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA).

When the GPSA was established, he was its first president.

In the award’s ninth year, the Hornets won the team award for the first time, becoming the fourth high school to win since the award began in the 2014-15 school year.