Hall of Fame
Eulalia Skinner
Montezuma-Cortez
It is time to give Eulalia Skinner her due as a pioneer girls’ coach and official. Skinner, as she is known far and wide in southwestern Colorado, brought girls’ athletics to the southwestern part of the state. She started out with the typical “playdays” where no score was kept, but help bring the level of skill and competition to its current form. The development of Skinner’s programs for girls was a methodical process that took several years to accomplish. She started with the “Playdays” in the 1950s and included girls from all over the region. These “playdays” became “sportdays” in the late 1950s and became more refined as the girls’ skills developed, primarily in basketball and volleyball