EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The Hanks Alum, Kendra Chambers-Coleman, gets inducted in the 2025 El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame after hanging up the spikes for good after 2024 Olympic Trials in Paris.

Chambers-Coleman spent one season at UTEP before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin.

“Going to UT in Austin is everyone's a state champion” Chambers-Coleman said.

Chambers-Coleman was an 8x All-American at UT and also qualified for the 2016 and 2021 Olympic Trials in the 800-meter. Despite all the success throughout her track career, the Hanks alum doesn't forger where she came from.

“El Paso has always been such a home, but it's more than a hometown for me," Chambers-Coleman said. I's just a pillar of strength, it raised me to be who I am, I'm half Hispanic and half African Amer

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