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Danny Gonzales is in his third year as football head coach at the University of New Mexico.
In that short time, his daughters, Chloe, 9, and Abby, 7, have become fixtures at practices and basically little sisters of the football players.
“The greatest thing is nobody treats Abby any different because she has Down syndrome,” Gonzales said. “She’s Abby.”
Gonzales and his wife, Sandra, have always been advocates of inclusion for Abby, for her education and anything else that could affect her. So it was natural for them to support New Mexico Senate Bill 158, which will prohibit discrimination against transplant recipients solely based on their physical or mental disability.