Women's Golf
Sophomore Kailin Downs has been named the Mountain West Conference women's golfer of the month on the strength of a fourth-place finish at the Ping/ASU Invitational April 4-6.
Downs fired rounds of 71-76-69-216 at the Karsten Course to grab her fifth top-five in eight starts this season. Her 69 matched a career best for a single round, as did her 54-hole total of 216. Thanks to Downs' steady performance, the Lobos took sixth place in a field laden with national talent.
Downs, who leads UNM and the MWC with a 73.6 stroke average, is making a strong case for conference player of the year. She is the only player to earn best of the month on two separate occasions this season.
Men's Basketball
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Alfred Neale, a 6-foot-5-inch junior transfer from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M, has signed with the Lobos and will round out UNM's 2003-04 recruiting class.
Neale is a small forward who earned first-team all conference and all region honors last season, averaging 15 points and a little more than six rebounds a contest. He put up 130-plus 3-pointers at A&M, connecting on 40 percent of them.
Neale will join fellow transfers Troy DeVries, Billy Feeney and Danny Granger in the cherry and silver. The Lobos have also signed Ryan Wall, Lenny Miles and Justin Benson.
Women's Basketball
The Lobos have signed 6-foot-1-inch forward Wande Olude and Fatima Maddox, a 5-foot-6-inch guard to come to UNM for the 2003-04 season.
Olude, a forward who also ran track and played volleyball in high school, hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She comes to the Lobos after a high school career in which she averaged 17 PPG, 13 RPG, four blocks per game and three steals per game. She earned MVP honors in every high school tournament she played in.
Boasting similarly impressive stats - 17.8 points, 8.6 boards, five steals and four assists - Maddox is a guard from Colorado Springs, Colo. She was state champ in the triple jump and long jump as well.
Women's Tennis
After ascending to its highest spot in the rankings this year, 48th, UNM will square off against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at the Lobo Tennis Club on April 19.
The match will be the Lobos' last of the regular season. It will also mark the end of senior Rachel Hatley's career at UNM. Hatley will be honored at the 11 a.m. match.
Postseason action gets under way for the Lobos on April 24 in San Diego, Calif., where they will face Air Force in the Mountain West Conference Championships.
