The prior two years of spring ball, the New Mexico football team shied away from players tackling. UNM had a bare thin roster thanks to a low retention rate and NCAA sanctions that resulted in a loss of five scholarships over three years.
Accolades continue to rain down upon members of the New Mexico volleyball team. Outside hitters Cassie House and Julia Warren will be traveling to Europe after making the Mountain West All-Star team, accompanied by assistant coach JJ Glavan.
For the second straight year, UNM volleyball head coach Jeff Nelson is sending a pair of Lobos to the U.S. Collegiate National Team. “There aren’t very many schools that have multiple kids on,” Nelson said. “It’s pretty awesome to have a couple kids make it and have that experience.”
With an increase of contact drills comes an increase of potential injuries. That potential became reality during the New Mexico football team’s scrimmage Saturday.
Big league. That’s how head coach Ray Birmingham described starting pitcher Josh Walker’s dominant performance in New Mexico’s 4-1 victory over Fresno State on Sunday at Lobo Field.
New Mexico center Alex Kirk has made his decision: he will forgo his senior season and declare for the NBA Draft. The Lobos men’s basketball Twitter account, @UNMHoops, announced the decision Friday afternoon after reports surfaced Kirk was leaving.
Experience is not going to be a factor during the final stretch for the New Mexico softball team. “At this point in the season we consider them all veterans,” head coach Erica Beach said. “We don’t put too much emphasis on how old whoever’s on the field.”
This week is the closest the Mountain West baseball season will get to a halfway point. Every team has played 15 of their 30 conference games except New Mexico, which has only played 12 of its 30 MW contests to date.
If there was one consistent offensive option for the New Mexico football team for the past two seasons, it was running back Kasey Carrier. The last two years, Carrier rushed for 2,591 yards, scored 25 touchdowns and set the UNM and conference single-season rushing record in 2012 with 1,469 yards.
The New Mexico men’s basketball team may make the most headlines around town. The Lobo men’s soccer team may have some sustained success for more than a decade. But there’s another program at UNM that has also built a successful legacy on a national stage.
Even with two goals not achieved, New Mexico men’s basketball coach Craig Neal said he looks back on his debut season as a successful one. The Lobos reached 27 wins, the most under a first-year head coach; won the Mountain West Basketball Championship for the third time,
Errant pitching and silent bats lead to consecutive losses for the New Mexico softball team. After beginning the series with an 11-9 extra-inning walk-off win over Fresno State (21-13, 6-3 MW), UNM could not find a way to score for the remainder of the weekend.
After a scoreless first spring outing last week, the New Mexico men blanked Denver University in its second exhibition game with a 3-0 win in Taos. All three goals came in the second half, the first in the 49th minute from James Rogers off a Christopher Wehan assist.
With the 2013-14 basketball season now in the books, head coach Craig Neal and company are shifting their focus for the future. The Lobos knew they’d have some major holes to fill with the graduation of starting guard Kendall Williams and forward Cameron Bairstow,
One of Ray Birmingham’s major concerns over the course of a long baseball season is fatigue. New Mexico’s head coach knows there are games in which the team does not have the requisite energy to win. Sunday’s was one of those games.
Symbolic. That’s all it was. The two-year contract extension that New Mexico men’s basketball coach Craig Neal received last week was nothing more than the University showing some good will.
Now that the season is complete, New Mexico junior center Alex Kirk will explore his options for the upcoming NBA draft, Lobo coach Craig Neal said Wednesday afternoon.
Men’s head basketball coach Craig Neal reached a deal with UNM to extend his contract for an additional two years, the UNM Athletic Department announced Monday afternoon. When he was hired last year, Neal signed a five-year deal that would have run through the 2017-18 season.
The coaching carousel in college basketball is already under way, and Craig Neal’s name has been mentioned as a possible candidate by one national media outlet. The New Mexico coach who just completed his first year as the head man was called a, “legitimate target,” for the lead position at South Florida
Getting a chance to build a football program is usually a one-time thing for most coaches. But for Barry Sacks, New Mexico’s new defensive line coach, having a second opportunity to be a part of a reclamation project was something he did not want to pass up.
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