For a brief time, Kyle Venter wondered if he had made the right choice in attending UNM. Venter, a fifth-year senior defender on the men’s soccer team, had been one of the best players on the Aurora, Colo. Smoky Hill High School team
Depth at running back won’t be a concern for the New Mexico football team this year.
Returning from an 11-day trip to Australia, the New Mexico men’s basketball team learned at least one thing about itself: Hugh Greenwood is definitely the best surfer on the squad.
Coaches in the Mountain West Conference picked the New Mexico volleyball team to finish fifth, according to the conference’s preseason poll released Tuesday.
Rashad and Vershad Jackson’s leave from the New Mexico football team didn’t last long. On Monday the program announced that the twins have rejoined the team.
A slow first half didn’t derail the New Mexico men’s soccer team against Grand Canyon at the UNM Soccer Complex on Saturday.
It’s nothing new to Kit Vela. The head women’s soccer coach for UNM, who is in her 13th year as the face of the program, is set to tackle another season with a youthful roster after four consecutive seasons of double-digit wins.
If Saturday’s practice is any indication, Cole Gautsche has found his favorite target. The sophomore signal caller completed several long passes to sophomore wide receiver Marquis Bundy, including a couple of 50-yard completions, during the team’s scrimmage.
The San Diego State University student cheering section known as “The Show” was the focus of a firestorm on Twitter last week after the group’s Twitter account took shots at a UNM freshman basketball player about his emergency appendectomy in Australia.
There will be no shortage of Lobo coverage this upcoming season as 23 of the team’s 30 games will be televised nationally. Sixteen of UNM’s games will broadcast on the ESPN family of networks, and seven on CBS.
They’ve been doubted. They’ve been snubbed. They’ve heard it all when it comes to their chances of ever having success. So, it’s nothing new for the New Mexico men’s soccer team to be considered underdogs heading into a season, conference play or a tournament.
Behind five double-digit scorers, the New Mexico men’s basketball team wrapped up its three-game exhibition tour in Australia Sunday with an 82-80 victory over the Gold Coast All-Stars.
After an injury-filled 2012, UNM head volleyball coach Jeff Nelson enters this season with a slimmer frame and high expectations for the UNM volleyball team.
On Aug. 9, the New Mexico football team announced that sophomore cornerbacks Rashad and Vershad Jackson will not return to the team.
Junior center Alex Kirk scored 26 points, including nine in the fourth quarter, to lead the New Mexico men’s basketball team to a 78-66 victory over the Kilsyth Cobras in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, according to a release.
Fans and the media might not yet be buying into the New Mexico football team, but its players are. At the team’s media day Aug. 1, head coach Bob Davie said all 115 players on the roster have decided to stay at UNM: a 100 percent retention rate, a rarity in college sports.
Kicking off a three-game exhibition tour in Australia Monday, the New Mexico men’s basketball team overcame an 11-point second-half deficit Monday to beat the Sydney Kings 87-85 at Bankstown Basketball Stadium in Sydney, according to a press release.
Craig “Noodles” Neal found out last week the difference between being the head coach of the New Mexico men’s basketball team and the lead assistant. While traversing a local mall, Neal was mobbed by UNM fans who wanted to meet the new face of Lobo basketball.
Ten Lobos and the coaching staff departed Albuquerque late Friday afternoon for a three-game tour in Australia. They will meet up with guard Hugh Greenwood and forward Cameron Bairstow, two Lobos who are already in their home country for the summer break.
During Wednesday’s media-day event at the Tow Diehm Complex, a reporter asked New Mexico football coach Bob Davie if quarterback Cole Gautsche will be a starter heading into training camp. Davie, standing at the podium, turned to his sophomore signal-caller seated off-camera and said “Cole? You going to jump out there with that first group?” That’s the plan, Davie said.
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