by Travis Weber Daily Lobo The UNM women's golf team advanced to the national championships on May 18-21 in Auburn, Alabama, with a seventh-place finish this weekend in the regional tournament in Normal, Illinois. The Lobos finished 66-over-par - 20 strokes behind champion Vanderbilt, which was just good enough to move on as the top eight teams from all three regions advanced.
This year many Lobo athletes have put UNM in the national spotlight. No one got more national attention than senior kicker Katie Hnida who was the first woman to score in a college football game with two extra points in the season-opener against Texas State-San Marcos on Aug.
Junior Mike Augustyniak broke the tight end power clean record with 352 pounds, and freshman safety Darius Ferguson set a school record in all sports with a 43-inch vertical leap last night at the annual Lobo Football Night of Champions. The Cherry team won 7-4 - while the Silver team cleaned up the field and carried all the weights and equipment back to the weight room.
Two beloved Lobos and one arch nemesis return to The Pit tonight for a WNBA exhibition game between the Minnesota Lynx and the Sacramento Monarchs. Forwards Jordan Adams of the Lynx and Chelsea Grear of the Monarchs said they are excited to be back in Albuquerque - but Minnesota center Vanessa Hayden said she isn't so sure.
by Ketan Dhawan Daily Lobo The UNM swim team has a new role model. Tracy Ljone just took over as assistant coach, and said she loves her new job. Ljone is pursuing a doctorate in sports administration at UNM. "I'm really excited," she said. "I hope to bring a lot of enthusiasm and positive work ethic to the team.
by Travis Weber Daily Lobo The UNM men's golf team captured its second-straight Mountain West Conference Championship in dramatic fashion this weekend, in Sunriver, Ore., defeating BYU in a playoff. After three days of intense tournament golf, the Lobos found themselves right where they had started - in a deadlock with BYU.
The men's Mountain West Conference tennis championship title came down to one match Saturday afternoon in San Diego - and it just happened to be in the hands of No. 22 Divan Coetzee. After losing the doubles point, the top-seeded Lobos regrouped and beat the No.
The Lobo track and field team had one of its best showings of the year to wrap up the regular season in front of the home crowd at Great Friends of UNM Track Stadium on Saturday. The UNM women dominated a powerful throwing field with juniors Jamie Fishencord and Amanda Barnes who have consistently improved in each meet this season.
Jamie Fishencord Track and Field Junior Fishencord holds the UNM record in the hammer throw and improved on her personal record by two inches with a toss of 179-04 Saturday at the Don Kirby Memorial Invitational. Fishencord is already an NCAA regional qualifier in the event.
Knight Ridder Calling it "a sea change in college sports," NCAA President Myles Brand heralded a new set of academic reforms voted in Thursday by the Division I Board of Directors - reforms that would penalize schools that don't keep athletes eligible and fail to graduate them.
Mired in a seemingly endless streak of road games with 19 straight contests outside Albuquerque, the Lobos are nonetheless tearing up the Mountain West Conference. The team has won 10 of its last 12 MWC games, and has vaulted past UNLV to take over the No.
The Lobo track and field team will host the last regular-season meet of the year Saturday at the Great Friends of UNM Track Stadium for the 14th-annual Don Kirby Memorial Invitational. Mountain West Conference rivals Air Force, Wyoming and Colorado State will compete, as well as regional teams from Adams State, DinÇ College, Fort Lewis and Northern Colorado.
by Travis Weber Daily Lobo The UNM women's golf team fell just short in its bid for a fifth-straight Mountain West Conference championship in Bend, Ore., this weekend. UNM finished two strokes behind UNLV in a disappointing second. The Lobos, ranked No.
by Ketan Dhawan Daily Lobo Matt Gonzales is hoping to take a trip to Athens, Greece, for the Olympics. However, it will not be to look on as the world's finest athletes compete for the pride of their nations. Team USA's Olympic trials will be July 9-18 in Sacramento, Calif.
Chris Garofola Track and Field Senior Garofola clocked two personal records and helped two Lobo relay teams set records this weekend at the Triton Invitational in San Diego, Calif. Garofola placed eighth in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes with times of 10.
It was a bittersweet weekend for the Lobo softball team. After a devastating losses on Friday afternoon, UNM was able to recover and sweep its first doubleheader of the season - just in time to bid farewell to five Lobo seniors. UNM nearly shutout the UNLV Rebels on Sunday, but allowed two runs in the seventh inning of the first game for a 6-2, 3-0 win at Lobo Field.
by Landon Dyksterhouse Daily Lobo Maja Kovacek and Iva Gersic helped win the first Mountain West Conference championship in the 26-year history of the women's tennis program. But winning in straight sets is easy compared to growing up in a country fighting for freedom.
The Lobos will look to continue their phenomenal play this weekend when they head to Las Vegas, Nev., to take on the UNLV Rebels. The Rebels are in first place in the Mountain West Conference, entering the series with an 11-3 conference record. The Lobos hope to change that as they stand at 11-4 - good enough for second.
For the second year in a row, the Lobo men's tennis team is Mountain West Conference regular season champs. The only difference is the last time around, UNM shared the title with San Diego State and Brigham Young. This year, with a perfect 5-0 record, the Lobos sit at the top alone.
The funny thing is, senior Jennifer Delich never won the giant slalom event in her entire collegiate skiing career - until the 2004 national championships. Delich has always excelled in the slalom. She said the GS was her weakest event when she came to UNM, but she gradually got better at it because she had to work at it harder than she had to work at anything else.
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