Craig Neal definitely knows how to make an entrance. At the annual Lobo Howl, the men’s basketball team began its portion with Lobo Louie dancing through the decades to various hit songs. The crowd of 6,676 erupted when Louie took off his head to reveal himself as the team's head coach.
New Mexico and San Jose State are both trying to position themselves to knock off three-time Mountain West women’s soccer champ San Diego State. After this Friday's game, one of them could have an inside track against the Aztecs. The third-place Lobos host the Spartans, who are tied with San Diego State atop the standings, in a potentially pivotal contest Friday night at the UNM Soccer Complex. Only two points in the standings separate UNM (6-6-1, 4-1-1 MW) from the two co-leaders at the conference’s midway point.
The Lobo cross country team is ready to compete at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational on Friday. The women’s team showed why it is worthy of its No. 1 national ranking, winning in dominant fashion at Notre Dame. The event saw five Lobos finish in the top 12 and senior Courtney Frerichs receive Mountain West Cross Country Athlete of the Week honors.
Mike Mullane, a former NASA astronaut and Albuquerque native, visited UNM on Thursday to speak on his experience of life in space, as well as his motivations as a young man. The event was organized by the honors college and Dr. Leslie Donovan, an honors college professor who teaches “Space and New Mexico: From Aliens to the X-prize.” Students in the honors program are required to attend lectures by guest speakers throughout the semester to gain credit in their classes, Donovan said.
UNM will soon build a photovoltaic shade structure at the McKinnon Family Tennis Center, a move that will benefit the University and the city in multiple ways. Jeff Zumwalt, director of the Physical Plant Department at UNM, said the project will oversee the installation of a 96 kilowatt solar photovoltaic system at the tennis courts on south campus.
A team of UNM researchers is empowering public school students in New Mexico by putting existing public health data from the New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (NM-YRRS) directly into their hands, and taking them through their own analysis of the local-level data. The researchers at the Risk and Resiliency Assessment Project for Students (RAPS) also support students in advocacy of programs and policies based on their interpretation of the data combined with their own experiences.
All season, Nelson has been trying to find a way to limit the errors and find a rotation that worked to his advantage. He may have just found some answers. With a new blocking scheme, a unique look at the libero spot, and limited errors, the Lobos took down Fresno State 3-0 Thursday night at Johnson Center.
No one has questioned Khadijah Shumpert’s valued role as a forward on the New Mexico roster. Now, the senior forward is getting recognition across the Mountain West after being named to the College Sports Madness’ All-Mountain West First Team. The Lobo captain averaged 10.8 points per contest (16th MW) and a team-high 5.8 boards per game (15th MW). Shumpert had a successful season while gutting out an ankle injury for a greater part of the 2014-15 campaign. Shumpert’s ability to make her presence, emerging as one of the UNM leaders, came in her sophomore season where she finished among the top-15 conference players in rebounds and blocked shots. With a healthy ankle in mix with her final season in Cherry and Silver, the 6-footer from Minnesota has the potential to make some noise in the Mountain West this year. Liam Cary-Eaves is the sports editor for the Daily Lobo.
Alyssa Coonrod: an attacking midfielder who has been playing at a left back defensive position. Jennifer Muñoz: listed at midfielder/forward seeing time at the center back spot. Quincy Slora: a forward who has been at about every position possible. Several players on the New Mexico women’s soccer team are getting action outside their natural positions. In some cases those players are thriving in their new roles, head coach Heather Dyche said.
A season ago, the New Mexico women’s basketball team overcame adversity to finish second in the conference with an NIT bid. This year, the Lobos have their sights set higher. The 2014-15 campaign saw a preseason ranking of ninth, the loss of UNM’s only true center and a shaky 1-7 start in head coach Yvonne Sanchez’s contract year. Yet the team finished second in the Mountain West and made it to the MW Championship game.
The No. 23 UNM men’s soccer team fought through double overtime and finished its last nonconference match of the season with a 1-1 draw with Valparaiso Wednesday night. “That was a good opponent.
Author William Powers has stopped in his former home of New Mexico during a national speaking tour for his newest novel, “New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City.”
A UNM professor is conducting research on the potential of a new kind of treatment for depression. Dr. Christopher Abbott, associate professor of psychiatry at UNM, has studied the possibility of curing severe depression using electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and his research has begun to show promising results among its participants.
Editor, Sade Patterson seems to figure very large on your opinion page. As with most opinions on the right, what she doesn’t say is key:
Mobile games can be found by the thousands on the App Store and Google Play, but one game might be more intriguing than the rest -- especially because the creators are stationed here in Albuquerque.
Editor, Although the voter turnout of 8 percent in recent city council elections is not a badge of honor for democracy in Albuquerque, the city council’s recent move to declare the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a positive development.
Editor, Some military veterans are being treated lightly for committing crimes stateside, on the excuse that they have PTSD or this of that from war, with mainstream society sighing, “It is easy to understand why he just flashed back and freaked out and did what he did.”
The Department of Spanish and Portugese, in collaboration with the Latin American and Iberian Institute, is holding readings of the renowned Spanish novel Don Quixote, which celebrates its fourth centennial anniversary this year. Anthony Cardenas, professor and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, as well as a volunteer participating in the reading of “Don Quixote”, said he encourages students to attend the readings of one of the best-selling novels of all time.
At the halfway point of the season, New Mexico is still trying to work out the kinks in its offense. UNM's’ triple-option attack hasn’t been as precise as it has in the past. Good teams have figured out how to snuff out the Lobos' threat on the edge and stop them from gaining yards up the middle.
New Mexico’s misfortune on the road warrants a need to foster wins in front of a home audience. Away games have been a bit of a sore spot for UNM during the 2015 campaign, as the Lobos have only pieced together a 1-5 record in enemy territory. At Johnson Center and WisePies Arena, New Mexico has been able to garner a 5-3 record.
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