ANNUAL REPORT 2007 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
ANNUAL REPORT 2007 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
ANNUAL REPORT 2007 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
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BASEBALL<br />
• Junior Jordan<br />
Pacheco was named<br />
Mountain West<br />
Conference Player<br />
of the Year.<br />
• Ray Birmingham<br />
was named the Lobos’<br />
11th head coach.<br />
MEN’S BASKET-<br />
BALL<br />
• Steve Alford was<br />
named the Lobos’<br />
19th head coach.<br />
WOMEN’S BAS-<br />
KETBALL<br />
• The Lobos won the<br />
Mountain West Conference<br />
Tournament<br />
for the fourth time<br />
in the past five years<br />
and advanced to the<br />
NCAA Tournament<br />
for the 6th<br />
consecutive season.<br />
• Junior Dionne<br />
Marsh was chosen<br />
the Most Valuable<br />
Player of the MWC<br />
Women’s Basketball<br />
Tournament for<br />
the second time<br />
in three years.<br />
UNM ATHLETICS<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
• UNM finished 9-4,<br />
becoming the 4th<br />
New Mexico team<br />
to win nine or more<br />
games in a season.<br />
• The Lobos beat<br />
Nevada 23-0 in New<br />
Mexico Bowl II,<br />
UNM’s first bowl<br />
victory in 46 years.<br />
It was New Mexico’s<br />
5th bowl game in the<br />
past six seasons.<br />
• Senior K. John<br />
Sullivan became<br />
the 3rd consensus<br />
All-American in<br />
UNM history, joining<br />
W.R. Terance Mathis<br />
(1989) and S. Brian<br />
Urlacher (1999).<br />
A former walk-on<br />
who kicked with a<br />
torn ACL in his plant<br />
(left) leg all season,<br />
Sullivan was the<br />
nation’s top FG<br />
kicker with a school<br />
and MWC record of<br />
29 made.<br />
MEN’S AND<br />
WOMEN’S GOLF<br />
• Senior golfer Charlie<br />
Beljan was named<br />
MWC men’s player<br />
of the year while<br />
freshman Jodi Ewart<br />
picked up co-player<br />
of the year honors<br />
on the women’s side.<br />
Both were second<br />
team All-America<br />
selections.<br />
SKIING<br />
• The Lobos finished<br />
sixth at the NCAA<br />
Championships in<br />
head coach George<br />
Brooks’ 37th and<br />
final season at UNM.<br />
• Freshman alpine<br />
skier Malin Hemmingson<br />
won the<br />
individual women’s<br />
slalom, the second<br />
Lobo woman to win<br />
gold in the slalom at<br />
the NCAAs.<br />
MEN’S SOCCER<br />
• The Lobos won their<br />
fourth consecutive<br />
Mountain Pacific<br />
Sports Federation<br />
title, posting a 12-5-2<br />
mark overall. The<br />
Lobos advanced to<br />
the NCAA Tournament<br />
for the sixth<br />
time in the last<br />
seven years.<br />
• UNM held the<br />
highest winning<br />
percentage (80.1%)<br />
in the NCAA since<br />
2004, posting a<br />
61-11-11 mark.<br />
• Junior Chris Wright<br />
and sophomore<br />
defender Simon<br />
Ejdemyr were both<br />
named Academic<br />
All-Americans.<br />
UNM has had at<br />
least one Academic<br />
All-American each<br />
year since 2003, a<br />
claim only one other<br />
school in the nation<br />
can make.<br />
TRACK AND FIELD/<br />
CROSS COUNTRY<br />
• Senior Jeremy<br />
Johnson received<br />
All-America honors<br />
three times in <strong>2007</strong>,<br />
one for academics<br />
and two for athletics.<br />
Johnson finished 7th<br />
in the 10,000 meters at<br />
the <strong>2007</strong> NCAA Outdoor<br />
Championships<br />
and 20th at the <strong>2007</strong><br />
NCAA Cross Country<br />
Championships.
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