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News

Sep.8 Lobos place well at Ten's Tournament

The Lobos faired well this last weekend up in Santa Fe, NM. The womens team and the collegiate mens team placed first in the tournament and the mens pool team placed 3rd. The Lobos will be taking on the Santa Fe Santos this weekend and the women will be playing anohter local team the Atomic Sisters both at Johnson Field starting at 11:00 a.m.

Aug. 30 More International Advancement for Lobo Alumni

Shar Amner has written an artilce on how Lobo rugby helped him this is rugby career. It is titled Time in Rugby-Run With the Wolf Pack read it here. Other news Jillion is listed on AmericanRugbyNews.com with her All-American standing read it here.

Aug. 29 Womnes Rugby Defeat Rivals

The women's rugby defeated their rivals this weekend up in Colorado Springs, CO. They defeated the Air Force Academy Zoomies 12-5. Jillion Potter, member of the women's team, and also a try scorer this weekend, also make the 1st team All-American. Congratulations to them all. In other news former lobo, Croix Thompson is featured at AmericanRugbyNews.com discussing his contract with a professional French side, read it here. More information on Thompson is our Aug. 7 news blog.

Aug. 28 UNM Lobo Rugby Podcast

The lobo rugby podcast is now available on google video and you tube, you can also view it here. This podcast will follow the lobos through their seasons and will update to the world our progress. Watch out for a future iTunes download of the podcast and other episodes coming out shortly after scheduled games.

Aug. 7 UNM Alumni Make International Sides

Marc West, a UNM Rugby Alumni has just recently left the United States to go play rugby in London, with HERTFORD RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB . He is orginally from Artesia, NM. Another UNM Alumni, Croix Thompson, recently played for Niger in in the Central African Cup, which they won an artilce can be viewed here. UNM also made recent news on American Rugby News.com showing how we promote the game of rugby in the U.S, read it here. The fall season is apporaching as school starts. There will be a training camp for those that want to play the Thursday and Friday before school starts. The Alumni match will be held on the following Saturday, Aug 19. The Fall schedule will be updated very soon, so come back to view that. Fans and others will also be able to look forward to video highlights of the Lobo games this semester through the website, so stay tuned.

May. 10 UNM Men to Face Welsh International Select Side

The UNM mens team is to face the Crawshays on their way to San Fransico. This team is a select traveling side from Wales and many rugby greats have played on this team, this link will let you look at their side.

UNM Coach suggested as USA Eagles Replacement

Ian Jones was mentioned as a possible replacement for the recently resigned head coach of the USA Eagles in an American Rugby News Artilce. It can be read here.

Apr. 10 UNM Women go to WRFU Playoffs

UNM Women had a succesful weekend at the Western's Collegiate Finals winning two games and placing 3rd overall. They beat Wayne State University in the first round but lost to league rivals, Air Force, which loss them a chance at going to the sweet 16, but came back on Sunday to take third place in the tournament.

Mar. 15 UNM goes to Cal Invite

UNM goes to Cal invite and takes second beating Cal Poly 30-25 in the first round. Read more here.