Written By: WAC Media Relations

DENVER, CO - Three WAC volleyball players – California Baptist's Sydney Marks, Utah Valley's Seren Merrill and NM State's Julianna Salanoa – have earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors. All three are second team honorees.

Marks, a junior middle blocker from Lodi, Calif., boasts a perfect 4.00 grade-point average in business administration and political science. She is averaging 2.74 kills per set this season.

A junior libero from Orem, Utah, Merrill has a 3.98 GPA as an exercise science/pre-nurse practitioner major. She currently ranks second in the WAC with 4.34 digs per set.

Salanoa, a junior middle blocker, has a 3.96 GPA in nursing. The Olympia, Wash. native ranks second in the WAC in blocks (1.4) and third in hitting percentage (.371). She is a three-time WAC Player of the Week.

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State women's volleyball team dropped the first against Chicago State on Thursday afternoon before bouncing back for a 17-25, 25-23, 25-15, 25-18, to remain unbeaten in Western Athletic Conference play and run its winning streak to 16 matches.

"Defensively, we kind of got going in the second set," said head coach Mike Jordan. "We started digging the ball, trying a little harder to make plays. We got better and finally started digging the volleyball a little better which led to transition opportunities that we scored."

With Cat Kelly unavailable, the Aggies (24-3, 15-0 WAC) started slow and the Cougars (5-25, 1-14 WAC) raced out to a 9-3 lead. NM State battled back with a Savannah Davison kill bringing the score within one at 11-10. However, New Mexico State continued to struggle and the Cougars pulled away for a 25-17 set one victory.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State women’s basketball team fell to Battle of I-10 rival UTEP 63-57 at the Pan American Center on Wednesday night. Aaliyah Prince scored 22 points, her third-straight 20 point game to start the season.

The game started back-and-forth with a layup from Adrianna Henderson giving NM State (1-2, 0-0 WAC) a 12-11 lead at the media timeout. UTEP (2-0, 0-0 C-USA) mounted a quick 5-0 lead out of the timeout to lead 16-12 at the two-minute mark. However, the Aggies went on a run of their own, capped by two Gia Pack free throws with one second in the first, to lead 17-16 heading into the second quarter.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

EL PASO, TX - The New Mexico State men’s basketball team traveled to the Don Haskins Center to take on Battle of I-10 rival UTEP on Tuesday night in El Paso, Texas. A tough night shooting from the field and the line hampered NM State as they fell to UTEP, 65-50.

To open the rivalry contest, the Aggies struggled to knock down shots and it was not until 2:58 into the game that the Crimson & White got on the board. Trailing by four early, Trevelin Queen hit a three that was followed by another triple by Terrell Brown to give NM State it’s first lead of the night, 8-7.

Following the lead change the teams then traded baskets all the way until a media timeout at the 8:08 mark where NM State trailed by just one, 16-15. Each team rattled off a small run before the Aggies knocked down the final two baskets and only trailed the Miners, 28-25, after the first 20 minutes of action.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State women’s volleyball team hit a red-hot .388 and ran its win streak to 15 matches and clinched its fourth Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship in the last five seasons with an 25-22, 25-20, 25-22 sweep at Grand Canyon on Saturday afternoon. This is the Aggies’ sixth WAC regular-season championship under head coach Mike Jordan.

The Aggies (23-3, 13-0) raced out to a 4-1 lead in set one before GCU brought it back to tie up at nine. The rest of the set was a battle as both sides traded points, and the lead, until NM State found itself ahead 23-22. Then, Savannah Davison and Megan Hart hit back-to-back kills to give the Aggies the first set 25-22.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

DENVER, CO - The New Mexico State women’s basketball team captured a 78-75 win in a back-and-forth affair at Denver behind Gia Pack’s 29 points on Saturday night.

The Aggies (1-1) started the game off on their heels as the Pioneers (0-2) opened an early 10-4 lead. However, Adrianna Henderson got the rim followed by back-to-back threes from Pack to tie the game up at 12 midway through the first. After Denver went up 17-12, NM State ended the quarter on a 9-2 run to lead 23-19 after one.

New Mexico State continued to roll into the second quarter and led 33-26 at the 5:34 mark after a three-point play from Aaliyah Prince. The Pioneers then pulled within three at 48-35 before a steal-and-score from Pack at the end of the period gave the Aggies a 40-35 lead going into the halftime break.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

OXFORD, MS - One of the most decorated pass catchers in NM State football history continues to make history.

Redshirt senior wideout OJ Clark hauled in four more receptions in the Aggies' 41-3 loss at Ole Miss Saturday afternoon inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, moving into sole possession of third all-time in team history for catches with 185. He surpassed Duane Gregory (181) and now sits behind only A.J. Harris (269) and Chris Williams (246) on the program leaderboard.

The Wichita Falls, Texas, native made history with his very first reception of the game. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Josh Adkins and Clark linked up for eight yards early in the second quarter to give the wideout his 182nd career catch.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

BAKERSFIELD, CA - The New Mexico State volleyball team outlasted a pesky CSU Bakersfield squad behind a strong defensive performance for its 14th-straight win, 30-28, 21-25, 27-25, 25-17 on Thursday night at the Icardo Center. The win means the Aggies (22-3, 13-0 WAC) can clinch the Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship with a win at Grand Canyon on Saturday.
"The block came up big at the end, we finally started getting our hands in good spots," said head coach Mike Jordan. "I thought we dug the ball really well in stretches which probably saved us because we weren't very good offensively or passing it. Defensively we were really good in stretches and I think that was the deciding factor."  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State women’s basketball team stormed back from down 10 in the fourth but dropped a 60-58 contest to UC Riverside on opening night at the Pan American Center.

“You can’t turn the ball over 18 times in close games and be successful,” said head coach Brooke Atkinson. “Our fight was really good. We drew from our defense to get us going offensively. We just have to be able to play better with the lead and get good shots down the stretch.”

The Highlanders (1-0, 0-0 Big West) took an early 6-2 lead before Gia Pack capped an Aggie run with a three and a layup off a steal to give the Aggies (0-1, 0-0 WAC) a 9-6 lead. After the two teams traded baskets, Aaliyah Prince finished off a three-point play for a 16-12 NM State lead with 18 seconds to go in the period. However, UC Riverside hit a three at the horn to trim the lead to 16-15.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State men’s basketball team opened up its 2019-20 campaign inside the Pan American Center versus Western New Mexico on Tuesday night. After scoring the first 16 points of the game, the Aggies never looked back en route to a decisive 92-46 win over the Mustangs at home.

Following the lopsided season-opening victory head coach Chris Jans said, “Obviously they were outmanned and we anticipated that as coaches, but we kept telling the guys to play against the game and play to get better. We didn’t want them to get caught up in the score and that’s probably the brightest spot for me that they handled that in a mature way.”  Continue Reading This Post >>