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Lady Lobo Soccer Player Makes National News for Beating Up Mormons

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The good news? Last night’s “SportsCenter” did a segment spotlighting UNM sports. The bad news? It was centered on the brutally unsportsmanlike conduct a Lobo dished out in a NCAA women's soccer game against Brigham Young University.

The offending player was Elizabeth Lambert, a UNM junior and backliner on the Lobo Women’s Soccer team. She may usually be on defense, but as you’ll see in the game footage, that night Lambert seemed to be playing an offensive position—in a hockey match. The ESPN commentators describe the game as having “MMA qualities.”

The Freshman Rookie of the Year, Who's Who Scholar Athlete and Principal's Honor Roll student can be seen grinding her elbows into BYU players, kicking her rivals in the head when they’re on the ground and, most shockingly, calmly yanking on a rival player’s long, Latter Day Saint-sanctioned braid with so much force that it slammed the player flat on to her face. UNM lost the game 1-0, even.

According Lambert’s official player bio on the Lobo Athletics site, the 21-year old is majoring in University Studies with a focus on Occupational Therapy. Which, you know, seems like a really good idea.

Read what jezebel.com has to say about the resulting coverage here.

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  • just  [ Sat Nov 7 2009 2:30 PM ]

    in one of those clips, the BYU player elbowed her hard first.

    not saying she was justified, but how many other little things like that happened before she started getting nasty?

  • What about the hair-pull-take​-down?  [ Sat Nov 7 2009 9:55 PM ]

    That woman didn't do anything to spawn the wrath.

  • it's their fault  [ Sun Nov 8 2009 10:53 AM ]

    they unleashed the wrath of the lobo

  • I thought  [ Mon Nov 9 2009 2:00 PM ]

    Mormons weren't allowed to play soccer anyway.

  • Interview in the New York Times  [ Thu Nov 19 2009 11:05 AM ]

    Lambert speaks ... she regrets what she did, but the video clips are out of context (the kick to the face isn't even her). One dissenter told her she "should be taken to a state prison, raped and left for dead in a ditch” for pulling a rival soccer player's hair during a match -- people are focusing on a lot of weird sexual aggression stuff, actually. Read it here: [link]


    Last edited [11/19/09 11:05 AM]
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