UNM’s Soccer 2026 Season Comes to an End After Missing Mountain West Championships

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Despite a head coaching change, the UNM Women’s Soccer team had a good year finishing with a winning record overall and in the Mountain West!

Under first year head coach Karley Nelson, the Lobos finished the year with a 8-4-5 record and a 5-2-3 record in conference play.

Due to the points system, the Lobos were unfortunately not one of the top four team in the Mountain West and did not make it to the Mountain West tournament bringing their season to a close.

With 11 seniors on the team, coach Nelson reflected on what this group has meant to her.

“Listen, I just can’t say enough about this group of seniors. I go back to a year ago at this time, you know, when there’s uncertainty about what’s going to happen with the program. And at the time, Fern was our athletic director, and who he was going to hire. And, this group of seniors absolutely led the charge, to get me hired. They were in Fern’s office every day advocating for me”, said Nelson.

Now that the 2025 season has ended the focus for the program now shifts to 2027.

National Signing Day is this week, where the Lobos are sure to get some new commits to come in and make an imapct.

Coach Nelson said the girls are already excited to get back to work and start prepping for next season.

“We’re really excited about the 27 class who will come in. We’ll see what the transfer portal brings up. We’re not a team who’s a big transfer portal team. But we may see 1 or 2 in the transfer portal. We’ll see what that looks like. But we’re excited to get to work. The players are already texting and asking, hey, what are we going to be? What do we do? Pick up when we’re lifting?”, said Nelson.

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