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Full contact practices are prohibited until 31 days before their first game; however, conditioning, position skills and the mental game are the foundations upon which a winning season are built.
Source: NMSU Athletics
Cited Sections By Michael Navarrette
Photos: Courtesy
New Mexico State Football announced the return of their student athletes to Piñon Hall on June 1, 2025 in a reel posted to Facebook. With 50 days until the official Conference USA Kick-Off, and 90 days away from actual game play, the New Mexico State University Football team is arriving on campus and preparing to do the work in the summer that pays dividends come winter. It is one of the most appropriate realizations of the fable, “the Grasshopper and the Ant”.
As the fable goes, the ant sets to the hard work of preparing for winter while the grasshopper lollygags his way through summer. Of course, come winter, the grasshopper starves while the ant reaps the rewards of his labors. This Aggies team looks prepared to get biblical over the summer, embodying Proverbs 6:6.
The NCAA prohibits full contact practices until 31 days before their first game; however, conditioning, position skills and the mental game are the foundations upon which a winning season are built. Hollywood may have their ideas of a Summer Blockbuster, but for this NMSU team, popular films include Liberty, Western Kentucky and Tennessee.
Players will be housed in Piñon Hall. Designed to encourage social interaction between residents, this hall features relaxing community-living spaces, a billiards room, and two large, grassy courtyards perfect for outdoor studying or an impromptu volleyball game. Room furniture can be lofted to allow students more flexibility in room design. Each room is designed as a part of a suite where roommates share a bathroom with the residents of the adjoining room. It is building designed for team building.
New Mexico State University’s Coca-Cola Weight Training Center was given a major overhaul, thanks to a $750,000 gift from Mesilla Valley Transportation.
The gift funded a complete renovation old the 22-year-old Coca-Cola Weight Training Center, proving updated weight training equipment and a new, rubberized floor for the facility. It also paid for new, state-of-the-art video equipment at each workout station and created a nutrition bar for the student athletes.
Built in 1992, NM State’s weight-training center is located in the Aggie Memorial Stadium complex. The 13,500-square-foot facility benefits NMSU student athletes in 17 athletic programs. It became a reality thanks to the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Las Cruces, which funded construction as well as the facility’s original weightlifting equipment and exercise machines. Additional weight and aerobic equipment was added to the facility in 1998.
“We are very excited, as a department, to receive this gift for the specific purpose of upgrading our weight room, which will help our strength and conditioning coaches to better serve our student athletes,” said former NM State Athletic Director McKinley Boston. “We are very thankful to Royal Jones, and Mesilla Valley Transportation, for helping our student athletes achieve their competitive potential.”
The Summer of 2025 is shaping up to be a very productive one.
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Some new faces…
There are more than a few additions to the Aggies’ roster. Joining incoming freshman Zaiden Davis (Centennial High School), more than a dozen additions from the transfer portal have been announced:
… and at least one returning one
You’ve likely heard the saying: “Once and Aggie, always an Aggie.” Once again, New Mexico State University is demonstrating their way of walking the walk. In a Facebook post, NMSU announced the return of Defensive End, Gabe Peterson. Peterson was a standout player for the Aggies his Freshman and Sophomore years. His Junior year was spent at Utah State; however, in a story very common to Las Cruces, Peterson has returned to NM State for his Senior year.
Seven Weeks from Tuesday… PGA of America in Frisco to Host 2025 CUSA Football Kickoff
NM State to be represented by Head Coach Tony Sanchez, linebacker Tyler Martinez and quarterback Logan Fife.
Source: NMSU Athletics
By Michael Navarrette
Photos: Courtesy
DALLAS – The conference office recently released information pertaining to the 2025 Conference USA Football Kickoff and Media Day. For the second consecutive year, the event will at the home of the PGA of America in Frisco, Texas. This year’s event is scheduled for Tuesday, July 22.
There, CUSA Commissioner Judy MacLeod, as well as head coaches and players from each of the 12 CUSA programs will be on hand to discuss and preview the upcoming 2025 football season. This marks the first formal event under the league’s 2025 12-team configuration.
NM State will be represented by Head Coach Tony Sanchez, quarterback Logan Fife and linebacker Tyler Martinez. The trio of Aggies will take part in a traditional press conference as well as a live show which will be host by ESPN’s Mike Corey on ESPN+.
Sanchez will be one of three head coaches in their second year with their respective programs as he is joined by Middle Tennessee’s Derek Mason and UTEP’s Scotty Walden. Additionally, this will be the first year that both Delaware and Missouri State will participate in the event as they enter their first year of membership.
Senior linebacker Tyler Martinez is one of six 2024 all-CUSA selections that will take part in Media Day. He is joined by first-team selections Aaron Fenimore (Liberty) and Kam Thomas (UTEP) along with second teamers James Dawn II (Sam Houston), JeRico Washington Jr. (Kennesaw State) and Brylan Green (Liberty).
A full schedule of events will be available at a later date.
