Eugene Canal
New Mexico announced on Thursday the hiring of Eugene Canal as the new associate director of communications for UNM.
Canal spent the past several years at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida. He will handle media relations at UNM for the men’s basketball program and the women’s soccer program.
After the Lobo Howl, Canal will begin his duties. He takes over for the departed Matt Ensor, who left to become the men’s basketball sports information director at the University of Arizona.
“We had a tremendous pool of candidates and we made a lot of calls around the country talking to people, and Gene’s name kept coming up,” Frank Mercogliano, assistant athletic director for communications said in a statment.