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New Mexico Basketball: Hugh Greenwood retires, will try Australia Rules Football

Former Lobo Hugh Greenwood announced Wednesday that he was retiring from basketball to pursue a career in Australian rules football.

Sometimes in life you just have to follow your heart and that’s what former Lobo guard Hugh Greenwood is doing. Greenwood who had just signed a contract to play professional basketball for the Perth Wildcats in the NBL shocked the basketball world when he announced that he would not honor his contract and instead play Aussie rules football.

Greenwood who stands 6’3 and 209 pounds is no stranger to football prior to joining the Australian institute of Sport on a basketball scholarship.