Elizabeth Lambert, the University of New Mexico soccer player who gained notoriety two weeks ago after a video of her taking down another player in a soccer match led to calls of unsportsmanlike play, said she could not fully explain her actions.

Elizabeth Lambert, the New Mexico women's soccer player whose rough play in a Mountain West Conference tournament game earned her an indefinite suspension and national notoriety, says she will "always regret" what she did, The New York Times reported.

It was the ponytail tackle heard 'round the world. University of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert became an Internet sensation after footage of her yanking her opponent to the ground by her ponytail hit the web. Now the junior defender is breaki.

Editor, The Belfast Telegraph in Northern Ireland wrote that Elizabeth Lambert’s dirty play was some of the “worst sportsmanship seen on a pitch.” It didn’t differentiate between men’s or women’s play.

It's good to see New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert going public about her bad behavior. Her thoughts appeared in an article in the New York Times on Wednesday.

What's Your Reaction? New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert became an overnight sensation when video of her rough play in a match against BYU spread across the web. The dirty tactics, which included a vicious hair-pulling episode, earned her an indefinite suspension.

What's Your Reaction? Is she a perpetrator of shameful behavior? Absolutely. But she is also a victim of a media that thrives -- dare I say, survives -- on such lurid episodes.

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Over the weekend, I was very disappointed when I saw the footage of University of New Mexico's soccer player Elizabeth Lambert hitting, tripping and pulling the hair of her BYU opponents.

Elizabeth Lambert became a celebrity last week because of the Internet. She's a junior at New Mexico who was recorded punching, kicking and yanking the ponytail of her opponents during a Mountain West Conference game.