The University of New Mexico is investigating its women's soccer team after allegations it put freshmen players through unpleasant initiation rites.

Parents of the victims told authorities their children, who were freshmen players of the team, were forced to undress until fully naked, and drink alcohol before being sprayed with urine.

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University officials cancelled the soccer team's first match set to be held on Friday as it investigated into the accusations.

Two of the individuals caught in the hazing incident were so heavily intoxicated that they required medical attention at the local hospital, according to their lawyer, and at least two freshmen have left the team and the university since it happened.

The university's head of the athletics program said it was "indefensible" and "was simply wrong," but rejected the statements told by one of the former students that they were coerced to strip down to nothing and sprayed with urine.

"There's no question this was hazing. It was wrong. None of us want to minimize it. It was unacceptable," UNM Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs told reporters Wednesday.

Krebs also said the hazing incident included the entire team, but the new team members were not forced to strip into their birthday suits and were sprayed with cleaning fluid for a vehicle's windshields. He also said all except one of the former students dismissed that there was any nudity involved.

Meanwhile at Milton High School, there is also a case of hazing that has gone horribly wrong where the athletes from the school's football team sexually assaulted their younger players with pool cues and broom sticks, according to Yahoo! Sports.

Detective Matthew Sweitzer of the Vermont State Police Department submitted an affidavit in which he described one former member of the team said that the hazing rituals changes from year to year.

Chittenden County State's Attorney T.J. Donovan said that the ritual was established in the culture within the high school's football team.

"We have to make sure that this doesn't happen to any other kid in any other school on any other team in the state of Vermont," Donovan said.

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