James Yodice, Journal Staff Writer
We turn down the lights today on the 2025-26 New Mexico prep sports calendar, another fantastic nine months of electrifying highlights and lasting memories.
And away we go.
Dynastic
So many of the state’s current dynasties kept right on rolling.
But as I sit down and begin to peck away at this section of the column, there is conflict within me as to how to define the absolute No. 1 dynasty in the state. Of if it’s even possible to define.
We start with Volcano Vista boys basketball, coming off a fifth straight championship, an unprecedented run for a program in the state’s largest division. And since virtually every New Mexico high school devotes such energy to winning in basketball, this run by the Hawks — led by David Lunn, Volcano beat Cleveland 66-52 in the Class 5A final in March — gains more heft the more you chew on it.
Almost literally at the other end of the spectrum, you have the Albuquerque Academy boys tennis program, which earlier this month won state for the 23rd consecutive season, the canceled 2020 pandemic season notwithstanding. Other end? This run is driven by the sheer depth of its individual talents, so it is rather dramatically different from a quintessential team sport like basketball.
The Chargers are closing in on the national record (26) and could surpass that by the end of this decade. There are scarcely any words to describe how large the gap is between Academy and everyone else.
