Kenny Barreras Takes the Lead To many in the Albuquerque Academy community, the new athletic director is best known for his years of leadership with Think Summer. What few realize is that Kenny Barreras brings 35 years of public education experience to his new post — including 18 years as district athletic director for Albuquerque […]
Mariah Wilson ’03 Turns Childhood Passion for Horses into a Lifelong Mission
By Ted Alcorn '01 For her Senior Project, which some Academy students treat as a springboard to professional aspirations, Mariah Wilson ‘03 brought her horse to school and rode it bareback in the field beside the library. She said she was demonstrating Aristotle's ideas about leadership and nonverbal communication — that character shows in bearing [...]
Senior creates clothing line to bring awareness to mental health and suicide
KRQE – With September being suicide awareness month, one Albuquerque teen is making it his goal to bring awareness to mental health. He created a clothing company to do just that, with designs he hopes inspire those struggling. “I just started it because of my own struggles with mental health. Also because I see my […]
Empowering Educators Across Borders
Teacher Dan Dudley Provides AI Guidance to Malawi Girls’ School When math teacher Dan Dudley arrived in Malawi as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1994, he couldn’t have predicted how deeply rooted he would become in the country. Thirty-two years into his teaching career — and in his second year at Albuquerque Academy teaching Geometry, […]
Spring 2026 Sports Honors
Scores of Chargers received individual recognition during and following the Spring 2026 season. GOLF Metro Athlete of the Year Adelyn Haas ’27 All State Adelyn Haas ’27, champion Gabby Sanchez ’28 Thomas Whitten ’29, champion Alex Hanna ’27 All Metro Adelyn Haas ’27, champion Gabby Sanchez ’28 Russel Hiller ’28 Josh James ’26 Thomas Whitten […]
Student Painting Wins State Fair Honors
A painting by Corinne Sherer ’29 was named Best of Show at the New Mexico State Fair Youth Native American Indian Art Gallery. Corinne’s work is an acrylic landscape of Pyramid Rock, part of the red rock formation outside of Gallup, where her family is from. She also took first place at the Gallup Inter […]
Three Students Earn First Global Seals of Biliteracy
Sophomores Valentina Macias and Emilio Houghton and junior Isabella Fuentes are the first three students at Albuquerque Academy to earn the Global Seal of Biliteracy, a language certification recognizing their fluency in English and Spanish and a valuable credential students can include in college and scholarship applications and resumés. To achieve this recognition, they took […]
8-9 Students Earn Top 300 Recognition for Science Fair Projects
Sahana Paruchuri ’30 and Zoheb Barrantes ’31 have been named Top 300 Junior Innovators in the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC), the nation’s premier STEM research competition for middle school students. Nearly 60,000 students nationwide participate in affiliated science fairs each year, and only 300 students were selected for this honor from […]
Eleven Seniors Named National Merit Scholar Semifinalists
The National Merit® Scholarship Corporation has announced that 11 of the Albuquerque Academy seniors who competed in the National Merit Scholarship Program last school year have been named semifinalists in the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than 1% of high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each […]
Academy’s Diego Friedrich wins the boys race at UNM
James Yodice, Albuquerque Journal The University of New Mexico North Golf Course was decorated in Eldorado burnt orange Saturday morning. Not that the Eagles girls cross country team has anything to prove, but they’re already in full flight, dominating the Lobo Invitational. Freshman Helene Gessner of Eldorado and Diego Friedrich, a sophomore at Albuquerque Academy, […]
