By James Yodice / Journal Staff Writer There was a fair bit of team suspense near the end of Saturday’s Class 5A/4A state track and field meet. Consider the Rio Rancho girls, who trailed Eldorado by two points entering the meet’s final event, the 4×400-meter relay, at the University of New Mexico complex. The Rams […]
NCAA golf: UNM (Clark Sonnenberg ’24) and NMSU men’s golf are one round away from national championship
By Sean Reider / Journal Staff Writer When they needed it most, the Lobos got a major boost from one of their underclassmen. Freshman Clark Sonnenberg shot a blistering four-under 68 Tuesday, steadying New Mexico men’s golf to a fourth-place finish in the second round of the NCAA Tallahassee Regional. After carding a one-under 71 […]
ABQ Academy sweeps
By James Yodice / Journal Staff Writer Albuquerque Academy’s girls and boys swept first place Tuesday in Farmington. The girls won by 37 shots (673-710) over Kirtland Central, with Lovington (712) a close third. Academy has won five consecutive state championships in girls golf. Academy’s boys, in going back-to-back in 4A, prevailed with an 11-shot […]
Prep golf: Here are the highlights after first day of state tournament
By James Yodice / Journal Staff Writer At Piñon Hills Golf Course, Albuquerque Academy’s boys and girls both are leading following the first round. The Chargers’ 306 leads Lovington’s boys by 12 and Artesia by 13, with Los Alamos (324) and Goddard (325) looking to win a trophy as well. There are nine boys within […]
Team tennis championships: Academy boys win 22nd-straight title
By Sean Reider / Journal Staff Writer As the sun set on another season, the loudspeaker at Jerry Cline Tennis Center crackled to life and for another year, the most dominant sound in New Mexico high school sports casually warbled over the courts: ”… Congratulations, Albuquerque Academy Chargers …” Not much else needed to be […]
Gustav Parker Hibbett ’14 wins John Pollard Prize
Martin Doyle | The Irish Times Gustav Parker Hibbett has received the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for their debut poetry collection, High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press) at an award ceremony in Trinity College Dublin this evening, Thursday, May 8th. This is the seventh year of the prize, which is awarded […]
An eclectic group of individual state singles champions Thursday
By James Yodice / Journal Staff Writer There was a repeat state champion. There was a tremendous comeback story. One school produced a state champion for the first time. The state singles tennis championship matches Thursday at the Jerry Cline courts offered quite a variety. A freshman, Savannah Reiman, gave Organ Mountain its first-ever tennis […]
Student Scientists Help Indigenous Costa Ricans Access Clean Water
When 22 Albuquerque Academy students traveled to Costa Rica during spring break, it was far from being a vacation. The advanced life science students lived with the Bribri, an Indigenous people in eastern Costa Rica and northern Panama, where they made meaningful contributions and took home important life lessons. Having experienced E. coli outbreaks due […]
Addie Nayback ’25 Wins Best Actor at Enchantment Awards, Heads to Broadway
Albuquerque Academy’s theatre program continued its tradition of excellence at this year’s New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards — known locally as the Enchantment Awards — earning top honors for Best Actor and Best Director. Senior Addie Nayback was named Best Actor for his role in THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, while David Sinkus received […]
Three Students Taking Research to International Science Fair
Aarush Tutiki ’26 has qualified for the 2025 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Columbus, Ohio, after earning top honors at the New Mexico State Science Fair. He took second place in the overall ISEF Grand Prizes section for New Mexico and first in the Environmental Engineering, Energy & Materials Science category for […]
