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 […]
Find out which New Mexico filmed Netflix series continues to hold a top five spot for streamer
By Adrian Gomez / For the Journal Kenneth Miller ’07 went from living on his personal Texas ranch to the set of “Ransom Canyon” last year. The Albuquerque native is one of many celebrating the success of the Netflix series as it continues to hold in the top five in its third week of streaming. […]
ABQ author Kit Rosewater ’07 debuts first young adult novel ‘All’s Fair in Love and Field Hockey’
By David Steinberg / For the Journal Kit Rosewater’s book “All’s Fair in Love and Field Hockey” is a thoughtful, luminous romance novel for young adults. It’s a tale not unlike the rival families in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” — the Montagues and the Capulets. In the novel, two young people overcome team rivalry […]
Cleveland boys, Academy girls continue track and field dominance at metros
By James Yodice / Journal Staff Writer The team standings at the Albuquerque Metro Track and Field Championships followed exactly the standings from the previous week, at least at the top as Cleveland’s boys and Albuquerque Academy’s girls claimed the gargantuan metro trophies. The Storm put up a huge number, 125 points, which was 49 […]
Albuquerque athlete earns college scholarship to play flag football
Austin Curtis ’25 / Journal Staff Writer An Albuquerque Academy senior is headed to college on a scholarship to play flag football. At a recent showcase in Houston, Emanee Cerda caught the eye of Mars Hill coach Max Switzer, who offered her an opportunity to be on the Division II college’s inaugural women’s team. Cerda […]
Prep Track & Field: Cleveland javelin thrower, Academy long jumper wow at Metros
Academy sophomore Grace Erinle, coming off a high-point performance at her home Harper meet, made her final attempt in the long jump her best, soaring 17 feet, 5 inches. Her sister, Funmi, an eighth-grader, finished second. Read the full article in the Albuquerque Journal.
