BY JAMES YODICE / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER New Mexico’s most decorated high school coach, and one of its most beloved, is calling it a career. Hall of Famer Dave Barney, who has led the Abuquerque Academy boys and girls swimming programs to an astonishing 41 state championships in his 47-year career coaching the Chargers in […]

New Head of School Julianne Puente was profiled in the April 2 issue of Albuquerque Business First. Read the article here.

BY JAMES YODICE / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Lovington’s goal, under the circumstances, had to rank as one of the most unexpected and stunning goals in the history of New Mexico’s high school state soccer tournament. Albuquerque Academy’s response led to one of the quickest overtime finishes in the history of the tournament. The Wildcats’ punch, […]

BY JAMES YODICE / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER It was a terrible day for the No. 1 seeds at the high school state volleyball tournament on Friday. It was, however, a perfectly glorious day for the No. 2s. Three No. 2 seeds – Albuquerque Academy (Class 4A), Sandia Prep (3A) and first-time champ Cloudcroft (2A) – […]

Academy faculty members George Ovitt and Peter Nash have collaborated on a new work, Trotsky’s Sink: Ninety-Eight Short Essays About Literature. Their 350 essays touch on the works of well-known and lesser-known authors from around the world, reflecting on literature and politics, history and culture, and love, longing, and death. Trotsky’s Sink is available at […]

“Everyone is human! Just like we’re all human, all branches sprout from the same tree; each branch helps the tree to catch sunlight. All branches different together!” This is how Sabina Cottrill ’27 described her piece, “One Tree, Many Branches,” first-place winner, middle school category, in the Mountain States Anti Defamation League’s No Place for Hate […]

Brianna Xie ’21 has been awarded first prize in the 10-12 category of the 2021 Aldo Leopold Writing Contest. Aldo Leopold had an outsized influence on conservation in New Mexico, and far beyond, and we continue to be indebted to him for our wilderness areas and for the deeply important extension of ethics he espoused […]

Five students in grades 6 and 8 competed at the Central New Mexico STEM Research Challenge in March, a qualifying event for the International Science and Engineering Fair. Each student spent months conducting an original research project, and their work was recognized with multiple honors. Where is the Water? Brooklynn Dominguez ’27 Climate Change Award […]

With top finishes in seven individual competitions, the Albuquerque Academy middle school science Olympiad team took first place at the state competition in March, qualifying for nationals in May. The high school team finished second at state. The middle schoolers earned gold medals in these virtual competitions, as well as five silvers and two bronze: […]

Only seven pieces of student artwork from New Mexico were honored with national medals from the Scholastic Art, and Grace Archibeck ’21 took home two of them. Grace’s paintings, “Squash” and “New Mexico Icon,” earned gold medals. “New Mexico Icon” also received the American Visions Medal. One work per region receives this distinction. From the […]