BY JAMES YODICE / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER New Mexico on Wednesday mourned the loss of a coaching icon. Mike Brown, the Hall of Fame boys basketball coach who was the architect of one of the state’s great dynasties at Albuquerque Academy, died early Wednesday morning. Read more.

BY JAMES YODICE / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER With one crack of his bat, Devan Johnson simultaneously walked off both the St. Pius Sartans and this COVID-tinted high school sports year. The final game in this sprint of a New Mexico spring/summer prep calendar yielded one of its most indelible and jaws-agape moments. Johnson’s one-out, three-run […]

Belen’s Cox Secures Playoff Win, Prevents Academy Sweep BY GLEN ROSALES / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER The eight-foot par putt for Belen’s Grady Cox touched just about every part of the lip on hole No. 22 — the fourth playoff hole — before dropping to give him the Class 4A boys individual championship Monday. And it […]

BY JAMES YODICE / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER The chance to return home was irresistible to Andrew Wiese. Late last week, Albuquerque Academy named Wiese as its new girls soccer coach. The 52-year-old Wiese was filling that same role at Eldorado; he replaces Peter Glidden who recently resigned. Wiese not only attended and played at the […]

By JP Murrieta When it comes to boys tennis, Albuquerque Academy is one of the most dominant high school sports programs, not only in New Mexico, but in the country. The Chargers have won 17 state championships in a row. “We have a pretty good team,” said sophomore Josh Simon. “Everyone is playing really well […]

Albuquerque Academy garnered another national athletic honor, being named the top high school athletic program in the state of New Mexico since 2018 by MaxPreps. Since 2017, the Academy has finished in the top 25 of the MaxPreps Cup national standings, a ranking system developed to determine the nation’s best overall high school sports programs. […]

JARED CHESTER / KRQE Albuquerque Academy held a virtual signing ceremony for their 10 senior athletes who are moving on to the collegiate level. Here is a list of the signees: Jessica Allen, Cross Country, New York University Audrey Colter, Soccer, Air Force Julian Garcia, Cross Country and Track, Arizona Teagun Glenn, Track, Air Force […]

Albuquerque Academy spring athletic teams — which have a knack for producing state champions — will have to wait until next spring to return to the field, court, course, or track. Many teams will also have to wait to defend their 2019 state title. The list includes the boys tennis team, who are going for […]

BY JAMES YODICE/ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Outlook: For the first time since the late 1980s, the Chargers open a season with a new head coach. Gehres actually has been coaching at the Academy for many years in other sports, so he is familiar with the students on campus, which he partially attributes as the reason the school […]