ATHLETICS
Teams & Schedules

Baseball

Chris Alexander

Basketball – Boys

Alvin Broussard

Basketball – Girls

Josh Skarsgard ’96

Josh is a proud Academy graduate and former state basketball champion (1994). He played collegiately at UC Santa Barbara (1996-97) and is the founder and owner of the Albuquerque Basketball Club. Josh served as the 6-7 girls basketball coach in 2023-24 and won the 2023 APIAL championship. He is the parent of three Chargers — Andrew ’26, Lily ’28, and Joy ’30 — and has three brothers who also graduated from the Academy — Adam ’92, Monte ’94, and Jason ’96.

Cross Country – Boys & Girls

Adam Kedge

Adam has coached at Albuquerque Academy for more than two decades. During his tenure, he has served as both an assistant and a head coach in three different sports. His current roles are the boys and girls head coach of cross country and the head boys track and field coach. At the Academy, Coach Kedge’s teams have been recognized for success at both the state and national levels. Coach Kedge is a 2016 inductee of the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame.

Football

David Lee

David has been coaching football since 2001. He began coaching in the Young American Football League (YAFL) in New Mexico and then coached competitive high school football for 10 years. He was the defensive coordinator at Hope Christian High School for six years, where he led his team to a state title. His aggressive defensive formations were a testament to Hope’s success. Before becoming the head football coach for Albuquerque Academy, David served as the defensive coordinator for the Chargers for three seasons.

Golf – Boys & Girls

Kevan Schott

In Kevan’s first season at the Academy in 2022-23, he led both golf teams to district championships and the girls team to the state championship. Prior to joining the Academy, he was the head golf coach at UT Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas, a Division II university, from 2017-21. Kevan grew up in Albuquerque and attended La Cueva High School. He has been a PGA Member since 2013 and is currently the director of instruction at TopGolf Albuquerque, giving private instruction.

Powerlifting – Boys & Girls

Lyle Griffith

Lyle worked closely with Academy athletics to pilot a strength and powerlifting program that, in its inaugural year, sent three athletes to the NMAA state championships, two of whom brought home 2nd-place finishes. Drawing from several years of experience working in athletic clubs in New Mexico and Arizona, Lyle has created a program that focuses on explosive power, muscle and strength development, and gym safety. Lyle also works with other varsity teams to craft sport-specific weight training programs and serves as a weight room supervisor during student free-lift periods.

Soccer – Boys

Lalania Kolek

As a coach for the Chargers since 2011, Lalania’s 2018 season was her third most successful season at the helm of the program. During that time, Lalania developed the Academy boys soccer program into one of the premier programs in the state of New Mexico. According to a USA Today NSCAA soccer poll, Academy was ranked eighth in the nation at the start of the 2016 season.

Lalania brings extensive experience at the high school and Olympic developmental ranks. She currently holds a United States Soccer Federation “B” national coaching license. She has coached a Scholar All-American, an All-American, and Gatorade Player of the Year.

Lalania is an Albuquerque transplant who graduated from and played soccer for Cibola High School. She proudly served in the United States Navy, where she was an All Navy Team selectee. Lalania has spent time in the WPSL and W league playing for teams such as the UCSD Comets, Albuquerque Crush, and the Albuquerque Asylum.

Soccer – Girls

Andrew Wiese

Andrew graduated from the Albuquerque Academy in 1987 where he was a captain, 1st Team All-State player, and State Champion as part of the boys varsity soccer team. He continued his playing career at Dartmouth College where he was an All-Ivy honoree and three-year captain leading his team in 1990 to its best record in program history and a berth in the NCAA Division I National Championship Elite 8. Andrew has coached youth soccer at the club, ODP, and high school levels since 1994 and holds a USSF National B Coaching License.

Softball

Haley Parson

Haley graduated from Piedra Vista High School in Farmington in 2016, where she was a three-time state champion (2012, 2013, 2014). She played two years of collegiate softball at Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ before finishing her degree at New Mexico State University. Haley has been coaching at the high school level since 2024.

Swimming & Diving – Boys & Girls

Jim Van Atta

Jim’s coaching career spans parts of four decades at the club, high school, and collegiate levels. He served as a graduate assistant coach at West Point, an assistant coach at Indiana University Swim Camp, and a volunteer assistant coach at West Point. From 2016 to 2020, he coached for Southwest Aquatic Team (SWAT) in El Paso, significantly growing the team and producing TAGS finalists, junior national qualifiers, and college-bound athletes. From 2021 to 2024, he served as the strength and performance coach at Charger Aquatics, also coaching the CAQ Gold group for 10-12-year-olds.

As a swimmer at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Jim was a 12-time Patriot League finalist, 400 IM conference champ, and four-time Eastern Seaboard finalist. He maintained his connection to swimming during his 27-year career as an Army infantry officer, which included three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he coached and led soldiers in combat every day.

Tennis – Boys

Tim Cass

An all-American player at the University of New Mexico, Tim graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He was hired by UNM in 1988, becoming one of the youngest head coaches at the age of 23. He then moved on to Texas A&M University in 1996, where he coached until 2006. He also served as the USA Collegiate National Team Coach in 1999 and 2000. In his 18 seasons as a head tennis coach, his teams qualified for 16 straight NCAA Tournaments. He earned conference coach-of-the-year honors eight times and was a four-time finalist for the NCAA Division I Coach of the Year.

Tim was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Fame in 2011 and the University of New Mexico Hall of Honor in 2012. He was also recognized as one of the 40 most influential persons in the sport of tennis under 40 years old by Tennis Industry Magazine in July 2000.

Following his time at Texas A&M, Cass returned to UNM to serve as the chief operating officer and deputy athletics director at the university.

Tennis – Girls

Amy Badger

Amy has been with the varsity tennis program since 2000. In that time, she has led her teams to 20 district titles, four state team championships, and 25 individual singles and doubles state championship top-place finishes. Amy played #1 for the UNM Lobos and was named the 2019 Tennis Coach of the Year by the NMHSCA. She is a USPTA-certified elite professional, a multiple-year recipient of the USPTA Southwest High School Coach of the Year, and a USTA NNM High School Coach of the Year. Amy teaches full-time privately and at The Club at Las Campanas in Santa Fe. She sits on several boards, committees, and task forces at the regional and national levels, including the USTA NNM Regional Council, USTA Southwest Coaches Commission, USTA National, and USPTA Southwest. She is the USTA NNM Lead Faculty for EDC 12U camps, USTA regional team coach, and innovator of the New Mexico High School Tennis Showcase series. Amy also heads up the Academy middle school tennis program in the fall.

Track & Field – Boys

Adam Kedge

Adam has coached at Albuquerque Academy for more than two decades. During his tenure, he has served as both an assistant and a head coach in three different sports. His current roles are the boys and girls head coach of cross country and the head boys track and field coach. At the Academy, Coach Kedge’s teams have been recognized for success at both the state and national levels. Coach Kedge is a 2016 inductee of the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame.

Track & Field – Girls

Kathy Brion

Kathy took over the Academy girls track and field program in 2019 after serving as girls head track and field coach at Eldorado High School for 31 years, where she also taught physical education/health for 30 years. During that time, she coached numerous individual state champions and won four team titles. In 2014, Kathy was awarded girls track and field Coach of the Year for New Mexico by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Kathy is also part of the coaching staff for the middle school cross-country program at the Academy.

Volleyball

Michael Smith

Michael is from Athens, Georgia, where he grew up and attended the University of Georgia. He earned his degree in health and physical education, graduating in 2014. He began his teaching and coaching career right out of college at Clark Middle School and Clarke Central High School in Athens and moved to Jackson High School, where he was head volleyball coach, head boys soccer coach, and assistant girls soccer coach. That volleyball team went 88-33, earning two district championships, winning the first three playoff games in the program’s history, and yielding 17 All-District honorees and two All-State honorees. In his two years as head volleyball coach at McAllen High School, the team was 68-19 with 13 All-District and six All-Area honorees.

Wrestling

Troy Rodgers

Troy is a police and criminal psychologist based in New Mexico. He works as a consultant/psychologist for more than 100 local, state, and federal law enforcement, fire, EMT, and corrections agencies. He has been a coach at Albuquerque Academy since 2005 (football and wrestling), and he took over as varsity wrestling coach in 2016. He was a 12-time letterman at the Academy, and he was named athlete of the year for the state of New Mexico in 1995. He had the opportunity to play college football and baseball in both California and Oregon (DIII) and semi-pro baseball in Oregon and Colorado.