1. Golf Preview! They’re Back!
Although it is only the second year at AHS for the girls golf team, they have had a great start. Last year the girls posted an impressive 12-2 record and won the BSAL championship.2. Tennis Season Preview
Albany High’s girl’s tennis team is coming back strong this year despite the loss of four players to graduation. Last season the team finished second to Piedmont in league, beating St. Mary’s twice for the first time in coach Sue Ford’s seven-year career.
“We hope ...
3. Cougars Breeze By Emery 50-0
The Albany High varsity football Cougars took an easy victory last Saturday with its 50-0 win over the Emery High Spartans. Emery High, which has struggled to field a team the past few years, put up a good fight, but couldn’t keep up with the experience and skill ...
4. Running into Fall Sports
Expectations are high for the 2008 Cross Country season largely due to the 11-1 girls varsity and 9-2 boys varsity finishes last year.
After the loss of seniors like Jackie Quinn and Natalie Buck-Bauer, the success of the girls team will depend in part on incoming freshman. Top incoming ...
5. NBA Finals Preview
By Ahmed Khater, Forrest Johnson, and guest analyst Robb Silverstein
The Lakers Celtics rivalry has been one of the most prolific in sports history. This time, as 10 times before in history, the two teams are meeting in the NBA finals. Your two Cougar Sports Analysts will break down what promises to be one of the most hotly contested ...
6. Complete list of AHS Hall of Famers
Saturday, April 26 marked the first of many inaugurals to Albany High School's new Athletic Hall of Fame. The Cougar's full article on the newly created Hall of Fame appears in the June 6th issue of The Cougar magazine. Hall of Famers Don Kaer1942Football Dawn Pawson1944Synchronized Swimming Joan Pawson1949Synchronized Swimming Mel Tamm1953Basketball Baseball Joe Dorsey1954Basketball Baseball Football Bruce Keppel1954Swimming ...
7. [UPDATED] Lady Cougars win NCS
Before the Albany High Cougars women’s softball team took the field against the Concord Minutemen in the NCS 2A Championship Game, they already had accomplished so much more then any previous team in school history.
By posting an outstanding 25-1 record, including a remarkable 16-0 in the BSAL, the Cougars impressed even their harshest critics, making an improbable ...
8. Lady cougars defeat Las Lomas 5-0
Led by an outstanding performance by sophomore pitcher Sara Muse, the Albany Cougars defeated the Las Lomas Knights in a second-round NCS softball game on Wednesday, May 21st.
The Cougars bats came out on fire from early on. Senior twins Joan and Laura Cannon, two of the top players in the BSAL, led an early onslaught of runs, ...
9. Baseball wins the first NCS play-off game
On Tuesday May 20 the Albany baseball team began play in the postseason with a 1-0 victory over Las Lomas in the first round of the NCS tournament. Its was the third time Albany beat Las Lomas this year, as the Cougars won 9-1 and 4-3 in their previous meetings. Albany was victorious due to great pitching by Kyle Shipley. ...
10. Lady Cougars secure BSAL softball title
On Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, the Cougar softball team reached for history with its spectacular nine-inning, come-from-behind 3-2 win against the St. Patrick’s – St. Vincent Bruins. With a convincing victory over Richmond’s Kennedy Eagles on Friday, May 9 the Cougars clinched the BSAL Championship title and secured a ...
11. Swimmers move on to NCS
On Friday, May 9th, both the boys and the girls Albany High School swim teams went to the BSAL championship. During their league season, the JV guys and JV girls were undefeated. The Varsity girls were 5-2 and Varsity boys were 3-3.
The BSAL ...
12. Aaron Waterhouse wins BSAL Championship
On Monday, April 28th the boys’ golf team brought home a champion and a NCS bound team. The Cougars placed second just five strokes behind Piedmont, but Aaron Waterhouse made Albany High history by becoming the first golfer in school history to win at the league tournament. At the end of the regular season there were three teams tied for ...