This Week In Sports: Feb. 18-22, 2025
This Week In Sports: Feb. 18-22, 2025
Los Alamos High School Hilltopper games are covered by the Los Alamos Daily Post sports team of John McHale and Nate Limback.
This Week’s Hilltopper Sports Schedule:
Feb. 18 Tuesday
- Boys Basketball vs Taos Home – 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 19 Wednesday
- Girls Basketball vs Taos Away – 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 21 Friday
- Girls/Boys Swimming/Diving State Championships ABQ Academy
- Girls/Boys Wrestling State Tournament Santa Ana Star Center – 9 a.m.
- Boys Basketball vs Pojoaque Away – 7 p.m.
Feb. 22 Saturday
- Girls/Boys Swimming/Diving State Championships ABQ Academy
- Girls/Boys Wrestling
High Flyers Gymnastics Dreamcatcher Invitational Feb. 21-23
Abby Fu (Los Alamos High Flyers Level 7 gymnast) executes a beautiful wolf jump over the beam. Courtesy photo
Lily Baker (Los Alamos High Flyers Level 6 gymnast) demonstrates perfect balance on the beam. Courtesy photo
SPORTS News:
Get ready for an exciting weekend! If you love women’s gymnastics but couldn’t make it to the Olympic Games, don’t miss the chance to catch amazing gymnasts—from beginners to advanced athletes—at this year’s Dreamcatcher Invitational, hosted by Los Alamos High Flyers Gymnastics. Happening this weekend, Feb. 21-23 at the Santa Fe Convention Center, Read More
LAHA End-Of Year Hockey Tournament And Jamboree
The End -of-Year Hockey Tournament and Jamboree is under way at the county Ice rink this Saturday and Sunday. The tournament drew U6 and U8 youth hockey teams from Los Alamos, Taos and Santa Fe to participate in the two-day event. With three games being played at once there is lots of exciting action to watch. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Coach Joe Artnak gathers his U6 team together for last minute instructions and inspiration before the play the U6 team the Capitols from Santa Fe. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Atoms player Rylie Martin and a Capitol player skate to the Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Feb. 16, 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The snowpack in Northern New Mexico is 39-percent of normal. Last week saw some snow in the mountains and the snowpack increased. Locally the snowpack at the Hopewell measuring station is 55-percent of normal with a snow depth of 24 inches.
The snowpack in Southern Colorado, including the headwaters of the Rio Grande, is also below normal. Northern and Central Colorado received heavy snow last week, but the storm bypassed Southern Colorado. That has been the weather pattern for most of the winter.
Temperatures can still plunge Read More
Jemez Mountain Trail Runs: Race Director Laura Martinez
Laura Martinez in the playground of the New Mexico Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Courtesy/JMTR
JMTR News:
Jemez Mountain Trail Runs (JMTR) introduces Laura (Musgrave) Martinez as the new JMTR Race Director (RD).
Martinez grew up in Los Alamos and has been a member of the JMTR organizing committee since 2019. A competitive swimmer through college, she discovered trail running at the age of 29 when she moved back to Los Alamos at the end of 2016, after a decade spent living in California and NYC. The JMTR 15 mile in 2017 was her first trail race and first run over a half-marathon. From that point forward, Read More
