The 2018 football program will be sent to the printers next week, and everyone who still wants to help support the local high school and junior high athletes, encourage a student at the secondary school, and/or promote their business by placing an ad in the magazine-type program is asked to do so...

The Albany Athletic Booster Club will meet at the high school library on Monday, July 30, at 6:00 p.m. and everyone interested in joining the organization is encouraged to attend.

New head coaches have been named for both the Moran Bulldogs and the Lady Bulldogs, just in time for them to get organized and ready to go for the start of the fall sports season.  Harley Ethridge, who coached in Oglesby in 2017, is the new athletic director and head boys coach.

With the start of the fall sports seasons less than two weeks away, preparations are in full swing for summer workouts for both volleyball and football. The volleyball girls will start practicing on Wednesday, Aug. 1, with the football program beginning on Monday, Aug. 6.

Five members of the Lady Lions softball team received recognition on the 2018 Collin Street Bakery/Texas Sports Writers Association Class 2A All-State Team. Senior Lindsey Lucas and freshman Elia Hebel both were selected for first team honors, with three other players receiving honorable mention.

The Albany Athletic Booster Club met on Monday, July 9 to start planning for the upcoming ice cream supper, the football ad program, and other Booster sponsored activities. The annual Athletic Booster Club ice cream supper will be held on Monday, Aug. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Recent graduate Weston Vickers signed a letter of intent with Hardin-Simmons University for the next school year to play golf. Vickers, who graduated from Albany High School in May, officially signed last Friday to become one of the 10 members of the men’s golf team at HSU.

It has been a number of years since Albany has had graduates play at the NCAA Div. I level in football, and as far as can be determined there hasn’t ever been a D1 baseball player come out of the local high school program, at least as far as local coaches can remember. But that has changed.

Rockwall High School head coach Damon Wilson (c) explains a strategy to participants in this week’s volleyball team camp at the Albany High School gym. A total of 15 girls, all of whom are entering grades 9-12 this fall, are working with Wilson for two sessions daily during the four-day camp.

Both gyms at the high school will be closed for several days starting Friday, July 13 so that the wood floors can be refinished. The facilities will be closed to the public during the annual maintenance project, with everyone asked to please not enter either building.