News

  • Have gun, will travel: Cadet earns national title

    Cadet 1st Class Brian Vickers has been awarded the National Riflemen Association's Second Team All-American for Standard Pistol; Second Team All-American for Air Pistol, First Team All-American for Free Pistol and First Place, Individual Aggregate Championship in March and appointment to the

  • Baseball: Falcons wrap up season with loss vs. New Mexico

    Air Force dropped a 19-6 Mountain West Conference baseball game to New Mexico Saturday at Falcon Field ending the season with a 14-37, 3-18 record, while the Lobos improved to 37-18, 15-8. New Mexico plated runs in eight of nine innings and racked up 24 hits on the day. The Lobos broke open a 9-6

  • Outstanding athletes earn recognition

    The Air Force Academy athletic department concluded a very successful 2008-09 sports season recently and several cadet-athletes were recognized by the Academy at the individual awards ceremony. Sophomore hockey player Jacques Lamoureux and senior gymnast Abbey Rogers took home the most valuable male

  • Softball action launches after two-week delay

    The intramural softball program finally got its first night of regular season games in since 20 May. There was a two-week delay with graduation and a week off due to rain. The 10th Civil Engineer Squadron started the season off right winning their first game of the season 14-8 over 10th

  • Irving named assistant coach of the year

    Scott Irving, the associate head coach for the Air Force track and field team, was named the Division I Mountain Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year. Irving, who coaches the throwing events for the Falcons, is the first Air Force coach to earn such an honor. Under Irving's direction, the Air

  • Air Force wrestlers receive NWCA academic awards

    The Air Force wrestling team was named to the Division I All-Academic Top 30 Team by the National Wrestling Coaches Association, while recent Academy graduate Stephen Crozier was named to the NWCA Individual All-Academic wrestling team, as announced by the organization. As a team, the Falcons ranked

  • Buckley retires as AF women's soccer coach

    After 17 years as the head of women's soccer at the Air Force Academy, Marty Buckley has announced his retirement from coaching. Buckley will stay at the Academy as the area coordinator for lifetime sports in the department of physical education. Buckley just completed his 23rd season as a coach at

  • Air Force loses to Vermont in double overtime, 3-2

    In a bizarre finish involving video replay, Vermont advanced to the Frozen Four with a 3-2 double overtime win over Air Force in the NCAA East Regional Final Saturday at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn. Vermont was the No. 3 seed while Air Force was the No. 4. Vermont improved to

  • Husky wrestlers take 7th, All-American honors

    The Air Force Academy Preparatory School men's wrestling team finished off their season with a seventh-place finish at the National Collegiate Wrestling Association National Championships at Hampton University in mid March. The Huskies were led by seven wrestlers who qualified for Nationals by

  • Cycling season ends with a bang

    The 2009 cadet cycling team was recognized as the "Collegiate Team of the Year," finished on top of the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference-- Div 2, and supported our top rider, Trevor Johnson as he went on to win the overall title for the RMCCC. The team hosted "the best" race of the