08/30/2026
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🐅🧡🖤 WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS — AZTEC ATHLETICS 🖤🧡🐅
Tiger Nation, our student-athletes showed up this weekend with toughness, pride, and big-time effort across multiple programs!
⚽ Girls Soccer
The Lady Tigers battled through tournament play and brought home a 3rd place finish.
Results:
✅ Aztec 2–1 Navajo Prep
❌ Aztec 1–5 Show Low
✅ Aztec 2–1 Kirtland Central
⭐ Players to highlight:
Graciella Lovato continues to lead the way with 8 goals on the season.
Aubrey Thornton leads the team with 2 assists.
Against Navajo Prep, Aubrey Thornton and Destri Hudman each found the back of the net.
Against Show Low, Graciella Lovato scored for the Lady Tigers.
🏐 Volleyball
AHS Volleyball showed fight, growth, and resilience this week.
Results:
❌ Aztec 2–3 Navajo Prep
✅ Aztec 3–0 Dulce
Against Navajo Prep, the Tigers pushed the match to five sets and had several strong performances:
Payton Graham — 16 kills, 6 digs, 4 solo blocks
Riley Yoakum — 14 kills
S. Lee — 9 kills, 2 total blocks
K. Schmidt — 8 kills, 13 digs
Fabilyn Tsosie — 13 digs
Grace Villarrial-Owens — 9 digs, 3 aces
The Tigers bounced back strong against Dulce with a clean sweep. Highlights included:
K. Schmidt — 10 kills
Riley Yoakum — 7 kills
Payton Graham — 7 kills, 3 aces, 3 digs
N. Leuthard — 4 kills
Grace Villarrial-Owens — 25 assists, 3 kills, 2 aces
Lilian Moreno — 6 aces, 9 digs
D. Sinclair — 3 aces, 6 digs
Great response by the Lady Tigers after a tough five-set battle earlier in the week.
🏈 Football
AHS Football got back on track in a big way with a dominant road win over Cuba.
✅ Aztec 51–0 Cuba
⭐ Players to highlight:
Brody Segotta — 2 receptions, 50 yards, 2 touchdowns; also added rushing yards and contributed defensively
Keegan Keller — 7 carries, 63 yards, 1 touchdown
Drake Rivera — 6 carries, 37 yards; 2 receptions, 32 yards, 1 touchdown
P. Olguin — 14 rushing yards and 1 receiving touchdown
J. Mullins — 1 rushing touchdown
The Tigers piled up 170 rushing yards, 174 receiving yards, and 6 total offensive touchdowns.
🏃♂️🏃♀️ Cross Country
Aztec hosted the Aztec Tiger Invitational at Tiger East, and our runners opened the season strong at home.
⭐ Big highlight:
Jashawn Yellow won the Boys Middle School Division!
Thank you to all athletes, coaches, families, volunteers, and fans who helped make this weekend a strong one for Aztec Athletics.
Keep showing up. Keep supporting. Keep building.
🐅 Aztec Pride. Tiger Strong. Go Tigers! 🐅
