in various divisions and districts in the NMAA, including football, soccer, volleyball, tennis, swimming and diving, golf, basketball, baseball, cross country, and track and field, competing with other New Mexico high schools in the region.
== Notable alumni ==
=== Arts & entertainment ===
Peter Hurd, artist, painted the presidential portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson
Jessica Jaymes, pornographic actress
Owen Wilson, actor
=== Authors ===
Charles A. Coulombe, writer and historian
Ira B. Harkey Jr., awarded the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Paul Horgan, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author
G. Harry Stine, sci-fi writer, model rocketry pioneer
=== Business ===
Ernst Bertner, first president of the Texas Medical Center
Norman E. Brinker, founder of Brinker International
Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton Hotel chain
Conrad Hilton Jr., socialite
Victor Lownes, Playboy Clubs executive
=== Journalism ===
Bill Daniels, cable television pioneer
Sam Donaldson, news anchor
Chuck Roberts, news anchor …
