Yorktown High School graduate Torri Huske was named the female athlete of the year at USA Swimming's annual Golden Goggles Awards.
The Yorktown Patriots won the three-team Arlington County match by defeating the Wakefield Warriors, 68-6, and the Washington-Liberty Generals, 55-12.
The 32nd annual awards banquet for the Northern Virginia Football Hall of Fame is Sunday, March 5 at the McLean Hilton Hotel.
By amassing her highest post-season high-school score in what already has been an accomplished career, Washington-Liberty Generals standout diver Ellie Joyce recently won her third straight Liberty District championship.
High-school gymnasiums are so often fun places to hang out because, when open, there usually is so very much going on inside those big busy and noisy rooms, along with many people being around.
In all-Arlington varsity basketball games, the Washington-Liberty Generals swept the host Yorktown Patriots in girls and boys action, with each high-school team winning in overtime.
By wide margins and with multiple first-place finishers, the Wakefield Warriors won both the girls and boys Arlington County indoor track and field championships.
The Yorktown Patriots defeated Freedom/Loudoun, 9-3, then Bishop O’Connell, 7-0, in recent high-school club ice hockey action, improving to 6-2 overall in the Patrick Division standings of the Northern Virginia Hockey League.
High-school wrestling teams from Arlington were busy in recent days participating in multi competitions throughout Northern Virginia.
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With a winning total of 140.075, the Yorktown Patriots outscored their two Arlington girls gymnastics rivals at a recent multi-team high-school meet on their home floor.
The Washington-Liberty Generals girls and boys high-schoo basketball teams swept the Herndon Hornets in Liberty District games Jan. 20.
There always are surprises to any high-school sports season, and nothing is different this winter when it comes to the local girls and boys varsity basketball campaigns.
So far this season, the Wakefield Warriors are 2-0 against their two Arlington County rivals in boys basketball action, with one regular-season game each still remaining against those opponents.
Led by a seventh in the 50-yard freestyle and a 12th in the 100 free by senior Chris Kinsella, the Bishop O’Connell Knights boys team placed 10th at the recent National Catholic High School Swimming & Diving Championships.
The six inductees into the Washington-Liberty High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2023 were recognized in the school’s gymnasium the night of Friday, Jan. 13 between girls and boys varsity basketball games between the McLean Highlanders and W-L.
Through the first week of the new year, the Washington-Liberty Generals had a 6-1 record and were in first place in the North Division of the Capital Scholastic Hockey League.
By scoring his team’s first six points, then 23 overall by game’s end, the Wakefield Warriors’ Kobe Davis was chosen the Most Valuable Player of contest No. 4 on Jan. 14 at the Spartan MLK Classic.
The first Division I Virginia private school rankings of the 2022-23 girls and boys basketball seasons have been released and the Bishop O’Connell Knights are among both top 10s.
Jonah Friedman continues to be one of the top performers for what has been an accomplished winter season for the Washington-Liberty Generals’ indoor track and field teams.
