George Mason University men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Peter Ward has announced his retirement after starting the program 25 years ago.
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Local basketball teams continued busy district schedules last week as the regular season entered its final stages of the 2022-23 campaign.
The 32nd annual awards banquet for the Northern Virginia Football Hall of Fame is Sunday, March 5 at the McLean Hilton Hotel.
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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.
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Gibraltar Coleman missed the first shot he attempted from the floor, but the forward wasn’t off target much more during a recent boys high-school basketball game.
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No matter where, when or what time, neighborhood high-school varsity basketball rivalry games are always of big interest. If first place also happens to be on the line for one of those clashes, they become even more special.
Tim Ghazzawi has been hired as Marshall High School's new head boys tennis coach.
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A busy season continued for the Marshall Statesmen wrestling team recently with a trip to Manteo, N.C., where the high-school squad finished second in a multi-team dual-meet competition.
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With postseason meets beginning soon, the Langley Saxons warmed up for that competition with a second-place finish at a multiple-team girls gymnastics event at Yorktown High School.
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With two recent victories each, the Langley Saxons in girls high-school basketball action and the Marshall Statesmen on the boys side extended their winning streaks and remained in first place with undefeated 7-0 records in the Liberty District.
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Billy Emerson now has one more significant achievement to add to an already accomplished list of baseball milestones and involvements.
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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.
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Winning certainly helps, but overall, Sedrick Winston said his transition in becoming the new Flint Hill Huskies girls head basketball coach has gone as smoothly as possible.
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It’s always a big deal, and has been for years, when the Madison Warhawks and Oakton Cougars meet in girls basketball action.
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The Langley Saxons had two individual champions to help the high-school wrestling team recently finish third in a tournament at Paul VI Catholic in Chantilly.
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With a 13-2 record, the Potomac School Panthers were ranked fifth in the initial Division I Virginia private-school state poll of the 2022-23 girls basketball season.
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With victories over the Chantilly Chargers and Centreville Wildcats in their first two Concorde District basketball games of the high-school season, the Madison Warhawks’ teams were atop the girls and boys standings when the week began.
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The Madison Warhawks split non-district games with the host West Potomac Wolverines on Jan. 7 in girls and boys action. The Madison girls (10-2) won 37-35 and the Madison boys (8-4) lost 67-61.
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Seven players who were teammates on last summer’s age 17-under AAU Team Prolook boys basketball squad took up different sides for the high-school championship game of the recent George Long Holiday Hoops Tournament.
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The Langley Saxons (11-3, 4-0) defeated the Yorktown Patriots, 42-29, and Washington-Liberty, 51-27, in Liberty District girls high-school basketball games last week to improve their winning streak to six.
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