A number of former Bishop O’Connell Knights High School football players and coaches remain involved in the sport in college level, some at the highest level.
Sports
featured
North Stafford High School senior Shawn Asbury announced Monday that he will graduate in December and enroll the following month at Virginia Tech.
featured
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced Thursday they had cut Yorktown High School graduate M.J. Stewart.
featured
The Arizona Cardinals cut three players Monday, including Unity Reed High School graduate Reggie Floyd.
featured
With the high school sports season delayed until mid-December, the Virginia High School League has now begun working on a postseason plan for the 2020-21 academic year.
featured
Unity Reed High School (formerly Stonewall Jackson) will go by the Lions. The name was selected based on a survey handed out to Unity Reed students and staff. The Prince William County School Board has approved the change.
featured
The North team won its 10th Commonwealth Games title in 11 years Sunday with an 8-3 come-from-behind win over the East team in the gold-medal game at Liberty University in Lynchburg.
Area coaches and athletic administrators are commenting on a recent decision by the Virginia High School League to possibly postpone the fall public-school sports season, which includes football, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, moving it to the early spring.
The upcoming NFL season, if it is played, will be M.J. Stewart’s third, and the Yorktown High School graduate is more than eager for this month’s training camp then the 2020-21 season to start.
featured
Hylton High School graduate Ricky Slade announced Friday he will transfer to Old Dominion University.
featured
North Stafford senior defensive back Shawn Asbury committed to Virginia Tech Sunday night.
If, and it’s a big if right now, the 2020 varsity football season begins on time this fall for Arlington’s three public high-school teams, the opening dates will be the nights of Thursday, Sept. 3 and Friday, Sept. 4. with a trio of home games.
featured
Stonewall Jackson High School will induct 21 people into its inaugural 2020 athletic hall of fame.
They had a lot to say, and many listened to a recent online YouTube group interview with the three head football coaches of Arlington’s public high-school teams.
featured
Lucky Whitehead stared at the 11-ton semi-truck in front of him and paused.
featured
The Virginia High School League announced Tuesday it is developing plans for the re-opening of fall sports and activities.
Keith Lyle told a number of entertaining stories while also offering sound advice about various sports topics May 13 for the audience of the National Sports Coaches Alliance online webinar.
For years, as a youth coach and administrator of multiple sports, Bill Cervenak was a pillar in the Vienna community, touching hundreds of lives.
There was a “light show of solidarity” the night of May 4 and 5on the athletic fields of Arlington County’s three public high schools.
featured
Travon McMillian likes having a plan in place rather than shooting from the hip. It’s how he operates, but even more so right now as he balances his football aspirations with the reality of every-day living.
featured
Clint Sintim arrived at his first college football coaching job in the summer of 2013 with a suitcase, a used Lincoln LS he bought off Craig’s List and an open mind. If he was going to understand life as a college football coach, he had to start somewhere unfamiliar with only the bare necessities.
featured
Stonewall Jackson High School graduate Reggie Floyd will get his initial NFL shot with the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted rookie free agent.
featured
Briar Woods High School graduate Brandon Polk signed with the Los Angeles Rams as an undrafted rookie free agent Saturday after the conclusion of the 2020 NFL Draft.
featured
Stone Bridge High School graduate Aaron Crawford has signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted rookie free agent.
featured
The Washington Redskins selected Ohio State defensive end Chase Young with the No. 2 overall pick Thursday in the 2020 NFL Draft.
His most successful position in football last fall, as well as winning a state-championship event during the winter’s indoor track and field season made the Wakefield Warriors’ senior Isaiah Mefford may be the high-school’s most accomplished overall athlete throughout the 2019-20 calendar year.
As has been the case for years, hundreds attended the annual Northern Virginia Football Hall of Fame awards banquet, this year held March 6 in the grand ballroom of the Hilton McLean Tysons, where three new inductees highlighted the 30th event.
featured
Scroll through the roster of any of the eight teams that make up the XFL and you’ll discover the league is made up of guys from major collegiate programs. Ohio State, Penn State, UCLA, and so on.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Real-time social media posts from local businesses and organizations across Northern Virginia, powered by Friends2Follow. To add your business to the stream, email cfields@insidenova.com or click on the green button below.
Who to Contact
Prince William/Stafford
David Fawcett, Sports editor- dfawcett@insidenova.com
Arlington/Fairfax
David Facinoli, Sports editor- dfacinoli@SUNGAZETTE.NET
Photo Galleries
75 years of football
featured
Before Prince William County public schools fully integrated in 1966, African Americans competed in football in Prince William County as far back as 1915 for the Manassas Industrial School.
Worth Reading
Trey Shepard’s mind wandered as he walked to the mound for his first start of the season. Pa… Read more
The final shot of Tyler Lloyd’s first varsity start produced an array of emotions that overs… Read more
Josh Square grappled with the enormity of the moment as he stood with Hampton University men… Read more
After finishing his last at-bat near the end of a two-hour evening practice on July 14 at th… Read more
