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.
The undefeated Potomac School Panthers (3-0) of McLean earned a No. 3 ranking in the initial Division I private-school state poll for the 2022 high-school football season.
Sparked by scoring three touchdowns on defense, the Flint Hill Huskies (1-2) earned their first victory of the high-school football season the afternoon of Sept. 23 in Richmond with a 37-28 non-conference road victory over the Collegiate Cougars.
The Langley Saxons and Potomac School Panthers earned their second victories in different manners in non-conference high-school football home games Sept. 9.
The second-year head coaches of the Flint Hill Huskies and Potomac School Panthers have similar goals and perspectives about their teams’ 2022 high-school football seasons that begin this Labor Day weekend.
The situation was certainly unique and rare, with a brother coaching a brother on first a high-school team then, a short time later, a summer baseball squad. But the relationship between the two remained solid.
Flint Hill School shortstop/pitcher J.T. Landwehr was a first-team Division I private-school all-state selection for his performance during the 2022 high-school baseball season.
With a couple of one-run playoff-tournament victories, including a win over the top seed, the No. 4 seeded Potomac School Panthers find themselves in a familiar and maybe an unlikely spot.
With a victory in its final regular-season game sometime this week, the McLean Highlanders will finish first in the Liberty District regular-season baseball standings and earn the top seed for the upcoming league tournament.
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The Flint Hill Huskies (12-2, 3-2) won four games in Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference high-school baseball action last week, downing Potomac School, 13-4, Sidwell Friends, 6-4 and swept a double header from St. James, 11-5, and 26-2.
With a young team that includes only three seniors in the starting lineup, highs and lows were expected for the Marshall Statesmen this season.
Flint Hill School basketball players Saxby Sunderland (boys) and Kelli Giuliani (girls) were second-team Division I all-state private-school basketball selections for their play during the 2021-22 high-school season.
The Flint Hill Huskies began the baseball season with a 5-0 record under new head coach Mitch Mendler, a former player for the team.
After two seasons dormancy because of COVID, the Flint Hill School is again sponsoring its annual boys high-school summer basketball league that will begin the week of June 13.
The eighth-seed Flint Hill Huskies (12-9) finished 1-1 in the Division I private-school girls state tournament.
For long-distance runners Molly Weithman and Charlie Ortmans, their list of significant accomplishments during the 2021-22 school year recently increased in length with victories at the recent indoor track and field Virginia private-school state meet.
COLIN O’CONNOR: Great Falls resident Colin O’Connor played in four games during the football season for the U.S. Naval Academy team. The sophomore defensive back accounted for six tackles and two assists. He also was a special-teams player on kickoffs, kickoff return and punt teams.
It’s hard to fathom now that the seventh leading scorer in NCAA Division II men’s basketball this season was, for a long while, overlooked by top-level college programs during his high-school career.
A number of former Flint Hill School high-school basketball players are on men’s and women’s college teams.
