Arlington's Torri Huske won the 100-butterfly in dramatic fashion to claim the gold medal Sunday at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
High-school wrestling teams from Arlington were busy in recent days participating in multi competitions throughout Northern Virginia.
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.
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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.
To any reporter who regularly takes notes the old-fashioned way – by writing things down – a box of brand new No. 2 wooden pencils anytime of the year is an outstanding, much-appreciated and cherished present.
The host Wakefield Warriors had big rivalry wins in recent girls and boys varsity high-school basketball action by scoring the same amount of points in defeating the Washington-Liberty Generals in an all-Arlington doubleheader.
Washington-Liberty High School senior defensive lineman Elijah Hughes was chosen as a first-team Virginia High School League Class 6 all-state player on defense.
The Yorktown High School club ice hockey team skated to a recent 6-3 victory over Paul VI Catholic.
Led by Mara Gerardi’s second in the all-around with a 35.325 total score, the Washington-Liberty Generals won a recent girls high-school gymnastics meet with a team score of 137.275.
In a Liberty District wrestling match, the visiting Yorktown Patriots had the lead at times, but lost to the Marshall Statesmen, 42-34. Marshall had six pins in the match.
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.
